Date: 20061209
Location: Catalina State Park, Tucson, Arizona

A tall saguaro cactus rises at the top of a rocky desert trail, its arms reaching toward a vivid blue sky.

#LandscapePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #TravelPhotography

If you do this long enough, you become the content you vacated yourself for. The void you created in the pursuit of numbers is filled by the content and there’s nothing left of you or your original motivations.

www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-perils...

As always, we're marveling at the finalists for the Ocean Photographer of the Year contest. This year's competition captures moments of beauty, fragility, and urgency within aquatic ecosystems around the globe.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/ocea...

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

We will have to think deeper about education as a process over education as an outcome, the depth of human experience embodied in our culture, and citizenship as an expectation not just a right.

And we have to do this when the temptations and manipulations of ignoring all this are powerful.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.

In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Incredible bit of advertising I've just come across in an October 1965 edition of the Belfast Telegraph.

Due to a series of events, it's December again. And for the fifth year, I'm going to do an advent calendar of carols. Sub-category: Ones I particularly like. Something old, something new, nothing cheeky, nothing blue. I'll link to them all in this thread and do a YouTube playlist as well.

BBC News have live coverage of London Zoo doing their annual weigh in. Watching it is obviously one of the best ways to spend your day.

Bisected by the Milky Way, this stellar image by Josh Dury captures the Perseid meteor shower raining down on Stonehenge.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/08/josh...