Male Eastern blue bird glaring at the camera

Bluebird not happy to be on camera 🪶

Screenshot of search showing 269 cat photos

A mere 269

THE DUCKLING LOAD! OVER 20 WOOD DUCKLINGS WITH A SINGLE MOTHER!!!!

After 6 days baby bird free, today more than made up for it!

I don't know if it's a bluesky record, but it's a Brett Banditelli record! 🪶 🐣

Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing) YouTube video by Nick Dellow

Fans of blues music will not want to miss the sound from the recently-discovered 1940 shellac master test pressing of Robert Johnson performing "Cross Road Blues"—a famous track, now available with vastly better sound. (via Ted Gioia)
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Northern flicker standing in the grass

Male blue bird being yelled at by juvenile

Wild turkey

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Probably around 2005, in an airport, to use a dialup internet service to synch the Lotus Notes email on my laptop. Yikes. Last voice call most likely from basement of law school in 2000

Ukrainians celebrate Easter today and it's traditional to paint easter eggs with incredibly elaborate designs.

You can search bluesky for писанки to see more.

#UkrArt #УкрАрт

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE SCOOP BY THE DAILY PLOVER:

ROOF GOSLINGS HAVE HATCHED!!

🪶 🐣

Artemis 2 Live Tracking | NASA Artemis II Splashdown Live Stream | Artemis II Live Stream YouTube video by NDTV Profit

Artemis II crew are donning re-entry suits. About two hours to touchdown.

Pando (tree) - Wikipedia

Kid asked about the world's biggest / oldest tree and I looked it up and the answer is Pando.

That's not the species, that's the name of this tree. It's at least 10,000 years old and has a 106 acre root system sprouting 47,000 stems

Pando

Today, all good people celebrate the April 9, 1865 surrender of the traitor Lee and his slavery-supporting army at Appomattox to the U.S Army led by General Grant.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Time to vote in the 2026 Spring Election, Wisconsin At stake, a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — and much more. Every election matters. Be sure to make your voice heard.

NEW: Time to vote, Wisconsin.

Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/time-to-vo...

Roughly, left of the dark area is part of the far side of the Moon, not seen from Earth. The big round feature is the Orientale impact basin, the Moons youngest. That area was in darkness for all the Apollo flights so the Integrity crew are the first humans to see it with their own eyes

From Integrity on the livestream just after midnight Eastern -- it's been a very long time since any human has seen a full disk Earth like that.

No easy read of altitude but more than halfway to 70,000km apogee so probably somewhat past geosynchronous?

AAAAHHHHHHH IT WORKED THIS IS WHAT I WANT GOVERNMENT DOING

:: This is a true public service.

Thank you, custardmke.app!

"only milk" - typo?

10 days later out little fluffy nugget is starting to turn into a slightly larger muppet 🪶 🐣

"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."

Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for covering a story the MSM has ignored.

With #USIP, as with everything:
♦️Trump does something utterly lawless.
♦️Months later, a judge tells him to stop.
♦️He doesn't.
♦️And nobody makes him.
♦️News cycle has LONG moved on.
♦️So nobody cares.

Well, he *was* dictator for life

Two years ago, the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge changed the lives and livelihoods of so many. Today, we remember the six construction workers who tragically lost their lives while simply doing their jobs: Alejandro, Dorlian, Maynor, Carlos, Miguel, and José.

Airports on ICE Federal immigration agents popped up around the country on Monday to do seemingly nothing.

New — I collected stories from travelers at airports around the country on Monday after ICE agents were deployed to help TSA. No one understood beforehand why they would be there, and after a day with them around, it’s no more clear.

Read the multi-city dispatches:

How the Midwest Became the Place to Move It’s (mostly) about affordability.

The Atlantic, in this feature story on Midwest migration, finds that post-pandemic, Wisconsin switched from losing residents to gaining them, and that more people are moving to cities like Milwaukee: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (Official Music Video) YouTube video by INXS Videos

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