A Sizable Hawk

Putting McCarthy, LeGuin, Sagan, and Mantel in here is specifically calibrated to piss me off

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Vegeta Sketch
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Before: Trump’s War Becomes World’s Latest Economic Hazard After: War Becomes World’s Latest Economic Hazard

Change in Headline

need to be long on canned goods, ammo, and guitars that are also flamethrowers

PANEL 1: A FRIEND showing MATTIE a big canvas. FRIEND: Hey check out this art i bought. I think it's incredible. MATTIE: Uhh. What is it? PANEL 2: reverse shot, you can see it's just an enormous black dot on a canvas. FRIEND: It's the aggregate of all human creative output, in the totality of recorded history, averaged out and then printed on this canvas! PANEL 3: Shot from panel 1. MATTIE just kind of stares at the friend. FRIEND: I can see you think I'm stupid. Would an IDIOT spend 14 billion dollars on it? Hmm? FRIEND: Would an IDIOT have been MOVED TO TEARS by this? PANEL 4: Same shot, two people walk by, looking amazed. P1: Wow, the computers are getting so good! P2: We'll be replaced any day now!

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This is one of those aspects of history that I know very viscerally… due to Age of Empires II

This is a male. He just finished eating some of that orange that is nailed to the tree.

The Gila Woodpecker
is the official woodpecker
of my backyard
but I took this picture
at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds
and I have no clue what species
is their official woodpecker

A Kākāpō chick being weighed in a bag. Credit: Andrew Digby

A Kākāpō chick being held during a health check. Credit: Andrew Digby

A health check for #kakapo chick Tiwhiri-A3 two nights ago. This is a genetically valuable (rank = gold) chick, so it gets more frequent health checks. It’s doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

Sheesh, what’s it like living somewhere other than zone 10

🌺 Costa’s Hummingbird 🌺

My ACD is like this for apples. She’s obsessed with a crisp slice, and whenever I cut into one she materializes

Ugh I miss LA, what a wonderful town

I'm on vacation so I have no chance to buy or play the new slay the spire, but let me tell you I'm scared for my work, my partners, my family, my life. I am ready to upend my life for that game. I'm willing to squander everything I've worked for.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The fortune teller has drawn the “Alarming Poop Color” card from the toddler tarot deck

Natch

Yeah man

Chen Kenichi always makes me feel better. Imagine having a beer with this guy. Dream

Wish it were real but

Did someone say colors?
White-faced Ibis

#bird #birds #photography #audubon #nature #naturephotography #birdnerd #wildlife #natgeowild #bbcwildlife #bbcearth #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #blueskyartshow #planetbirds #bestbirdshots #lynzieflynn #birdsoftheworld #wadingbirds

This is a story of a couple who continue to love each other beyond gender and persevere through life.

#Illustration
#CommentPls
#RTpls

I feel very deeply that both of these dudes are my ancestors

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

It comforts people to believe that systematic sexual exploitation of the young and powerless is only done by abnormal freaks with abnormal desires instead of normal people with abnormal power.

Mr Kotter is about to Scanners that kid’s head

Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”

#californiacondor

Behold