There's only one crow in the shop right now, so this little one needs some new friends. 🧶

A #caturday thread, starting with one of my favourite stories 🧵

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

Audiobook and book book day (it’s rainy outside)

Squad goals

Happy Caturday

When you can’t keep your eyes open on a Friday night before 7 PM

Birds, birbs, borbs and floofs….“Birds and words are both shape-shifting things, shrinking and growing by turns, flitting between categories.” 🪶

Alt text: lizard figurine carved of clear quartz, laying on its belly with front legs pushing up its head off the ground, etchings down its back and tail

Ray (Rafie) said: “Be nice to these people,” he said. “They’re hard workers. They’re just here to make a living.”

Alt text. A chestnut-backed chickadee bird sits on the top of a bird spotting book. The book is open on the page for a chestnut-backed chickadee and there is a photo of one shown.

Happy Caturday

Birds, birbs, borbs and floofs….“Birds and words are both shape-shifting things, shrinking and growing by turns, flitting between categories.” 🪶

DeSimone said the agents still refused to let him go after Shouhed showed proof that he was a U.S. citizen and that they continued to refuse medical attention. “Mr. Shouhed was released after approximately 12 hours without charges,” the claim read.

Ronnie will probably get denaturalized and deported before me.

There should be more love songs for, like, libraries. And cheese. And people who stay calm when bad things happen.

When you can’t keep your eyes open on a Friday night before 7 PM

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

thinking about a professor I had, maybe the kindest and most easygoing person I’ve ever met, coming back from a faculty lunch with john roberts and sighing “christ what an asshole”

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers. Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

Alt text: lizard figurine carved of clear quartz, laying on its belly with front legs pushing up its head off the ground, etchings down its back and tail

You want a small bird? Here's one that visits the hibiscus plant right in front of my window. Taken with Pixel 8 Pro. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #ArtYear #MobilePhotography

The other day a lady walked up to me in a coffee shop line and said “Emir?” and I said no, sorry, and a couple minutes later I saw her having coffee with a dude dressed exactly like me including shoes.

Revisited this after forgetting about it. Lots of neat image-and-text research assemblages.

A magical reading nook in the woods 🎨 Zosara

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Yf you are walkinge arounde and you see i) a squirrel or ii) a crowe or iii) a catte, you muste saye "hey buddy" these are the rules

www.bbc.com/reel/video/p... Washi: the Japanese paper crafted to last 1,000 years

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species. “Fishes” refers to multiple species. 🐠 Fish 🐠🐠🐠 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

Blessing your feed with some baby arctic foxes. At this time of year, young foxes in Finland are leaving the den to start life on their own.⁠ The arctic fox is a critically endangered species in Finland but the good news is, numbers have been increasing in recent years.🧡

Goodnight crows 🐦‍⬛

And "fishies" refers to baby lumpfish youtu.be/uxm-2CKmUZw?...

IKEA is going to be very busy for the next few days

Daily bunny no.3089 is standing guard

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Counterpoint: one can never overcharge for a life-sized Parasaurolophus.

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

I'm still trying to figure out why America is putting up with this shit but i guess once you accepted shooting kindergarteners is normal it was over for you fuckos

Goodnight crows 🐦‍⬛

JD Vance uses racist dog whistle to justify Republican healthcare cuts. What a surprise.

Sea urchin metamorphosis is maybe one of the most radical event in developmental biology. In just about an hour, these little pluteus larvae completely reorganize their entire body plan. Very happy that this video got awarded an honorable mention by #NikonSmallWorld 😃

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

In the 1880s, a third of Minnesota’s forests were old-growth forests. Today less than five percent are. The fact that this one remains is only a fluke, due to a surveying error not discovered until decades later. (No paywall)

Antoinette Lubaki (1895-?) is part of a group of pioneering Congolese artists from the late 1920s, among them Albert, her husband, and Djilatendo, who laid the foundations for modern Congolese art. Here are some of her watercolors from 2019: #WomensArt

How dare you. When I should have.

This is still making me laugh days later

Really neat!

Morning Austin Walk Fren.