Becky D

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Andrew Cuomo mangling a banger from one of the most famous athletes of all time: "Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

Man, don't ruin lepidopterans and hemipterans like this, I don't want to think about your inability to remember one of the most famous bangers of all time every time I see a resin bee

I lived there 10+ years & left just a couple years before you arrived, but SAME. You tell your Midwestern folks you live there and they lose their minds. Meanwhile, I'm walking up to the farmers' market every Saturday morning, walking home from the bar on Fridays, etc.

@whistberry.bsky.social this is story fodder for days

😮🪶

Silhouette of a large mantis, with grabby hands reaching forward, against a soft backdrop of blurry blue sky and trees

A silhouette which needs no introduction 🖤

HUH TURNS OUT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE AND THEY NEED REAL DONATIONS

WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS

Everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - who called them scammers or spammers owes @mommunism.bsky.social an apology. And every Palestinian is owed an apology too.

Hey @moderation.bsky.app @bsky.app you seeing this?

The cover of author TJ Klune's novel 'In the Lives of Puppets' which shows a small red brick house on a forest floor, with elaborate treehouses built high above. It called to me as I browsed an aisle in the library looking for a different book (Miéville's The City & The City, which I haven't been able to start yet bc I am still processing this one, a day after finishing it). I did the flip-open-skim there in the library aisle and was immediately swept away. Beautiful, just beautiful.

Came across this tempting cover while browsing the library stacks. Didn't know the author, not usually drawn to sci-fi/fantasy, but friends--I was SMITTEN from page 1. Rapt. Laughing & sobbing & on tenterhooks, committed to these characters who now live in my heart. Cannot recommend enough. 📚

I say this in so much love

You are trying to make sense of it and that’s the problem

You have to accept that Cuomo doesn’t want to be right. He wants to be humiliating and emasculating to a Brown man using the words and structures of a Black one

While respecting neither

Mockingbird from the back with wings extended & tail flared, as it lands on a wood railing at the edge of a forest in Tennessee

#ColorADay #BWFri #EastCoastKin
#ForestFriday 🪶

I think about this all of the time. Life creates the conditions for life. The planet will go on just fine without us. We're the idiots who failed the survival of the species test.

Don’t. Do not. Do literally anything other than this. See a licensed therapist. Get a plant. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Shitpost 24 hours a day on Bluesky. Anything but this.

Such a good Gooney. I'm sorry, friend, and glad you gave each other 5 years of all the loves. 💔

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.

www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Let me know what you think. This one very unexpectedly knocked me for a loop (in the best ways)!

TJ Klune doesn't appear to be on Bluesky or else I'd be @-ing them and lavishing them with thanks.

The cover of author TJ Klune's novel 'In the Lives of Puppets' which shows a small red brick house on a forest floor, with elaborate treehouses built high above. It called to me as I browsed an aisle in the library looking for a different book (Miéville's The City & The City, which I haven't been able to start yet bc I am still processing this one, a day after finishing it). I did the flip-open-skim there in the library aisle and was immediately swept away. Beautiful, just beautiful.

Came across this tempting cover while browsing the library stacks. Didn't know the author, not usually drawn to sci-fi/fantasy, but friends--I was SMITTEN from page 1. Rapt. Laughing & sobbing & on tenterhooks, committed to these characters who now live in my heart. Cannot recommend enough. 📚

That's exactly what they are!

In its defense, I was definitely standing right between the launching branch and the feeder, and should not have been wandering around the airstrip that way. 😂

As climate warms, northern flying squirrels are moving out of the Northland Across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario, southern flying squirrels are pushing their cousins north.

Second/right-hand pic is from this article:

Masterful throwback. 🧆🤧😂

Old pic of a tiny adorable flying squirrel hanging upside down on a wire mesh feeder on our deck, monching a seed with both hands. Grey/brown above, cream below, huge eyes. It looks incredibly soft and sleek.

Same brand of flying squirrel, photographed in mid-air. All limbs splayed, tail floofed out flat and acting as rudder, enormous eyes. This is a bat crossed with a small squirrel crossed with Batman crossed with the cutest stuffed animal you've ever seen. Its side "wings" extend just beyond its tiny little front paws, so it looks like it's holding its cape open as it soars through the air.

Adorable yes BUT NOT WHEN THEY ARE SWOOPING OUT OF THE TREES AT YOU IN THE DARK WITH ARMPIT FLAPS FULLY EXTENDED #FlyingSquirrel 🌿

(Old photo bc I was too busy shrieking & fleeing to get a pic of this evening's visitor.)

Aisle defenders are different from aisle crowders for sure. I think Horus is in the defender category. Chaotic good?

I noticed that Horus does not leap out of his seat to stand in the aisle the absolute second the plane comes to a stop. A Very Good Doggo.

A closeup photo on dead leaves on the forest floor, where a brown, mottled, well-camouflaged frog, seen from above, looks at a tiny midge/gnat/fly which is in mid-flight right in front of the frog.

Rare photo of the dangerous initiation ceremony for all prospective new members of Fly Club. Despite catching the frog's attention, the tiny fly/midge escaped unharmed.
🐙🐸🌿

A photoshopped cat is placed inside an illustration/painting of a glowing cloud where Jesus would be, ascending into Heaven surrounded by angels

My Other took the photo I had of our doofus Marty and made this and I am DYING every time I look at it saved on my phone so for anyone who needs a laugh, enjoy 😂

Ugh. If only there could be, like, a water leak that would force them to work in your part of the floor.

Am I correct to assume your manager was not in the office with you?