Anyway. Let’s put a weapon on it.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eycg47nc4kycvzgiq3r5h326/post/3maejfpetm22r

Information about this year's livestream of the Winter Solstice at Newgrange/Brú na Boinne, including links for where to watch. Looking forward to seeing this on Sunday morning!

https://www.gov.ie/en/office-of-public-works/press-releases/experience-the-winter-solstice-live-from-newgrange-livestream-link-now-available/

#Newgrange #WinterSolstice #Ireland #archaeology

North Africa and the Sahara 8,000 years ago
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/earth-history/north-africa-and-the-sahara-8000-years-ago

What would you prefer as your legacy: 3 meters sea-level rise or #AMOC shutdown?
For me the answer is neither. Let's get out of fossil fuels fast enough to minimise both of these very real risks.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2504527-rapid-melt-from-antarctica-could-help-preserve-crucial-ocean-current/

‘You learn tricks to reduce it’: the smart bins measuring food waste in South Korea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/smart-bins-measuring-food-waste-south-korea #AsiaPacific #Environment #SouthKorea #Foodwaste #Worldnews

@EllenInEdmonton
Just finished #SixFlyingDragons too and liked it very much. Now rewatching 'my country' . :)

Found this list for Watching Historical #kDrama in Chronological Order
https://www.reddit.com/r/KDRAMA/comments/iqgjm5/watching_historical_dramas_in_chronological_order/

this website is exactly what the internet exists for. 💯 wholesome

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/

Once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern

Haha, awesome. There's been this looong debate over why #Neanderthals had such wide noses. New paper demonstrates that they had normal nose width compared to other hominids AND to modern humans! Only not to modern Europeans! 😄

Via the Common Descent Podcast.

#anthro #archaeology

#Influenza #H5N8 #vaccine induces humoral and cell-mediated #immunity against highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b #H5N1 viruses in at-risk individuals, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/12/influenza-h5n8-vaccine-induces-humoral.html

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities. What could wrong? www.ft.com/content/b127...

Tech elites are starting their...

[1/2] A #map of the ‘Technate of America’, a geographical representation of the union projected by the Technocracy movement. This envisaged totalitarian technocratic state was based on a scientific control of production and distribution, conceived as the only way to achieve economic abundance. The natural resources inside the Technate will form a self-sustaining/independent unit, self-justifying hir continental size #geopolitic #geography

Long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus ssp. caudatus, 🇩🇪 Schwanzmeise, 🇵🇱 raniuszek).

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

#meermittwoch #nordsee

Listen. This is no time for taking photographs.
#asstodon

Evangeline was daydreaming about the spring grubs…

#sparrow

A New Study Illuminates How #Neolithic Lifeways Spread from Anatolia to the Aegean and Europe

Ideas moved faster than people

This finding offers one of the clearest demonstrations to date that cultural similarity does not necessarily imply shared ancestry—a rare genetic confirmation of the archaeological saying:
“pottery is not people.”
#archaeology #anthropology

https://www.anatolianarchaeology.net/a-new-study-illuminates-how-neolithic-lifeways-spread-from-anatolia-to-the-aegean-and-europe/

You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.

Written by Philip Hoover

"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"

#LongCOVID

Source: https://archive.md/7Rer1

The silliness will continue until morale improves!

#comedy #humor #joy #Joyscrolling