just another meerkat monday

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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Good morning from Scotland, wishing you a spectacular Saturday 😁

A Loggerhead turtle made #Wide tracks when she crawled ashore to lay her eggs on the left and then back out into the ocean on the right. #BlueSkyArtShow

Happy 250, America! The country may be far from perfect, but that’s exactly the reminder that our work is never finished. It will always be worth fighting for. And we will never give up on the values and principles that truly make this country great. Happy 4th 🇺🇸

We wanted to amplify this because it’s genuinely sad that this isn’t how America’s 250th birthday is unfolding. America’s 250th birthday should have been about bringing people together through our shared culture, history, music, art, and traditions.

Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks.

Happy Birthday to Lionel Richie, Jr., (born June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama), Lionel is an African American Funk/ R&B Singer, Songwriter, and Producer. Also formerly a member of the Funk group, "The Commodores." He is most admired for his smooth and soulful love ballads of the 1970’s and ‘80s.

bright lily

Oh, look. A proper reflecting pond.

The historical legacy of Juneteenth: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

My great grandchild: grand papa, how did you celebrate the semiquincentennial? Me (92 years old): well, mostly by learning the chemical processes involving pool painting and the phosphate cycles of algae blooms

Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones

NEW: Kamala Harris and Chancellor Angela Merkel at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center! 📸: @OpalVadhan

Happy Thursday... ; ) Sunrise on Bridlington north beach #Yorkshire

#forest #Silhouette #scape Sunrise just #now #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #eastcoastkin #art #photographer #sunrise

“His truth is marching on….” youtu.be/StFB2g0urhA

Once upon a time, American bikers were very fond of Nazi regalia, and the Werhmacht Stahlhelm was the cliche headgear of the motorcycle gang in pop culture. It was shorthand for "anti-establishment," just as the Confederate flag was. The white supremacy was, of course, baked in. 1/2

Certaldo (Firenze) Panorama dalla torre della casa-museo di Giovanni Boccaccio

Hardy kiwi flower, self-fertile, growing in the community garden. There are several hardy kiwis that produce smooth berries, smaller than the ones you buy in a store. #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #PicardoFarmPPatch #KiwiVine #HardyKiwi

Yorkshire, indeed the world, has lost some of its colour today. Garrowby Hill, a Yorkshire landscape by David Hockney, 1998. So long, David.

82 years ago, 14,000 Canadians landed on Juno Beach, many of whom would never come home.   On the anniversary of D-Day, we pause to honour those who served and sacrificed.

"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you." - General Eisenhower teachingamericanhistory.org/document/d-d...

#flowers #nature #photography

Certaldo (Firenze)

Guten Morgen, einen schönen Samstag und ein entspanntes Wochenende!🌼🪲 Good morning, a beautiful saturday and a relaxing weekend!🍀🕊️ #GreenSat #ColorADay #Bloomscrolling #photography #nature #macro #ECK

Fuck enough people over for enough time & the reaction is pretty damn predictable: They fight back. Today’s Gilded Age has burned the majority of Americans. Time for FDR.

#humansofBlueSky A theater full of stars. Artistic geometry frames a dancer looking out at the empty rows from a wooden bench under a scenic lamppost. A powerful documentary look at the silent, solitary side of tango performance discipline. #luiscordobapharchive #dance #satage #tango #theater #art

Have a wonderful evening everyone! Wünsche allen einen schönen Abend!

identified as a lynx spider

The Vietnam Veterans Living Memorial in Durham, NC includes a monument to Canine Soldiers. Inscription in alt text. #MemorialDay

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas." n.pr/4uO1S1f

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

Do you know what the “liberal media“ was? It was the post WW2 culture in America: Truman ordered the military to desegregate. That began the fight for & against desegregation in society, which helped motivate the fight for equality by women & LGBTQ citizens & even protection for the environment.

ready for the weekend

💜💜💜Johnny Jump Ups (viola ticolor) are closely related to pansies and are edible flowers as well as its' leaves. It is most often used as a garnish or on salads. #FridayPurple #nature #FlowersOnFriday #garden

😍 Nachbars Katze fühlt sich wohl bei uns

One of my feral friends. This is CheeseStick. 🐱

#ColorADay #GreenSat #nature #photography Walk the path, wend your way through the marsh, and the view constantly changes.

Happy Saturday... ; ) Goslings growing fast😍 Staindale lake Dalby forest #Yorkshire #nature

Beaux-Arts grandeur Documenting the European architectural legacy in Buenos Aires The striking dome and ornate balconies capture the historic elegance of the city urban design #architecture #buenosaires #travel #urban #history #luiscordobapharchive #bas #argentina #streetphotography #europeandesign

#WorldTurtleDay 🐢

and then, the monarch