Larissa Kelly
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Migration is beautiful.
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New work from my cartographic project - one of a series of migrating animals. Accepted into the Art Gallery of Northumberland 46th Annual Juried Show.
American Avocet
12” x 12”, acrylic on vintage map collage, framed
#nature #maps #contemporaryart #gallery #cobourg #birdwatching #ornithology
American Avocet
12” x 12”, acrylic on vintage map collage, framed
#nature #maps #contemporaryart #gallery #cobourg #birdwatching #ornithology
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
New work from my cartographic project - one of a series of migrating animals. Accepted into the Art Gallery of Northumberland 46th Annual Juried Show.
American Avocet
12” x 12”, acrylic on vintage map collage, framed
#nature #maps #contemporaryart #gallery #cobourg #birdwatching #ornithology
American Avocet
12” x 12”, acrylic on vintage map collage, framed
#nature #maps #contemporaryart #gallery #cobourg #birdwatching #ornithology
Watching a movie in which an abusive English professor "transfers" to a different college with one day's notice, midway through the fall semester, and wondering whether there's ever been a film or TV show that accurately depicts academia as a workplace.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Watching a movie in which an abusive English professor "transfers" to a different college with one day's notice, midway through the fall semester, and wondering whether there's ever been a film or TV show that accurately depicts academia as a workplace.
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What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.
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a dapper gecko for no particular reason
October 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
a dapper gecko for no particular reason
Don't know how representative this experience is, but for what it's worth: every time I've asked to opt out of the face-recognition cameras at U.S. airports, there has been zero pushback. I say "I'd like to opt out, please," the TSA official says something like "sure, no problem," and that's it.
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Don't know how representative this experience is, but for what it's worth: every time I've asked to opt out of the face-recognition cameras at U.S. airports, there has been zero pushback. I say "I'd like to opt out, please," the TSA official says something like "sure, no problem," and that's it.
Wuthering Heights is overrated as a romance, and vastly underrated as a comedy.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Wuthering Heights is overrated as a romance, and vastly underrated as a comedy.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What a generous act from someone who deserved so much better from the United States.
"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'"
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting
At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.
www.texasobserver.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What a generous act from someone who deserved so much better from the United States.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Can confirm. I've been there.
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Can confirm. I've been there.
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Today's the second day that NPR and PBS and the hundreds of local stations that comprise both networks are operating without any government support after they were defunded. Consider giving them a bit of support =>
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Today's the second day that NPR and PBS and the hundreds of local stations that comprise both networks are operating without any government support after they were defunded. Consider giving them a bit of support =>
Cinderella's pumpkin sword is such a great detail!
Hi #kidlitartpostcard I’m Clare, I love watercolour, animals of all sorts, and the colour blue. Currently in DC and looking for projects
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Cinderella's pumpkin sword is such a great detail!
Even when Bloomberg writes about Wu "coasting to re-election" with a "commanding mandate," her popularity is presented not as a success but a problem. The focus isn't on what she's achieved, it's on the CEOs who are sulky and fretful that they can't dictate terms to her, or buy votes for Josh Kraft.
It's been pretty striking how the national media who anoint "rising stars" never seem to notice the intensely charismatic Michelle Wu, who focuses on progressive policy instead of "are we too woke" handwringing.
October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Even when Bloomberg writes about Wu "coasting to re-election" with a "commanding mandate," her popularity is presented not as a success but a problem. The focus isn't on what she's achieved, it's on the CEOs who are sulky and fretful that they can't dictate terms to her, or buy votes for Josh Kraft.
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A solitary sea lion resting on the shore, scanning the horizon for circling sharks.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A solitary sea lion resting on the shore, scanning the horizon for circling sharks.
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Hen & Mouse
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hen & Mouse
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
Nice try, but he's not surpassing Nuggan until he tariffs ears, accordion players, and the color blue.
Trump just announced a 100% tariff on foreign movies—five months after he last announced he was going to do it and Hollywood freaked it and no one was ever able to pin down how a tariff on a film would even work. New post provides no further details.
September 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nice try, but he's not surpassing Nuggan until he tariffs ears, accordion players, and the color blue.
Something I've learned over a couple decades of marriage is that arguments are much more irritating and intractable when you're not clear on what you actually want. If you preemptively swerve and bend, based on what you imagine the other person wants, the likely result is that no one ends up happy!
I’m really hung up on this idea that everyone left of center with any kind of platform must triangulate to swing voters in Missouri. It’s utterly bizarre. Politics does not work that way. It never has.
September 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Something I've learned over a couple decades of marriage is that arguments are much more irritating and intractable when you're not clear on what you actually want. If you preemptively swerve and bend, based on what you imagine the other person wants, the likely result is that no one ends up happy!
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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Listening to a review of TASK, which sounds like a perfectly decent crime show, and also a dispatch from another universe where the FBI is still doing normal FBI stuff
September 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Listening to a review of TASK, which sounds like a perfectly decent crime show, and also a dispatch from another universe where the FBI is still doing normal FBI stuff
Can't stop thinking about the comics who've spent the last decade eating nothing but HGH and raw bison testicles, while going on three podcasts a week to bray about how ~controversial~ and ~transgressive~ they are, and the way those guys were just completely smoked by Jimmy Kimmel of all people.
September 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Can't stop thinking about the comics who've spent the last decade eating nothing but HGH and raw bison testicles, while going on three podcasts a week to bray about how ~controversial~ and ~transgressive~ they are, and the way those guys were just completely smoked by Jimmy Kimmel of all people.
Wikipedia's list of predicted apocalypses starts off funny ("when his prophecy failed for 1988 he revised it to 1989, then 1993, then 1994..."), but becomes unexpectedly moving - only 1.3 billion years before all eukaryotic life dies from carbon dioxide starvation!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wikipedia's list of predicted apocalypses starts off funny ("when his prophecy failed for 1988 he revised it to 1989, then 1993, then 1994..."), but becomes unexpectedly moving - only 1.3 billion years before all eukaryotic life dies from carbon dioxide starvation!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Circa 2028, if the Trump-Vance regime looks shaky, SCOTUS will finally slap together some opinions limiting presidential power. Many credulous articles will then be written about how the Court has rejected partisan hackery and doesn't need reform, even as it hamstrings the next Democratic president.
They're not going to say "the president can fire whoever they want," it will be another non-rule that ultimately gives the courts (specifically ultimately SCOTUS) the right to decide whether a particular position and/or reason for termination is lawful.
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Circa 2028, if the Trump-Vance regime looks shaky, SCOTUS will finally slap together some opinions limiting presidential power. Many credulous articles will then be written about how the Court has rejected partisan hackery and doesn't need reform, even as it hamstrings the next Democratic president.