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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Like, the utility pole act and the lights in the stadium flickering were not just random. The power goes out in PR all the time! Because we ran their utilities into the ground! That’s political!

Surely "shiny guy" should be an option?

Well yeah, I have many favorites. I mean I can't think of a bird I don't like, really. As a Philadelphian I love the scrappy city birds too!

Ducks have been one of my top 3 favorite animals almost since birth (I had a duck stuffie an aunt made for me that was my prime lovey). When in Canada I got close to some mergansers and enjoyed their grumpy quack. Since I am grumpy most of the time these days, I feel them deeply.

I need to wake up...I read this as "this piece is wrong, and bananas display a shocking inability..." and I wondered what fruit does understand economic data!

Lieby! One of my faves!

The Letter C of the Alphabet

The Letter C of the Alphabet https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-lear/the-letter-c-of-the-alphabet-1880

My current oldest cat is named Foss (and is a tabby, but with a regular length tail). First cat of my adult life was Pobble.

Happy to be in Philly and be able to turn off the TV sound and play Merrill Reese and Mike Quick on the radio. Merrill cracks me up. "Vanya Sax changed his name. It used to be Vanya Clarinet."

Proposing by having a waiter hide the engagement ring in the dessert is for cowards. Put the ring on the conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant and let the Gods determine your bride.

The existence of porpoise and tortoise implies the existence of 24 more animals with the [x]or[x]oise naming convention.

Meme. Medieval painting of man fishing from a boat, in front of a wall. The water is a slightly disturbing shade of turquoise, as if there was a spill upriver at the dyeing mill. The man is dressed in red, and is leaning far out over the side of the boat. A heavy wave or a rogue hippo could knock him right into the water, and then he'd be screwed. He doesn't look prepared to swim, or to fend off a Nile Horse. All we can see in the water, though, is a small fish about to take the bait. No hippo today...but it has been a narrow escape. There are archways on the wall behind the man, making it look a bit like he's fishing in a flooded town and floating past the local cathedral. Perhaps the flood has washed the hippos away downstream, where they can terrorize the next town.* Meme text reads: "Why do they call it Lent? I never get my eels back" * There is a note in William Wey's pilgrim itinerary about a town in Greece that was destroyed by a crocodile. He gives no further explanation.

It's 1086, & you're a fisherman in the English town of Wisbech. Every Lent you have to pay rent to your various monastic landlords. And they want eels.

Each year you & your friends owe:

15,500 eels --> Ely
5,000 --> Bury St. Edmunds
5,260 --> Ramsey
4,000 --> Crowland
and more!
🗃️🧪

My husband's cousin's wife claimed to have never seen a junco. When said cousin exclaimed at seeing a bunch of juncos in the snow under the feeder, she ran to look and said "is it somewhere among all those snowbirds?" That was the common name she knew!

THREAD: Research we should be thankful for.

The chances that we and everyone we know and love would be here today, alive, healthy and thriving without the advances of science and technology are basically zero.

Today we look through the research and scientists to whom we owe everything.


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As Musk Assumes Deregulation Role, Tesla Racks Up Pollution Violations The EV maker’s Texas Gigafactory ran afoul of environmental overseers, with a faulty furnace door and hazardous wastewater.

".. He has said the mission of Tesla, which is the largest maker of electric cars in the U.S., is to 'protect life on Earth.' Yet across his business empire, Musk’s companies show a pattern of breaking environmental rules again and again .."

@wsj.com $TSLA
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Here is my Starter Cats pack! It's a collection of real people (non-bot, non-image scraper) accounts that post mostly cat content. I just updated it to put the requirements in the description so you can check before nominating someone. 🥰 go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Happy to! I'm sure it has other common names as well. A lot of them are red but then there was this yellow variety as well!

bog balls

Pam Bondi’s road from Four Seasons Total Landscaping to AG pick should alarm America She's not a sex fiend like Gaetz, but Trump's second pick for AG is arguably more capable of carrying out his autocratic revenge agenda.

Did you know incoming attorney general Pam Bondi was part of the infamous Four Seasons Total Landscaping presser, which, apart from being hilarious, was to declare the PA election rigged and stolen? I did not.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/pam-...

Poinciana--one of my favorites from when I lived in Trinidad!

no Iggles?

The excerpt from William and the Werewolf showing singular they spelled with a Thorn

The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th”

When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️

The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion.
When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!

I think Swallowdale, but yes, lots of greats!

Phew, he got out!

POLIO IS CONQUERED newspaper headline

Sigh.

Lloyd Alexander and Arthur Ransome are on my special special special shelves.

ugh, sorry for the typos--for and barf-lee!

a white nudibranch, the central body is bright yellow. the body is covered in stubby white tubercules photo by uwkwaj on inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65835010

Today's #Nudivember species is Cadlinella subornatissima, a relatively uncommon nudibranch found in Japan, South Korea and southeast Asia. It's rarely found, despite being bright white and yellow.

www.seaslugforum.net/find/cadlsubo