Pic of a shiny green bee with black wings on a flower, getting covered in heavy golden pollen
Fancy word of the day: pollenkitt
An oily, waxy, sticky goo that plants that are pollinated by insects, bats, & birds put on top of their pollen
so that it
-sticks to pollinators
-doesn't blow away in the wind (hypoallergenic!!)
-has extra tasty calories for the pollinators maybe
Thank you - I saw it and questioned it based on the parachute patterns (all 3 should be different).
The New Mexico Acequia Association has a FB page:
www.facebook.com/nmacequias
And an IG account
www.instagram.com/nm_acequia_a...
lasacequias.org
Points taken!
Right. I'm not really being metaphorical about this. We've forgottten how to deal with jinn and fae, and then our most powerful invented a way to access them. The processer farm is the brugh, the Empty Quarter, the invisible world.
Metaphors are powerful and I like this one. 🧵👇
Cursed set. Craft services table: raw milk, raw beef, and ketamine.
An upside down black and tan dachshund.
Maisie is as ready as she'll ever be!
Wow. This blew up! More on one of the 3 Canberras NASA flies: www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2013/08/1...
At least one of the 3 that NASA flies spent time at the Tucson parking lot.
www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2013/08/1...
NASA WB-57 - twin engine converted bomber.
NASA WB-57 (source of some of the high altitude vid).
Looking for Swalwell's political career. 😈
Holy shit.
Breathing again.
i for one would like to see this
Yep. Shitting bricks.
Visiting Pinson - a warmup for my eventual Cahokia visit.
Trying to decide whether to bike to Pinson Mounds SAP tomorrow or Sunday. Weather forecast is great both days; we'll see how i feel in the morning...
www.tn.gov/environment/...
iNaturalist screen shot showing the comparison screen for the hammer-jawed jumping spider.
•and then sauntering to the top of my phone so that the ideal picture really consists of, from the bottom, iNaturalist reference picture/my photo/the spider hizownself on the top edge of the phone.
A very small gold and dark brown jumping spider.
I think this is a hammer-jawed jumping spider. For sure, this species loves to jump; two shots I wish I'd gotten (regardless, v happy to have seen them):
• a video of this wee dude leaping from my hand onto the camera lens!
These are some amazing photos! I was thinking about watching Moonrise Kingdom tonight - I think this clinched it. 🤜🤛
The verdict: a bearing in the differential. Currently waiting on a replacement so the tech can remove the old one and integrate the new one...
A series of messages from my truck indicating that various subsystems were getting turned off.
"Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it."
This morning, as the tech was diagnosing the noise coming from the rear end of the truck, that very same truck sent me a series of messages alerting me to stuff getting unplugged.
🧵👇!!
I'm about to go have dinner with a good friend and chat about siting options for the beehive she wants to set up.
I went out and did some community support stuff this afternoon that will hopefully make my neighbors safer from the fascist fuckery and it was a lot better than doomscrolling and I really recommend it
I remember the oil shocks od the '70s. Ugh.
What is, apparently, another TACO sitch aside, I've made my decision: going to run for home. Gas isn't getting cheaper, and I've read that Apr 15 is when things will start to get v tight. I can afford to pay through the nose for the fuel to get me back, but if there's no gas ava?
We'll see. But my last 2 stops (Palo Duro/Amarillo for the RR museum and Jersey City to say hi to friends) are definitely in jeopardy. Austin to ME = 30hrs. I usually budget 3 1/2 days, but i could prob do it in 2.
If I didn't have a dinner date with a dear friend, I'd be packing up and running for home. As it is, I'm tempted to come back after dinner, hook up, and bolt.