Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
Day 5 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is Helen Taft's 1909 inaugural ball gown, made by the Frances Smith Company. It is made of white silk chiffon appliquéd with metallic floral embroidery and trimmed with lace, rhinestones and beads. National Museum of American History. #fashionhistory
Cape Spurfowl #spurfowl #birds #southafrica #africa #nature #photography #photographer #wild #wildlife #africananimals
@archaeologymag.bsky.social has announced their to 10 research findings of 2025! Many congratulations to @compevohumang.bsky.social and all the researchers involved in these studies! archaeology.org/collection/t...
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
A surprisingly beautiful Worth gown, tucked away somewhat unassumingly, was this 1878 wedding dress worn by Annie Schermerhorn when she married John Innes Kane. It was made of white satin, silk tulle, pearl appliques, and ribbon fringe to a gorgeous effect. A Worth wedding was
Multi-hued duck with pink beak and on long-brown tail grey water
Such a grey sunless day, but elegant long-tailed ducks still look great 🪶
A 15th-century oil painting of the Icon of St Nicholas. With the figure of St Nicholas in the centre wearing robes and two icons in the corners of John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary
#AshmoleanAdvent Day 6: St Nicholas
Today marks St Nicholas Day.
St. Nicholas of Myra was a 4th-century Christian bishop known for his kindness and generosity.
In this icon dating back to the 15th century, St Nicholas is shown as the Miracle Worker.
6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Judge issues injunction against Georgia ban on GAC for inmates, finding it cruel & unusual punishment: "The state is responsible for the well being of any person it holds in its custody...whether that person has gender dysphoria or another diagnosis..."
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Side-by-side close-up images of fossilized dromaeosaur feet showing their large, curved, sickle-shaped claws. The left image focuses on the raised second toe with its prominent claw, while the right image shows a full foot posed on a textured log, highlighting the sharp, grasping claws.
Happy #FossilFriday! #Dromaeosaurs (#raptors) have large sickle-like claws on their feet. Like today’s hawks, these #Cretaceous predatory #dinosaurs may have used their claws to grasp prey.
Collared Inca in another unusual pose
#birds #wildlife #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #photography #bestbirdshots #lynzieflynn #hummingbirds #birdsoftheworld
Initial for Advent Sunday introit in a fragment from 14th c French missal now at Houghton Library, https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-cgy7/8694/66091. there is shiny gold and hugely detailed penwork and four sort of camely dragon things, two of which seem to be a bit alarmed at having become intertwined.
fragment from a 14th c German missal now in Stuttgart. https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-cver . The parchment is kind of grubby from use as a binding, and besides which putting blue polka dots all over the red penwork inside the A probably didn't work out quite the way the artist had hoped. the neumes are quite tidy though.
thie 1405 Italian gradual (also at Houghton, https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-4h08) takes a more literal illustration approach, with king David lifting his hands up in the general direction of God. there's a bunch of little white-clad friars next to him who appear to be looking at the picture instead of singing, which is probably what some people gazing at the page were doing too.
fragment of a gradual, likely 13th c. German, now at Houghton LIbrary https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ppwo. the A of Ad te levavi is shiny and gold and there are many leafy vines.
A is Advent, and as you see here
AAAAd te levavi opens the year
#fragmentfriday
Juvenile trunkfish, about the size of a marble in Curaçao. #scuba #scubadiving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #curacao
Deep blue glass vessel shaped like a stylized animal with four legs, a pointed snout, and decorative ridges along its back, resembling a whimsical pig.
One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD
📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln
🏺 #archaeology
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
Another outfit I was very excited to see in person, since I've known of this dress for quite a while, was this 1886 Worth gown made of velvet and silver-threaded embroidery. It was also immortalized in a portrait by Alexandre Cabanel of Louise van Loon-Borski. In the painting,
Russia is invading Ukraine. It is important that Ukraine pay the price. Preferably to us directly.
by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
It’s unclear why the prices differ, but a new notice on Target’s website offers a potential hint: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”
Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.
![Excerpt from ruling:
“Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning,
this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreidy2tm2mkrt4kkxcnhlmc6uess22cabrg7b5juyauqoolvoqd7teu)
Excerpt from ruling: “Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning, this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”
While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Playing 6000-year-old conch shell trumpets for the first time reveals they were effective tools for long-distance communication and may have also been used as musical instruments 🐚
Read the research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
somber colors were often used for daywear, perhaps because they hid dirt well in a time when pollution and grime were rampant, while brighter colors were used for evening dresses. #ootd #fashionhistory #PalaisGalliera
Massive cheese recall! It’s a lot of shredded cheese sold under store brands so please check carefully.
www.allrecipes.com/cheese-recal...
Georgia - go and make your voice heard today! 🗳️
Today is the runoff election for several local races, including Atlanta city council and mayoral elections in East Point, Roswell, Sandy Springs, and South Fulton.
Find your polling place at mvp.sos.ga.gov and go vote!
Chartres cathedral in France during the annual Chartres en Lumières light show
Chartres cathedral in France during the annual Chartres en Lumières light show
In 1870, Worth and Bobergh dissolved their partnership, and Worth struck out on his own. In this new era, the crinoline gave way to the bustle and entered into what #PalaisGalliera calls the "upholstery" style, with its overindulgence in trimmings and fringe, like this 1872 robe
Group of a dozenish shrimps upside down on a coralline algae and sponge covered rock in Bali. The shrimps are delicately striped in red and white, with big green eyes. The one closest to the camera looks hilarious.
Starting off #Crustmas with a bunch of Rhynchocinetes durbanensis shrimps, which have a seasonal color scheme (but not the same family as "peppermint shrimp")
