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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

When I was doing bat research, they recommended we re-up them annually, but then again, being professionally chewed on by a rabies vector every day is a bit of an edge case.

Yes, we are aware he served as President of the United States.

A small oil painting of a black-capped chickadee, perched on an arching twiggy branch. The chickadee is facing us and gazing downward, its eyes turned to look at something close by, while the rest of its body is turned sideways. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com

"Forest Attendant" Black-Capped Chickadee 5"x7" Oil on panel

Chickadees are wonderful in so many ways. They're often the first birds to investigate a new situation, and other birds watch & follow them to find food sources. The friendly local 'dees often bring other birds to my yard, to my delight.

If you're already enrolled in a non-SAVE plan this shouldn't impact you. I'm in the same boat, signed up for PAYE in August.

They have not provided anyone with any kind of reasonable notice, folks were SUPPOSED to have time to chill in forbearance, and are now getting shuffled really abruptly into much higher payments. For anyone in this boat: enroll in IBR, ICR and PAYE are being gutted and the new RAP plan is REALLY BAD

The Trump admin just announced they're "settling the lawsuit" with Missouri to get rid of "the Biden administration's illegal SAVE plan," which means every one of the 450k borrowers who enrolled in it and have been in forbearance are going to be scrambling to get into a new, less favorable IDR plan.

Extending something jacket-length to robe-length isn't terribly hard if the jacket isn't super tailored at the waist/hip, so it could be a very viable option.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Do you have access to potato flour, by any chance? The stuff used for gluten-free baking? Might be worth trying, I've used it in place of fresh mashed potatoes before in baking with good results.

Detail from a pencil drawing of Anchiornis, a small feathered paravian dinosaur from late Jurassic China. It is mostly black and white with a red head crest and pins down a small lizard with one of its feet. The drawing is small and very intricate.

Anchiornis. Detail from a drawing from 2019.

A new paper by Kiat et al indicates that Anchiornis probably couldn't fly.

(But I still think it might have been capable of 'falling with style'.)

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

You got a recipe kicking around for that beet and apple salad? because that sounds transcendently good (and someone else already asked for the squash recipe)

Digital illustration of a pair of Therizinosaurus dinosaurs grazing autumn leaves in a forest. Art by Levi Hastings

detail illustration of Therizinosaurus dinosaurs grazing autumn leaves in a forest. Art by Levi Hastings

The last leaves of autumn glow even brighter to a hungry pair of Therizinosaurus, bulking up for a long winter. These strange dinosaurs are some of my favorites, and though they're slow movers, they made it just in time to be included in my new calendar!

Commission

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Jam belongs on cheese sandwiches and I will die on this hill. (Grilled cheese with Swiss and raspberry jam? Transcendent.)

By absolute numbers, twelve times as many Californians voted for Trump than Nebraskans. States are not a monolith, no matter what the EC makes it look like.

Any how many Walmarts have YOU firebombed?

Same here! Definitely one of my all time favs, although Night Watch has edged it out of the top spot.

THING COMPLETE thank u my wife for modelling

I need to make chili

@s3rnielsen.bsky.social gimme your second place chili cook-off recipe I want to expand my repertoire

A person wearing a red leather mask of a dragon's head.

Working on a Thing. I ran out of thread though, so now I just get to pine in the direction of Weaver Leather until they send me my pakige

I mean they tried and now the House isn't swearing her in.

I also met your wife because of Homestuck, and tbh we're all better for it.

Nebraska overwhelmingly passed guaranteed paid sick leave and decriminalization of medical cannabis last year by ballot measure and both have been fought tooth and nail by Republican reps.

'Cis-' as a prefix meaning 'on the same side' in contrast to 'Trans-' meaning 'across' has been used in scientific disciplines for YEARS, read an actual book.

It's those goddamn radical centrists again smh

Arrows? Like the Turning Point logo? The logo of the company of the dude who was shot??

What he's doing is taking us back to the early 1920s. We're gonna see Coal Wars 2 in Amazon warehouses if this keeps up.

There's almost certainly a more correct, software-based way to do it.