This is the time of year when I buy those grocery store hyacinths and just fucking snort them until the outside-flowers start coming up

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

The Park Ave Tunnel and Viaduct. Perfect infrastructure just sitting there waiting to be pedestrianized and dedicated to micromobility

And yet the only moral panic is about ebikes.

This modern gem was animated frame by frame on a screen of 277,000 metal pins From: The Night Boots (2024), dir. Pierre-Luc Granjon, Am Stram Gram Full film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyO...

New York City police officers rescued a bald eagle in distress during a patrol along the Hudson River. The authorities took the injured bird to a rehabilitation center in New Jersey, which is working to stabilize it to allow for further testing and treatment. nyti.ms/3OQvGtC

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

All the President’s Muppets

Olympic highlight in this house.

The world of George R.R. Martin‘s Game of Thrones is expanding to the perfect venue: London’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

T. rex is more closely related to this little dinosaur (a hummingbird) than T. rex is to Allosaurus. Also, a hummingbird's humerus is way smaller than it's eyeball. Go home, evolution, you're drunk! 🦖

Yep. Still Evil

just need everyone to know that this is how wildlife biologists in China introduce panda cubs to the wild

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Yep. Still Evil

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The only Winter Olympics footage you need to see today.

when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings

Grogu

I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real Threads is atrocious too

So I saw this Air Quality notice and thought: that's odd. I had never heard of poor air quality from melting snow. So anyway, pulled out the PM2.5 meter and here we are: high PM2.5. Has it always been this way, or is something different?

I wish more people were aware of just how many things their public libraries “step in” to do, how many gaps they fill silently. NYC, as budget season commences, we need to end the annual budget dance — a gratuitous, insulting ritual — and ensure consistent, generous funding for our libraries.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce 'Land of Hope and Dreams' U.S. Tour - Rolling Stone

You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation. People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...

"President Trump’s short-sighted determination to eliminate HUD’s flood standard will set the agency and its housing flood standards back years and allow new affordable housing to be built in areas prone to flood risks and without adequate flood-risk mitigation measures."—@ucsshana.bsky.social

Always re-post owls 🦉

Always Repost Owls 🦉

thus change I like the moon.

Happy Chinese New Year! 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse. This attentive steed was made in China’s Henan province over a thousand years ago. It was used as a funerary object, buried with the deceased so they had a horse to ride in the afterlife. 🐴 EAX.3960

My painting TWILIGHT SURGE.

The first proof that Hannibal’s War Elephants existed.

A court record indicates the Apple feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking someone's device. At least for now. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

hold on i gotta take this

“The idea that somehow nature begins at the edge of the city, or the door of a building, is nonsense,” Andy Goldsworthy said. “I hope that, by putting branches on the oak floor, people will think of the tree.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mnxPCv

One of Mahali’s Animal Care Specialists shared these baby photos, and they were simply too cute not to post. As Mahali prepares for a big move to his new home this spring, we’re soaking up every moment with the big guy. Be sure to stop by and say hi while he’s still at DZCA! 🤎 #nationalhippoday

Tiny crabs we found at the sea 🦀 A glimpse of the amazing diversity of crabs living in the shallow waters of Japan 𓈒𓏸︎︎︎︎

Boat Pond - Winter. Central Park. Watercolor - 15x11 #art

REALLY looking forward to seeing these again soon

Necessary Timeline Cleanse

Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past; Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?

REALLY looking forward to seeing these again soon

As expected

Photojournalist Kostiantyn Liberov writes on his Instagram about yet another evacuation of people affected by Russian aggression - this time from Kostiantynivka: “Kostiantynivka. All roads into the city are controlled by enemy drones. 📸 libkos/Instagram

The dome of the Pantheon in Rome - still one of the largest domes in the world. Originally built by Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14), it was rebuilt during the reign of Hadrian (117 to 138 AD) following a fire. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #Pantheon #Rome

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

I love this trail-cam video footage of BEY03F, the first wolf in Los Angeles County in a century Watch: fb.watch/FfAkYgwFpu/?...