A painting of Old Faithful geyser surrounded by trees shooting boiling water into the air.

Old Faithful, a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, was named in 1870. Its boiling water erupts on average every 92 minutes.

#WyrdWednesday

🎨 Albert Bierstadt, ca 1881

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Daily Horoscope for April 22, 2026

Daily Horoscope for April 22, 2026

The day starts a little reactive, so pace yourself before you respond.

“Beauty lives with kindness.”

The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Act IV, Scene II

#ShakespeareSunday

Astoria, the wild turkey who lives in Lower Manhattan, gets help from her human friends to drink water.

📸 Manhattan Bird Alert

“Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great:
O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,
I am so angry at these abject terms;”

Henry VI, Part II

#ShakespeareSunday
#GoodOmens
#DavidTennant

A theme free #ShakespeareSunday this weekend. Let's show why the magic of Shakespeare lives on 410 years after his death!

Yep

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Thanks for sharing this.

Johns Hopkins psychologist says Trump is addicted to scaring people & starting wars and "he gets off on it" - Democratic Underground Forums

www.democraticunderground.com/100221153362

Over on the other app

Trump’s Iran War Gets Messier After U.S. Fighter Jet Is Shot Down The president was already in a quandary about how to get out of the war before the lives of two F-15 crew members were endangered.

NEW -- As of right now, there is still a downed Air Force crew member in Iran.

Maybe now people can understand why it's better to avoid saying idiotic war crimey things like "no quarter" and bomb them "to the stone ages?"

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

a cartoon bird is coming out of a cracked egg ALT: a cartoon bird is coming out of a cracked egg

This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme, one chosen by @westminsterabbey.bsky.social a few years back and still feels perfect for Easter Sunday: NEW LIFE!

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be daunsinge.

Again?! He had that ridiculous fantasy last year.

Rat Bastards

A map of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's flowering cherry collection. Details on the map indicate blooming trees. The map is green and indicates paths and a water feature.

CherryWatch 2026 update! 🌸⛩️🚨

The weeping cherries in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, as well as cherry trees at the north end of the Cherry Cultivars Area, are blooming.

These blooms have emerged rapidly over the past two days.

Unfortunately for the country, he’s much better at the consigliere role than she ever was.

Maybe the C word when it comes to the GOP is not cowardice. Maybe it’s compromised.

Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over...

Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago

“Aw everyone does it, he just got caught,” was the refrain in my family.

What Happens in the Brain When You Experience Art Neuroaesthetics reveals how art fires dopamine, activates mirror neurons, and rewires meaning. Here's what your brain actually does.

weandthecolor.com/what-happens...

“ I do remember an apothecary” - R&J (Act 5, Scene 1) #ShakespeareSunday #Friends @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

“consuming short-form video content…is associated with poorer cognition and reduced attention, and the results of a clever experiment from 2023 found that the mere presence of participants’ smartphones in a room significantly reduced their ability to concentrate.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Alt: A man with a beard and mustache wearing a gray sweater naps as a dog rests on his chest.

“A goodly medicine for my aching bones!”

Troilus and Cressida
Act 5, Scene 11

#ShakespeareSunday
#Dogs
#Naps

Levin: This is the largest protest in Minnesota history… The next major national action of this movement is not just gonna be another protest. On May 1st, across the country, we are saying no business as usual. No work, no school, no shopping.

Greene: In Clod We Trust — Treasury plan to put Trump’s name on currency makes no cents

Leonard Greene: In Clod We Trust — Treasury plan to put Trump’s name on currency makes no cents

Beauty in motion!