It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton

Two ancestors of deer talk to each other, "Indohyus, my brother. I've decided to search for more food in the waters." "You will regret this Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt." "I just need some shrimps lol I will be perfectly fine." 35 million years later, a huge blue whale floats over a tiny deer, "AAAOOOOOOOOAAAAHHH MRUUUUUHHHH BWOOOOEEEEE" and the deer says "WTF"

for anybody who doesn't know about the deer whale thing here ya go

I'm just really taken with the contrast

Floral refugees update, I think the ones I snuck into the park have perished unfortunately

As late as 1890, people believed that smaller birds migrated by riding on the backs of geese, swans, storks, and cranes. This wasn't just urban legend, this was the esteemed outdoors publication Forest and Stream going out of its way to make this point. #historysky

Is it a good sign for the economy if as a small business person i spend half my day deleting ai spam loan offers from predatory lenders, including my own credit card processor and insurance company

Exactly one year ago today:

Caught some of these today too. Glorious

Seasaur was right there, guys

I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

Rip gas station tulips glad I got about half of them out

I hope this has a happy ending!

Somebody's nephews did that, there's no way a professional was involved at any stage

Also these two varieties are really delicate & gorgeous? I walked about 5 miles today & saw many less interesting ones

I spent probably too much of today rescuing these tulips from the gas station that has since been torn down. It's spring, I'm allowed a weird little quest

The young buckaroos definitely have to up and come on their own dime these days 😔

How to dance properly by ze frank YouTube video by Harsh Singh

I swear I saw a kid at the diy show tonight do some of the Ze Frank dances & i truly felt like I was hallucinating youtu.be/bpRMsOYRQgI?...

>catastrophically lose an expeditionary war of choice against Persia
>threaten the Pope himself with personal violence
>heavy handed promulgation of state religion for social cohesion
>misguided attempts to shrink the central bureaucracy

Fuck it welcome back Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

Tree at the heron rookery in the Mississippi River n Minneapolis is oacked with cormorants, herons and a bald eagle.

Zoom in of the same scene shows the eagle looking down at a heron standing in it's nest, awaiting it's partner to arrive with more sticks for nest building.

This kind of dense, nest-able, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities. #birds

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

Mencken in custody, at center with his head turned

April 5, 1926: The journalist H.L. Mencken gets himself arrested in Boston for the crime of selling his magazine, the American Mercury, which has been officially deemed obscene. The episode is elaborately staged for publicity although Mencken is dead serious about opposing censorship. 1/6

It's hard not to think of Paxton's definition of fascism when considering the extent to which the federal government under Trump has been reduced to a) a rogue murder state outside the nation's boundaries and b) a rogue, ethnic cleansing/mass deportation operation *inside* the nation's boundaries.

Knowing nothing about this situation, if I died or was in extreme danger & the media described my life's work as "gutsy," I would not rest until I had avenged myself upon them. A belittling adjective that has never applied to a man in my lifetime.

Wow spoiler alert

you can try the app and hunt for tardigrades here: lifeundertheice.org - created by @arielwaldman.com @basilleaf.bsky.social and me

Single panel cartoon of a young girl writing at a desk. The caption reads "Janet set aside an hour each day to work on her threatening letters."

Yeah the barberries have made a good chunk of it totally inaccessible now without major laceration, even last year to this year they're notably worse. Hope it can get an overhaul soon!