VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Doggie in a biker’s backpack going up 15th St NW DC, at Mass…. And my drawing to same scene, picasso-like face on the pup. I’ll paint it one of these days!! #etegami #絵手紙

Screenshot Lucavi @lucavi_ftw good news everyone SPACE com Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say.

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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE SCOOP BY THE DAILY PLOVER:

ROOF GOSLINGS HAVE HATCHED!!

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Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

“Crypt in America”?
Got it.

Omg your alt text is perfect.

Washington DC bike lane 15th St at Mass Ave Nw: gold and white dog in a dog backpack on a cyclist wearing a black shirt, gray shorts, and black pants. Bike also has a child’s seat that’s empty with an orange triangular safety flag on back. Several pedestrians in the cross walk, cars in intersection, and tall buildings on either side of street. Blue skies ahead.

Who’s a good girl? Joy on the bike commute home, Washington DC 4/9/2026.

This is a shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex), a real African wetland bird famous for its massive shoe-shaped beak and dinosaur-like vibe.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Hall of fame FT correction

an orange cat is sitting alertly in a slightly squashed storage basket. he has a sweet and simple expression

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Blow up Easter bunny figure, with basket of eggs, hanging from signage for “home away from home” child care on R St near NJ Ave and 4th St Nw Washington DC.

Happy Easter motherfuc*ers, is the message here?

it was so disconcerting and scary, trying to avoid getting nicked in the eye by an umbrella, especially when the cyclist was also somehow on their phone and impeccably put together, no hair out of place? “One of the most common biking infractions in Japan is bicycling while holding an umbrella.”

Desert pollinator on a Saguaro blossom

Gila Woodpecker cosplaying as a honey bee. 🪶 🌵

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation.

We have to live into the world we want to create.

It seems like Netflix is using crappy AI translation for the subtitles on FAKE MARRIAGE. メール gets translated as e-mail when they are clearly talking about texting. And 二日酔い (futsukayoi) as ”drunk fir two days” instead of hungover.

Corner of O and 7th NW, with DC bus half way inside Ambar restaurant. Police officer in foreground

car drivers behaving badly this morning in DC: driver runs red light causing wmata bus to run INSIDE Ambar on 7th NW, and a driver parked in the 9th St bike lanes.

Hahaha. I needed that pep talk earlier this year after my wrist healed from a break (not bike-related!)… I felt nervous about biking!

Lord Macadamia.

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My latest lino print in progress.

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I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Today’s Canadian painting is “Cap Aux Oies” painted by Bruno Cote.

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

I love it. My spouse hates it. Division of labor. he does all the gardening even in mosquito summers. I think I got the better deal.

The Trump administration is removing a popular DC bike lane Feds say the 15th Street protected bike lane will cause more traffic during cherry blossom season, but bike advocates say it makes everyone safer.

NEWS: The rumors are true, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports 👇

The National Park Service is removing a popular section of the 15th Street NW protected bike lane, saying that it will cause more traffic during cherry blossom season.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.

A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

Article about freshening up mattresses with odd non sequitur about using e-bikes as a sustainable mode of transportation

Yesterday was looking for info on how to freshen up a mattress and found this helpful article

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”