All about birds website listing. Ruby crowned kinglet, a very small, round, grey-brown bird with dark and white band on wings and a mostly hidden touch of red on crown of head.

Looks like a kinglet, tiny “golf ball sized” bird. The red top is only on male and very hard to see. Not sure if that’s right for your season/location

NEIGHBOR: are you still feeding your crows?
ME: oh yeah, 100%
NEIGHBOR: we saw one the other day with a gray patch on its-
ME: right, that's Gray Feathers
NEIGHBOR: wait, you have names for them?
ME: not...all of them?

Was it the sunflower ferry?? I follow a few train YouTubers and it seems they always end up on the Japanese ferrys and the one is a sunflower and it just makes me happy and calm with the hum and clinking sounds and funny subtitles

Yes this but with everyone

Sparkles maybe just bits of quartz catching light?

Pink feldspar/unakite. Could sparkle be a bit of mica? The holes where mica had been eroded out?

I don't know who needs to see this, but asking questions is a sign that someone is a systems thinker. That they are trying to understand how your thing fits into the bigger picture, why it matters, and how they can engage with the thing you're asking them to do. Not because they're incompetent.

I don’t really drink much water. I know I should. When I do I usually say to myself in my head:”time to water the meat suit”. That’s all you. You’re doing good work in this world reminding the internet folk to drink their darn water ☺️

They will be amazing and so delicious!!!!!

IDOL

I think it is also not automatically *presuming* we know what someone is experiencing - due to a hyper awareness of all the possible nuances that I couldn’t possibly know and a lot of experience being told I’m wrong (even if I do understand that the wrongness is usually a communication style thing)

#GVerse Something funny on a Saturday?

I love animal videos. 😂😂

This year has been heavy, but here’s the truth: we can fight back and still choose joy. Give 15 minutes to the struggle and 15 hours to the things that keep you human. Joy is resistance. Rest is rebellion. Love is armor. Don’t let them take that from you. Protect your joy today.

Part of a tea light apple baker set? Or some other type of warming dish set?

#BlufftonSC had a pretty good turnout for #NoKings.

#FDT

The first leaves of Wild Foxgloves

Wild Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

Re-introduced to our woodland, their natural habitat

They have the deep shade they love, but it means they will flower later than their urban kin

They contain a chemical called digitalis used to treat heart failure & high blood pressure

Not too long ago foxglove was the source for heart medications - large dose=toxic, tiny dose=good for a tired ticker ❤️❤️

Baby fish egg! Heartbeat!
#medaka

Same

A tree lined foot track with sunlit leaves creating a brightly glowing tunnel.

#Thread
The benefits of rest and recuperation. An #Autistic perspective.
Long before I knew how much I needed it, or why, I booked a short restorative mid-week break at an historic property. A tiny dwelling, above an ancient well, dating back to 1485, at the end of a long tree-lined holloway.
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YouTube video by NewRadicalsVEVO New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Official Music Video)

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May 1, 2025: Bluffton, SC.

Here with veterans, labor, working class, women, immigrants and all who stand for what our country is supposed to be.


#unite
#wethepeople
#authoritarianism
#BlufftonSC

#Thread
I woke early because I am going on a long journey and staying away overnight.
Travel has always required intense planning and preparation (an #Autism thing) but this has been exacerbated by #arthritis and #hypothyroidism which bring new challenges.
It’s both exciting and terrifying.
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Same. I was really diving in to nutrition and blood chemistry and that was all fine and good until the pseudo science influencers ruined it all. I miss being able to look up inflammatory foods without a barrage of nonsense to sort through. It’s all crazy talk now, really different than even 5yrs ago

Wife saves 77-year-old husband from alligator attack in South Carolina A brave South Carolina woman fended off an alligator with a tomato stake to rescue her husband from a backyard attack on Wednesday.

An incident report said the woman yelled, poked the alligator in the eyes, and hit it in the head.

Thanks for sharing this. Just watched, lots of tears and anxiety I was not expecting. Touched on so many of the tiny obstacles that add up to why I’ve only recently at 47 established myself a primary care doctor and actually got myself there.

I had similar when my 17 yr old dog was not well. Was barely coping & went full on blunt/facts only. I know I seemed cold but it was the only way I made it thru interacting at all. I remember how they reacted to me & that was years ago. Probably looking quite wild eyed & exhausted too at the time.

I do this frequently myself. I’ve had success by adding Dawn power wash dish soap. ymmv but it has worked on musty towels and other terrible funky smells from things getting left too long. Hope the vinegar works but if not there’s still options!

My province is actively recruiting US doctors and nurses to come move here to beautiful BC. 🇨🇦 Check it out: archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/new...