Don't let people shame you into reading the "right books". Just take recommendations ❤️
#lesen #reading #booklist #humor #meme

And now visualizing the June solstice from the polar regions...

Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; ☀️) and South Pole (right; 🌙) over a 24-hour period. Graphic from https://zacklabe.com/arctic-climate-seasonality-and-variability/.

Two reminders for tonight:

1) War only benefits oligarchs, despots, and defense contractors.

2) There are more rumors than truth in breaking news events. Be cautious sharing unverified information.

Stay safe everyone. Hope for peace. Vote for peace.

take your meds drink your water eat your food it's gonna be a long summer

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

The War Prayer

by Mark Twain

https://warprayer.org/

It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun...

#GiftArticle #USA #agriculture https://wapo.st/409sf4c

https://jenniferweiner.substack.com/p/one-quick-look-as-each-of-em-leaves?utm_source=gloria.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=a-muscle-building-miracle&_bhlid=e314f7e920f319d99c699ad0ca2f5b66847b8347

#Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes #Oregon #wine industry

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice

Just a reminder that Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically any genetic tech today, was only possible because of an extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. The value of basic #science cannot be predicted and often is realized decades after it's done.

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
https://www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discovery-in-yellowstone-national-park-led-to-the-renowned-technique-of-dna-amplification-pcr

#fensterfreitag Sir John Soane's Museum London

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism

“'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.'

*More of this, please*" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq

TIL humpback whales blow bubble rings like Gandalf, and researchers think they may be doing it for us as an audience! If I could do that I'd show off about it too
https://www.sciencealert.com/humpback-whale-bubble-rings-may-be-an-attempt-to-communicate-with-us

Park at Vancouver (1889) by Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/park-at-vancouver-1889-albert-bierstadt.html

#art #ArtHistory #landscape #forest #Vancouver #Canada

Excellent article on one of Oregon’s largest landfills, the community trying to protect our air & water, the mire of capitalism & bureaucracy, & storytelling through board games. #Oregon #environment https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/where-the-garbage-goes/

Good health news: Recent study finds folks recovering from colon cancer post-treatment had better survivorship & fewer other illnesses when they walked 45 min 4 times a week - rivaling outcomes for some drug based recovery treatments. #health https://apnews.com/article/colon-cancer-exercise-study-recovery-prevention-9d77c2927152dfc16b717fa9cc9b9471

#NoKings

From that video at #nokings #lasvegas

A reference from #andor