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Between worlds: north, south, wilds, city — every day in transition, translation, or in silence trying to make sense of where we are now. Prepping for the next round. Reading every word. You can, too. Hot takes & quick responses will be scarce.
I don’t want to live in a world without anthropologists, archaeologists, archivists, historians, librarians, museums. Where we come from matters, how we got here matters, remembering how we made decisions, remembering the process that’s how we learn, grow, understand who we are.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I don’t want to live in a world without anthropologists, archaeologists, archivists, historians, librarians, museums. Where we come from matters, how we got here matters, remembering how we made decisions, remembering the process that’s how we learn, grow, understand who we are.
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
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Posting ghost jobs should be illegal. If companies do this to harvest consumer data or create the appearance that they are “always hiring” to appease investors, how is this just not fraud? Is there a meaningful legislative remedy for this?
November 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Posting ghost jobs should be illegal. If companies do this to harvest consumer data or create the appearance that they are “always hiring” to appease investors, how is this just not fraud? Is there a meaningful legislative remedy for this?
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When you’re out fishing please be responsible and clean up your gear. This stuff is a hazard for wildlife.
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When you’re out fishing please be responsible and clean up your gear. This stuff is a hazard for wildlife.
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“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.”
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...
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One of the reasons I love retro-SF futures is because they speak to this increasing trend of turning shit off and disconnecting devices. When AWS goes down and bricks your bed, fridge, and thermostat, the appeal of analog is keenly felt.
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...
The return of dumb things: Why young people are ditching their smartphones for MP3 players and digital cameras
Young people are using dumb phones, MP3 players and digital cameras in lieu of iPhones. Experts explain why.
www.yahoo.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
One of the reasons I love retro-SF futures is because they speak to this increasing trend of turning shit off and disconnecting devices. When AWS goes down and bricks your bed, fridge, and thermostat, the appeal of analog is keenly felt.
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...
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Roomba remotely bricked his vacuum without informing him after he turned off their spyware. Talk about malicious.
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Roomba remotely bricked his vacuum without informing him after he turned off their spyware. Talk about malicious.
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Excellent clip on the history of hostile architecture in NYC-it’s current form seen in the leaning benches in subways &lack of any seating (except Amtrak Lounge) in Moynihan station impacting ppl who are unhoused, older, and/or disabled. Of course, Robert Moses & his legacy are responsible for this.
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Excellent clip on the history of hostile architecture in NYC-it’s current form seen in the leaning benches in subways &lack of any seating (except Amtrak Lounge) in Moynihan station impacting ppl who are unhoused, older, and/or disabled. Of course, Robert Moses & his legacy are responsible for this.
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"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along. You couldn’t use it to buy stuff and have it delivered the next day, but you could communicate with people, old and new friends, anywhere, instantly."
By @phil.gyford.com: www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
By @phil.gyford.com: www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
www.gyford.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"The earlier internet was a haven, everyone making it up as they went along. You couldn’t use it to buy stuff and have it delivered the next day, but you could communicate with people, old and new friends, anywhere, instantly."
By @phil.gyford.com: www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
By @phil.gyford.com: www.gyford.com/phil/writing...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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If you haven’t personally experienced a hostile takeover where the new CEO is just there to strip a company for parts and make as much profit for himself and the board as possible before declaring bankruptcy, welcome America.
You’re living it now.
You’re living it now.
October 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If you haven’t personally experienced a hostile takeover where the new CEO is just there to strip a company for parts and make as much profit for himself and the board as possible before declaring bankruptcy, welcome America.
You’re living it now.
You’re living it now.
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I think people should read about what happened at Wounded Knee. Read at least one reasonably factual source. Please.
September 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I think people should read about what happened at Wounded Knee. Read at least one reasonably factual source. Please.
A Golden Plover! Not that I can actually see it.
September 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A Golden Plover! Not that I can actually see it.
Hope you’re enjoying your cricket and hopper symphony. I’m hoping we hear the chorus frogs once more before winter.
September 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Hope you’re enjoying your cricket and hopper symphony. I’m hoping we hear the chorus frogs once more before winter.
Five sandhill cranes flying over. Someday maybe they will land nearby.
September 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Five sandhill cranes flying over. Someday maybe they will land nearby.
Some ash trees that were green last weekend have turned completely yellow. The poplars are beginning to turn. Virginia creeper and a Tatarian maple are beginning to show red.
September 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some ash trees that were green last weekend have turned completely yellow. The poplars are beginning to turn. Virginia creeper and a Tatarian maple are beginning to show red.
Sandhill cranes gathered in the fields about 10 miles away on Tuesday. First time, I’ve ever seen them that close to us. A small flock of Canada Geese have been settled in a field a few miles north. At the river there’s scads of blackbirds and a great blue heron.
September 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sandhill cranes gathered in the fields about 10 miles away on Tuesday. First time, I’ve ever seen them that close to us. A small flock of Canada Geese have been settled in a field a few miles north. At the river there’s scads of blackbirds and a great blue heron.
Today brought Bobolinks, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, and Vesper Sparrows.
September 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Today brought Bobolinks, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, and Vesper Sparrows.
The House Wrens, Goldfinches, Meadowlarks, Swallows and Kingbirds are still hanging around though I haven’t heard any Kingbirds at all today which is unusual. I had both the Baltimore Oriole at an Orchard Oriole in the yard last week. I don’t think the Ravens ever truly leave.
September 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The House Wrens, Goldfinches, Meadowlarks, Swallows and Kingbirds are still hanging around though I haven’t heard any Kingbirds at all today which is unusual. I had both the Baltimore Oriole at an Orchard Oriole in the yard last week. I don’t think the Ravens ever truly leave.
This weekend has brought the return of birds heading back south: Swainson’s Thrush, Northern Flicker, Cedar Waxwing, Blackpoll Warbler, Palm Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Lincoln Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow and White-Throated Sparrow.
September 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This weekend has brought the return of birds heading back south: Swainson’s Thrush, Northern Flicker, Cedar Waxwing, Blackpoll Warbler, Palm Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Lincoln Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow and White-Throated Sparrow.
Are there actually “normal” people out there to offend, who won’t vote for anything except the most bland nothingburger, or is it a term thrown around to illustrate some person’s talking point? Is that really the right word? I suspect “normal” means “people who agree with me”.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Are there actually “normal” people out there to offend, who won’t vote for anything except the most bland nothingburger, or is it a term thrown around to illustrate some person’s talking point? Is that really the right word? I suspect “normal” means “people who agree with me”.
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This is over 5 years old now.
But it was not only about walking during Covid, but touched on walking with ill health, class, and the overlap between travel writing and #naturewriting.
I am heading back to the council estate where it all began today.
But it was not only about walking during Covid, but touched on walking with ill health, class, and the overlap between travel writing and #naturewriting.
I am heading back to the council estate where it all began today.
August 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
This is over 5 years old now.
But it was not only about walking during Covid, but touched on walking with ill health, class, and the overlap between travel writing and #naturewriting.
I am heading back to the council estate where it all began today.
But it was not only about walking during Covid, but touched on walking with ill health, class, and the overlap between travel writing and #naturewriting.
I am heading back to the council estate where it all began today.
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Sometimes we see it, very clearly, that the pen is truly mightier than the sword.
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Sometimes we see it, very clearly, that the pen is truly mightier than the sword.
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Happy Monday!
Here’s an ancient amber bear carved about 10,000 years ago!
This magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea.
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s an ancient amber bear carved about 10,000 years ago!
This magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea.
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
August 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy Monday!
Here’s an ancient amber bear carved about 10,000 years ago!
This magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea.
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s an ancient amber bear carved about 10,000 years ago!
This magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea.
National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Seven Canada geese flew over today. A Great Blue Heron stopped by for a visit. The odd ones picked up a few days ago by Merlin were an Eastern Blue Bird and a Semipalmated Sandpiper. The locals I’ve seen and heard most this week are the red-wing blackbirds, killdeer, kingbirds and swallows.
August 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Seven Canada geese flew over today. A Great Blue Heron stopped by for a visit. The odd ones picked up a few days ago by Merlin were an Eastern Blue Bird and a Semipalmated Sandpiper. The locals I’ve seen and heard most this week are the red-wing blackbirds, killdeer, kingbirds and swallows.