a arbor seal pup touching the side of their face to an adult

Bonus seal cuteness, featuring my previous bestie.

And once you understand why misogynists would say only men need be heard on women's rights you also understand why the BBC has decided only cis people need be heard on trans rights: their inherent inferiority means they are not worth listening to.

Free Images and Open Access | National Gallery of Art Free open access image downloads are now available directly from the object pages located on this website. Close to 60,000 images are available for download, and we will continue to add more images fo...

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can.

Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop.

Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵

www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

Good morning from the baby harbor seal factory!

Production is at full capacity. In the past 48 hours FOUR pups have reached the end of the assembly line, one of which as recently as 5pm last night!

I'm running on 6 hours sleep, so have low expectations, but I'll be threading as I can 🦭 🦑 #SealSky

Support every trans, non-binary or questioning person you know. Speak out for those you don’t. Vote for politicians who want to expand humanity, not shrink it. And for god’s sake, stop buying Harry Potter or the works of those who want to ruin the lives of our loved ones out of their own ignorance.

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule


www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones

This looks pretty similar to what the data is telling us in our ward. Almost nobody on the doorstep is still planning to vote Labour. We are the only ones who can stop Reform. It's going to be close, but we can do it.

Reform is a deeply transphobic party, like MAGA and suchlike. They claim their transphobia is “feminism” and to “protect women and girls”.

It is not. All transphobia is fascism and transphobia has been used to trick gullible “gender criticals” into being their handmaidens.

archive.today/jnQKR

YouTube video by Chandler Juliet VHS Dates Re-enactment Compilation Part 1 (Gwen, Heather, Patricia & Joyce)

Got recommended this woman's videos on YouTube, and I'm hooked: she re-enacts old VHS dating tapes www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQmh...

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

a white crowned robin chat stands atop a book titled “a dumb birds field guide to the worst birds ever”

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅

(this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him)

🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

happy bday artist Joan Mitchell, b.1925, Chicago.

“Sunflowers are something I feel very intensely. They look so wonderful when young and they are so very moving when they are dying. I don’t like fields of sunflowers. I like them alone or, of course, painted by Van Gogh.”

A White-tailed Eagle in flight facing the camera head on. It's wings are half opened forming a circular frame around its face. The background shows a blurred sky. Scientific Name: Haliaeetus albicilla Conservation status: Least Concern

Full frontal and mighty.
This one is ringed. The cool bracelet it wears on it's right leg says it is from Budapest.

#WhiteTailedEagle #Hungary #Eagle #Raptors #birds #WillTravel4Birds #BirdsSeenin2026

Tonight's beautiful murder of thousands of crows. ❤️

You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.

”People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky -

Thread 4/5🧵

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

30 day flower project

Day 15, half way through!

No. 15
#30DaysOfArt
#FlowersOfScotland
#30Flowers
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YouTube video by Brett Banditelli RAW FOOTAGE: 20 minutes of harbor seal pup play time

Here are 20 minutes of uncut, unstabilized, harbor seal pup footage I uploaded for my friend to watch with her daughter, its in 4k so you can put it on your TV, mute it and put it at half speed and itll look clean as butter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mip...

Watched two male Cardinals chasing each other in Central Park this morning, which enabled me to capture one in this angelic pose. I don't think I've ever gotten a shot quite like this! 😍😍😍 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

Good morning from the harbor seal factory!

We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment!

Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union.

Get em started young!

#UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑

Almost exactly three years ago, this thread on "AI" in healthcare and the kinds of things likely to go wrong in that context:

Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!

The Venn diagram between the UK Gender Critical movement and being a nonce/nonce-adjacent really is just a circle isn't it?

ML650541557 - California Condor - Macaulay Library Macaulay Library ML650541557; © Kirsten Kraus; Los Angeles, California, United States

Incredible Condor pictures taken in *LA COUNTY*

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.