Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

3D KNITTING!!!!

This band walks the walk. @dropkickmurphys.com lead singer Ken Casey drove an ambulance to Ukraine and recorded this single from a studio in Kyiv.

Somehow, I got thrown in on backup vocals. I dare you not to feel something watching this.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"

The curtain at the end! The music it walks out to!

Given all the cap ex spent on AI, for the industry to see just a 10% return on investment, between now and 2030, they would need to earn $750 billion per year in revenue. That's about $200 per month from every Netflix subscriber or $40 per month from every iPhone user.

They take up so much room!

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Bobbie, A Portrait Sketch https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-merritt-chase/bobbie-a-portrait-sketch

A convicted drug dealer granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to federal prison for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

Applications now open 🎓

Spend 9 weeks at Cambridge University with the CRASSH & @cw-indiatrust.bsky.social, supporting scholars from India in the arts, humanities, and heritage conservation

Funding includes travel, accommodation & research expenses

Apply by 19 Jan 2026
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wow. WOW.

Comrades, it’s time for another thread about lessons I learned as a union organizer writing/working campaigns for public employees across multiple states from 2008-2024. Here’s a big one: leaders of progressive organizations are often FAR more conservative and risk-averse than their base 🧵 1/x

ICE CREAM ADVENT CALENDAR!!!!!!!!!!

Korea knows what's up.

The emergence of Brian, fully prepared for winter from the ears up:

🎙️ Listen to Jon McGinnis (Philosophy / CMS) discuss Ibn Sina’s views of divine and human freedom on The Free Will Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4L...

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.

To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.

Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

In a demoralizing world it does warm the heart to see an eighty seven year-old lady repeatedly burn the world’s richest man to a crisp in a manner that clearly gets right under his skin and provokes him to flailing, compensatory exertions that only affirm the point she was making.

Fall Foliage 2025: Shinnyo-do Temple (Kyoto)🍁

The colors haven’t reached their peak yet, but I love the gentle mix of red, yellow, and green as the season deepens.

#nature #photography #temple #kyoto #japan #leaves #autumncolors

Go somewhere quiet before bed. Try one of these *sleep safe* episodes.

267 - A hidden dell at night > bit.ly/Len267
269 - Night crickets > bit.ly/Len269
189 - Night rain falls on a drystone wall > bit.ly/LenSett1
274 - Burgh Island midnight tide > bit.ly/LenBur2

A bit late to the snailposting party but here we are...

#art #pencilDrawing

Goodnight from Justine Tuttle, wondering how cold the nights have to get before the chimes of the phantom ice cream van stops being heard. Goodnight from Grace Nash, tying ribbons of prayer to the bare wooden bones of the wild cherry trees on Mill Lane. Goodnight from Hookland.

WHO could have known that if you throw several spanners into a complicated system it might take a while to fix?