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Cat sized terrier predominately strawberry blond sits on a blue and purple bedspread looking beseechingly at photographer

Cute little timeline cleanse for a Saturday: the fledgling Lesser Goldfinch is begging so hard for some goodies!

A family of mature and very wiry collared parachute mushrooms grow from a blackened bit of decayed stick, held between two fingers in a green summer forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Among ripe wheat is a nest. From the nest three small harvest mice are peeping out. Another mouse, presumably a parent, is keeping a watchful eye out

Harvest mice
Artist: John Berry (1976)

it’s all fun and games until Mom eats your watermelon 🍉

YouTube video by Ragmop and Goose #puppet #meditation #breathe

Meditate with Pinky!

Alt text: cat sized terrier with curly black and tan fur laying passed out on a wooden floor.

Little guy here is a classic case of the Melted Cheese Pupper. Too sleepy to go down stairs, too sleepy to go out to pee. Too sleepy to go back up stairs after he has been carried outside and convinced to pee.

Roombas and the like need a Defensive Crouch Feature where they pull in their brushes and staple themselves to the floor at the approach of Terriers with murder in their eyes.

The new motto of my D&D group is “ I don’t think this is a good idea, but I’m coming with you!”

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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HOLY SHIT MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON

56 Years Ago Today:

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

The one D&D game that I get to play in rather than run got cancelled tonight and I 100% understand that these things happen and DM’s are not machines but that was a load-bearing distraction I was counting on tonight.

This has big Taskmaster vibes.

It surely seems that way. CBS, what gives?

Screenshot from Wikipedia: A black and white image of a racehorse with text below reading Potoooooooo British thoroughbred racehorse Potoooooooo or variations of Pot-8-Os (1773 - November 1800) was an 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse who won over 25 races and placed higher than some of the most prominent racehorses of his time. He went on to be an important sire, whose leading runners included Epsom Derby winners Waxy, Champion, and Tyrant. He is best known for the unusual spelling of his name, pronounced Potatoes.

just super stuff

Batman snapping a gun in two. And saying: “This is the weapon of the ENEMY. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it.”

And this again (and as often as necessary) re: AI:

A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"

Never change, England

A painting of a cicada. Caption: Come, friend. Scream with us.

A friend sent this to me and jfc it hits.

Photo of a book cover, “AUDREY DUSSUTOUR; Les Champignons de l'apocalypse”, a macro photo of a dead cricket covered with tiny mushrooms on a pure black backdrop.

Honored to have a cover photo on a French book about apocalypse fungi.

It is not your job to make it easy for those who would exploit or oppress you. Be difficult. Be stubborn. Be a problem that keeps them up at night.

I am a pulsar astronomer and I endorse this meme.

Read a New Murderbot Story for Free, Right After the Season Finale - Reactor The new novelette will be released on Reactor immediately following the final episode of Apple TV+’s Murderbot

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Oh yay, they announced it!!

IT USED TO BE LIKE THIS A LOT MORE

Title: Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country. Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying "Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!" Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous? Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning " Can one purchase a firearm nearby?" Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?" Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer." Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!" Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional." Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate." Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.

‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

A decayed stick is held up in a hand and covered with dozens of tiny collared parachute mushrooms. Their white caps rise up on wiry black stems in a green forest. All photo by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

In 1972, Armstrong visited the Scottish town of Langholm, the traditional seat of Clan Armstrong. He was made the first freeman of the burgh, and happily declared the town his home.[205] To entertain the crowd, the Justice of the Peace read from an unrepealed archaic 400-year-old law that required him to hang any Armstrong found in the town.[206]

While working on his farm in November 1978, Armstrong jumped off the back of his grain truck and caught his wedding ring in its wheel, tearing the tip off his left ring finger. He collected the severed tip, packed it in ice, and had surgeons reattach it at a nearby hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.

some of neil armstrong's many post-moon activities!