Angela

"Nobody knows what it means, but it gets the people going!"

The Holy Spirit was my favorite part of Catholicism as a kid, but was also probably my "gateway drug" to becoming whatever sort of secular pagan thing I am now. Not sure that was what my parents wanted me to take away from all that Catholic education 😅

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

This photo.

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (6th October) was at 7.16am, sunset is at 6.33pm

Move over “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, there’s a new three word phrase in the zeitgeist

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

We just came in from admiring the moon! It was massive at sunset and it's still beautiful right now, though at this time of year in the PNW it feels extra special just to see the moon at all :)

The full moon looks so cool tonight. We went out earlier just when it was rising and it looked HUGE! Right now there’s thin wispy clouds and the moon is making rainbow halos. If you don’t have childlike wonder about nature you’re missing out.

Feeling pretty shameless today, it looks like! That remote didn't have a chance!

Just got this blend as a free sample; thank you! Looking forward to trying it! In the meantime I'm really liking the Darkest Chai. I mostly bought that one for my husband but the smokiness is just right (not too much) and I'm enjoying it too.

Ein farbenfrohes Aquarellgemälde zeigt herbstliches Laub in leuchtenden Rot-, Orange-, Gelb- und Grüntönen. Zwischen den bunten, detailreich gemalten Blättern hängen einige dunkelblaue Beeren. Die Texturen der Blätter sind fein ausgearbeitet, mit sichtbaren Adern und Farbverläufen, die den natürlichen Verfall und die Schönheit des Herbstes betonen.

🎨 Conny Jager 🇨🇦 (2015)

"Autumn Beauty" (Watercolour)

A small rainbow’s end to the left against a blue-gray sky. The green field is surrounded by yellow Fall foliage

October sky😊

Five black birds perch closely together on a branch, their glossy feathers and long tails standing out against a blurred green forest background.

Goth band album cover.

Groove-billed Anis are fabulous birds. A type of cuckoo, this species lives in social groups of up to 10 birds and they collectively guard their territory and even share a nest together!

These birds were taking a break today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social to groom each other.

A milky eagle owl having a walk

A milky eagle owl having a walk

A milky eagle owl having a walk

A milky eagle owl having a walk and looking at grass.

Just seen @alan678.bsky.social
#BirdOfTheDay is Ministry of Silly Walks 😊 ‘Kibo’ a beautiful Milky or Verreaux’s Eagle Owl likes to walk, he Walks like a Dinosaur 🦉🦖 he also likes to stop and look at the grass! 😁 📷
#SuffolkOwls #Owls #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Nature #MentalHealthAwareness

A large wading bird with blue-gray feathers and long legs walks gracefully along a sandy beach. Behind it, the clear turquoise water transitions into deeper blue hues, with a small red boat floating on the horizon under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Walk on By

I don’t often photograph birds but I think this one works for #BirdOfTheDay and the Ministry of Silly #Walks 😄

#EastCoastKin

One or two days per moon cycle I get a chance to improve on my moonfisher photography!

Here’s my latest attempt! She stayed on an awkward shaped perched and I was blocked from getting in position by bush

Ideally I wanted to put the moon lower and out further allowing her to “dive” into it

📷🌿🪶

Used ReeHeld app to create this ICM image of waves crashing against jetty with iPhone.

Waves crash, then drift back to sea. Exhale. #Relax #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

Time for the Saturday #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Relax.

To me there's nothing more 'relaxing' than watching Kingfishers pose on perches.

Captured at Yarrow Valley CP & WWT Martin Mere.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography #Kingfishers #PhotographyIsArt

Follow @annagvarish.bsky.social ! There's def still Georgian reporting going on 🇬🇪❤️

A photo of a white and black jumping spider taken from the low front. The spider's body is covered in many fine hair-like scales. The legs are white with black bands. The spider's metallic green chelicerae can just be seen behind its floofy white and black pedipalps. The spider has a black downturned curved line along the lower part of it's white face. It's large eyes are black and glossy and there are 2 horn-like tufts on its head behind its eyes which give it a rather whimsical appearance.

This is not the earliest #Spider #Photo I have taken, but this is the Canopy Jumping Spider, Phidippus otiosus taken in November of 2005 which was near the start of my macrophotography journey! 😁

#Arachtober
#Macrophotography
#JumpingSpiders

A photo of an American Pika (a hamster-ish looking cute mammal that is actually not a rodent but a lagomorph, a relative of rabbits and hares) sitting on a pinkish granite boulder and looking off into the distance. The boulder is covered in almost black lichen. The pika is seen from behind and slightly to one side.

American Pika having a think.
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#Portland

A yellow cardboard carton on a CVS shelf with brightly colored letters that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” and “statue of liberty chicken.” Inside the carton are hot pink, teal, and royal blue rubber chickens with googly eyes rendered like the Statue of Liberty, with their faces distressed and frozen in a shriek. They have tags around their necks that say “squeeze me to hear me scream”

Can’t decide whether these Statue of Liberty rubber chickens that say “squeeze me to hear me scream” are a little too on-the-nose for these times or if they’re perfect

Undulating rose and peach clouds in the early evening sky

Important update on the current cloud situation

there's leaves on the ground and they're all sorts of different colors. some of the craziest shit i've ever seen

A rugged sea stack rises steeply from turquoise water in Resurrection Bay near Seward, Alaska. The rock formation is topped with tall evergreen trees, while its base is fringed with golden-brown seaweed. Behind it, the bay is shrouded in fog, with forested cliffs and mountains fading into mist. The water in the foreground is rippled and reflects a muted teal under the overcast sky.

Sea stacks rising from Spire Cove in Resurrection Bay near Seward, Alaska, on a misty day with low clouds moving through the fjords.

Prints available here: photos.lwpetersen.com/Date/2025/Se...

#alaska #landscapephotography #nature

FYI, it seems like employees at the Department of Ed, at least, had no control over it. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Black skimmer standing in the beach, 3/4 front view, facing left. This is a black and white oddly proportioned bird, with black wings and tail and crown and white cheeks and belly and flanks. Her lower beak is longer than her upper beak, which is odd. The beak’s back half is red and its front half is black. The bird has little red stick legs and its red feet are so small they don’t even look like feet.

There’s lots to say about black skimmers but thing to notice here is the feet, how does this bird not fall over #birds

A figure from Soo and Todd 2012, showing how giant clam juveniles in a neat grid all walked to be sitting in little groups

Some bivalves like to snuggle! Resting back to back provides safety in numbers: they can feel each other move in response to predators. Researchers put giant clams in arrays and found they quickly move into clumps. Scallops are more likely to cluster when threatened by predators! (284)