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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2h

pet peeve: when people use Game of Thrones terms to discuss actual medieval / early-modern history. "Sigil" has its own meaning IRL!!

The one exception is "bannerman / call the banners" because that is genuinely a solid descriptive term for a vassal

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2h

I genuinely want to smell the Galen & Piper book

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2h

For Hemlock & Silver I'd say add a third scent that's deeply unsettling for how not natural it is. New Car Smell or something. Except that would ruin the reading experience

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2h

This!!!!!

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 8h

Although they seem to be going to sleep, temperate trees are very busy right now. Fine roots are growing, and inside the buds, next years leaves, stems, and flowers are being formed. That means that autumn weather determines some or all of next year's growth. Read about it at Our Trees.

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)

It is autumn, when the trees go to sleep. Right? Not quite. This time of year is a very busy one in the life of a temperate tree. Yes, they are preparing for the dormant season by carefully moving nu...

substack.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote a thing! thedispatch.com/article/pent...

Writing in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social, I argue that Hegseth's new 'Department of War' is a foolish break with the most successful parts of America's military past: our civ-mil relationship and the American 'way of war.'

Of Warriors and Wannabes

Hegseth’s ‘Department of War’ is a dangerous break with American military tradition.

thedispatch.com

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 10h

This is a story about Abder El Albani, a researcher at the University of Poitiers who has, since 2008, devoted his career to a set of specimens from the Francevillian formation. That means running headlong into a buzzsaw question: how do you *prove* an ambiguous structure was a fossil?

These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

www.scientificamerican.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 10h

🎃 October 15 🎃
Urban cowboy

Large tortoise wearing jorts and a tiny black cowboy hat

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10h

relieved to see this happen, and also, it certainly does seem to show that there never were security concerns about the Rafah crossing or aid entering, it was just using starvation as a weapon the entire time.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 17h

Hamas has handed over four more bodies of hostages to Israel, leading Israel to allow Gaza's key Rafah crossing to reopen on Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian territory.
jrnl.ie/6844804

Hamas hands over four more hostage bodies as 600 aid trucks to enter Gaza

Israel will allow Gaza’s key Rafah crossing to reopen on Wednesday for humanitarian aid.

jrnl.ie

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 10h

S O W I D E

(Song Sparrow) #birds 🌿

A small brown and white streaked bird sits in a bird bath, its feathers fluffed out so it looks three times its normal width.

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 9h

I know we are all focused on another history parallel right now--but this one is a real problem too.

Decades of damage are already underway.

#Lysenko #RFKJr

skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/th...

The Parallels between RFK Jr and Tofrim Lysenko: When Pseudoscience Infects National Leadership | Skeptical Inquirer

His nation’s leadership placed him in a position of profound influence that would impact the health of a nation. Once installed, he offered rapid solutions ...

skepticalinquirer.org

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 9h

Zen

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 21h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 9h

What gorgeous colors. I want to see a formal gown inspired by this

compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 9h

That's a terrifying concept. Eager to hear how it goes

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the frass and the furious @apophis.sapronym.net · 18h

how do we find out when certain CSS properties came into existence, who approved them, where do they live, and where do their spouses work and their children go to school

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, supplements absolutely should be regulated. What I mean is if I try to imagine a good faith argument that they should be less regulated than food, it rests on the assumption that people are meant to consume them in small quantities. But that's clearly not what's actually going on at all.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

it's weird that something claiming to supply significant quantities of a macronutrient can be considered a supplement

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

Here is a town with a sense of humor

Wikipedia article showing a coat of arms: on a red field, a white hen wearing a gold pair of pants. Human size pants, with the hen's entire body sitting in the butt area.

Caption: The coat of arms of the village of Hensbroek in North Holland interprets the toponym as "hen-breeches" (the toponym is unrelated to either "hen" or "breeches", deriving from the personal name Hein and the Dutch cognate of "brook", i.e. "Henry's brook".)

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

and the cover

Golden Maze by @carlydraws.bsky.social

$A fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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dan orkin @danorkin.bsky.social · 1d

See also "Guns, Germs and Steel" which has an entire section of the /r/askhistorians subreddit FAQ about the damage it's done www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

r/AskHistorians FAQ: Historians' Views on Popular History

The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.

www.reddit.com

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

This. I have hella executive dysfunction that at its worst meets the ADA definition of disabling, but it varies a lot in its intensity.

My friend who's both physically disabled and Deaf (CI user) talks about "queering the disability binary" just like queering sex/gender.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

CW SH / abuse ish?

I read someone's story on Fetlife - they did something bad in their relationship, and agreed to let their dom give them cigarette burns in a design. I felt a little squicky reading it bc they didn't seem like they were in the BEST mental place... but oh my fuck, it looked cool.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

we all need this right now

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 22

that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

I have to really watch my caffeine intake these days (already low tolerance + trying stimulant ADHD meds) and I've become devoted to one specific brand of decaf Irish Breakfast. Because FLAVOR

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