AppliedNewtonianOnEarth

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Professional P.I.T.A./more interesting IRL/post-menopausal but still immature/heavy construction/planting oak trees/geotechnical engineering & I might love you but I probably don't like you. Invited by @toddavies.bsky.social she/her/they/them

Wilderness camera shot of a very fluffy probably male bobcat walking on snow in a clearing in a forest with spruce trees in the background and a yellow birch to the center-right of the frame. Along the bottom of the image is the time/date/temperature: January 28, 2024, 7:24 am 31°F
Duluth on the AirNow map with monitoring stations showing AQI of 1102 and slightly less. This is deep into the "Hazardous" zone, which is an AQI = 301 and higher.
Me in a respirator and goggles after a protest
Up close to Duluth.
Screenshot from https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/ showing extremely bad air quality over a whole lot of North America. There are wildfires in Canada and in northern Minnesota.
Screenshot from AirNow.gov showing the Detroit area in a very unhealthy zone.
Post by @clairewillette.bsky.social happy Possible Schism Eve to all who celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quoting another post by them that reads: if Leo actually does formally excommunicate the heretic bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (medieval-ass sentence lmao) on July 1, he will be EXPLICITLY saying that the Vatican II denial caucus are no longer considered Catholic and that is going to be, as the people say, a spicy meatball
My results from the personality quiz that matched me as Sanna Marin, prime minister of Finland, I think.
A mostly white cat with a few small dark grey spots is sprawled on a side table that has family photos, a plant and a wallet and keys on it. The cat has slightly open eyes and an expression of contempt.
A non-photo blue pencil on a white Formica background. It still has a bar code sticker on it despite its age.
A black and white image through a microscope of a tardigrade playing a violin. Truly the smallest violin in the world or even the galaxy, since they can travel through space
Public engagement Public workshops The MTA is hosting interactive in-person workshops about the proposed light rail connection between Brooklyn and Queens. Share your priorities for stations and train design, hear project updates, ask questions, and enjoy family-friendly activities. Public workshop dates, times, and locations Tuesday, April 28, 6 to 8 p.m. — PS 7Q, 80-55 Cornish Av, Elmhurst, Queens Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. — Christ the King, 68-02 Metropolitan Av, Middle Village, Queens Thursday, May 7, 6 to 8 p.m. — PS 235K, 5811 Ditmas Av, Brooklyn Wednesday, May 13, 6 to 8 p.m. — Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 10 Av, Brooklyn Thursday, May 28, 6 to 8 p.m — PS 88Q, 60-85 Catalpa Av, Ridgewood Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. — East New York Arts & Civic HS, 800 Van Siclen Av, Brooklyn
A backyard patio with a lawn in the middle distance. At the right edge of the photo is the edge of a circular patio table. At the left side is a small garden plot with daffodils growing. There Are also two clumps of daffodils growing in the lawn. There are four large planters in the middle left that don't have a lot growing.
A landscape photo with a green grass mowed slope with some large arborvitae in the middle distance and 2 large trees that still don't have leaves. There is fog.
A black and white still photo from Wing of Desire of two people walking away from the camera over an open lot with buildings in the distant background.
The resolution emphasised “the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialised chattel enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity by reason of the definitive break in world history, scale, duration, systemic nature, brutality and enduring consequences that continue to structure the lives of all people through racialized regimes of labour, property and capital.”
Street scene, looking up at a very bright moon through trees. There is a parking pay spot and a silver sedan in the foreground.
Looks like a black and white photo, but, it is just early morning with some high, hazy clouds at the end of January in northeastern woods. This is a clearing with pine trees all around and a small cabin in the lower middle with snow on the roof. There's a sled trail cut through the snow from the bottom center of the picture that leads to the cabin.
A yellow Motorola push-to-talk cellphone with two-way with black rubber grips/bumpers are out the sides. There is a telephone keypad of rubber buttons and an extendible antenna. The screen is dark. It is on a light background and is lit from the right side of the picture and a shadow is being cast to the left.
Photo of today's front page in the print edition of the New York Times. I tore off the address label because, hey, no, you don't get to know my address unless I'm inviting you over. Ridiculous article interviewing retired barflies watching The Price is Right with their morning beers in Nisswa, Minnesota is at the top left, above the fold like these people deserve to be listened to. They probably think of Brainerd as a city and Duluth as a pit of sin. And Shelia Eldred, Elizabeth Stawicki, and Kurt Streeter are taking them about Minneapolis-StPaul as if they have a clue. Below that leader, there's a teaser to page 19 that says "ICE and Fire: Minnesota embodies a civic ideal that President Trump wants to discredit." That could have been the bigger article. In the middle is Trump's War on Immigration: Year 1. There's a special section. On the upper right is "How Activists In Iran Combat Web Blackout" and "Trump to Impose New Tariff Rates Over Greenland". Below those are two teasers: "Maximal Intervention -- An emboldened President Trump is going all in, from Caracas to Tehran and beyond. News analysis. Page 11" and "No-Win Deal -- President Trump has Maria Corina Machado's Nobel Prize, but neither got what they really wanted." Lower right is Critic's Notebook -- An Oddly Formal Catchphrase Spells Out a Need: Obedience. Lower left is "Reality Check on Weight-Loss Drugs: You May Need One Forever" Bottom highlights stories inside about drones in war, MSF in Gaza, NYC tenants w/o heat, the Patriots' QB, the Rams' receivers, hurricanes, Abel Ferrara, alterations to a Brooklyn townhouse, Jodie Foster, Jim Phelan, bitcoin, and Netflix buying Discovery. Oh yeah and the editor saw for to highlight f'ing Douthat in the Sunday Opinion section WHEN M. GESSEN IS RIGHT THERE INSTEAD.
Screenshot of this thread showing the first post at the top with a link to a Threads post with a video supposedly showing NYPD arresting ICE, but, I think that video is AI-generated.
Lunch & Learn Webinar for Parks & Recreation Programs Jan. 21 Member Outreach • Front Porch Forum Hello! Staff and volunteers responsible for organizing and promoting Parks & Recreation programs in their Vermont cities & towns are invited to join FPF staff for a free Lunch & Learn webinar on Wednesday, January 21 at 12:00 PM. With over 250,000 active members across Vermont, FPF is a powerful tool for connecting with the individuals and families in your area. In this 30-minute virtual session, we'll walk through how Vermont Parks & Recreation staff and volunteers can effectively use FPF to share news about their programs. You'll learn how to: • Promote news, programs, and events through local Forums • Use FPF's Community Calendar • Recruit volunteers and connect with new audiences • Share consistent, community-focused messaging
A bald white man with a ghosted and a mustache is grinning and squinting at someone out of the photo frame. He is wearing a black shirt, is outdoors with out-of-focus greenery behind him. He looks like he was recently in a fight. This is a still from Mr. In-Between.
Screenshot from the article of black serif text on a white ground reading "WHITE PEERS: DO NOT LOSE THE PLOT. The reason Renee was out in the streets in the first place was to respond to ICE’s abduction of Black and Brown migrant neighbors. Do not lose the plot and resist white saviorism-style narratives and images. It is important that white folks interrogate why Good, even in the midst of her courage, is being highlighted above others. Cultivate healthy suspicion..." This is not everything, not the main point, not the most important thing. Go read the post.
Screenshot of a stylized map of the US on a light green background with the states colored in with a code indicating which ones were lived in or visited. Legend is at the bottom of the image.
A screenshot of the account of a bot called Follow Blue.
A white cat with a grey patch next to the ear curled up in a box in a corner of a room with red walls
Screenshot of a gif from Merriam Webster of many, many words, one after the other. Background is teal at the top and grades to a light yellow at the bottom. Written across the top is the logo of Merriam Webster in a circle at the left and "Your 2026 Word" printed in white with a thin underline. In the center is the word "perilous" printed in a black sans serif font.
Photo of a mug being held in a hand in front of a dark blue wall and stuff against the wall. The mug has a white background, a light blue rim and a square picture of an orca breaching out of the water with the words Time To Orca nize written beneath the orca.
Griffith's cool, beautiful, knife-sharp trilogy -- first published between 1998 and 2007 -- is finally back in circulation. Stay (Picador, 305 pages, paperback, $20) and The Blue Place (Picador, 320 pages, paperback, $20) are less about crime, and more about Aud Torvingen, a six-foot blond Norwegian American private investigator confident of her capacity for violence and retribution, and less sure about her ability to truly love. Always (Picador, 518 pages, paperback, $20) is a lengthier (and less successful) narrative, but still filled with unforgettable scenes, such as the ones where Aud teaches self-defense to a group of women.
Pile of crabs on a metal tray on a table covered in newspaper. Elbows and forearms of 2 white people are visible around the edges and a leinenkugel shandy bottle is visible at the upper right. There is a small cup of melted butter in the lower left and a not yet used mallet at the bottom.
These are orange and yellow glowing embers from oak logs in a wood stove.
A copse of fir trees with an oval, yellow, hand-painted sign that reads "Trump Sucks! Pardon Me". There is snow on the ground and a white building in the distance on the left of the picture.
A grey Ford F-250 has a customized flatbed and a hitch with a stock watering tank that is parked in front of a red shed in the snow under a night sky because it is winter and the farmer works long hours. This is a work truck doing work...what trucks are intended to do.
When you see these charts, don’t let them gaslight you. They are using broken rulers to measure a broken house. The top chart proves that you need $150,000 to make it. The bottom chart proves they refuse to admit it.
This week, while trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment, I came across a sentence buried in a research paper: “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents. In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much. Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death. If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.
A wide shot of the Powerhouse exhibition space with a tan concrete floor and red and orange industrial steel ceiling. Lots of large windows around 2 sides of the room in the brick walls. Tables are set up around the room.
Big pink heart with gold sparkles and smaller pink hearts floating above it on a black background.
Screenshot of a request to engage in the DMs claiming that my account has been suspended
White text in a black background saying the following: Three. What Comes Next. Before turning to what happens now in the courts, it’s worth reminding everyone of what should be an obvious point: The Trump administration does not appear to need a court order in order to pay out November SNAP benefits; it could simply … choose to do so. All of this would, of course, go away if that were to happen. Indeed, for as much as the Friday night emergency was caused by the artificial timing crunch created by the lower courts, the real crisis here was caused by the Republican-controlled Congress in the first instance for shutting down the federal government; and by the President in the second instance for not doing all he could to keep the SNAP funds flowing through the shutdown. Let’s not lose sight of the forest for the trees.
Using the Zohran campaign sign generator, I made a sign saying Lasagna for dinner
Photo of a dynamic bill board at a bus stop on a city street sidewalk with a black steel frame with a black time and temperature screen across the top and a colored rectangular screen filling most of the photo. The colored screen has a blue and orange background and reads Kalshi in big letters at the top, "for the fate of NYC" under that and a lozenge that says live trades. Beneath that, the screen is split with Mamdani on the left at 90% and Cuomo on the right with 10% and a feed of people placing dollar bets scrolling vertically at the lower left. There is a white Q R code in the lower right
A screenshot of the search page on here in dark mode with a list of the top 5 trending topics on the upper half.
Close-up of the lower right corner of the front of the album where there was a gold box with sans serf capital letters reading "these songs contain explicit lyrics parental guidance suggested". Visible at the top left of this picture is Eazy-E's hand holding a pistol.
A woman standing in the middle of a white space. Wearing bracelets and a large pendant with her arms crossed
Black and white narrow photo on a white background. An alarm clock sits on a messy table in front of a wallpapered wall
Cover for N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton". Point of view is as if the viewer is looking up at 6 young men looking down at you with one painting a gun against a clear blue sky and 2 white buildings on the left and top of the photo.
A brunette white woman wearing a brown jacket and light green pants is holding a MP40 submachine gun and running towards the camera. Behind her is a dark doorway that soldiers wearing sand-colored berets and holding Enfield rifles are coming out of.
Front windows of a card and printing shop in a federalist brick masonry facade with paper decorations in the windows. The window on the left has a Halloween figure with a peaked black "witch" hat on a white-haired, long-nosed person wearing a black top and a short skirt over yellow and blue striped stockings and black boots with buckles on them. The figure is standing with arms akimbo and is holding a white sign with red edging that says "Thank you for not discussing the outside world"
Quilts hanging in the upper section of the library.
Photo of a program for the opening for an exhibit at Barnard Library, Manhattan NYC. The exhibit is called Weaving Dreams: The Quilts of Kim F. Hall. There will be a panel and a performance of excerpts from "Purple: A Ritual in Nine Spells" by Sydnie L. Mosley Dances.
A band playing and singing under our solar pavilion, powered entirely from the batteries that got charged today... didn't matter that it was cloudy.
A solar pavilion with lights on strings being powered by the batteries that have been charged by the solar cells and a crowd of people around it listening to someone explaining the background. There's a picnic table with several people at the lower right of the picture.
Cartoon of a tree with a face on the green crown with a dark brown, oval mouth and red hearts for eyes.
An entire flat of grape tomatoes dehydrated into half of this gallon size freezer bag sitting on top of a white plastic Nesco dehydrator tray.
White mug with blue, white and black image of an orca breaching out of the water over text reading Time to Orca-nize against a backdrop of a messy apartment.
Bookcover of Low Orbit by Kazimir Lee. A person reading is floating over a small town by a river in front of a large moon.
Final score Manhattan 159 Queens 90
Audience and fans around the rink as Brooklyn Bombshells take a Victory Lap.