Jody Holmes

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

The Forest Fields of the North Ancient Menominee Agriculture and the Rewriting of Eastern North American Farming History

1,000 years ago, Native farmers transformed Michigan's forests into vast ridged fields of corn, beans, and squash. Drone lidar just mapped the most complete ancient agricultural site in the eastern U.S. #Archaeology #IndigenousFarming #Menominee @science.org

Thanks Kip.🧪

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

5/5/25 on #X⤵️

Photo of a longhaired tortie cat lying on a sunny sidewalk with grass lawn on either side. It has a round little dark object in front of it, a toy maybe.

Writing on the back of this photo from my collection says “General Nuisance. Summer 1954”.

Remember to look up

A pencil drawing with dozens of cartoon cats of different shapes and sizes.

To quiet her mind before trying to go to sleep, my 10-year-old has been drawing a pile of cats--adding one new cat every night. ❤️🐈‍⬛️🐈

What happened to Little Marco?

YouTube video by Roberta Flack - Topic The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

This voice, this song - never fails to stop me in my tracks.
Good journey, Roberta.

We are past the parens stage...

The Mysterious Madame Montour - JSTOR Daily Montour presented herself as a cultural intermediary between Native Americans and whites in colonial America. But who was she?

Untangling fact from myth

Looking down a long driveway surrounded by snow covered forest. The driveway is uncleared and only has a single set of tire tracks coming up it.

Looking down the same driveway but from a farther standpoint to show it completely shoveled, including the walkway around the side of the cottage that’s to the left.

Today was a hard-core winter day. First, I white-knuckled it home in a blizzard, then I had to shovel 10 cm of snow off of 80+ feet of driveway. That’s also probably the most Canadian combination of measurements you’ll ever see. 😂

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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

The White House has to "check back" about whether or not they just shut off the program that funds health care for 2 million Arizonans?

I can tell you the answer: Arizona's Medicaid payment portal has been turned off.

This is absurd.

I used an alias on Twitter, but twitter was my anonymous realm (I only knew one or two people irl). I liked it that way.
Something I have to get used to is that Blue.Sky is a strange hybrid of FB and Twitter.

Dear everyone here I know in real life.
I love you and I am so glad you are here with me.
But if you've chosen a screen pseudonym I am less likely to engage because frankly I have no idea who you are...

The map shows how Alabama’s ancient coastline from 100 million years ago shaped the fertile Black Belt, which influenced so much. The region’s rich soil led to plantations, a high enslaved population, and today, it correlates with higher Black populations and Democratic votes. #geosky

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Something I have always wondered about.

Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal Other ancient DNA sheds light on the tangled human history of northern Asia after the ice age

I missed this when it came out: