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A White-breasted Nuthatch striking the classic nuthatch pose. These birds have an extra strong hind toe that allows them to scoot downwards face-first.
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A White-breasted Nuthatch striking the classic nuthatch pose. These birds have an extra strong hind toe that allows them to scoot downwards face-first.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "The Barn Swallow Choir." #birds
December 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar: "The Barn Swallow Choir." #birds
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December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This rules. Good for these churches
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This rules. Good for these churches
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The Saint Louis Art Museum has stepped-up with Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Becoming the Sea’ exhibit. I haven’t read any reviews yet but these large scale mixed media paintings 2021 - 25 are other worldly. Some are over 32 ft tall. As a fair weather fan of his past installations, these paintings are epic! #art
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Saint Louis Art Museum has stepped-up with Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Becoming the Sea’ exhibit. I haven’t read any reviews yet but these large scale mixed media paintings 2021 - 25 are other worldly. Some are over 32 ft tall. As a fair weather fan of his past installations, these paintings are epic! #art
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Resharing for #InternationalJaguarDay :
#InternationalJaguarDay :
#Jaguar Pectoral
Mixteca-Puebla, Tehuacán
Late Postclassic period, c.1200–1400
Stone, shell, wood
3 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 1/2 in. (8.6 x 16.2 x 1.3 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum 163:1979: www.slam.org/collection/o...
#Jaguar Pectoral
Mixteca-Puebla, Tehuacán
Late Postclassic period, c.1200–1400
Stone, shell, wood
3 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 1/2 in. (8.6 x 16.2 x 1.3 cm)
Saint Louis Art Museum 163:1979: www.slam.org/collection/o...
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Resharing for #InternationalJaguarDay :
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If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If someone hits him with sugar next they’ll have cookies by the end of the week
This was such a special one. Between this, The Bright Sword, and Glorious Exploits it’s been an unusually good reading year for me. @rfkuang.bsky.social ‘s Katabasis is up next!
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This was such a special one. Between this, The Bright Sword, and Glorious Exploits it’s been an unusually good reading year for me. @rfkuang.bsky.social ‘s Katabasis is up next!
I shit talk AI on the regular but there are MANY cool neat things it could do for us when well applied. So much conflation of targeted scientific applications of LLMs and AI models with using chatgpt to write poetry and it simply does not help anything
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I shit talk AI on the regular but there are MANY cool neat things it could do for us when well applied. So much conflation of targeted scientific applications of LLMs and AI models with using chatgpt to write poetry and it simply does not help anything
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The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following:
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following:
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.
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not now babe it's infishtructure week
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
not now babe it's infishtructure week
Super cool and promising news, and this person explains the importance very well!
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Super cool and promising news, and this person explains the importance very well!
Post Thanksgiving weekends always trend towards sloth for me anyways and I simply don’t think I can make it past the inertia in these conditions
I was going to do my daily walk but the sound of winds smashing something icy into my windows has made me think how maybe I should wait until I won’t be pelted with hard objects. #stlwx
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Post Thanksgiving weekends always trend towards sloth for me anyways and I simply don’t think I can make it past the inertia in these conditions
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me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
me, smart, a big-shot university president, paying the Danegeld: that should be the last we hear from the Dane
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incredible quote lol
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
incredible quote lol
Quote post with a beach photo from your gallery!
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Quote post with a beach photo from your gallery!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
bigfoot is republican-coded 😟
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
bigfoot is republican-coded 😟
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Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Any time corporate executives are in a room together and don't know they're being recorded, the transcript is like: "Christ, I hate our customers. We're agreed that we all hate our customers? Let's lie to the IRS, criminally. Did I mention the Holocaust never happened? Put more lead in our soda."
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I keep coming back to this
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I keep coming back to this
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...