Beth-annie

Avid reader, writer, wine enthusiast; scientist, data analyst; she/her

[kenzi @kenzianidiot]

honoring my country by wearing a middle part which of course makes me look like a founding father

[Dana Beers @danabeers]

That Cape Verde goal was the sickest goal I’ve ever seen and I’ve been watching soccer for almost 2 weeks #KingsCup

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

Australia-Egypt is a great matchup bc a lot of the ancient Egyptian gods made out of 3 animals grafted together are actually naturally occurring animals in Australia

[Derek Heckman @herekdeckman]

Me as a small town sheriff when the FBI shows up to claim jurisdiction: “Ohhhhh thank god. This is so fucked up. I did NOT want to deal with this”

[Matt’s Idea Shop @MattsIdeaShop]

250 years ago today.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

notice the outfit has shape and drape

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

I don't think FIFA refs are biased against specific countries, only against all that is beautiful, good, and pure that flickers briefly into existence in this fallen world.

[rly cool girl @hikingshawty]

@PopBase They’re gonna hate to see me coming

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Work-from-home uniforms, 18th century. The long coat, known as a banyan, was typically made from silk brocades, damask, or printed cottons, sometimes quilted for warmth or featuring a fashionable cuff. They were commonly worn with an undress cap or a turban.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@44sedici Apollo and Daphne, by Piero del Pollaiuolo, 1470-80

[Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff]

they were specifically instructed that Christine Daae was to sing the lead

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Ladies: If he wanted to, he would… Just maybe on our 86th Floor Observation Deck.

https://t.co/E93u0zMBIa

[Beth-annie @Bethazen]

@TheAuthorGuy Loved this book so much!
Just picked up Anima Rising

[Christopher Moore @TheAuthorGuy]

Sacre Bleu!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

“Make up a random number of minutes for injury time. Now, ignore the amount of minutes you picked. Lull the team in the lead think it’s over and give the other team a chance to score. Goal, good. Now, go check the VAR booth to extend the drama and we eat more TV time. Overturn the goal and add 7 minutes to the initial random number of minutes you picked. Ok end it.“

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides."

"When is a player offsides?"

"Whenever anything exciting happens."

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

In the early 1900s, a Sicilian immigrant looked at California’s summer heat and decided the answer wasn’t a better house.

Baldassare Forestiere arrived in the San Joaquin Valley expecting to grow citrus. The ground gave him hardpan instead: a dense, cement-like layer under the surface that fought roots, held water, and made a normal orchard almost useless.

So he started digging.

For nearly forty years, mostly by hand, Forestiere cut almost ten acres under Fresno into rooms, tunnels, arches, courtyards, and gardens. Sun came down through openings. Air moved through shafts. Oranges, lemons, grapefruit, grapes, and pomegranates grew from sunken courts, with the worst of the San Joaquin Valley heat left above them.

He had no architecture degree. No engineering firm. No machinery doing the real work. Just hand tools, Sicilian memory, and a problem that kept getting deeper the longer he answered it.

The Forestiere Underground Gardens are usually treated like a roadside oddity. That undersells them. This is immigrant architecture, climate adaptation, stubborn farming, and one of the strangest built landscapes in America all sitting under the same patch of Fresno.

A failed orchard became a buried world.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"And they will play a game, divided into two halves."

"And how much time is in each half?"

"Nobody knows."