It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

To my dog, this morning: You moron. You numpty. You absolute dingdong. You complete mental dumpling. You have zero thoughts in your smooth golden head. [beat] Whoosa gooboyden, yesyesyes.

No, no I don't think I will.

Please write your comment on proposed OMB federal funding changes. 👉We can't let science grants be decided by political appointees. 👉We can't let federal funding for Head Start for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors be cut without being able to appeal. DEADLINE: JULY 13 🔗 ombcomment.netlify.app

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I just posted a comment about the proposed OMB rule. I found the comment below from Daniel Swain very helpful when I did.

LOL, it's absolutely fake. Everyone knows the Washington Post doesn't even have a Sports section anymore

You're looking at a 200 year-old wisteria vine at Byakugou-ji Temple in Tamba, Hyogo, Japan. The delicate pink/purple blossoms create an otherworldly place where magic can happen. But here's an interesting fact: wisteria are in the legume family (Fabaceae). This is a magic beanstalk.

Neptune - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/CrhJKX

Ancient trees dancing together, for centuries.

“Why do you still drive a 15 year old car???”

This was a rather special tree. Crawling along, as an Ent would.

More “The Fool’s Errand” puzzle games

Monopoly has UBI.

I’m gonna have me a vegetarian Harissa and Sour Cream Skillet Corn just like grandpappy used to make

what is happening

Went to see the bats at #YoloBypass yesterday at sunset and got some good pics, including of a Swainson's hawk hunting them. Here are a few pics.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Had this on my mind and than someone smarter than me just said it. Like fuck that guy, obviously, but some people have been doing Online Politics so long they forgot they're not just farming their dailies and that people are real. (source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pG... )

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

The funniest moment I’ve ever had in D&D was when someone said “I cast Speak With Animals” and my spouse said “anyone can speak with animals. It’s having them talk back to you that’s the hard part…” Oh, what’s that below this anecdote? How did that get there?

this is what i do at home. when i have excess energy i hoist bricks to the roof of my house and when im having a bad day i chuck them off to feel better

i was not expecting the cheese magazine to go for this one but i’m so glad they did

I need to go to bed. But also, you need a Killdeer chick. So, we all win. :) #birds

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Jupiter, Io, Europa, and Ganymede, 2021-08-02 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mf12Vy

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #heatwave

Huge Coronal Mass Ejection on June 7, 2011 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/28VhRC1

Weird Game Designer Facts #51 Keita Takahashi You may not know Takahashi by name, but you probably know KATAMARI DAMACY (2004), a cult hit in which you roll up the world in increasingly larger balls, while being lectured, by your Daddy in the Sky who tells you what a loser you are

A Pulitzer Prize photo

Enjoy a joke (I am vry funny) (This piece is available in the @anthrocon.org art show!)) #bananaslug #artworld #ishawayart

Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC.

Direct hit from Dupont Circle.

Last week I found out that @astrokatie.com and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social did a podcast called “The Universe” for Crash Course and I’ve started listening. It’s really excellent and Dr. Mack is great at explaining complex concepts to laypeople. Highly recommend if you’re interested in cosmology.

new metaphor just dropped

I can't believe the Pope tradmogged those bishops who were trying to cathmaxx

This is one of the most beautiful, joyful comics I've read. The final page in (4/4) legitimately got me choked up.

Today was Baby Bird Leave Nest Day, apparently. Three separate instances of baby birds with wing feathers, hopping around on the ground. The last one was a baby kinglet, parent nearby, that the dipshit dog decided to grab. Hoping it's okay. I left it sheltered under a rosebush the parent was in.

I'm actually going to play a goblin in a DND campaign lol

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

Gallery of Distant Background Galaxies - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/ooBP5P

The perspective conveyed by Christopher Robbins here is quite bad for the Left (read: classist + racist). Normally I wouldn't QP such pieces, but since his view reflects that of many (maybe most) white Leftists I know, and since I've 15 min to spare before my first thing today, let's get into it. 🧵

Honored to meet a local legend today, @charlotteprong.bsky.social’s grand-puppy, the incredible Dr. Richard Biscuits (Ricky Biscuits to his friends)

This type of love or NOTHING. 😭🥰✨💕🥂🍾

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #LifelnTheBalance (birds captured in precarious or unexpected positions) we go WAY back to when I just had an entry level camera and kit lens. Here's a Black-capped Chickadee doing its best after a major ice storm at Christmas 2013. #birds #photography

This was so incredibly special to see. It’s called a corona, where sunlight shines through cloud, diffracting into rings of iridescent colours when certain conditions are met. Lucky for me, this was in one of the most beautiful ancient forests in the world - Fanal, Madeira.