Thick green algae during sunlight.

#nature #algae #Australia #autumn
Bloomin' Algae at it again! 🙄😏
Like a half inch thick green sponge.
Speed growing 😲😲

A pair of yellow dandelion flowers growing from a patch of moss in partial shade

#Dandelions #Mosstodon #BloomScrolling

The viewer stands in a stream bed and looks upstream. In the foreground are natural, smooth-worn rocks covered in thick moss and criss-crossed by distinctive furrows. To the left lies a weathered section of a tree trunk. The stream disappears into the background amongst the ubiquitous ginger lilies and Pittosporum undulatum trees.

Picture from my home:
Ribeira da Ponte Nova, next to the pedestrian's bridge between Lomba da São Pedro and Fenais da Ajuda. It is also the western border of my parish.
#Açores #Azores #Azoren #SãoMiguel #photography #landscape #landscapephotography

closeup view from the side of a flat, grey, semicircular mushroom, growing on the side of a green mossy tree trunk, on the underside of the mushroom there are countless small holes and slots visible

#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #ShroomSky #Mycology #Mushrooms #Fungi #Trees #moss #wood #Nature #NaturePhotography #PhotoSky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #Phonetography #AltText #NoAI

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings | TechCrunch Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters...

We're torching the climate for this:

'Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters.'

techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/z...

Black and white ruffed lemur sitting on a branch in it's zoo enclosure

Look at this gorgeous creature chilling out! #ReidParkZoo #Primates

a whole bunch of frogs in a sewer drain

they’re waiting on the signal

The short description is that you're looking at a river, surrounded by rocks and trees. The long description is that you're standing on some wet rocks and boulders at the edge of a rushing river, watching as it curves off into the distance. The water is turbulent from the rocks beneath and standing here you'd be definitely hearing the waterfall directly behind you as white noise magic. Surrounding you and the rocks are great mossy tree branches, arching over your head. They're a lush green and will be dripping water on you every now and then, but you won't mind. The rocks at the river's edge are green with moss and very wet and pleasingly soft to touch. The smell is a delightful fug of leaf mold, greenery, sharp, chilly fresh air and peace. Standing here, you know you want to stay a little longer. Maybe sit on the nearby bench and take all this in for a while. Maybe eat that lunch you packed as you hear the birds overhead calling to each other and let your mind relax.

A picture from our walk along the river at Te Puna o Riuwaka. It doesn't capture half the magic. (As always, more in the alt text)

Personally, I don't think it would be a dealbreaker for too many GOP voters, but I still want to see trump fight it out with grover norquist over renaming all the "reagan" shit "trump". They deserve each other.

A picture of the rocky shoreline when the tide is out at Seaton Sluice, which is covered in patches of green seaweed and algae and the blue sea and sky with low lying white cloud across the horizon in the background.

Blue sky and sea from the shoreline at tides out. #BlueSkyMonday #coastline #clouds #rocks #seaweed #photography #ECK

In voting rights win, Virginia agrees to stop mass voter purges near Election Day The dispute exposed a growing national tension between Republican-led efforts to aggressively purge voter rolls and federal protections designed to ensure eligible voters are not wrongly removed.

BREAKING: In a win for Virginians, a court greenlit an agreement barring the state from removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of federal elections.

The case challenged a policy — which purged 1.6k+ voters before the 2024 election — that flagged suspected noncitizens using outdated records.

The property management people have tracked down their plumbing expert, who says the shutoff valve is the thing I thought it was. My partner: I have never seen that before.

Me: You don't do laundry. (It's next to the broken dryer.)

A dog’s breakfast of volunteer plants in a blue pot. Mint, strawberry, lavender and moss.

Abandoned pot left alone to see what seeds it caught, and this year it has lavender sprouts, mint, a strawberry and a half dozen types of moss 😍

Yellowy feather moss surrounded by spikes star shaped moss. Taken in North Wales

Happy #mossyMonday moss people. Rough Stalked Feather Moss (my field guide) or Common Tamarisk Moss (iNaturalist) or something else? North Wales in woodland.

A green foliose lichen with apothecia called Anaptychia palmulata

A green green foliose lichen called Lobaria pulmonaria

A green foliose pelt lichen called Peltigera apthosa with black polka dots. Some rare red apothecia are present.

I can act like I know what this is, but it could be anywhere from Biatora to Micarea

Some dank green fungi to celebrate today's festivities.

I didn't know this is why they do that. 🤯 Sort of like the lizards who hold a foot off the hot ground.

A Young Sea Lion rests on the surface near a kelp bed. The fin is raised to absorb warmth from the sun, thermoregulation. This young sea lion was so worn out from hunting it didn't even notice as I motored by only a few feet away.

A Young Sea Lion rests on the surface near a kelp bed. The fin is raised to absorb warmth from the sun, thermoregulation. This young sea lion was so worn out from hunting it didn't even notice as I motored by only a few feet away.

A Spotted Sandpiper calling on the Cispus River. It's "known for a bobbing motion while walking along shorelines. It breeds near freshwater across North America and has a unique mating system where females may mate with multiple males, leaving them to incubate the eggs."

A Spotted Sandpiper calling on the Cispus River. It's "known for a bobbing motion while walking along shorelines. It breeds near freshwater across North America and has a unique mating system where females may mate with multiple males, leaving them to incubate the eggs."

#birds

Burying the lede that the "admission policies" are homophobic.

Clusters of very small white flowers with four opposing leaves typical of the brassicas

Perennial candytuft, iberis semprvirens (part of the #cabbagefamily as it happens 😀) with a tiny fly who may be feeding on nectar or is maybe just getting a drink from one of those water droplets 🌱

#MacroMonday #BugSky #Bloomscrolling #alpines

RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness On August 19th, thousands witnessed what can only be described as one of the top two RiffTrax Live events of 2010! In RiffTrax Live: Reefer Madness, Mike, Kevin and Bill deliver their trademark form

Happy 4/20! Time to rewatch the @rifftrax.com version of Reefer Madness, quite possibly the most ridiculous anti-drug propaganda film ever made. I encourage all of you to see this whether you partake of the wildwood weed or not! www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax-liv...

ocean background with an image of a seaweed in a box, with the project name above

Community science spotlight: Big Seaweed Search

The Big Seaweed Search is a joint project between the Marine Conservation Society and the Natural History Museum.

There's a lot of soft-mouthing important aspects of the news from them right now. This is what cancelling their funding has bought the administration.

Pink cherry blossom

Cherry blossom 🌱🌸

#Bloomscrolling #BlueSkyMonday #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

I'm hoping this too, thank you. 🙇

The toilet is stable for now, I'm washing soggy towels and wondering if the noise I think I hear the washing machine making is bad or if I'm just paranoid. Hoping it's the latter.

I believe you, he's a totally shameless asshole, but this is one of those where captions would be really nice.

A black kitty cat laying by a window with his chin resting up on the sill

He's so cute! He uses the windowsill for a chin rest
#blackcat #cats #pets

Framed stained glass of a bat ray and kelp piece against a window.

New Piece: Bat Rays! 🌊 Honoring a new space at Giant Robot @giantrobotstore.bsky.social opening up.

Divers from all over come to see our California kelp forests. What delight is it to look up and see a bat ray's "smile" underwater. :3

Animals show. 🦈 LA & online: www.giantrobot.com/products/ani...