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The Waterlily Weigh-Off 2025 Victoria waterlilies can hold impressive amounts of weight due to their large size and structure. This international competition sees whose lily holds the

The Water Lily [pad] Weigh-OFF is this week! 🌱

“public gardens and zoos around the world [compete] to see how much weight their Victoria waterlily leaves can hold”.

(The 2024 winner, in the Missouri Public Gardens, held 142lbs.)

www.botanicgardens.org/blog/waterli...

Random YouTube video thumbnail: “The first ‘Pop’ Hit??”

Me: Oh, that’s easy: The Last Rose of Summer

*thinks for a second*

Me: Never mind, it’s L’homme armé

#ClassicalMusic #Nerd

apparently we are now a Hugo-winning podcast! a fact which is thanks entirely to a.) Diana Wynne Jones, for her consistent ability to make us think, wonder, and delight and b.) all of you, for taking time out of your lives to join us in reading her as deeply as she deserves

Cover Story by Russ Taff on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 11 Songs

Ever since the Rock That Doesn’t Roll podcast interviewed Russ Taff & Steve Taylor, I can’t stop listening to Taff’s Cover Stories album

music.apple.com/us/album/tea...

One weird side effect of growing up homeschooled is that I was taught not to swear. I occasionally swear now, but I’m equally likely to exclaim something that even my grandma would think was old fashioned

Example: Just sprayed myself opening a juice jug & instantly exclaimed “gee willikers!!!”

Panic Mode - Single by Appleby on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 1 Song

Listening today: Panic Mode by Appleby

music.apple.com/us/album/pan...

WIP

WIP

Magical Tiger 2 of 3 process~!

#art

The day is looming when I tell a punk-ass young composer they can't do that for choir and they tell me ChatGPT disagrees

Artwork showing a Desert Rain Frog in a sparkly light blue onesie. The caption says "sparkle and shine you fabulous bitch". Art by Froggies World.

Good morning ☀️ and Happy Friday 😘

Sorry, craftycharlottecrochet

Bluesky, let us edit posts!!!!

YouTube video by Bobby McFerrin - Topic Musette from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach

Because someone mentioned Bobby McFerrin today, I have to reshare my absolute favorite recording of the Musette from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach in all of existence

I share this with my students every time I assign this piece

youtu.be/Rrv_vq3W7gQ

No worries! ☺️

Bobby McFerrin is an incredible musician and is totally worth a deeper listen!

Um, Bobby McFerrin is still very much alive

And this is why I love humans: we can even create beautiful art about AI “art” messing with our brains

Original song by olivesongs, original crochet art and stop motion animation by craftycharlottecreates

Good morning, BlueSky!

my project in a nutshell: White Christian Patriarchal men promoted parenting methods that created and nurtured emotionally immature boys/men for the last 5-6 decades and now it is everyone's problem.

It’s the time of year when r/cooking is filled with posts like “I bought 157 flats of strawberries b/c my neighbor was selling them for 5¢ a piece. What can I make? I have a mini-fridge and a hot plate and nothing else!”

You didn’t think this through BEFORE buying an industrial amount of food?

YouTube video by Airplane Facts With Max Air conditioning is pretty cool #aviation #lordoftherings #airplane

Like this one, where he goes from talking about AC on airplanes to Faramir being the best

youtube.com/shorts/ju7j1...

YouTube video by Airplane Facts With Max Its speed tape not duct tape

One of my favorite creators on the entire internet is Airplane Facts with Max. He goes in depth with some random part of an aircraft, and then seamlessly transitions into Lord of the Rings lore. It makes me super happy every time

youtube.com/shorts/fhvAY...

Adorable rotund blue tiger with massive flaming eyes tries repeatedly & unsuccessfully to set up a potted plant it has just knocked over

I think from now on that whenever anyone asks how I’m doing, I will simply react with Derpy Tiger gifs

For instance, how’s my day going today? Um, well..

YouTube video by HayleyWilliamsVEVO Hayley Williams - True Believer (Official Visualizer)

Today’s listening: Hayley Williams “True Believer”

“The South will not rise again
Til it’s paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham

I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief”

youtu.be/a5Uy5vDXhKI

1548 woodcut initials featuring dog-walking, hair-pulling, spanking, music-making, and what seems to be a very dramatic book club ...

That’s ok, I didn’t really want to breathe the air at all today anyway

#AirQuality #wildfires

Somewhere outside the dressing room, a stagehand gave the fifteen-minute call, and the distant sounds of an orchestra warming up filtered through the closed door. "The wolfwun Hebrides Ottendahl, you might have heard of him. We did Lilibet's Lament together, back in Winter of Six. Mrs. Beverly Miller, the famous duckwun mezzosoprano. Now there's a talent! She's left the opera now, we lost her to a touring cabaret, of all things. Can you believe?"

Even in kids’ fantasy books, opera companies aren’t paying their young talent enough

#Opera #JessicaTownsend #Nevermoor

Heavy Foot - Single by Mon Rovîa on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 1 Song

This morning’s listening: “Heavy Foot” by Mon Rovîa

music.apple.com/us/album/hea...

This is so silly but I am SO wealthy in stocks. Literally a dozen different stocks. This isn’t about investing at all— I am just very proud of my variety of soup bases in my freezer. Truly a different tier of riches.

How does true freedom feel? 🥺

Y’all, this book is so cute!

Also, I never get weird random text messages from real people, but I got one within days of reading this book 👀

Today's historic find. 1927 letter from my archive trip: "for we all know that a democracy cannot be built on misunderstanding or prejudice and for that reason it is our duty as patriotic Americans to see that intelligent understanding and good will is established in every community."—Mary McDowell