This is Whiskey. She knows people pay good money for mud baths. Found this one for free! 13/10 very resourceful my friend (TT: ivycaponi)

If you've had one of those days when all you really need is a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes, here's a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes.

A comic called Bird Photography tips. A good bird photo shows a cape may warbler perched on a branch, with excellent lighting, subject in focus, and field marks clearly visible. A great bird photo shows the warbler in mid hop, labeled with peerless athleticism, levitation??, powerful. An excellent bird photo shows a little round warbler facing the camera, labeled borb, round, and a good bird. An exceptional bird photo shows the bird zooming forward mid flight, labeled nyooooom.

Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.

Writing prompt?

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs. Dalloway.

In a hole in the ground there lived Mrs. Dalloway.

There should be a RoboConstitution that can just shoot anyone who ignores it.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Super rare magenta aurora in the sky over Finland!

I've thought of this too, but then it occurred to me that Theoden was once a great king and the analogy kind of fell apart

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

Say what this is: a coup. robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-it-is-a-coup

I read this! Fascinating stuff.

Pass the Fair Maps Act! Tell the legislature we must end gerrymandering in North Carolina and finally put people over politics. It's time to pass the Fair Maps Act.

act.commoncause.org/petitions/pa...

If you're in NC, this is a vitally important opportunity to fix one of the biggest underlying problems with our politics. NC is one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the Union.

This is not "government reform", this is a hostile takeover.

Things we're never gonna do...

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