Jeremy Beim

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

inspired by hiking thru wildflowers 🌷🌾🌻🌼✨

#pixelart

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

I would have taken it straight to the dump.

A black bird stands on some cracked concrete, looking upwards at camera. The angle, its stance and its plumage - white eyes are the only let-up from the black - makes the bird look thoroughly pissed off

The Blackbird of Annoyance has replaced the Bluebird of Happiness in my life

Man, it's like our country was built on an old Indian burial ground or something.

Repost if you love this cat or have been growing more insane with each passing day. Cute young Siamese cat

no signs or orange cones

Guy captures hummingbird hatching from his bedroom window. #AGoodPlace

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a double rainbow in lincoln square chicago

PRIDE MONTH DOUBLE RAINBOW IN CHICAGO HOLY SHIT

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.

Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD

Don't disrespect the Edsel like that.

Is Trump in mental decline? He sounds far worse than Biden ever did. | Opinion For those who spent weeks, months and even years howling about then-President Joe Biden's 'mental decline,' what say you about Trump's rambling?

Reposting today’s column because … **waves arms in all directions** … strollers and movie tariffs and Alcatraz and such.

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At some point you have to join a crew, or you'll get served and if you dance back, "it's on".

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found

EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland

EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

EPA is terminating more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin.

We're on pea rations this week because the good cheap peas weren't available and I had to buy fewer (expensive) peas.

Even though they're just bloody peas and they're all the same.

Why does Elon need our personal taxpayer information to run the government more efficiently? 🤔

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

I didn’t change my name when I got married for some very practical reasons but I never thought “so I can keep voting” would be among them

Good morning ☕ Another winter storm warning, bringing ice, yikes! Finished a new painting this morning as I sat here thinking about what to paint. I hadn't turned my heater on so it was pretty cold, thus, a kitty in a new puffer jacket 😹
Acrylics & Acrylic gouache on wood
#cat #art #artist #painting

I can't watch football because the 49ers sucked last season.

📹| Taylor Swift on the jumbtron tonight!

Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)