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Mourning Dove More than a little curious...

#ToucanoftheDay Yellow-throated Toucan posing for me at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #toucans

#Sydney really does shine on days like this!

Female Cherrie's Tanager In the pocket...

I wish you all the amount of joy experienced by someone with celiac finding a bag of gluten-free pasta in farm shapes (that’s an exceptional amount of joy, I almost cried in the store)

Diners are so last year

A Lord of the Rings remake, but these two take the One Ring to Mordor

A young male Wood Duck flying over younger Wood Ducks who are not old enough for their license to fly (but in a week or two they will be flight ready.)

I would like to order this weather off the menu for everyday for the rest of the year thank you #Balmain

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the CANDELS-GOODS survey. It is at redshift 1.53 (lookback time 9.60 billion years) with coordinates (53.13448, -27.77094). 39 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo CANDELS.

Just saw Jaws on the big screen! And tomorrow I’m gonna do it again at another theater!

Just a few Phalaropes #migration #birds

From a thread where @thebarbarienne.bsky.social talks about #LearningToPaint - like here, if you want to use my photos for reference, feel free. Always nice to see people making stuff.

A hummingbird flew out of our rose of Sharon and perched on the power lines above. I always see them hovering; I don’t think I’ve ever seen one just sitting there.

Nature's abstract art Cloudscapes...

Silvery Checkerspot Butterfly Details...

A male Indigo Bunting pauses before a moment before heading off to a tree top to sing.

If he does go, my sense is, we have a very, very short window to wedge any wavering politicians to the side of democracy before the technofascist Vance wing consolidates. But we will have a window.

I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/

Yellow cascade...

Not loving this “software issue” (Verizon is experiencing a widespread outage - call phones not working, can’t text or call) www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

Tesla IT people, the guys from DOGGIE who copied all our SSA data for their own purposes, said they couldn’t find their own data on their own servers. Why do they say such obviously false things when they claim omniscience about everything else?

An effective choice, but I could also go with

A merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.79 (lookback time 6.99 billion years) with coordinates (149.76531, 2.26561). 55 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Did we not learn nothing from the abject failure of online charter schools?

Pretty sure this catfish did not enjoy his flight this morning. 🪶

Entanglement...

My camera & I went out on a real walk today! I found bullfrog friends who posed for me, a LOT of Chipping Sparrows on the move (they come thru the cemetery to feed.) Also, I stopped to see what bugs were coming to zinnias ... & a large yellow & black bug came to feed (😄 American Goldfinch)

Mood.

California Ground Squirrel looking quite elegant in their gray collar and speckled overcoat! #mammals #becurious 🦊

After 6 straight songs by The Eagles, they’re now blasting Simon and Garfunkel and sitting out on the lawn. This is what legalizing recreational cannabis does to a party-centric campus lol

So I got a Uber with white upholstery today and I was like sorry I’m a little sweaty and grimy, I hope I don’t stain anything and the driver was like don’t worry I’ve gotten blood out of these seats before and I was like wut

Eastern Kingbirds at Horicon Marsh. They were both enjoying the bugs over a fresh bit of thick duckweed. The adult is shown perched on a rusty pole in the water resting between feeding passes. I think the second pic is a juvenile, learning the ropes with it's parent. It's perched on a reed #birds

GIVE US JON YOU COWARDS! #DragonCon

GIVE US JOHN, YOU COWARDS! #Dragoncon

Its true, its true! And the other thing is, my sister had a baby and I took it over because she passed away, and the baby lost all its legs and arms and now it’s nothing but a stump.

A female Sparrow giving me some side eye while perched on a beautiful sprig of flowers at a local pond. #birds

Busy!

The youths have been playing beer pong for 2 hours, blasting music so loud dishes are rattling in my pantry. But it’s a delightfully eclectic playlist: booming aggressive rap, pop hits, orchestral pieces, now it’s settled into really chill classic rock?

I went to Horicon Marsh several times this year.For those who like habitat pics, here's a short 🧵of this 30K acre marsh. It's a great place.The auto tour has about 4 main features on a couple mi loop.Keeps me busy. #HoriconMarsh #Habitat #birds Shorelines at the main water feature on autotour loop.

A Great Egret getting a running start to chase off other Great Egrets that landed in the pond. The pond is pretty small, and this bird decided it was big enough for only one bird.

LEGO Evil Wizard hopes all your wicked dreams come true this weekend!

Happy #Caturday from Luine who is the ONLY one at The Albatross that is mad the Excessive Heat Warning finally ended. #CatsOfBluesky #becurious

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.050 (lookback time 698.4 million years) with coordinates (180.35072, 54.92558). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

nothing more freeing than pushing absolutely terrible nondescript commit messages to a private repo only you are in

They could put RFKj in there that’s a pretty close approximation to a mummy

So the makers of the superhero movie “Thunderbolts” expect us to just believe in outrageous powers like investigative hearings and binding impeachment from the House of Representatives?

Exhibit A for "Why I call juvie Spotted Towhees 'Frankenbirds'"😂 #birds #becurious 🪶

Many people are saying that Donald Trump is pining for the fjords

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid Sesame Street of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Many people are saying this doesn’t sound like he wrote it. It sounds to me like he might well have written it.

At the very least it sounds like Donald isn’t feeling great, so loudly speculating on his condition will force him to make public appearances where we’ll see what’s wrong or he’ll hide and confirm that something is wrong

Beginning this biography of Raymond Williams by Dai Smith

Beginning this biography of Raymond Williams by Dai Smith @daismith.bsky.social

Some nice late summer blooms.

#227 #Maldives #visitMaldives #art #leaf #plant #palm #garden #green #sunny #day #island #photography #travel #bluesky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX #LUMIXJAPAN

According to the Feather Atlas this is a Short-eared Owl tail feather, which is cool because there was such an owl reported a week ago in the area where I found this www.fws.gov/lab/feathera... #birds

Een manier om te zeggen: “ik zit in een hype bubble” Bakker verkoopt hier gebakken lucht. Maar goed, velen met hem en natuurlijk zeker bij Google DeepMind. Hier het hele stuk van @laurensvhg.bsky.social: www.volkskrant.nl/tech/nederla... Lees daarna vooral ook: www.beste-id.nl/salon/denken...

Lovely tribute to Elio Schaechter, touching on his contribution to microbiology, #scicomm, undergrad teaching, and more. For those who read blogs, strongly recommend reading entries of Small Things Considered 🦠🔬 schaechter.asmblog.org asm.org/podcasts/twi...

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Full Moon is 1808UT 7 September 2025. My image of this month's. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Scary developments in Cyprus 🥴 @reason2resist.bsky.social youtu.be/4ksUrcMBsVU?...

I got up early and took the kayak to a different part of the lake this morning. This is the Washow Bay drain, a little river that runs up into Lake Winnipeg. I thought it would be a fun change of scene. I was right why not join me on this 10 km morning paddle 1/

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.008 (lookback time 114.4 million years) with coordinates (126.30029, 20.33475). 46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

Weapons review: Intriguing premise. A little slow at the beginning. Accelerated to a surprising ending. Good performances. Especially Amy Madigan, Julia Garner, and Cary Christopher (Alex).

Thoughts on Taylor Townsend: I just found out last night that Townsend’s career was initially thwarted because of her weight. Not because it affected her play! But because…well, you know why. I have been basically pacing in fury and muttering ever since.

US friends, you know who you getting if he's dead, right

you can tell the US is fucked up as the most basic standard for accountability of law enforcement seems a radical move

Brain art thread! Lots of new paintings

The energy I’m putting out there today: youtu.be/WBDpb7SwSgU?...

May the wind be at your back, as the Irish say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Bald Eagle Determination...

we need a political party that makes this a centerpiece of their platform

I'm pretty sure that the skills AI can't replace are skills kids can't learn from an app.

Red Postman Butterfly In a contextual moment...

This song gets stuck in my head every time I read about gun violence in the US (which is... so damn often) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KtK...

Keep moving toward the light...

This team still hasn't lost a game since I was hired as a postdoc at Ohio State, and we all know correlation absolutely implies causation. If your team needs a boost, hear me out: you could offer a tenure track position to Dr. SK Winnicki

Portrait of an Australian trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus cephalotes.

Just heard this on the radio. So beautiful.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (191.31804, 10.19100). 40 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

It’s really so cool that such an amazing period of history had such a great painter to as a chronicler.

Evidence of acorn cap gall wasps?? Seems I just missed their emergence, if so. Looks like Quercus chapmanii. Near Lake Placid, C. FL. www.inaturalist.org/observations... @toomanywasps.bsky.social @parasitoidrex.bsky.social #InverteFest

Guys I've been working on a video on Ballerina Farm for MONTHS and there's finally starting to be light at the end of the tunnel

One side of my family did a white elephant sort of thing, where folks exchange random gifts (competing to get the nicest thing under the $50 limit). They'd do themes, one year was "green." My brother brought a truck load of zucchini. Like, filled with it. we no longer do a white elephant

Driver who hit mother, kids in Twin Cities intersection and fled is police chaplain www.startribune.com/state-patrol...

The kind of people who’ve self-appointed themselves as Beach Scolds can fuck right off to fucksville, and take their entitlement with them.

Anybody remember AI a month ago? • Everybody in the Bay Area seemed to think that AGI was imminent • Expectations for GPT-5 were through the roof • Zuckerberg was spending bajillions of dollars on Alexandr Wang, staff and GPUs, and seemed to have a coherent plan

A clumpy galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.56 (lookback time 5.63 billion years) with coordinates (150.56527, 2.16613). 53 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Rooting for the Buckeyes (obviously) but also... so much pressure on a young man barely old enough to legally drink

And as a fan, let me boost Eleanor's Ko-Fi

Trump looks so healthy that he serves as an ambulatory Memento Mori for the rest of us

Using my proximity to a huge football game to test hypotheses about urban wildlife-- will the stress cause them to hunker down, or to increase caloric intake? So far, evidence supports the latter-- mammals are stacked out at the feeders at the moment, even though there are noisy people everywhere.

Colouring with my nephew makes me feel like Wow, spiderman has been visited by Jackson Pollock.

HEY. …Actually he probably should be intimidated by me this is fair this is fair.

Hours before its death, a massive star violently reshuffled its insides then exploded into Cassiopeia A. NASA’s Chandra data reveals this last-minute chaos, offering new clues into how stars live, die & transform the cosmos Credit: NASA/CXC/Meiji Univ./T. Sato et al.

Eleanor hitting uncomfortably close to reality here

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A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (245.45013, 9.94699). 39 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

Republicans trying to shut a free people up in the most pathetic ways.