Photo of a rock surface completely covered in multiple lichen species. Colours include orange, yellow, grey, white and black.

Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

The Ancient Birds of Santa Barbara and Beyond Some birds live surprisingly long lives.

@banditelli.org!!! 75 years old? #Birds

From the past. A look back to on this day 9th December with our farmily of farm animals & friends

Sunset tonight in Wasatch Mountains.

Looking north, towards Estes Park, Colorado, from just below the top of Twin Sisters Mountain. #colorado #scenery #photography

Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.

A misty #thicktrunktuesday from Selsdon Wood #croydon #TreeClub

Wonderful winter picture
I think the owl is thinking So this is winter....

Majestic... Early morning. Olivier The Northern Hawk Owl, giving me his best 'over the shoulder' look. He enjoys spending his time, in the Boreal Forests of the Great White North. Very handsome.🦉📸 🇨🇦
#NorthernHawkOwl #Birds #Owls #Photography #BirdPhotography
#Wildlife #Sony #OntarioParks #Canada

A yellow-green toad with large black splotches! They are covered in lots of warty bumps!

Our friend the Thick-skinned Harlequin Frog is a critically endangered toad who lives at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru! They are also known as Schmidt's Stubfoot Toad, named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who first described them as a species in 1857! (photo by Jasmin Odar)

Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, official photo, ca. early 1980s.

#ResistanceRoots

Grace Hopper was born on this day in 1906 in New York City. Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and a pioneering computer programmer who was called “Amazing Grace” and the “grandmother of the computer age” for her innovative work. /1

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

Nepo pedo grifter from nowhere
The Horror movie to hopefully end all horrors of dictatorship

Nahhh
It's a reverse Punch & Judy show; the nasty puppets are causing dirty dumb dt to act keeping audience amazed while the puppets get away with their greedy hate schemes behind curtain.
When they can't control him or the drooling they'll move in their Groomed actor to replace him

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Donald Trump is not running the show.

Trump has dementia.

Project 2025 is implementing widespread privatization

of federal branches and services of

the Federal Government.

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Bannering for Palestine For 22 months now, every week, a committed group of us activists in Asheville, North Carolina, have been standing on an interstate overpass holding giant

www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/08/b...

Acrylic painting of a human skull with a cutaway revealing a brain morphing into three running deer.

Busy working on new paintings for next year's show, so here's a flashback piece currently at my studio.

"Consciousness"
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 6"

#art #painting #surrealism #contemporaryart

So too beautiful, important, ponderous more
Words I can't come up with

Thank You for sharing Your art world

Acrylic painting of a snow monkey's face surrounded by amaryllis flowers, leaves, and vines. Honeybees sit in the middle of flowers, two on the left, one on the right.

"Equilibrium"
2022
Acrylic on canvas
6" x 6"
@LeMieux Galleries

#art #painting #contemporaryart #surrealism #snowmonkey

Acrylic painting of five horses stacked upon each other sitting atop a large rocky surface in the middle of the ocean. The mane of each horse is wrapped around their faces.

"Ascension"
2016
Acrylic on canvas
8" x 8"

#art #painting #surrealism #horses #contemporaryart #climatechange

Acrylic painting of a pack of five wolves in the desert, some with their top halves emerging from the ground, others with their tail end exposed.

Flashback to "The Pack"
Acrylic on canvas
20" x 10"

#art #painting #surrealism #wolves #contemporaryart

Acrylic painting of a tiger on a discarded floral sofa in a forest, surrounded by plastic items that mimic nature: flamingos, grass, and flowers.

"Inside Out"
2020
Acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"

#art #painting #surrealism #tiger #contemporaryart

Acrylic painting of a stag beetle sitting on top of a chrysanthemum flower. The beetle's body is covered in a lace pattern.

Another oldie while I wrap up new paintings for my January show at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans.

"Delicate"
2018
Acrylic on canvas
5" x 5"

#art #painting #insects #beetle #contemporaryart #nature

Photos of pinewood gingertail mushrooms in Wisconsin, taken by Rik Gern (more at the site).

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/09/r...

Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

This is one of the Chocolate Lakes on the Chocolate/ Ruwau Lakes Loop ( the mountain in the background is Picture Puzzle), Inyo National Forest, Eastern Sierra, California.

Big Pine Lake #3 and Temple Crag, North Fork Big Pine Creek Trail, Inyo National Forest, Eastern Sierra, California.

Cover of an issue of La Fronde. It looks like a torn back newspaper that reveals a white woman sat pensively at a desk.

Photo of Marguerite Durand. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1897, Marguerite Durand founds 'La Fronde', a French feminist newspaper written entirely by women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory 🗃️

Winter from this sidewalk perspective, in the neighborhood where I used to walk my dog, CT. 6”x6” oil

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”