Anna • Fraise

Possibly related, the recent Wyden Siren.
Charles is the father of Jared.

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Contre les "capons" (= peureux), la réjouissante et combative République pour toutes et tous de Christiane Taubira, c'est ce soir à partir de 19h sur @mediapart.fr dans "L'échappée", en accès libre.
👉 www.mediapart.fr/studio/video...

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Vivi makes beautiful pieces!
She’s based in France

mä en vihaa mitään mä en vihaa mitääään… mä en vihaa mitään mä en vihaa

mä en vihaa mitään

niin kuin sinua

Hat tip to still-fabulous Don Huonot (lyrics from song “Seireeni”)

It was +14C in my suburb west of Paris yesterday. Unbelievable this time of year, could have been considered an outlier… if we hadn’t already had two weeks of 10-12C daytime weather 😔

I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month.

Tickets are available here:
www.diff.ie/programme/an...

Man, I can’t help but think what a society we’d have if there were a fad of well-funded emotionally mature men sharing tips on how to relate as adult humans and the sheer joy it brings.

(Back story of being this earnest as a Gen X single straight woman: stopped using dating apps entirely in 2006)

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

A picture of an adorable calico cat with the words "4 years ago I lived in a bush and hunted my own meals. Now I have 2 passive incomes, my own house, and a personal chef. Follow me for more financial advice.

Never read it, never will

The sun lighting up a cloud over a mountain at sunrise

Good morning, Bluesky! Happy #Sunday!

Sunrise at Tahoma.

The sun lighting up a lenticular cloud just as it peeks above the summit of Mt Rainier, Washington on New Year's Day, 2025.
📸Morgan Stephen

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Très bonne conférence en effet.
Alors que la défiance des citoyens traduit avant tout la volonté de retrouver un peu de marge de manoeuvre, de pouvoir d'agir sur le cours des choses, les élites politiques se raidissent dans l'exercice du pouvoir en se débarrassant des contraintes et intermédiaires.

I stopped using a swing at our house if and when anyone else was around after injuring a friend. Swing had an old tractor seat - steel - and friend wanted to play too. I told him to wait until I stopped, he didn’t… the seat struck him in the brow. He was fine, but it could have been so much worse.

Ice age Europeans imported tools from distant lands, perhaps as souvenirs Mementos may have reinforced vast social networks during turbulent times

For the 1st time, archaeologists have direct proof of far-flung social networks during the last Ice Age. “In times of climate crisis, cooperation—not conflict—was a successful strategy,” says @cnrs.fr's @solangerigaud.bsky.social. “It’s good to recall that as a lesson from our past.” 🏺 @science.org

Pas mal les radiateurs à chat !

Et qu’est-ce qu’elles sont belles 🐈🐈‍⬛

The Sequence Opinion #470: Open Endedness AI Could be All We Need Many recognize this area of research as essential to achieve super human intelligence.

That they opened themselves because they genuinely believe it will only affect others and they’ll be the remaining post-human elite with their super smart AI baby.

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Gary Larson was on to something!

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Real life cows: www.instagram.com/reel/DTs8Nk5...

What I love about wilderness and mountain people is that all it takes is to sigh in wonder at how the light hits snow- and ice-covered granite faces to find them anywhere in the world. You love natural beauty somewhere? You’ll find people delighted to hear about it and share theirs.

From left to right: Mont Blanc du Tacul, Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc (rounded top), and the Dôme du Goûter. Beautiful snow on the lovely granite French Alps with the mid-afternoon sun illuminating them.

Aiguille du Midi. A granite peak in the French Alps with an observatory atop.

Les Grandes Jorasses, one of my favorite granite outcrops in the French Alps. Seen from Aiguille du Midi

I’ll always love my beautiful Oregon Cascades, especially the Three Sisters (climbed!), and the French Alps have a special place in my heart as well. Visited again these past few days.
1 - Mont Blanc du Tacul, Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc, Dôme du Goûter
2 - Aiguille du Midi
3 - Les Grandes Jorasses 💜

PARTAAAAAY IN FRAAANCEUUUH even Moroccan friends are glad Senegal won 😆

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.

Time to claim your true history.

My photo shows a bronze Buddha statuette sitting on a double lotus flower against a grey background in a glass display case. The bronze is now light green in colour, but would originally have appeared like burnished gold. The Buddha is sitting cross-legged with feet upturned. His right hand rests against his knee and his left arm is raised holding his monastic robe. A raised dot on the forehead represents Buddha’s third eye. His expression is serene, with smiling lips, and eyes gazing ahead. His facial features were highlighted with silver, tin, and black niello. There is glass residue in the eyes and the raised dot on the forehead was highlighted with a layer of gold. Height 8.4 cm, width 6.4 cm. It was probably made in the Swat Valley (present-day Pakistan) in the late 500s-mid 600s. It was excavated from Viking-age settlement buildings dated AD 800. It isn’t known how it arrived at its final destination but this exotic object travelled far, hinting at far-flung trade routes. I saw the Helgö Buddha on display at the British Museum’s ‘Silk Roads’ exhibition in October 2024, on loan from Historiska Museet, Stockholm.

A small and exotic Buddha found far from home in #VikingAge buildings on the Swedish lake island of Helgö.

Probably made in the Swat Valley, the Buddha travelled some 5,000 km from its place of origin, encapsulating the idea of long-distance trade during the Viking Age.

#Archaeology

Sunset on the Oregon coast.

#photography #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #sunset #seascape #oregon

*chuckles in Finnish winter*

Oh dear and that’s Fahrenheit.
*shivers in Celsius*
I still remember a week in 1999-2000 of -30C to -40C weather in Helsinki. I was fine because I was prepared, but as mentioned, I still remember it.

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

Prof. Richard Macksey’s home library: St. Martin’s Road in Baltimore, Maryland. 70,000 books Photo Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Richard Macksey’s home library:
St. Martin’s Road, Baltimore, Maryland.
70,000 books