A kingfisher flying against a grey/blue background

Kingfisher on the Wing, 2025

#birds #birding #kingfisher #colorado #wildlifephotography #photography #birdphotography

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Traditional French building masterfully painted to give impression of life

This side of the building has no windows or doors - it’s just a painted illusion - a trompé l’œil

Languedoc 🇫🇷

Remembering Lou Reed, who passed away this day in 2013.

this is incredible www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...

The Red Table
oil on canvas
1920
Fernand Léger
France

#art #modernart #fernandleger #theredtable #france #circa1920

If, like me, you are a mother who took tylenol at some point during pregnancy and have a child with neurodivergency, please remember during any fake science announcements today that fake science doesn’t become more real just when it’s directed at our most vulnerable pressure points. 💙

This is gold 😂 really made our day in the media room

A proper villa vibe. Is this chunky legend floating into Fat Bear Week?

The ultimate bracket reveal goes live today at 4 pm PT. Don’t miss it.

For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

Happy Tongue Out Tuesday from bear 856 🐻

Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?

Associations between monthly temperature anomalies and mortality among children younger than five years in low- and middle-income countries - Communications Medicine Li, Wu et al. investigate the associations between monthly anomalous temperatures and mortality rates for individuals under five years old in low- and middle-income countries. They find that the effec...

🌡️ Temperature swings and child mortality

Data from 56 low- and middle-income countries show unusual heat or cold raises death risk for children under five, with impacts varying by climate zone.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#SciComm #ClimateHealth 🧪

No todos los incendios son consecuencia del cambio climático pero sí que sean más grandes, más frecuentes, más extensos y que algunos no se puedan apagar. Eso lo entiende hasta un niño pero Iker y Juan Manuel de Prada no. Por lo que sea.

Please stop saying "narrative" when what you mean is "propaganda"

EXTRAORDINARY WARMTH IN GREENLAND

After a maximum temperature of 22.9C, Narsarsuaq recorded an incredible MINIMUM of 17.2C.
If it doesn't drop further, it would tie the record of the

HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN GREENLAND

And this is just the beginning.

Ink drawing of a fluffy crab wearing a sponge on its head.

Today I learned that the Fluffy Crab is not only fluffy, but it likes to wear a sponge on its head like a jaunty hat. 🦀 #AugArthroAwe

A chipmunk with reddish-brown fur and dark stripes hanging upside down from a branch, gripping with its hind legs while stretching toward the green leaves below.

This Townsend's Chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii) was snacking on Snowberries this morning at Billy Frank Jr Nisqually NWR #Washington

#mammals #nature

Orange cat standing on stairs reviewing his kingdom

Habbee Whiskaz Wednezdai. Twodai Iz sorvei tha ma’s kangdum. Iz bootifull. (Happy Whiskers Wednesday. Today I will survey my kingdom. It’s beautiful.) #cats #catsofbluesky #orangecats

'The Penguin' creator Lauren LeFranc has signed a 2-year overall deal with HBO to develop projects for the platform

A color, nighttime photograph of Lombard Street in San Francisco taken from an elevated position near Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill about one mile away. The long exposure captures the hundreds of lighted windows in this densely populated area along with the light trails of cars slowly snaking their way down the iconic “crookedest street in San Francisco”.

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Lombard Street, San Francisco

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#photography
#cityscape
#nightlights
#sanfrancisco
#citylights
#filmphotograph

Rachel Weisz

Obi-Wan: “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

Darth Vader: *strikes down Obi-Wan*

Obi-Wan: *returns as Slimer*

Weird to think this road had cars/trucks driving through it (and parking on the sidewalk). Amazing what a few bollards and signs can do.

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.