I am the very model of a modern aging lesbian

Glad my Watergate Phase kind of naturally faded before we started getting a Watergate every day (without anybody who matters seeming to care)

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

Need to start my collection of WaPo headlines that made me feel like I was hallucinating

Happy bird requires stick 💚 #frigatebird #seabird #OenoAtoll

OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States

Oh damn, that sure is a Photo

Doing my best to overcome my fear of bees and wasps by being fascinated with them. Current mission is to successfully photograph this Great Black Wasp that hangs out around our community garden plot. She's the size of my whole thumb and flies away whenever I turn on my phone's camera

We’re gonna start with the ladies (it’s the ladies everyday actually sorry)

I drew a bird! (I did my best with the default clip studio brushes and a very rusty skillset) #DrawABird

Since a lot of people also seem to be getting the screaming marmot (?) as their first hit, I picked the first one that spoke to me

I volunteer with my local animal shelter's foster program, which is the number one reason I haven't quit FB. (That said, the group we use for announcements, questions, and pet photos is getting pretty quiet these days, so maybe change is in the air.)

Glad to hear buses being discussed seriously as a key part of the war on cars. I appreciate that this episode puts a lot of emphasis on free fares not being a black/white situation. Also very much love that you thought about the bus operators too!

I'm seeing more and more accounts popping up from people who were definitely big Wankers™ back in the day. I can't decide whether to block on sight or to rubberneck

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

I don't live anywhere near a big city. But every time I see anti-gentrification discourse, I'm reminded of how neatly it rhymes with the rampant nimbyism in my small Southern college town

Am I a pretty kitty? 🐱 Handmade silicone mask [ #sphynx #cat #sfx #creaturefx #noai #practicalfx #animatronics #creature #fx #furry #art #silicone #3dprinting ]

I see we're getting a 3.5-year head start on this bullshit

Officials at a small airport in northern Japan conducted a low-speed car chase Thursday to thwart a security risk: a small black bear. Twelve flights were canceled as airport employees chased the bear around the runway, a Yamagata airport official said. wapo.st/4luRYMP

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

i totally understand if you have to unfollow me out of feelings of inadequacy or jealousy over my natural beauty. in addition to being humble and gorgeous, i'm also forgiving

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

*crab-walked

love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile

Another video from the Myanmar Mw 7.7 quake. Now we see the railway tracks (Pyinmana, Myanmar) bent and severely deformed.

Current vibe: the branches I saw on the ground, having been knocked down by last month's ice storm, in full bloom

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

Best iteration of this meme ever. (Credit: pikachu_922 in @thewaroncars.bsky.social Discord)

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

Roanoke (opened 1989), by Odell Associates. 📷 via Roanoke Public Libraries. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/CRKfzvPMhyp/

Love to see that Virginia flag! Sic Semper Tyrannis indeed

These ideas are beautiful, & some of them lonely—but they can lead us to each other, which is beautiful. "Ask yourself not 'why can’t I do that?' but 'what support would I need to do it?' Ask who in your life might be able to provide that support. Reach out to [them] & say, '...I need your help'.”

May we all have the energy and determination of the tiny but mighty Carolina Wren #birds 🌿

So, so glad I took a break from looking for jobs in my field(s). At the moment, the relative stability* of my current, non-glamorous occupation is more important than a fancy "career" subject to, you know, whatever the fuck is going on out there.

How better to start off the new year than with a glorious short-eared owl? 🪶

The scene: I have 20 minutes to kill before a doctor's appointment Me: "Playing a video game for these 20 minutes would be too indulgent and unproductive" Also me: Doomscrolls for 20 minutes instead

Have a gay new year! (Photo from a few minutes ago)

Dreaming about these pumpkin fritters again (And I'd make them if we didn't just get the latke smell out of the apartment)

Okay if no one else is going to say it I'm going to say it: having a cat is great, EXCEPT for when they're giving themselves a bath next to you in a quiet room Then it's the most disgusting thing in the world Just SCHLORP SCHLORP SCHLORP SCHLORP *pause* SCHLORP SCHLORP

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

Eggo

what am I even supposed to do with data breach notifications at this point "ah, yes, I'll just put that over here, with the rest of the data breaches"

Genuinely love seeing my local government on Bluesky! 🩵

Cute crab in a sponge - Lombok, Indonesia #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #giliair #gilimeno #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #coral #padi #crab #sponge

New Orleans out here innovating in bread shapes. Say hello to the challigator.

Tetris effect but for Veilguard: had the sudden urge to go smash pots in the garden for health and mana