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A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

The image shows a large satellite dish under a clear blue sky. White text reads: “Early warning systems are not a luxury.” The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right corner.

Early warning systems turn threats into actions, saving millions of lives and livelihoods while preventing costly recovery efforts.

On #WorldMeteorologicalDay, see how UNEP is advancing #EarlyWarningsForAll efforts for a better, safer future: www.unep.org/topics/clima...

A close-up of a die made of bone. It is completely preserved.Its surface is porous, yet the detail is clear. Four pips are visible on the top face, one on the front, and five on the side.

A die made from animal bones, found in Burgstein Castle, dating 11th century.
Just like today, opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
Dice were quite popular among all social classes during the Middle Ages. In the early 10th century, for instance, the scholar...🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

Artists, writers, filmmakers: Please integrate COVID into your cultural work. Avoiding COVID in your content erases critical history. And we all know what horrible things can happen when we as a society fail to learn from history.

This image shows the hourglass shape of the nights shortening and lengthening from winter to summer and from summer to winter, passing clouds, the Moon passing through the night sky every month (diagonal bands) and the Sun climbing higher in the sky during summer.

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

Don't Give Up, by Black Belt Eagle Scout from the album The Land, The Water, The Sky

"…The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky
The land, the water, the sky…"
— "Don't Give Up," Black Belt Eagle Scout
blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com/track/dont-g...

(been stuck in my head for days)

Let this be the year of the end of anger. New bird divination available as a print at https://bit.ly/angerdivination. The deck of 100 can be found at http://almanacofbirds.org

amazing terminology for the hypothetical moon of a moon

a card featuring some predictions for 2025: you will eat something weird but transcendent, you are going to see a bird that looks pretty normal but it's gonna be kinda odd, weird plant, you will touch the water, a small bug will land on you long enough for you to look at it closely, you will find something that you thought was lost forever

2025 Predictions

There will still be beauty in this world after we are gone.

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++

UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade

Highlights:
🏭end of coal power after 142yrs
🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share
🌄renewables at record-high 45%

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Colourful bollards/barriers shaped like sheep in Christchurch New Zealand

Check these out — Still probably my favourite bollards/barriers I’ve seen anywhere in the world. They aren’t just cute and fun (and extra seating) — they’re REALLY heavy. Cars should NOT try messing with these sheep! I took this pic while working for Christchurch NZ years ago. #CityOfSmiles

Two unicorns, Dennis and Butterscotch, looking into the future. There is a blinding white light. The text reads: What's that? It's the future! Will there be cupcakes? There'll be whatever we make!

Whatever we make.

From @katejbaer.bsky.social's book, What Kind of Woman: bookshop.org/a/862/978006...

#poem #poetry #katebaer #books #authors

Happy new year :3
May 2025 be a happy and great year for you!

あけましておめでとうございます！
2025年が素晴らしい一年となりますように✨

"life cannot be delegated."

Some intelligences that are frugal with energy, water & materials:
A monarch migrating
A bird nest building
A vine reaching for light
A toddler making up a song
A culture living within the limits of its place for centuries
Voices harmonizing
A storyteller, telling

Ted on his ATV floating in space. The earth floats like a speck of dust in a sunbeam. The text reads: As Ted gazed out across the cosmos he was struck by the beauty of existence and filled with the hope of a brand new year. Happy new year, Ted.

#HappyNewYear

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Sorry, I can’t do a personal review of the year. Anything before last week merges into one amorphous blob.

love this and also love the world heritage level effect that one viral image had on the general public's understanding of perception

Interesting, and also interesting that in the year view for 1582 there appears to be a glitch / inconsistency?

The opening paragraph to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Chapter 1: The Period. The text below reads: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Charles Dickens spitting fire in 1859 about a story taking place in the 1780s with an opening that still rings relevant at the end of 2024.

But the zillow website still lists this as having a high flood risk. we need to give credit to people who adapt to climate change.

this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.

Love the safety graphics - curious about the process of creating the graphics and how you come up with ideas! Have you done an AMA or similar / would you consider doing one? Happy new year!

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

Science affords us the luxury of forgetting the impact of infectious diseases
- In the 1st half of the 19th century 40-50% of children in US did not make it past the age of 5
- TB killed 1 in 7 people in US and Europe
- smallpox killed 80% of infected children
theconversation.com/infectious-d...