Blackbirds have the most beautiful song…heart-piercing.

He’s adorable.

They claim to have “new cards” to play. Dirty bomb?

Yes, a lot of evangelicals and other Protestants have a cornucopia of reasons to give you for why Catholics aren’t “real Christians.” Another one is that when Catholics take communion, they are idolatrously worshipping a false God (because the communion bread and wine are the body & blood…)

Let me guess: her immigration papers are all in order and her only crime is being brown in Texas.

Thanks.

What pretty colors!

What’s the source for the report that US threatened their negotiators?

I can see he (she?) likes to play an active, paws-on role.

Probably a raven. Or at the other extreme, a hummingbird.

"You can be sure of Shell, the key to the Countryside" The Shell Guide to Kent poster was designed by Rowland Hilder, who deftly conjures the county of his childhood in his vignette: hops and apples and cherries and cob nuts, the oast-houses rising from the gentle land, Canterbury and its great martyr, and the ships of old Kent and its fiercely independent ports. The accompanying text is as richly painted as the illustration, and it reads as follows: "Kentish history begins with invasion. Celtic Iron Age invaders gave way in turn to Roman invaders, who left their coins in the soil and their roads across the county. Their chief Kentish road, Watling Street from Dover to London, is still used. Hops, cobnuts, cherries, apples are products of a county which was worth settling. Typical of modern Kent are oast-houses, in which hops are dried, their cones rising above apple and cherry blossom. Sandwich, Dover, Hythe and New Romney are four of the Cinque Ports anciently organized for the sea defence of England. Their banner is "of white cotyn, with a red crosse", their arms are "the halfe lyon and the halfe ship", and their seal is a man-of-war. St Augustine in 597 made Canterbury the spiritual capital of England, as first archbishop. Pilgrimages to the shrine of the thirty-ninth archbishop, St Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral in 1170, suggested to Chaucer that picture of mankind he gave in his Canterbury Tales. Kentish figures include William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, born at Folkestone in 1578, the poet Sir Philip Sidney, born at Penshurst Place in 1554, and Samuel Palmer, who painted visionary landscapes at Shorcham near Sevenoaks, in the eighteen-twenties. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, one of the world's decisive books, at Downe near Bromley, publishing it in 1859."

"You can be sure of Shell, the key to the Countryside" The Shell Guide to Kent poster was designed by Rowland Hilder, who deftly conjures the county of his childhood in his vignette: hops and apples and cherries and cob nuts, the oast-houses rising from the gentle land, Canterbury and its great martyr, and the ships of old Kent and its fiercely independent ports. The accompanying text is as richly painted as the illustration, and it reads as follows: "Kentish history begins with invasion. Celtic Iron Age invaders gave way in turn to Roman invaders, who left their coins in the soil and their roads across the county. Their chief Kentish road, Watling Street from Dover to London, is still used. Hops, cobnuts, cherries, apples are products of a county which was worth settling. Typical of modern Kent are oast-houses, in which hops are dried, their cones rising above apple and cherry blossom. Sandwich, Dover, Hythe and New Romney are four of the Cinque Ports anciently organized for the sea defence of England. Their banner is "of white cotyn, with a red crosse", their arms are "the halfe lyon and the halfe ship", and their seal is a man-of-war. St Augustine in 597 made Canterbury the spiritual capital of England, as first archbishop. Pilgrimages to the shrine of the thirty-ninth archbishop, St Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral in 1170, suggested to Chaucer that picture of mankind he gave in his Canterbury Tales. Kentish figures include William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, born at Folkestone in 1578, the poet Sir Philip Sidney, born at Penshurst Place in 1554, and Samuel Palmer, who painted visionary landscapes at Shorcham near Sevenoaks, in the eighteen-twenties. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, one of the world's decisive books, at Downe near Bromley, publishing it in 1859."

Why not buy a little something from my Etsy shop? It's full of wonders, like this charming 1950s Shell Guide to Kent by the Ladybird artist Rowland Hilder! It's very difficult health-wise to work very much at present - so every little helps! etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

California’s Avian Flu Safety Rules Are Strong — Their Enforcement Isn’t As H5N1 infects over 70% of the state’s dairy herds, exposed farmworkers are left without PPE or mitigation training in their native language. And some aren’t informed of an outbreak at all.

As H5N1 infects over 70% of the state’s dairy herds, exposed farmworkers are left without PPE or mitigation training in their native language. And some aren’t informed of an outbreak at all.

“Complete decimation” is an oxymoron.

Hazel needs a savior! 💔🐶🐶⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Metro Detroiter here.

A) This article is unfettered bigotry.

B) The Middle Eastern community here predates the IRGC.

C) Dearborn's Middle Eastern community is distinctly not Iranian.

Remember Greenland! Why is he shouting that the same way someone might shout Remember the Alamo?

Elon probably fired them.

But JD Vance is needed in DC to lead the 25th Amendment action!

Besides, haven’t the Iranians flat-out refused to deal with this team?

Haven’t the Iranians flat-out refused to talk to that team?

Trump's Nuclear Temptation The Current TACO Only Delayed It.

I regret to inform you, this TACO doesn't get us out of the woods.

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Scary stuff. But Rick Wilson makes sense.

Good point, Larry.

Whoa! That’s probably enough to make him start shooting again!

“We can’t all be…”. Not R.

So, you have a skill you can barter with. R can’t all be experts in everything! A good foraging book, though, could be an investment in living well in the present as well as for surviving an apocalypse.

My foraging has been limited to blackberries, plums, horehound & chanterelles.

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I had this one in my head for WEEKS. youtu.be/5Cg-j0X09Ag?...

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Those are luscious.

What a relief!