My team getting ready for Pride festivities this morning. #SacPride2025 #cats #pride

My squirrel friend hung out with me again. Either I look trustworthy or squirrels are damned foolish.

#photography #squirrel #trust

The #Narwhal died in the middle of the intersection, its single light shining on the distal corner. People pointed at the twisted metal bumper and laughed while I tried desperately to get the engine to start again.

A miracle--it starts just after the red, and now we have 7/11 sloppy joes.

#vss365

Hello! Do you have treats?
Of course you do! I patiently await your treats.

#treats #squirrel

nosh magic terrific
poor logic prolific
talk so #soporific
or caustic specific
party tragic horrific

#vss365

Scientists knew about it centuries in advance. They scratched elated predictions into clay tablets that had crumbled into dust long before we met.

Not a word in them about your love and how it would fill my heart. Or how--as the world was ending--we would turn our backs on the #eclipse.

#vss365

justice
#selcouth heretic,
unapologetic
stalking the back pews
of Greed's cathedral
grinding her axe
on the remnants
of principle twisted
into shadow puppets

#vss365

my son had #echolalia
an atlatl and atlatl do
in that latl and atlatltude
A-addle B-attle C-attle D-addle
unatlatl now my atlatl dude
perfect then perfect now
attleattleattleatlleatlatl woot

#vss365

"I'm Hannah's plus one." Steve shifted impatiently as reception checked their files.

"I'm afraid she already arrived with a different plus one, sir."

"Tell you what," Steve said, holding out a crisp bill. "100 bucks says she has an #additional plus one."

"500 and she can have a giraffe."

#vss365

#free markets
grifter dreams
sold and delivered
in pieces
like Kyiv

walk to the horizon
my love
turn your back
on angry boys
face the dawn directly (again)

shiver in your majesty
show them true colors
forget invisible hands
make that other grifter dream
real, baby, real

#vss365

A triumph of photography --a blurry Oystercatcher in perfect side profile with bad focus, bad composition, bad lighting. Basically everything one can do wrong has been done wrong.

Yes, always take your gear. But more importantly: never let the quality of your gear (or your composition or your focus) stop you from taking a shot.

Always take the shot!

Seen here: a Black Oystercatcher probably stands on a giant whale-sized oyster it caught maybe.

#birds #photography

What a photo-excellent work!

A soft inviting bed of green leaved plants

they laid me down
under the rhododendrons
nuzzled my neck
and whisper-read
nature's #newsletter
while I fixated on
the glory of the flowers

#vss365

Ain't no #website when she's gone
All the pages melt away
Ain't no website when she's gone
'cause the webforms all work wrong
anytime she goes away

#vss365

"Google me," he whispered. "Gooooogle me."

They swam just off shore, watching the humans prance about on the beach, running bipedally from waves with their kelp-like flippers.

The #plan was to wait for one to get plucked by a wave and swept out in the undertow. But Johnny cared for plans about as much as he cared for humans.

#vss365

Gary finally got the #promotion!

No more wearing the mascot uniform in hot humid weather.

No more saying "Well, cover me in gravy!" to the fans.

No more carrying a sofa cushion made to look like a pat of butter.

Now he painted logos on buildings. If only he weren't afraid of heights...

#vss365

Alternative Gaming Fact: In the 1980s, Labrador fishermen considered cats good luck and used them to adjust the odds in roleplaying games.

#AlternativeFacts #cats #Labrador #D&D

if wisdom sits in #places
open the space between us
carve a valley or a gulf
so wide it engulfs our union

drink from the tree's fruit
savor the savage knowing
the uncanny being of placeness
then get your Hegel on

dialectic reunion
places smashing
into each other
leave us gasping for air

#vss365

Happy holiday to those who celebrate. Everyone else gets this picture my son took of Nacho.

#cats #Easter

Killdeer like this one occasionally display an odd behavior during breeding season. They flap one wing and appear injured, luring predators towards them. Irresponsible!

These birds are #products of their upbringing: irrational, destitute, and morally bankrupt.

#vss365 #birds #phone #photography

Freedom memorial--a list of the surnames of formerly enslaved people in the 1870 census. It is quite wide and extremely high, and the names continue to the top without repetition.

up without an #end
grasping thrashing and surviving
hope stronger than whiskey
blood thicker than water
and freedom a certainty
in their hearts' offense

#vss365 #freedommemorial

#dream destination
trip truncated
in sixty-eight
tears in a bowl

#vss365

I am here for this scone.

silent moment at Tuskegee
heroes lie nearby names
unsullied by the red soil
hope triumphant rings
over the unceasing #noise
of fractious fictions
noping every flight to freedom
easing the way for some
and elephant crushing the Other

#vss365

a dandelion is blowing in the wind with a black background . Alt: a dandelion is blowing in the wind with a black background .

#joy the dandelion
comes up through
cracks in the well-worn
sidewalks and thoroughfares
and casts contagious
spores into the wind

#vss365 #theGIFsNotMine #iSaidTheDoggoneGIFsNotMine

medicine indeed!
needless #death
pointless suffering
endless devaluation
aimless revenge against
ghosts of ghosts

medicine indeed!
Kevorkian cure for
poverty and identity
counting a coup
espoused by cowards
and their cowardly spouses
for what?

take your medicine
and tell me true

#vss365

Little known #alternativefact of the day:

The Bangles wrote the song "Walk Like an Egyptian" after spotting this old-timey postcard of a Greater Yellowlegs imitating an Ibis in a Hollywood gift shop.

#birds #photography #GreaterYellowlegs

Little known alternative fact about Gadwalls: they like to surf, but they can only use each other as boards.

#nature #facts #alternativefacts

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