Hillary Loomis

👆tweed!

I recently came across Men in the Mirror by Tim Edwards. Might be more sociological and fashion oriented than you are looking for...but it would be a great foundation for a piece on the
recent Styles/Bieber/Bad Bunny fashion news.

Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts

Fun read
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾☠️🦜
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl...

midwestjunto For the History of Science

Join us at Purdue for the 2026 Midwest Junto (17-18 April) -- submit your abstracts by 15 Feb: midwestjunto.wordpress.com

@jefftweedyscot.bsky.social "Forever Never Ends" beams me right back to 1998. Thanks for a three minute ride when I need it most. 📻⏳

Maybe it's the conjuring of a rural highway on prom night, or maybe it's because I too wore baby's breathe in my hair, or maybe it's just nostalgia for pre 9-11 life, when Minnesota was known for MOA and actual ice, but man,

Living with an 8yo portal enthusiast, I've talked more about time traveling in the past year than the rest if my life combined. Like most of my 8yo's ideas, a much simpler version already exists.

Did Santa bring you a drone?

The exurbs have more action than a Wisco trail cam.

Then I spot another 10-pointer drowsily following the first, (I swear these are the two i caught in an abandoned parking lot a couple summers ago) down the hill. I point out the second deer out to the boomers in the suv facing me, they smile and wave and we all watch as the second leaps the cove.

Exciting deer sighting! 7:45 am, frigid morning, 10-pointer skitters down the gully between two mid-century homes on the hill, launches through some brush onto the frozen cove of the lake, slides like a cartoon deer, front legs straight, back legs down, hits the opposite bank and rolls up on land.

Did the algorithm think I wrote "Messi?" Just testing...

@bookowl.bsky.social Merry Christmas, Dan!

There is hope for messy writers of every time and place to achieve bluesky fame!

neon green bumpy osage orange hangs on branch

Come to Southern Illinois they said. Ride an alpine coaster they said. Reach out and touch a deer rump while speeding down a bluff said no one. Between the possibility if getting hit by a deer or an osage orange, my vision for a relaxing Sunday outting was not met.

Had my closest encounter with a 10-point buck while driving my daily humdrum commute across town
today. The large deer crashed out of the woods with purpose and speed heading directly for Kohl's, followed shortly thereafter by the happiest Boston terrier I've ever seen. #suburban wildlife

Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa dressed in green as Disney's Tiana and prince

Can't believe it, but I think Andy Richter might actually win DWTS this season. Also this show may be more accurate than actual political polls.

I think this means the Dems should consider Walz for another run...

In the meantime, Go team Chiles Sosa!

old timey European newspaper with man in suit and bowler hat

I can't escape this project! My breakfast placemat:

elevated bike and walking path

koi pond at University of Luxembourg-Belval

koi pond, trees red academix building in front of blast furnace

industrial landscape-huge elevated rusted pipes

I am so excited to be at the most unique campus I have ever visited @UniversityofLuxembourg Belval for the Society for the History of Technology Meeting!

Woohoo! Excited to learn more about all the corn I seem to forever be driving thru! (and Brazil, which I aspire to visit as well!)

plz let me know what you find out in this front 🫣

girl holds a rabbit

christ like toddler with sheep

pastoral with resting humans and livestock

vintage 4-H poster with kids holding sign "4-H is for us!"

In honor of National 4-H Week I present a couple of fair kids and some tired parents.

100% Hollywood leading man...but those pants 😍

as close to poetry as I get

The proliferation of middle school boys on e-bikes and one-wheels crusing too fast with fishing poles adds to the apocalyptic vibes as of late.

oh no!

when you put it that way...!

Country Roads tee

Summer finally feels over. I was too busy to post my "Eavesdropping on Rural America" series, but reading through my notes the best one was one of the first, way back on June 3, overheard in Highland, IL.

"I gotta get home, my "Old Country Road" tee shirt arrived from Temu today.

BARF

Maria Montessori is knowingly smiling down on all those notebooks. ✏️📓🫶