Yellow finch with a black cap, perched within an inflorescence of yellow flowers is about to peck at a spent flowerhead.
A lesser goldfinch eating the seeds of common madia for the #Petals&Perches theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social
Both species are common in western North America.
#birds #nature #ECK #EastCoastKin
Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."
In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.
George Washington within 2 years of the creation of the Continental Army mandated smallpox vaccines for all soldiers. Vaccine mandates for the army are basically as old as the army itself.
“The planet earth” ok
Gorgeous green shade on that moss wow
In the right foreground of this image stands a tall, thick tree trunk almost completely covered with moss. The right edge of the trunk is outside of the frame. In the left midground a shallow, rock-filled brook wanders into and then back out of the image. At the base of the tree the leaf and pine-needle-strewn forest floor is visible. The tree and brook are mostly in clear focus. In the upper left, blurry images other trees appear, as well as ferns and moss-covered rocks at the edge of the brook.
A thick, very mossy tree trunk sitting at the edge of a brook in the woods. Norwich VT, April 2026
#ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #ThickTrunkTuesday #Scape #ForestFriday #Vermont
A huge tree coming into leaf such a beautiful shade of lime
#ThickTrunkTuesday from #SouthCumbria on Sunday, bring on the green! 💚 #trees #vitaminN
Massive baobab tree surrounded by a string of children holding hands. Source: www.cosmos.so
Giant fig tree with a sign at the bottom that says bees at work.
Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday I found a big boy covered in bees.
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
A black and white picture of my cat Alfonzo angrily yelling with love and wisdom. There’s a drop of water clinging to his chin.
“Yes, I say,
there is nothing you have ever grown that isn't music.
You are the bamboo in Coltrane's saxophone reed.
The mulberries that fed the silkworms that made the slippers for the ballet.” Andrea Gibson
Every time I dye my hair I think this is the last time. There’s no way I should be putting all these chemicals in my scalp. But I like my fake looking hair so much.
I got a bird in Twin Peaks that he would LOVE
Two random facts about my parrot called John
He likes to eat oatmeal and he witnessed a murder
A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.
I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.
Winking Kitty cat driving a plastic taco trunk that’s smiling. RIP Artemis good kitty forever.
Surprised kitty cat sitting behind a taco truck that is smiling.
Artemis winked at you. You’ve been blessed.
A vast field of vibrant purple Hyacinths stretching toward a distant horizon under a pale, cloudy sky. The flowers are planted in long, straight rows separated by narrow paths of light brown soil. The perspective is low and centered, creating a sense of immense scale as the rows converge in the distance.
Good morning ☕☕
More Hyacints😉
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekPforPurple
Cult of Mithras was only for men, but I would’ve snuck down to the caves to see what they were up to.
Long low flat darkened landscape with ombre fade sky from deep orange to peach. A yellow dot hovers just above the landscape. With one whispy thin cloud arched over it like an eyebrow.
Stark-eyed Helios nudges the day forward.
The new toothbrush gave me a personality adjustment.
An English Bluebell with multiple ‘bells’
Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we present to you the Queen of English Bluebells
hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector
A salve for an unquiet heart
Rosemary lavender
Beeswax and comfrey
A song from the ice cream truck
That trundles along the causeway
Beach sand and bad dreams
Come together at the threshold
Where angels whisper
And point the way toward home
#sensewrds 211
This is what he initially posted on Bluesky. He got considerable pushback to his asinine thesis, amended it quietly, and the Chronicle decides to give him the chance to avoid acknowledging this, pretend he is reasonable and anyone irritated with him unreasonable/hysterical.
bsky.app/profile/disa...
A moth with an orange face and black eyes. It is hanging from a twig looking directly at the camera. It is very fluffy, like a teddy bear
Moth faces are so cute. Here’s a moth in the genus Trosia
He grabbed for it and said he was ruthless and I was like, "Baby...you can just ask," and handed him a chewy, nougat filled, chocolate covered candy bar.
A gouache painting of two hens looking jaded in the style of John Brack
OK the bad legs are painted out. Tomorrow, better legs.
A closeup image of a crescent moon in the shape of a smile
the moon out here smiling at me tonight
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Peregrine falcon [📸 mostly.birds]
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It had piss in it. He should’ve given that up a long time ago.