Trump posting an AI photo of himself as the Pope

And, for the record, this was also very obviously Trump depicting himself as a doctor. About to do a prostate exam.

Fox drinking water overspill from newly planted flowerbed

Fox boldly looking towards me after lapping up water alongside newly planted flowerbed

Handsome fox lapping up water overspill from neighbour's newly planted & watered flowerbed. #FoxOfTheDay @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

It's the Toll Ships Race.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

FFS!!! Know what else would help? Raising wages in women-dominated/female-coded fields

Once again 'm watching the whole LAMPPOST FLAG debate play out on Facebook, and am struck by how the Putter Uppers can't grasp that their supposed right to put them up is no different to the right of other people to take them down again. Very cross, they are. Lots of "We're watching you" threats.

Maybe stop these men thinking that 'girly' is a thing

Pope responds to US threats.

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Ok, now do the bass clef.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5.

My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Large weeping willow tree in the bank of the river Thames

The river Thames from a jetty near Shepperton Lock

The Thames at Shepperton this afternoon

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Élisabeth Thible, (1757 – 1785), was the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. She was a professional opera singer, and during her first flight, sang several operatic duets whilst also feeding the balloon's firebox, dressed as the goddess Minerva. #CelebratingWomen

Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. #CelebratingWomen

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

France is hitting it out if the park!

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She's a great cartoonist

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

Translation:
"I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Iran is trolling Trump again. 👇

Born #OnThisDay in 1866 was Antonia Maury, astronomer and one of the Harvard Computers. Maury worked on the classification of stellar spectra and binary stars, and was called "the single greatest mind that has ever engaged itself in the field of the morphology of stellar spectra."
#WomenInSTEM

The Boa-Vine Snake won't bite. It will just stare at you like you've deeply disappointed it.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

this should genuinely be a requirement for the perv glasses existing

Today is International Women's Day, an important date in the calendar for me, as I am reminded of being only the 641st female Member of Parliament (out of only 695 ever).

Whilst the House of Commons has come a long way, there is still further to go, both in Parliament, and wider society.

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