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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · Aug 7

The badlands of western Kansas are stunning. And the ones in Scott County are marked as the site of the 1878 Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork (yup.) The Northern Cheyenne, after fleeing a reservation in Oklahoma, fought and escaped the U.S. Army in the last Army-Native battle in Kansas.

Memorial to the 1878 battle between the U.S. Army and Northern Cheyenne in Scott County, Kansas.

Marker in Scott County, Kansas. It reads:

Battle Canyon, 1878

This marks the site of the last encounter in the State of Kansas between Native Americans and the United States Troops. Homesick and ill, the Northern Cheyenne under the leadership of Chief Dull Knife and Little Wolf were trying to return to their former home in the north. There were 92 warriors, 120 women, and 141 children who had escaped from the reservation at Ft. Reno Oklahoma. As they came through Kansas crossing the Arkansas River at Cimarron Crossing, Lt. Colonel William H. Lewis, commander at Ft. Dodge, was dispatched to capture and retum them. On September 27, 1878, the Northern Cheyenne were located at this site.

Sentries were hidden in circular pits, surrounded by rock barricades, still visible today. Women, children, and the elderly were hidden in the Den below. When Lewis advanced, coming from the Southwest, he was mortally wounded in the thigh, dying enroute to Ft. Wallace, Kansas, forty miles Northwest. He became the last army officer to be killed in Kansas during the Indian wars. The Cheyenne escaped by night, crossed the Smokey Hill River, fled into Nebraska, where their parties split. One group going with Chief Dull Knife, and the other with Little Wolf. Dull Knife's group was captured close to Ft. Robinson while Little Wolf's remained in the sand hills of Nebraska for the Winter. This thirty acre site was donated to the citizens of Scott County by the late R.B. Christy, Scott City banker and stockman. The site now is maintained by the Scott County Historical Society.

The dens in the Scott County, Kansas, badlands where the Northern Cheyenne hid as the U.S. Army approached, 1878.

View from the marker for the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork. The U.S. Army approached from the gaps between the rocks to try to recapture Northern Cheyenne who fled from a reservation in Oklahoma.

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Your daily John Waters screenshot @johnwatersbot.bsky.social · 5d

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 23h

Taurus: You will have the opportunity to exact a terrible vengeance. Take it. Treat yourself.

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 15h

Steak
Scarface
All Billy Joel songs

Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 20h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand:

Eggs
The English Patient*
We Built This City

*this despite Colin Firth, whom I've lusted after for 30 years

DaniBananica @danibananica.bsky.social · 21h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Banana anything
Lion King (1994)
How Bizarre - OMC

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17h

In accordance with Canadian law, all Mariners tweets will be posted in both English and French for the duration of this series.

Go Mariners / Allez les marins.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 19h

Neighbor to the north threw themself into the dating pool again a few months ago.
Knew they snagged a steady as of August.
Met them in the woods while walking the C Monster.
Neighbor is cougaring, and it gives me life (even more life in spades for neighbor).

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 20h

This is why you never have Vance on, period. Regardless of his interviewer’s skill.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 23h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Art Project
1936
Library of Congress

Poster announcing roller skating carnival in Central Park, New York City, showing a child roller skating with a jack-o-lantern mask.

Text: Halloween roller skating carnival On the mall, Central Park : Bring your skates : Come in costume : Prizes will be given for costumes.

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 1d

TIL about Chuck’s apple reviews. They are a fucking delight.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

The apple reviews continue because they must to fulfill the ancient bargain.

Today: this affable dipshit of an apple, the Suncrisp.

Apple Review #12: Suncrisp

Yes, I have seen Apple Rankings, the website. No, I didn’t write it. (It’s written by comedian Brian Frange.) No, I don’t like it. Yes, I don’t like it because in part he st…

terribleminds.com

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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 1d

The Souls of the Mountain
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19141

"The Souls of the Mountain" by Remedios Varo features ethereal figures emerging from misty, surrealist landscapes, illustrating Varo’s fascination with the mystical and the esoteric. This painting demonstrates her unique style that blends dreamlike elements and metaphysical themes, reflecting her deep interest in spiritual exploration and the subconscious.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceRoots
#NationalHispanicHeritageMonth

Do you enjoy New Mexico chiles? I know I do. And for that, we can thank Mexican American horticulturist Fabian García, who has been described as the “father of the New Mexican food industry” because of his pioneering work. /1

An array of chiles grown in New Mexico. Photo credit: NewMexico.org.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 3d

'I somehow never appreciated the only person equally worshipped by punks, rappers, preachers, cowboys, metalheads, rastas, soul singers, bluesmen, grandmothers, & Bob Dylan - the fault must be everybody's.'

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 1d

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?”

Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭

Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection

A diagram shows arrows radiating from a central point, indicating directions, with lots of white disks (stars) surrounding the central point.

An etching of Hans Olbers. He wears a heavy coat, vest, and high collared white shirt. His wispy hair is receding.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalism + superstition ruin everything

Goose the Moose @fubarspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda weird that the CDC's greatest enemy wouldnt be a zombievirus or some other civilization destroying epidemic but a bunch of malignant, grifting politicians and snake oil hawkers...

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry, Cheer. My deepest condolences

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 2d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2d

Especially given that the word “robot” itself DERIVES FROM THE FUCKING CZECH TERM FOR “DRUDGERY” & “SERVITUDE”

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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GingerNorth @gingernorth.bsky.social · 2d

I really need to know - is it next Thanksgiving yet?

Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 2d

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d

distracted boyfriend meme with johnny cash as the woman in the foreground and dylan and springsteen as the two headed girlfriend

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

Our latest paper in @jamanetworkopen.com where we asked: Following the #COVID pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits? @yaleemd.bsky.social @princetonecon.bsky.social @brookings.edu 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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