ellemoria
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heyyyyy what's your favorite song maybe we could hum along #TCMParty
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Imagine history with no horses.
No riding, no fast travel, no early farming.
That almost happened: ancient DNA shows the horse lineage nearly vanished during the Ice Age… more than once.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/De6QDsh
No riding, no fast travel, no early farming.
That almost happened: ancient DNA shows the horse lineage nearly vanished during the Ice Age… more than once.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/De6QDsh
What If Horses Disappeared From History?
This video explores how close horses came to extinction during the Ice Age, highlighting several major population crashes over the past million years. Ancient DNA research has illuminated these…
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Imagine history with no horses.
No riding, no fast travel, no early farming.
That almost happened: ancient DNA shows the horse lineage nearly vanished during the Ice Age… more than once.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/De6QDsh
No riding, no fast travel, no early farming.
That almost happened: ancient DNA shows the horse lineage nearly vanished during the Ice Age… more than once.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/De6QDsh
speaking of disaster movies that could (will) come true....
Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
speaking of disaster movies that could (will) come true....
lol
I once had an argument with my dad about a capital gains tax, he was complaining about how it would affect him. I told him to go look at his microwave and I asked if it was dirty. He said yes and I told him to shut up it doesn’t effect you.
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
lol
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and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
I mostly don't like romcoms or historical costume dramas, but it's hard for me to pass up an apocalyptic disaster movie, natural or manmade
If there's one thing they've taught me: if you're able, try to be fit enough to run for your life
...me, I've been slipping, gotta work on that
If there's one thing they've taught me: if you're able, try to be fit enough to run for your life
...me, I've been slipping, gotta work on that
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I mostly don't like romcoms or historical costume dramas, but it's hard for me to pass up an apocalyptic disaster movie, natural or manmade
If there's one thing they've taught me: if you're able, try to be fit enough to run for your life
...me, I've been slipping, gotta work on that
If there's one thing they've taught me: if you're able, try to be fit enough to run for your life
...me, I've been slipping, gotta work on that
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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted magnified leaves and flowers "to force viewers to slow down and truly see their unexplainable beauty.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • More in the ALT
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted magnified leaves and flowers "to force viewers to slow down and truly see their unexplainable beauty.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • More in the ALT
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted magnified leaves and flowers "to force viewers to slow down and truly see their unexplainable beauty.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • More in the ALT
Happy Sunday, Blueskiis
Modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe painted magnified leaves and flowers "to force viewers to slow down and truly see their unexplainable beauty.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, “Autumn Leaves” (1924) • More in the ALT
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One of my weirder teaching stories is how the current information environment has changed my thinking about Wikipedia.
Gift link:
Gift link:
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One of my weirder teaching stories is how the current information environment has changed my thinking about Wikipedia.
Gift link:
Gift link:
beautiful title card 🤩
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
beautiful title card 🤩
Sigh 😔
The healing power of seeing a 40 yard option pass in a snowstorm against the school that just caved to Trump
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sigh 😔
Dude is practically drooling into a cup
...I never want to hear anything about Biden ever again. I mean ever.
...I never want to hear anything about Biden ever again. I mean ever.
So yes, this pic (and the enlargement) was taken today.
Yikes!
🧟♂️
Yikes!
🧟♂️
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Dude is practically drooling into a cup
...I never want to hear anything about Biden ever again. I mean ever.
...I never want to hear anything about Biden ever again. I mean ever.
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Truly didn’t expect to see Jamie Dimon as a moral backbone, but any spine in a storm, I guess.
(It can still be morality if backed by selish or self/organization-protective motives. It’s still having values outside of “what’s in it for me, alone, today, and how fast can I stash it in Panama?”)
(It can still be morality if backed by selish or self/organization-protective motives. It’s still having values outside of “what’s in it for me, alone, today, and how fast can I stash it in Panama?”)
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Truly didn’t expect to see Jamie Dimon as a moral backbone, but any spine in a storm, I guess.
(It can still be morality if backed by selish or self/organization-protective motives. It’s still having values outside of “what’s in it for me, alone, today, and how fast can I stash it in Panama?”)
(It can still be morality if backed by selish or self/organization-protective motives. It’s still having values outside of “what’s in it for me, alone, today, and how fast can I stash it in Panama?”)
Ladies that were in the mood 🎶
Don't just stand there, let's get to it 🎶
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it 🎶
Don't just stand there, let's get to it 🎶
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it 🎶
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ladies that were in the mood 🎶
Don't just stand there, let's get to it 🎶
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it 🎶
Don't just stand there, let's get to it 🎶
Strike a pose, there's nothing to it 🎶
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
I use both my kidneys, emphasis mine, fuck off
these people, istg. ghouls and vampires every one of them
these people, istg. ghouls and vampires every one of them
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation.
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I use both my kidneys, emphasis mine, fuck off
these people, istg. ghouls and vampires every one of them
these people, istg. ghouls and vampires every one of them
Pope looks like he still got that old man strength, don't be turning your back on him
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Pope looks like he still got that old man strength, don't be turning your back on him
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They want to shift your attention with the DC shooting, from these topics:
- Epstein files coverup
- White House secretly colluding with Russians
- Kushner and Witkoff likely committed espionage
- failing economy
- failed soy trade deal with China
- Trump health down hill
- Hegseth murders
- Epstein files coverup
- White House secretly colluding with Russians
- Kushner and Witkoff likely committed espionage
- failing economy
- failed soy trade deal with China
- Trump health down hill
- Hegseth murders
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
They want to shift your attention with the DC shooting, from these topics:
- Epstein files coverup
- White House secretly colluding with Russians
- Kushner and Witkoff likely committed espionage
- failing economy
- failed soy trade deal with China
- Trump health down hill
- Hegseth murders
- Epstein files coverup
- White House secretly colluding with Russians
- Kushner and Witkoff likely committed espionage
- failing economy
- failed soy trade deal with China
- Trump health down hill
- Hegseth murders
This Month on TCM: December 2025 | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Keep it up, my fellow Americans. Lock arms and hold tight.
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Keep it up, my fellow Americans. Lock arms and hold tight.
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There is sick. Then there is Trump level of sick.
This exceeds Marie Antoinette's alleged callous "Then let them eat brioche" remark when she asked during the French Revolution why the peasants were upset and was told by a courtier that they had no bread.
This exceeds Marie Antoinette's alleged callous "Then let them eat brioche" remark when she asked during the French Revolution why the peasants were upset and was told by a courtier that they had no bread.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There is sick. Then there is Trump level of sick.
This exceeds Marie Antoinette's alleged callous "Then let them eat brioche" remark when she asked during the French Revolution why the peasants were upset and was told by a courtier that they had no bread.
This exceeds Marie Antoinette's alleged callous "Then let them eat brioche" remark when she asked during the French Revolution why the peasants were upset and was told by a courtier that they had no bread.
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Another one for the "we are ruled by hollowed-out husks who believe in nothing but their own untouchability" files
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Another one for the "we are ruled by hollowed-out husks who believe in nothing but their own untouchability" files
Interesting (alarming) thread
while I am late-in-life diagnosed ADHD, which explains a *lot* of the profound struggles I had throughout my schooling…there was a lot of real joy in the exploration/exercise of information and mental expansion. This is more sad than anything to me.
while I am late-in-life diagnosed ADHD, which explains a *lot* of the profound struggles I had throughout my schooling…there was a lot of real joy in the exploration/exercise of information and mental expansion. This is more sad than anything to me.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Interesting (alarming) thread
while I am late-in-life diagnosed ADHD, which explains a *lot* of the profound struggles I had throughout my schooling…there was a lot of real joy in the exploration/exercise of information and mental expansion. This is more sad than anything to me.
while I am late-in-life diagnosed ADHD, which explains a *lot* of the profound struggles I had throughout my schooling…there was a lot of real joy in the exploration/exercise of information and mental expansion. This is more sad than anything to me.
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really recommend cameron mcwhirter’s book on the AR-15 www.amazon.com/American-Gun...
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
really recommend cameron mcwhirter’s book on the AR-15 www.amazon.com/American-Gun...
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Exactly right.
Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…” ("And Trump claims he's trying to fight narco-trafficking?" Riiiiight.) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
Sen. Tim Kaine on Trump’s Pardon of Fmr. Honduran President Who Brought Over 400 Tons of Cocaine Into US: “This is a disgusting and incomprehensible decision…”
From Sen. Tim Kaine on one of the latest outrages by the utterly corrupt Donald Trump - this time, pardoning "Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison s...
bluevirginia.us
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Exactly right.
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More saber rattling.
There are good reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave the decision on whether to go to war to the whims of one man.
There are good reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave the decision on whether to go to war to the whims of one man.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
More saber rattling.
There are good reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave the decision on whether to go to war to the whims of one man.
There are good reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave the decision on whether to go to war to the whims of one man.
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“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”