Following the Quadrantid #meteorshower in early January, skywatchers face several months every year with no major meteor showers ... But that drought is now over, as the #Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight! 🌠 #astronomy
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📹 EarthSky.org.
don’t sleep on his tie 😁 (~};
Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.
These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.
Meet Himdam.
He was just bestowed the name, which means "traveler" in the O'odham language, by Tohono O'odham Youth from the San Xavier District Voices of Our Youth program.
It's a fitting name for a cat who has been spotted roaming Arizona's Sky Islands since 2024. More details: biodiv.us/4tnkfJr
Diving right of kings patch
A new patch from @toosphexy.bsky.social with this popular design! justseeds.org/product/divi...
The sky tonight - Luna with Venus below and the Pleiades in between.
#nightsky #Stunday #moon #Moonshots #Nightphotography
#photography #artist
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
Ancient oak - pen & ink on toned paper #oaktree #englishoak #pedunculateoak #illustration #SciArt #treedrawing #treeart #penandink #handdrawn
Saw that!
I’ve not read anything past this post. is he on the short list for a lifetime judgeship?
😳
JFC
Visual development art by Tadahiro Uesugi for Carole & Tuesday (2019), dir. Shinichiro Watanabe, Bones
Jan Davidsz. de Heem: some ravishing flowers to end his birthday.
Read the full story, a collaboration with Grist, at thefern.org/2026/04/what-does-a-farm...
Two chickadees sit on a branch, one says: "Whoa! Look!" indicating a light in the sky over the horizon. The other one says: "Pretty!" The first one says "Do you think that's Venus or just a bright star?". The second one looks nervous, stumbling "Oh... uh... yeah it's probably Bemus"
Venus
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Stuff that’s been going on in the frog pond today🐸
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some sort
A Breath of Fresh Air
Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe
2024
“To put it bluntly, we'll be living with the consequences of this ill-informed and ill-advised decision for generations.”
Congressional Republicans, the wrath of public land patriots is upon you. This is unacceptable. November is not that far away.
#boundarywaters #protectpubliclands #publiclands
Sen. Tina Smith plans marathon speech to oppose reopening mining near the Boundary Waters:
“I am going to hold the Senate floor for hours to give them every opportunity to change their minds and do the right thing," Smith said.
he is so too far over his skis
oh wow
🙌👏👍🏼
I hope so. I am disgusted, appalled and sickened that Florida Man looks to be our next gov.
In these stunning chromolithographs from 1851, Jean Baptiste Vérany realizes his ambition — to accurately render “the suppleness of the flesh, the grace of the contours, the transparency and the coloring” of cephalopods: publicdomainreview.org/collection/verany-cephal...
Alright Gulf Coast, South Carolina, southern Oklahoma and Arkansas, it's go time for y'all now!
Start of the approximately 3 week long peak migration period
BirdCast is predicting we'll have 133 million birds above the continental US tonight and they're especially headed your way
Lights out!
