image is a fuzzy photo of the night sky with vivid green banding of the northern lights at the bottom and softer red banding above that. silhouetted over the green is the outline of a cat, looking as if they were a thousand feet tall in the sky like mufasa.

Horchata in lidless cup my fave! Things are terrible but without ICE many Minneapolitans created great joy at this little hill on Saturday. 👏👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpj9...

Tillie Martinussen: "the Inuit in Alaska and all of the native tribes ... their land was taken from them and they haven't been treated that well in America ... and we are not white as you can see we are of color, and so we know our rights probably would be taken away" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs53...

..."the testimony of the people affected" ... "bringing all the images, all the videos everything we have, this testimony, into a single package to show the American public that this is what ICE and Customs and Border Protection have been doing to Americans whether they're immigrants or citizens"...

Could be the arial view of a mountain range above clouds, until one notices that tiny strand of straw. 😆 From yesterday's tideline adventure.

Well-wielded satire. The coffee is key.

A “Stop Trump” protest is also underway in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, led by the prime minister and other political leadership. "Listen to us. Our country is not for sale. We do not want to be Americans... We are Kalaallit." "Not to take over. Not to acquire. Not by pressure. Not now. Not ever."

A post in two parts celebrating women and their horses and snow. 💃❄️🌨️🐎 Have a weekend.

The advice of my father: The greatest writers have a gift. They make the words DANCE Your own enthusiasm to dance with them creates a relationship, including the sorrow of parting when you finish Find your writers, and really dance with them

Things are terrible but there are aurora lovers sharing images that are simply sublime.

This is magnificent, as is the unexpected context in which it appears.

"Organized Chaos" by Antje Woolum 🤎🖤🪑🪑🔆

Yup. 😱

This. is. just. brilliant. Listen! 🎼🎹

If you need a deep breath, a mental reset, a reminder of why you CARE and why you act, this is a very short read meant to give just that. (I’m there because I take no money and it’s free. The other places aren’t. And @hcrichardson.bsky.social is there.)

Farmhouse at Night - 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12856

Applauding these feisty "redcoats" who get the gravity of our republic remaining indivisible with liberty and justice FOR ALL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saU...

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

2026 is hard and things are TRULY terrible but Newfoundlanders were so kind ... again! 💗🤝💗 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...

🔆..."a huge crack in the dam in the House" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mon0... (13 min)

I keep coming back to all the little pockets of awesome in this. That this woman might have saved my life. Her little bounce. The snapping fingers. The raised fist. The guy in the light suit smiling at her joy.

🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB33...

Always wanted to find even one cardinal feather. 🐦

The east holds the sun, The day blushes and begins, Snow gently falling. #haikuchallenge east

Mice scurry, spooked by wings embarking on midnight forage. Beyond the trees the coyotes yip and banter and small things stay quiet. The moon plays with shadows across the snow, trees becoming spectral, long fingers stretching while stars move through their stories. #vssdaily embark #vss365 spooked

Super cool info from Ethan. 🦊🧭

Jamie Walton is such a breath of fresh air from England's North East coast — just listen to him speak. 👨‍🌾 www.youtube.com/shorts/ALMLI...

"It is time for the President to focus on the crises facing this country, and end the military adventurism abroad. Trump is failing in his job to run the United States of America. He should not be trying to "run" Venezuela."

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

How about we focus on our brilliant full Wolf Moon today? 🌕😍 It was at perigree on January 1st, but today our planet is at perihelion and as close to the Sun as we will be in all of 2026! ☀️😎 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26010...

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

This was absolutely one of my favorite parts of this Inauguration. (Plus one hundred other parts too.) Just a brilliant afternoon in all aspects.

The live broadcast of Montrealer Yannick Nézet-Séguin (50) conducting the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert was *chef's kiss* today. He was smiling, I was smiling, the orchestra and the audience were smiling....😘 Fabelhaft! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/a...

We made it to the end of 2025. Things are terrible, but we can take ONE deep breath tonight. 🐾 I'm so grateful to be here with you Blueskis! Thanks for everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUw...

I put on my summer shoes, soles of my feet now in sand. Grains that gathered on hot walks and were never shaken out. I sit and close my eyes, wriggle my toes. Outside the winter storm rages but I am hearing the ocean, I am warm in recollections, sand now on the carpet. #vssdaily sit #vss365 sole

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a miracle. This man has spent years doing the diplomatic equivalent of somersaults on a tightrope while his country remains under siege. I don't believe in the Great Man Theory, but he's about as close as it gets.

I have to sleep facing away from The Professor (our foster dog) because otherwise he shoves his head into my neck, falls asleep, and snores. It’s very sweet but not sleep conducive.

Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The grin 🙂 and the snowflake stars!

Reminding me of both of my childhood villages. 😍

Ukrainians are caroling in a subway station. Darkness cannot stop light. Evil cannot defeat good. Russian rockets cannot break the Ukrainian spirit. Merry Christmas!

Missing your blue shell shoes? Do let me know. ❄️🥿🥿 Two frosted mussel shells lying with pretty light blue gradient interiors open with half an inch between what would be the right big toe and left heel, resting lightly on tideline seaweed as if someone had slipped out of them as the tide went out.😃

Slava Ukraini! 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 Слава Україні! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvML...

Solstice Sunday delivered a low band of light with a punch of rainbow at 1 p.m. and it took our breath away! 🌈 The rainbow remained bright for half an hour.

Relatable Corvid

🔭 Solstice on a Spinning Earth Image Credit: Meteosat 9, NASA, Earth Observatory, Robert Simmon apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

This wonderful old meme bears sharing. 🌲...🦌...🌲