aaron blake

aspiring pandemic survivor. man of emails. didn't get here by reading the article first he/him 🇦🇺🇺🇲

[Swaggy Unc, IQ 267 @swaggyunc]

Annual thread of editorial cartoons from the fall of 2001, enjoy

[aaron blake @aaronrblake_]

@TreMelvin @eclecticbrotha mm-hmm this story has legs

[John Bull @garius]

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

You've probably seen this painting before — it's Ophelia by John Everett Millais, from 1852.

But what you probably don't know is that people once thought this kind of art was dangerous.

In fact, Ophelia is one of the most radical and controversial paintings of all time...

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks:

1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week.
https://t.co/BLiyOyxHHp

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:

July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

gay rights means gay ppl are treated the same as straight people under the law, regardless of whether you like their fashion choices in public. if straight people were denied rights bc of their fashion choices, a lot of ppl would be in prison

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

TIL every time you say “he is toast,” you are paying homage to that great linguistic innovator, Bill Murray.

[abcdent @abcdentminded]

Fascinated by the engineering behind the 22 oz Sapporo cans

[Helen Ahpornsiri @HelenAhpornsiri]

A very tiny hedgehog made from pressed fern, with an acorn for scale

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

Shout out to the queer artist who took money from the cops to plaster ACAB on their vehicles for Pride month 🌈

[aaron blake @aaronrblake_]

@HelloCullen you know, old sport, i've never had sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads in that pool all summer

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

I teach college music theory, but I'm also a new dad. I decided to combine my professional and personal identities and make a thread of music for babies where the adult musicians went way, way harder than they had to. (1/12)

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

infrastructure that looks like sci fi

1/ liquid natural gas tanker

[Paul Seibert @BEH0LDINGEYE]

“The Narrows” - @SuperRare. This particular shot has never been taken before. Taken at almost 3 miles above NYC in a 🚁 with the doors open. The pilot had to be on Oxygen to legally and safely pilot the aircraft. This is the result of a highly planned and coordinated photo shoot.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Solar System' map quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, used as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state #WomensArt

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

If you were called "mature for your page" you might have been parentified. Parentification is when a child is made to fill an adult role.

This is an "invisible" trauma that has life long impact.

Here's why 🧵:

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

If you're looking for the TL;DR on Xi's visit with Putin, it is this: China's domination of Russia is complete.

(a 🧵)

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