Mike Gould

The Ruby-topaz #Hummingbird is a tiny, dazzling bird found in northern South America. Males flash brilliant ruby-red and golden-orange feathers when the light hits just right—one of nature’s finest optical illusions

As incredibly incompetent and prone to saying outrageous lies as Pam Bondi is, she owes Robert Kennedy Jr. a gift basket for allowing her to avoid the title of "The Worst Person in Trump's Cabinet."

Although, in fairness, there are a lot of other people who are actively helping, too.

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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.

He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...

🔭 🧪 #galactic

Bonjour

06h 03 & 06h 18, 🌅 07h 01

🌡️ 5,1°C 💧 0 mm

20 secondes de calme dans la vallée de l'Orb, sud de la France.

20 seconds of calm from the Orb Valley, southern France.

#morningview
#orbvalleyflyway
#nature

@gregcasar.bsky.social: "Elon Musk gets $8 million a day in federal government contracts and subsidies. $65 a day is how much your average senior gets on Social Security just to barely survive on after working their entire life."

Listen up to the hard truth.

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New wave of Democratic primary challengers bring age problem into focus A spate of challenges against longtime Democratic incumbents suggests some in the party are fed up with its current leadership.

New wave of Democratic primary challengers bring age problem into focus

Just 2 weeks to go before we head back to our lovely little house in France

1/2 Actual Q, since haven't been near TVs:

Did any Dem Senator give a rip-roaring, detailed, speech dissecting *specifics* of what is bad in GOP CR bill. Style of E Warren or AOC or Rep Katie Porter at a House hearing, or Al Franken in his Senate prime? Making case for *exactly* why it's so bad?

Bonjour

08h 06, 🌅 06h 59

🌡️ 6,9°C 💧0,85 mm

20 secondes de calme dans la vallée de l'Orb, sud de la France.

20 seconds of calm from the Orb Valley, southern France.

#morningview
#orbvalleyflyway
#nature

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...

Six days until Everything Is Tuberculosis. Preorder the book now as a statement of hope that the world will exist in six days.

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Please do this.

Thay are called lies. Tell it like it is lies.

First, the fascists came for a college campus protestor. And I said nothing because I was not a college campus protestor.

Then the fascists came for . . .

You know the rest.

Can't happen soon enough.

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Elon fires hundreds of Twitter employees and Twitter goes down.

Elon fires air traffic controllers and planes go down.

Elon goes on a DOGE rampage and the stock market goes down.

Elon regulates his own SpaceX and its starships go down.

I'm sensing a pattern.

YESTERDAY:

"There is no substitute for Starlink."

--Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product.

TODAY:

"We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink."

--Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

Ot "disunformation". It is lies! Call it what it is everytime

Disinformation Plagued Virginia’s Last Election. Could It Be Worse in 2025? Disinformation around noncitizen voting plagued Virginia last year and many voting rights experts and advocates fear a repeat in 2025.

Disinformation around noncitizen voting plagued Virginia last year and many voting rights experts and advocates fear a repeat in 2025.

Jesus, he has porked up

My 5 are
1. I did a jump to the left
2. Then a step to the right
3. I put my hand on my hips
4. I pulled my knees in tight
5. I did the pelvic thrust

🚨ATTENTION

The deadline to register to vote in Florida’s special elections in CD-1 or CD-6 is THIS MONDAY, March 3rd.

These two seats are crucial with a narrow majority in the House.

Double check your status and register to vote at iwillvote.com.

8 and a half hours to paper the smallest toilet on the planet

Happy Ramadan to all my Muslim friends

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

A squirrel holds a butter knife covered in a red substance, likely jelly.

Drained, Chester sat down and waited for the police to arrive. Staring at Alan’s still-warm body laying among the empty shells, he felt no remorse. There were two sacred rules. You didn’t touch another man’s wife, or another man’s nuts. His ears perked up as the sound of sirens rose in the distance.