sometimes when I am sad or melancholy I open the bear cam at brooks falls in katmai national park, and in another window I play brian eno's "the big ship" on repeat and you know what? it really helps. youtube.com/watch?v=lCCJc_V8…

I think a lot about the goodnight moon house, could you imagine living in a tiny detached cottage with a yard right in manhattan

Death threats against me. A subpoena from Congress. Interviews cancelled and censored. A source indicted. Witnesses killed. Read the book that the corrupt national security state and criminal actors within it have fought tooth and nail to suppress. Now available in paperback.

fireworks going off in the distance, don't even care about basketball but hells yeah, nyc golden age is upon us

I went up to a woman on our hike and asked her, earnestly: “have you seen any fairy habitats around here?” She responded, straight faced without skipping a beat: “yes, there’s a tree just up the trail with the perfect tunnels, perches and mushrooms” Now, I was referring to an official walk with wooden mini-houses I’d heard about somewhere, but isn’t it magical that this is a question you can just ask and get an answer to? I’ll be on the lookout for more of these

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

heard a good analogy for why we can charge batteries super fast to 80% but slow for the remaining 20%. Imagine filling a glass from a pitcher, it's fast to fill it mostly up but you have to slow down to not "spill" which IRL would mean a battery fire

This is fabulous….enjoy #Ladies

🚨: For the first time in history, women outnumber men in NASA's newest astronaut class

community college challenges every classist notion of education and academia and having access to it has changed my life. it should be preserved, supported, and destigmatized with everything we have. hard to name a more precious educational resource for those over 18.

ack, it's the return of the bee season, the mysterious day or two when random honey bees manifest in our bedroom & must be removed. I do not understand why, other than we live in a 100 year old nyc apartment building, but I am glad that it's brief & generally less than 10 bees.

Legal immigrants are losing their jobs and their legal status not because THEY did anything wrong, but because the GOVERNMENT refuses to adjudicate the applications they paid for and filed. It should be a massive scandal.

gothic horror is when you wanna fuck the monster. folk horror is when you wanna fuck nature. cosmic horror is when you wanna fuck god

Amazing section of Jane Goodall’s Wikipedia page

They can also have heart shaped feathers

The very stylish Bessie Couture (1869-1959), who, in 1897 Skagway, became the first known Black business owner in Alaska. Via Anchorage Museum. #alaskahistory #alaska

🕰️🇮🇶 The division of time: 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle... It all dates back to the sexagesimal (base-60) system of Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

one day : it will all make sense

Today we have a long love letter to Martha Coolidge’s 1985 REAL GENIUS and using your college work to help prevent instead of facilitating war. Baby Val Kilmer! thestopgap.net/teen-agency-r…