Plant Growth

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Tree roots in stone wall

Who would live in a place like this?

I remember that from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack

are your kids turning punk punk rock is todays angry attack on society what will you do if your kids turn punk

Photograph of a black crow perched on a metal railing in a Costco parking lot. It is foggy and there are bare trees in the background and a black suv and truck maneuvering through.

Crow hanging out at Costco

Illustration of a giant dark blue rabbit looming over a house in the middle of nowhere. The rabbit has eight eyes, one on it’s thigh and seven on it’s head.

Still

Starry Night.

#Art

© Anna Harley

* clears throat * let him cook

A cream-and-sandy-colored little wild cat poured along the shady interior of a hollow log. Her paws are outstretched, her eyes are slits. Chelbi ain't moving.

Sand cat Chelbi doesn't feel like it.

Any of it. At all.

[via Phoenix Zoo]

near Loch Maree

Standing strong

my brain is stuck thinking about how to define an hour-ass in canonical units

can't make a de-aged actor without breaking a few cranial nerves

cool. quick question, though, why does sam neil have two different faces on the front of the same head

Damn autocorrect, that's xtabs as in crosstabs, not crabs. Sorry to anyone hoping for crustaceans.

KSTP/SurveyUSA: Klobuchar leads all GOP candidates by double digits The decision by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to drop out of the 2026 governor’s race might have tilted that race in favor of Democrats, at least for now. According to our latest KSTP/SurveyUSA poll, Klobu...

Here is a link kstp.com/kstp-news/to... with some crabs further down

Gillespie Town Hall with Dylan Blaha · Mobilize ## Join Dylan Blaha, the Progressive, Grassroots candidate running for US Congress in Illinois District 13, for a town hall hosted by Macoupin County Indivisible in Gillespie, Illinois. ### Whether y...

Thanks to our wonderful team, our town hall series rolls on. Next up: Gillespie, Illinois.

Here is the link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

9 people at UIUC were charged with *felonies* for anti-genocide protests.

A digital illustration of a groundhog all dressed up in fancy morning dress: big shiny top hat, cutaway coat with tails, bow tie, waistcoat with watch chain, pinstriped pants and shoes with spats. He’s standing on a hillside covered in yellowish green grass. It’ The sky is gray and hazy and there’s a bare tree in the distance. There are patches of snow on the ground and crocuses coming up. He’s casting a long shadow forward within which is lettering reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

An ancient Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog blue in colour with dark blue or black bumps to represent the spikes

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺

This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE.

Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

My photo shows a Roman tile mosaic of a black dog in profile facing right, on an off-white background and set within a black rectangular border. The dog wears a white collar, and a red chain or lead around its neck which rises diagonally upward. Its ears are pointed and upright, the insides highlighted with white. The dog's red tongue protrudes from its open mouth. It has a round white eye with black centre. Its claws are picked out in white. The dog lowers the front of its body, its rear end up, and its tail curves upwards. A pose which looks somewhat similar to the universal ‘Play Bow’ position of dogs which communicates ‘come play with me’. This somewhat belies its role as a guard dog. However, guard dog mosaics were a popular feature at the entrance of houses in Pompeii. The most famous being the chained dog with the inscription ‘Cave Canem’ (beware of the dog) from the House of the Tragic Poet. This mosaic comes from the entry passage of the House of Orpheus in Pompeii.

2,000 year-old Roman ‘Beware of the Dog’ mosaic.

This good boy looks ready for walkies! 😍🐾

Chained black guard dog from the entry passage of the House of Orpheus, Pompeii.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Boating by Moonlight
Arthur Parton

YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

Ferbruary #oldknees

Mountains in the background with low clouds at their base as the calm waterway is trimmed with grasses of gold.

The organized chaos of Winter along the waterway 📷🕊️…

Check out the sign on the left that's partially obscured - it's a naked knife throwing act

rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

awesome! do you know if Huffman will challenge Wambsganns again in the primary?

Ice and sky

Ice and sky

Ice and sky

Some twilight icescapes at lake harriet

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026.

📷: WCCO-TV

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