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I'm not sure it's helping. Plus it seems harsh on the crocs...

A macro image of the backside of a sleeping bee, whose head is not visible because it's jammed down into the center of a yellow flower. The bee's abdomen is dark with thin light-colored bands of hair. The flower's petals surrounding it are smooth, and the flower's fuzzy stigma is next to the bee, like a yellow pom-pom.

Guess what
Bee butt

A small (under 1 cm., way smaller than a honeybee) male Dufourea sp. bee sleeping in a sun cup (Camissonia campestris) flower in the Mojave Desert last week. Males of many solitary native bees sleep in flowers or use their mandibles to clamp onto thin plant stems. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

Three Magellanic penguins diving in the water.

A Magellanic penguin sliding down a bed of kelp into the water.

Jump in, the water’s warm! 🛝

A Magellanic penguin standing on rocks with water splashing in front of it from a wave.

A Magellanic Penguin at the waters edge 🌊 🐧
#birds

Don’t believe the bullshit lies going around that Platner’s wife is Jewish. That shit is a literal propaganda op designed to get you to forgive him.

Also people can be fucking hateful bigots married to marginalized people like have you not heard of our Vice Fucking President?

CIA withdraws nearly 20 intelligence reports, citing bias The unusual CIA move to review and retract intelligence reports flagged “bias” in hot-button issues such as white nationalism, LGBTQ activism and family planning.

wapo.st/4seM1Yh CIA director John Ratcliffe has had analysts review and remove any prior reports over the last decade that examined violent white nationalist groups, women's roles overseas in those groups, potential for violence against LGBTQ groups abroad, calling them a waste of spy resources.

I am not trying to do the whole "everything's a distraction" thing, but the DOJ holding onto specific allegations about Trump assaulting a minor and releasing them after a war against Iran has taken center stage is, uh... noteworthy timing.

If the truck is not covered in scratches and mud and does not have some questionable detritus in the bed, the other trucks make fun of it in the parking lot.

A portrait of a short eared owl face

All of our wildlife patients this year so far have been owls, but this is our first short-eared.
You can help prevent car strikes like this by obeying rural speed limits and not throwing any litter out of cars. Even organics like apple cores attract rodents to roads, which attracts their hunters. 🪶

you need to understand that Platner is not just a candidate , he is a canary in the coalmine to a certain kind of man that the world has not changed and they still can get plush gigs and pole position in society and life with zero qualification and even less aptitude for the work .

I was gonna make a joke but this is actually a fascinating article

what’s extra terrifying right now is the knowledge that there’s just no backstop at all

we are locked in a box with a madman for another three years and there’s absolutely nothing that he can do to make his own party take the keys away and so the madness continues

it doesn’t feel sustainable, but…

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I don't think I've ever seen an albino Gray Squirrel before yesterday.

Ohio has many white squirrels, but they're almost all leucistic (still some melanin production, which you can see in their dark eyes). I've got some leucistic squirrels in my backyard park.

But those are some pink eyes!

the stove has been well and truly touched, man

It’s hard to make art right now. we’re traumatized , in an abusive relationship with everything from our government to AIR , and folks can barely afford LIFE

and it’s hard to choose what to build when we can’t talk about it and those who CAN fund it ?
Don’t care

this might sound controversial to some, but i think there is too much going on.

A photo of a canyon wren perched on a rock. Its long tail is pointed up.

Who else loves canyon wrens?

#birds #wildlife #nature

Can someone check if they used the passive exculpatory voice for that Mamdani college application smear story?

Massage practitioner co-sign. I've had clients whose politics were bad enough I fired them over it, but even among that number, overt nazi ink did not appear.

Eagle over a Bible verse sort of thing at worst.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

one thing I like saying to my cats in admonishment is "you know the rules" when they very clearly do not know and will never know the rules

New sentence I have just spoken aloud to a cat: "Act like you've been here before."

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Israel's System of Segregated Roads in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

How dare you call this segregation btw

not exactly the point, but believing in good vs bad ethnicities is just vile stuff. Like there’s been a real push in the US to say the Kurds are ontologically good guys against Arab majorities. I very much sympathize with the Kurds, but they also were the primary genocidaires of the Armenians

Much like American Jews really need to understand why Palestinians in the Diaspora are often really hostile to Israel, including supporting pretty evil shit in the interests of Palestinian liberation, Persian Jews don't like the Iranian regime for pretty damn good reasons.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike