Beth Thommesen

[defense wheels out a tv with their own ai of the victim] hey man, thanks for killing me

When you're picking a Pope
And you're sending up smoke
That's a conclave

When the smoke isn't white
You knock off for the night
That's a conclave

Cooper’s hawk, a medium-largish gray bird with white and rust mottled breast feathers and red eyes sits among bare branches and stares intently at the viewer.

Cooper’s hawk landed right outside the window a few weeks ago!

They just showed up in our neck of the woods a few days ago, I was so happy I fist pumped! I love hearing their calls when I am sitting on the porch. ♥️

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. 

Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.

And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.

We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

Collage of a blue, black, and orange bird sitting on a stump in front of various papers—handwritten notes, blue with small white flowers, green mesh, half a paper lace doily, reproduction of a postcard with a tropical bird and hibiscus on it, various butterflies, and a small sticker reading “Eternity.”

Took an hour of the day to just turn everything else off and make some art.

FOY Ovenbird today and an extra crispy Diet Coke from McDs too so it’s not all bad.

Still finding joy in small things.

At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Big vibes.

Please join the Texanist in wishing a great big Texas-sized happy 92nd birthday to this old #GOAT! We love you, #WillieNelson.

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad

“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”

Lady mallard standing on paved surface surrounded by colorful orange, green, and yellow sunburst chairs at the Union Terrace.

Shot of the Union Terrace. One of the best hangouts in Madison! A large stone building with many windows stands behind a large terrace holding dozens of bright Orange, yellow, and green sunburst chairs and tables, a crowd of people enjoying one of the first days of the terrace season.

Some pics from the weekend for #MallardMonday. Went to one of my favorite places (UW Memorial Union Terrace) and caught this brave lass walking amongst the crowd. Bonus shot of the Union!

there will be plenty of things out there that are not to your taste, but this culture of saying yuck to sincerity to get little more than an empty laugh - it will destroy your heart.

That’s a great morning!!

Old North Church in Boston in the "spot light" again

Great Horned Owl hanging out, just trying to be chill and not bothered by these dang crows.

Great horned owl looking pretty intimidating.

Blue Jay sitting on top of a shepherd’s hook holding bird feeders.

A few days ago Glen heard some crows making a ruckus in the backyard and we went on the porch to investigate. Turns out they were harassing a Great Horned Owl that had been trying to nap in one of trees!

(Pictures taken through a screened window so they aren’t the best, bonus blue jay pic)

#birds

Life could be so cool and instead we have whatever the fuck this is.

America: where having an autism awareness tattoo means you're an MS-13 gang member, but having a swastika tattoo just means you're a German history buff

i've taken shits for longer than Katy Perry was "in space"

new marie antoinette just dropped

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

It’s hard to stay positive when shit is so fucked up.

You love to see it

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Seriously this is not gender equality … this is wealthy women doing what all wealthy people do, spending obscene amounts of money on nothing that advances women, humanity or helps anyone at all.

There is no clearer way to say it.
Letters from an American - April 13 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

God invented squirrels because the forest needed a sassy bitch