Kell Compost 😷

I am very tired and sad

*notices the authorial voice is very familiarly pro-fuzzy-mustelid*

*scrolls back up, sees @sabs.bsky.social*

Ah, that makes sense!

an old piece of paleoart showing various dinosaurs. The caption's the important bit: "The dinosaurs didn't 'rule the earth,' they were just alive. Stop giving them credit for admistrative skills they almost certainly did not have."

This isn't the substance of my complaint but it rhymes with it

If "Please find attached" becomes too repetitive in your emails, consider these alternatives:

- Hwættachment!

- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a working man in possession of a good email, must be in want of attachments.

- I have attached
the files
that were in
the folder

Wide view of a cherry branch with 1 full leaf and another half eaten leaf with a green and brown caterpillar on the end. The caterpillar is camouflaged as the end of a dead leaf.

A closer view of the camouflaged caterpillar

A dead leaf? Unicorn Prominent (Coelodasys unicornis) caterpillar. Forsyth County, NC, USA

it was a decades-long project but we are at last only a few posts away from developing the maximally moral way to watch television

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Pigeons in center of a magical circle

Powerful magic

I think a proper and good adaptation of the discworld books could unseat Harry Potter culturally

Power! At The Fish Disco

When you factor in just how many incarcerated people including children have disabilities like ADHD and autism and MI and IDs and are Black or brown or indigenous, it really becomes hard not to describe the facilities of cages they're locked in as "death camps built for genocide of undesirables"

I reflexively flinched at this title but glad I clicked and read it - there are a whole bunch of good criticisms in here and I have probably been complicit in at least a few of these problems in my time

ooh I just finished Four Lost Cities by Newitz (historical nonfiction, touches on historical topics but not overall depressing) and I didn't know she wrote fiction too and now I'm excused for this!

HOOOOOO boy.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"

Lyons: "Yes ma'am."

McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

🫘 It's #WorldPulsesDay! More than just a side dish, pulses are foundational infrastructure for a resilient food system. In an era defined by supply chain shocks, climate extremes, & economic uncertainty, the benefits of these crops are even more apparent. Read our full ode to pulses: bit.ly/4tnx9HL

Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.

The most dangerous jobs in America remain… fishing and logging

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

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This work opens doors, builds understanding, and ensures voices from around the world can be heard—not just locally, but globally.

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Most translation funding still goes to bestsellers or colonial languages.
This campaign shifts that balance by supporting translations from under-represented languages, like Shona, Nishinaabemowin, Ukrainian, Malay, Hausa, isiZulu, Tamil, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese, and more.

You know things are bad when the WSJ puts it this plainly:

"The rewards are going toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic, and the market value attached to those profits even more. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains."

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

A silver background with a pile of 17 hand embroidered sardines all facing the same way - in profile facing to the right.

"Packed Like Sardines 3"
Hand embroidery thread painting artwork
Back with me after being in an exhibition and now on my website
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p307/p...
#embroidery #WildlifeArt #fish

This is part of why I'm always looking for good, enthusiastic propaganda about infrastructure! Infrastructure isn't sexy but it's so important and we CAN build this kind of joy around sewers and transit and social safety nets. We gotta help people find joy in the utilitarian

Bad Bunny’s halftime show reminded me of Zohran Mamdani. Asking myself why, I think it’s because they both embody the power of pride of place—especially in contrast to the ethnonationalisic pride displayed by the far-right.

Stupid post from Threads: "Men, I challenge you to try this; no porn no alcohol 2-4 eggs/day 3 liters of water 6-7 hours of sleep 10,000+ steps/day 500+ push-ups daily no meals in the morning write at least 1,000 words daily write 5 things you're grateful for Shall we?

Men, I challenge you to try this;

- 8 hours for work
- 8 hours for sleep
- 8 hours for what we will

Shall we?

Remember: Data gathered for one purpose will inevitably be used for other purposes. Especially when that data is gathered by, or on behalf of, the government.

(linked post is a thread)

I've composited two photos: a broadleaf plantain and an African plantain. One is a weed that grows close to the ground, the other is a large-leafed tropical fruit tree.

Here's a weird etymological convergence:
both of these plants are called "plantains."

-Plantago major, 'broadleaf plantain', an herb that grows as a weed in soil all over Europe.
-'Musa × paradisiaca', the 'African plantain', which is a relative to the banana, but larger & starchier/less sweet.

VERY fast lizer running at incredible hihg speed

(hee hee, that gait, it looks like the legs are just going every which way, and yet he zoom)