We have a pair of morning doves that roosts on our windowsill year after year. Makes us feel a bit more aligned with our nature when they arrive.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

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I'm prepared to be told that there is no Strait of Hormuz and that it was an elaborate exercise to show how little Americans know about geography

Black Baza.

The black baza (Aviceda leuphotes) is a small bird of prey found in the forests of Northeast India, the eastern Himalayas, China and Southeast Asia.

It is a distinctively coloured raptor.

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There are a lot of words

If you are looking for an image it was probably deleted.

Somewhen in time the Plywood Palace detects the two tongued memory of a gravitational wave bouncing back from triangulation, its twin song a few zeptoseconds behind.

The interferometer calculates and translates the overlapping light: “Hello Dolly” it reads.

was once New Amsterdam.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Yay!!!

Their shoes are too small

There was a faint puff of smoke from the bottle, and a small genie appeared.

"You have freed me," it said, "so I'm obliged to grant you a wish."

It hesitated. "But I am not very powerful."

I nodded. "Of all things I need, give me the greatest you can."

Suddenly, I held a large mug of hot cocoa.

We manage our grief because the alternative is unthinkable.

Listen guys, we can spiral into psychosis just fine on our own. We don’t need to use AI for everything, ok?!

Unhinged social media posts and AI generated lego diss tracks, that’s how we get our world news now.

It's just not plausible that someone is teleporting into a waffle house because waffle houses are anchored sites of hyperreality. I don't think tarot even works in them. If he was claiming that he spatially displaced into a denny's that'd be worth investigating

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

For much of my children’s lives, I burriitoed all of our leftovers - they never caught on.

[last supper]
drunk jesus: *swinging baguette wildly* You want a piece of me?!

this would be an amazing way for It to happen

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Photo of an orange lichen consisting of a half dozen or so narrow, branching lobes radiating out from a centre. About a dozen small orange discs sit on the lobes. Among and around the orange lichen lobes are little clusters of small yellow discs, which are the apothecia of a different species called gold speck lichen.

Sunburst(orange) and Gold Speck(yellow) lichens. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Two scarlet elf cup fungi growing among a variety of other plants and sticks on the woodland floor.

Scarlet elf cups in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #fungifriends @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Your daily affirmation:
I’m allowed to be happy. I’m allowed to collect curious bones from the forest. I'm allowed to craft fun & flirty masks from these bones to wear to parties, brunches, and luncheons.

Screenshot of 2 NYT headlines: Some Judges See Risks in Fiery Opinions Warning of Threats to Democracy; and Trump Calls for Law Cracking Down on Crime and Rogue Judges

This is art

Delightful thread of oddball creatures

Your daily affirmation:
Don't worry if you haven't reached your full and terrifying final form yet. Fake your monstrosity until you make it.