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When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Old HO #train set from at least 40 years ago, what to do with them? None of it unused, only some with original boxes but many pieces in good condition. There must be a local group of train enthusiasts.

Hell yeah.

I feel like if it gets any more humid I'll be able to swim everywhere instead of walk. #weather

I admit I'm looking forward to #DisclosureDay, the movie, more than for any movie in a long time. It opens in theaters on Friday but I won't see it until it's streaming and who knows when that will be. #movies youtu.be/CQhSDMYuL_U?...

Found as I go through the attic: a piece of art I did when I was 17 or 18 in elective art class, a ceramic sun mounted on burlap, which was originally light blue. One ray is now broken but it’s held up pretty well otherwise. I didn’t know we still had it! #ar

It's the 82nd anniversary of the largest Antifa operation in history #DDay

Among humorous things you find in old boxes are printed-out emails and websites from the 1990s and wallet cards saying you’re a member in good standing of a local video rental center

Among humorous things you find in old boxes are printed-out emails and websites from the 1990s and wallet cards saying you’re a member in good standing of a local video rental center

Another day of hauling boxes down from the attic. It seems endless but so do life’s days yet it is said that even they end.

Going through old boxes hoping to throw everything away but nearly every item I pull out I think, “Oh! I see why we kept this!” So it’s very slow progress and I have a pile of have-to-show-somebody-first stuff that’s too good to just toss

June on the porch. Love is love. You’ve got a friend in #Pennsylvania. #Pride #BloomScrolling

@deathbybadger.bsky.social I bought your latest book but haven’t yet read it. Doing a reread of Nero Wolfe and it’s hard to describe how attractive returning to the old brownstone is at the end of a day. Nevertheless I hope to tear myself away from NYC in the 1940s this week and read it through

On this date in 2015 I was along Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Roman Fort. The winds were wild.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

omg Bridget from tumblr I'd recognize her anywhere!!!

Having to get rid of books but with each one it’s like a new funeral. Found the copy of Thirteen Clocks that I loved as a child, with colorful art and embedded memories. How can I part with that? And it’s like that for half the books I pull off the shelf.

When I was there they opened up Silbury Hill so I could have a look. Photo by friend @peteglastonbury.bsky.social

11 years ago this week I was in the UK meeting friends and visiting stone circles.

May I offer you a pampered cat on this trying #Caturday? Bridget has everything she needs but never stops hoping for more. May you have a pampered cat kind of weekend. #cats #kitty #CatsOfBlueSky

It never occurred to me, taking pictures for my blog on my morning walks in the park, that people I don’t know would go out of their way to go to that park, find those perspectives, take the same shots and post them on their blogs to show me. But now it has happened twice. A new kind of tourism. 💚

The temperature dropped 40°F from yesterday late afternoon until 10:00 am this morning. I’m glad of course but that’s quite a drop. #weather

@orchidfever.bsky.social Your friend and mine, Dend. Purple Splash, blooming again. That bloom on the right doesn’t look right to me though. Hope it just needs a repot. Look at all those little roots. Do I break those off and pot them up? #orchids #BloomScrolling

Little donkeys. If I have never mentioned my love for little donkeys here, let me amend that. The first time I beheld one its sad eyes pierced my heart and I wanted to take it home. It could sleep on the sofa and I could walk with it and read to it. I have a donkey-shaped hole in my life. 🩶🤎🖤🤍

Going back to see a doctor tomorrow. A small wound they stitched up a week ago isn’t healing much if at all and still hurts a lot. Probably just healing slowed by aging but it was an animal wound so it’s best to be careful.

If the weather were always like this i would have indoor hobbies only

Planted the buckets for the porch railings yesterday. They’re already improving my life. Next are the containers for the porch steps, once the air quality improves. #plants #BloomScrolling #flowers #gardening

The moon and Venus right now in the western sky. #astronomy #NightSky #moon #venus

One of those days when you can feel the sun on you like a beast

Why Central Park in NYC seems to have more nature than the rest of the state: more people looking. “It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.” —Gilbert White. 18th century English naturalist

Tempted to watch the movie AI Doc even though I don't usually like horror films #AIDoc

oops accidentally bought this book maybe it will help me get to sleep 👹💃🏻

Good Omens finale day! #GoodOmens

@megalithic.bsky.social How do you feel about potentially taking the premiership?

A tale as old as time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

tfw you’re too old to show up on a chart showing all ages

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Which one of these people reviewing an American garden centre is probably #British? Hint: Americans don't eat at garden centers, Harriet. 😉

My first of year pictures of a scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea, from today. Possibly my favorite bird and just returned, probably from South America, to nest in the woods at the end of the town park. Yes they really are that red! #birds #BirdsOfBlueSky #nature

Myself at Avebury in 2015. Happier days! Thank you, Pete. #StandingStoneSunday

There’s nothing like the scent of a few stems of lilies of the valley in a vase in the hours just after you pick them. The lilacs smelled nice a few weeks ago but this is as if I were breathing the air of Valinor or Lothlorien. Celestial. #flowers #fragrance

Happy May Day / Bealtaine or Beltane! It was like this here this morning. I usually try to do alt text but I just don't know how to capture in words what I see in these pictures. Trees and hills and sunlight but forming an indescribable gestalt #MayDay #Bealtaine #Beltane

@megalithic.bsky.social Argh more news from our idiocracy Behind a paywall but you can read the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Pennsylvania woods in April with a wood thrush singing on its first morning back. #nature #birds #woodland

If You've ever been on Tumblr you know I have to. Happy 25th of April! www.youtube.com/shorts/eunsJ... #PerfectDate

Tomorrow is the 25th of April, anniversary of the Carnation Revolution and a national holiday in #Portugal. May tyrants ever fall.

This whole new water delivery system where it falls literally for free? Out of the sky? It’s genius!