Pamela
@sutolf.bsky.social
Married 🩷🩵 with two dogs in Northern California. Avid reader, lover of nature, animals, art, music, science, the truth.
I block men who DM me, porn, gofundme accounts, MAGAs.
I block men who DM me, porn, gofundme accounts, MAGAs.
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
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The predominant thought within linguistics used to be that speech doesn’t change much after adolescence, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes. But a study that analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s vocal changes illustrates a recent theory about how our accents evolve:
Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed
And yours might too.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The predominant thought within linguistics used to be that speech doesn’t change much after adolescence, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes. But a study that analyzed years of Taylor Swift’s vocal changes illustrates a recent theory about how our accents evolve:
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I never cease to be amazed by the number of people who believe that men have fewer ribs than women and that Native Americans can’t grow facial hair.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I never cease to be amazed by the number of people who believe that men have fewer ribs than women and that Native Americans can’t grow facial hair.
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We have a separate section in the Green room for books, mostly American, that blend memoir with natural history. The section is called "Biologues".
I'm just starting Jay Parini's "Promised Land". He obviously knows about biologues, if not by that name.
(My favorite: "The Meadow" by James Galvin)
I'm just starting Jay Parini's "Promised Land". He obviously knows about biologues, if not by that name.
(My favorite: "The Meadow" by James Galvin)
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
We have a separate section in the Green room for books, mostly American, that blend memoir with natural history. The section is called "Biologues".
I'm just starting Jay Parini's "Promised Land". He obviously knows about biologues, if not by that name.
(My favorite: "The Meadow" by James Galvin)
I'm just starting Jay Parini's "Promised Land". He obviously knows about biologues, if not by that name.
(My favorite: "The Meadow" by James Galvin)
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In the shadow of a famed Mexic...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
In the shadow of a famed Mexico City stadium, a battle for water targets the World Cup | CBC News
Across from Mexico City’s famed Azteca Stadium sits a well that’s at the centre of an ongoing conflict over water rights now threatening to engulf the World Cup’s third visit to the country.
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In the shadow of a famed Mexic...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
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Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions | CNN
Fossil fuel production is still increasing and the United States is in climate denial mode. But, globally, the use of renewable energy is on the rise — and several countries are shifting to solar fast...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...
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KELOWNA: “New research from UBC Okanagan shows wildfires spread far less predictably than Canada’s current fire models suggest.” www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna... - @castanet.net
#BCWildfire #Kelowna #Okanagan #Wildfires
#BCWildfire #Kelowna #Okanagan #Wildfires
UBCO study shows wildfire spread is more unpredictable than current models assume - Kelowna News
New research from UBC Okanagan shows wildfires spread much less predictably than Canada’s current fire models suggest.
www.castanet.net
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
KELOWNA: “New research from UBC Okanagan shows wildfires spread far less predictably than Canada’s current fire models suggest.” www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna... - @castanet.net
#BCWildfire #Kelowna #Okanagan #Wildfires
#BCWildfire #Kelowna #Okanagan #Wildfires
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Right after giving us the lexicon for naming the living world, Carl Linnaeus decided to create a flower clock to tell the time of day by the bloom of different flowers www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/01/l...
Carl Linnaeus’s Flower Clock
“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours,” the Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne observed in his 1964 classic Games People Play. Four centuries earlie…
www.themarginalian.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Right after giving us the lexicon for naming the living world, Carl Linnaeus decided to create a flower clock to tell the time of day by the bloom of different flowers www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/01/l...
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Mubarak Moudhy! Did you see that you were also featured here?
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year
In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...
www.historyextra.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Mubarak Moudhy! Did you see that you were also featured here?
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...
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How to quickly add alt-text. You can also change your setting to make sure you can’t post an image without alt-text so you never forget to add it.
No worries!
If you hold your finger on text in an image, it copies it so you can post it into the alt text field.
Useful shortcut 😁
If you hold your finger on text in an image, it copies it so you can post it into the alt text field.
Useful shortcut 😁
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
How to quickly add alt-text. You can also change your setting to make sure you can’t post an image without alt-text so you never forget to add it.
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Donate to medical aid for Gaza and Lebanon here. www.map.org.uk
Providing medical aid to Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees
For over 30 years, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been reaching out to Palestinian communities, striving to deliver health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and ...
www.map.org.uk
October 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Donate to medical aid for Gaza and Lebanon here. www.map.org.uk
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“Up to 60 per cent of the world’s tuna catch could be untraceable, or ‘dark.’”
Highly recommend this Financial Times investigation on human rights violations within one of the world’s worst-regulated industries. (Also read Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean!)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Highly recommend this Financial Times investigation on human rights violations within one of the world’s worst-regulated industries. (Also read Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean!)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
ig.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Up to 60 per cent of the world’s tuna catch could be untraceable, or ‘dark.’”
Highly recommend this Financial Times investigation on human rights violations within one of the world’s worst-regulated industries. (Also read Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean!)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Highly recommend this Financial Times investigation on human rights violations within one of the world’s worst-regulated industries. (Also read Ian Urbina’s Outlaw Ocean!)
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
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Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. There are three new puzzles each day — Easy, Medium and Hard — so you can solve at your own speed, in any order you want. trib.al/qZyVR1D
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. There are three new puzzles each day — Easy, Medium and Hard — so you can solve at your own speed, in any order you want. trib.al/qZyVR1D
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Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some good news.
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
“A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.”
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The Hermitage ⚜️💙⚜️the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there.
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Hermitage ⚜️💙⚜️the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there.
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Eastside Santa Barbara holiday parade canceled over fears of ongoing ICE raids
Eastside Santa Barbara holiday parade canceled over fears of ongoing ICE raids
Santa Barbara Eastside Society, which organizes the decades-old event, announced the cancellation of the this year's parade due to 'the threat to our Latino families documented or undocumented.'
www.latimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Eastside Santa Barbara holiday parade canceled over fears of ongoing ICE raids
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We need a restatement of the Bible because there’s way too much that’s being amended, mutilated or lost in the translation. I could identify Jesus as the correct answer for a person “supporting the MAGA love of greed, money, racism, sexism and universal hate.” 🤬
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
We need a restatement of the Bible because there’s way too much that’s being amended, mutilated or lost in the translation. I could identify Jesus as the correct answer for a person “supporting the MAGA love of greed, money, racism, sexism and universal hate.” 🤬
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Does anyone have advice for helping an elderly Lab with arthritis (who is beyond things like stem cell treatment) with pain management? Anecdotal suggestions also welcome 🙏🏽
He has cartrophen injections and oral pain meds as needed. Liberalla off the table unfortunately. He’s just the best dog 🧡
He has cartrophen injections and oral pain meds as needed. Liberalla off the table unfortunately. He’s just the best dog 🧡
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Does anyone have advice for helping an elderly Lab with arthritis (who is beyond things like stem cell treatment) with pain management? Anecdotal suggestions also welcome 🙏🏽
He has cartrophen injections and oral pain meds as needed. Liberalla off the table unfortunately. He’s just the best dog 🧡
He has cartrophen injections and oral pain meds as needed. Liberalla off the table unfortunately. He’s just the best dog 🧡
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Henri Regnault - Automedon with the Horses of Achilles - 1868 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
December 27, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Henri Regnault - Automedon with the Horses of Achilles - 1868 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Jean Leon Gerome - Diogenes 1860 (Walters Art Museum)
January 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Jean Leon Gerome - Diogenes 1860 (Walters Art Museum)
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Discover how 20,000 years after the ice age’s coldest snap, Los Angeles is still the city of cats through #TarPits research and “Fierce! The Story of Cats”, on view now at @nhm.org.
nhm.org/cats
nhm.org/cats
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Discover how 20,000 years after the ice age’s coldest snap, Los Angeles is still the city of cats through #TarPits research and “Fierce! The Story of Cats”, on view now at @nhm.org.
nhm.org/cats
nhm.org/cats
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I feel like few wild animals do more to enliven and enrich this country than kestrels. On the very short list for title of Best Bird.
From @benjij.bsky.social / @vox.com
www.vox.com/climate/4711...
From @benjij.bsky.social / @vox.com
www.vox.com/climate/4711...
The fascinating link between cherry pie and this bird
Meet the unpaid animal laborers who help safeguard our food.
www.vox.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I feel like few wild animals do more to enliven and enrich this country than kestrels. On the very short list for title of Best Bird.
From @benjij.bsky.social / @vox.com
www.vox.com/climate/4711...
From @benjij.bsky.social / @vox.com
www.vox.com/climate/4711...
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Life's Little Byways.
Ilya Chirun
Ilya Chirun
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Life's Little Byways.
Ilya Chirun
Ilya Chirun
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📽️ WATCH: The most powerful institution in Albany, Georgia, is its hospital: Phoebe Putney Memorial. Yet for decades, the city’s residents have suffered some of the nation’s worst health disparities.
“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.
“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.
Sick in a Hospital Town: A Story of American Health Care | Story Trailer
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📽️ WATCH: The most powerful institution in Albany, Georgia, is its hospital: Phoebe Putney Memorial. Yet for decades, the city’s residents have suffered some of the nation’s worst health disparities.
“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.
“Sick in a Hospital Town,” our new 5-part series, drops tomorrow, Dec. 7.
Why Is the World Losing Color?
The rise of Chromophobia...
www.theculturist.io
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM