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CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Harvest mice on some lavender - older posting - Post your mice photos in the comments

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#wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #ThePhotoHour #photography #vickyoutenphoto #harvestmice
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Merry Christmas to all, especially Sexy Shelob
December 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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johnsmillie42.bsky.social
If you're in line for figgy pudding, stay in line
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
🎄#MerryChristmas to those who celebrate, please enjoy these festive-looking #hedgehogs.🎄🦔
(In the medieval bestiary, the hedgehog's story usually involved it rolling around and collecting fallen fruit on its quills to bring home to its children - fruit kebabs to go!)
1. Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, 1588 f. 72v https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmmetz/12497461423/in/album-72157640916985905/ 2. Verdun, Bibl.mun., ms 0107, f. 008 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/9684/canvas/canvas-1283591/view 3. Morgan Library, MS M.81 (The Worksop Bestiary), f. 10v http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/3/77019 4. Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 101 (Bestiary of Hugh of Fouilloy), f. 189v https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery217.htm
December 25, 2023 at 3:19 AM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
katiewalko.bsky.social
classic MO
utopia-defer.red utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8d
State Republicans cut the capital gains tax with the usual lie of increasing economic growth and they somehow undershot the fiscal impact by nearly a multiple of five and now we might have a state budget crisis.
missouriindependent.com Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 8d
The capital gains tax cut was supposed to cause revenue loss of about $160 million in the current fiscal year, w/ongoing losses at $111 million. The state now expects $500 million loss this year and $360 million annually. #moleg #mogov
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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guntoucher.bsky.social
sorry im late boss but as you know the NIST Boulder campus atomic ensemble time scale is fucked up now
December 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d
data is important, measurement of public opinion is important, but politics also isn't a machine. there are a vast number of qualitative factors at work. and people themselves are unpredictable.
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building. Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties. Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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landguyminor.bsky.social
Windblown
#scape #landscape #photography
#sanddune #grasses
Grasses blowing in the wind and growing on old sand dunes.
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Tag yourself, I'm gone to the cheeses.
adamcsharp.bsky.social Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 8d
Daydreaming phrases from five other languages…

5. Gone to the cheeses (Chilean Spanish)
4. Thinking about blue almonds (Polish)
3. Dreaming of green horses on walls (Romanian)
2. Cooking pulao in your mind (Urdu)
1. Swimming in watermelon juice (Egyptian Arabic)
December 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
www.space.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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kellalena.bsky.social
Me: make it a double.

Server: your soup??

Me: you heard me.
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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leowrite.bsky.social
Canada Goose portrait #birds
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jokeb0i.bsky.social
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt
What’s the title or IP that you have yet to land but want? Calvin and Hobbes. I’ve been chasing that for years and years, and I just have gotten nowhere with [creator] Bill Watterson. I began writing letters to him over 20 years ago. He lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and I was actually contemplating just going out there and just staying at a local Best Western and seeing if he ever shows up at the [local] bookstore. All he does is these wood carvings for poetry readings, and every now and then he goes to the bookstore and does signings.
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Mother in the nest with her chicks.
Cladonia #lichen with a little nearby Juniper Haircap Moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #botany
Photo of a Cladonia lichen podetia that looks like a bowl with several smaller podetia growing out of it.
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks! Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared. This was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, when autonomous software would go out into the world and do things for us. But two agents—Claudius and its overseeing “CEO” bot, Seymour Cash—became a case study in how inadequate and easily distracted this software can be. Leave it to business journalists to successfully stage a boardroom coup against an AI chief executive.
December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Big blizzard day in Manitoba. From the comfort of my kitchen, I watched this downy woodpecker get absolutely buffeted by the nasty wind – and for some reason, preferring to peck at this fencepost over snacking the suet log a few metres away. #birds
A small black and white woodpecker clings to a gate post, next to a metal latch. Snow is stuck to the wood as well. The bird is fluffed up against the cold, as a blizzard blows around it.
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.
A small hedgehog has green and red circles on her spikes and a gold one. On the branch in front of and behind her are 2 more gold balls. The branch has a few green leaves. It all looks very festive although the balls on her spikes are probably grapes.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.

Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM