Yes—it’s so beautiful. Lines 17 and 18 = one of my favorite couplets in the English language.
We had to recite it in Middle English in college and I found two guys who rapped it online. Best study guide ever.
Macro photograph of a cluster of goldenrod flowers, one at top left crisply in focus, while a blurred bumble bee approaches in face view at upper right, its wings spread.
One of my favorite pollinator photos, and the bee isn't even in focus. Which is why I love it. (Bombus sp, Illinois)
Publishers Marketplace announcement reading: Historian, science writer, and author of CURIOUS SPECIES Whitney Barlow Robles's SPECIMANIA: LIFE, DEATH, & LOVE IN THE MUSEUM, a scientific love story of the adventure and madness of natural history collecting, tracing how it evolved into a desperate attempt at preservation in the face of the extinction crisis, to Ryan Harrington at Timber Press, by Zoe Pagnamenta at Calligraph (NA). Rights also to Connor Stait at Icon Books (UK), by Sally Holloway at Felicity Bryan Associates, on behalf of Calligraph. Rights: rights@calligraphlit.com
Some exciting news today: I'm writing another book!
My take on AI use
1) It's making it harder for people to learn *how* to learn
2) If you can't do everything you think ou should be doing without resorting to it — then you're doing (or being asked to do) too much
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
JD Vance @JDVance X.com Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it. 8:28 AM • 9/4/21
JD Vance in 2021:
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
An ICU nurse rushes to help a woman who has been violently shoved to the ground by ICE. And they execute him in cold blood for it. I can't even wrap my head around the depravity.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Immigration detainees are violent criminals.”
ICE is a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanish in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer means anything. The knock on the door is the sentence.
Spanish-language worksheet in which pictures of things have been relegated into “the present” or “the past.” Things in the present column include computers and cars. Things of the past include typewriters and…chalkboards.
The educator in me is dying at chalkboards apparently being a “thing of the past” 😭
Like they’re as quaint as a quill or gramophone
Source: my kid’s kindergarten homework
#EduSky
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
I had the chance to interview James for my first book and he is truly a gem.
A hilarious read. Especially:
"The shark had looked sunken and strange after dissection, so the team “just shoved a load of lab coats in it”, says Maclaine, laughing at the idea that the stitches might burst in 100 years’ time, spewing foetid lab coats and puzzling future researchers."
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
John Lawson, 1709: "The Raccoon . . . is the drunkenest Creature living, if he can get any Liquor that is sweet and strong."
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Merlin app screenshot showing a Great Horned Owl
Oo this one’s a hoot
A 13-year search for one of the world's rarest flowers in Indonesia ends in a 'magical experience'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Cast your mind back a few presidents and remind yourself how INSANE this question is.
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
A handful of pecans
An anole (a type of lizard) on a leaf with a look of mixt caution and disdain
One thing among many I love about the South is getting so many unexpected chances to collect pecans! Oh, and to glimpse lizards, even on this chilly day.
#lizards #pecans #southerncharm
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
I first learned about the Burgess Shale while taking a class with Derek Briggs. And let me tell you, the whole lot of ‘em—Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Opabinia—sound so lovely with an emphatic Irish accent.
Don’t even get me started on how he pronounced the Ediacaran fauna.
