j mills

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Itinerant humanitarian, recovering or relapsing news-junky, lover of history, hiking, biking, travel, sci-fi, fixing up houses, and a good debate. All comments either with morning coffee or during happy hour. Consider snark accordingly.

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Sweet New Hampshire 🌲🌳

Monuwara Begum deserves credit for most charismatic and dramatic before and after pics I've seen in ages.

Resigned to a fate of constant displacement, India's river islanders return home in between floodsapnews.com Yaad Ali, a 56-year-old farmer in northeastern India’s Assam state, lives with his wife Monuwara Begum, and son Musikur Alam on the island of Sandahkhaiti on India’s Brahmaputra river.

Me today blasting Ill Communications driving down the street like I'm 20 years old all over again. Can't believe this was 30 years ago! .... Also me today, shuts car off halfway through sabotage blasting, gets out, ask the woman at the plant stand, "so what perennials are on sale today?"

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication [FULL ALBUM]www.youtube.com

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📙📚📘 I never read this before. Total page turner! How poorly history books served me as a child.

Amazon.com: Washington: The Indispensable Man: 9780316286169: Flexner, James Thomas: Bookswww.amazon.com Amazon.com: Washington: The Indispensable Man: 9780316286169: Flexner, James Thomas: Books

Someone is going to have fun with the renovations on this one...

So much much better than John Stewart right now… more please!

Cicada facts: The insects’ urination flow rate is 2x-3x stronger than humans, and they are subject to an STD that makes their gonads fall off, turns them into actual zombies, and causes birds that eat them to hallucinate. Anyway, good morning! WTF?

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John Oliver looks like he has a giant rice crispy snack cigar....

@aptshadow.bsky.social .. on p266 and this is starting to really take off. Loved the space battle- very unique

Where it ends….

One match

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So Neanderthals were hyper creative and we were just ruthlessly efficient and took over? Ordering this book! 📕

'Simply did not work': Mating between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been a product of failed alliances, says archaeologist Ludovic Slimakwww.livescience.com "When two populations are close to one another but they are very distinct — maybe they can have a different language and different traditions, they are in neighboring territories — they are going to exchange their women."

I think he earned his prize..

Police Rescue Toddler Stuck Inside Hello Kitty Claw Machine: 'He Was King of the Mountain'people.com Police in Australia revealed Thursday how they had to rescue a 3-year-old boy, who had crawled into a Hello Kitty claw machine to grab a toy.

King of the hill

This made me want to go out into my backyard and hunt for young chestnut trees. Then I remember it is a) raining, b) winter, and reading about them probably wisest move today

America Lost Its One Perfect Treewww.theatlantic.com Lumber, shelter, delicious nuts—there was nothing the American chestnut couldn’t provide.

Absolutely glorious day ☀️☀️❄️

I picked this up without knowing anything about Smil. At first I wondered if I this was some sophisticated dirty industry propaganda. Now there very little of what I read on public discourse related to climate, conflict, SDGs, green tech, etc. not influenced by his thinking. Extraordinary book.

How the World Really Works – Vaclav Smilvaclavsmil.com

Finally … snow … and my feeder is the hip place to be today

Just finished this gem. Judah's style is very intimate. He makes an interview come to life in a way that I rarely read.

This Is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah review – the marginalised lives of otherswww.theguardian.com This unflinching book illuminates the perilous stories of an extraordinary cast of characters in a Europe we prefer not to dwell on

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