Hilarious! I wonder how many people will get the reference?

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Apparently today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #movement so here’s a Tricolored Heron taking off in Florida. #birds #birding Who decides these things anyway? Is there a blast message that goes out every morning to birders on Bluesky? I need to get in the loop.

From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

Sadly relevant today.

It was bad enough hiking through the dark forest to the drop zone away from the camping area when in the BWCA. I just can’t imagine the long dark walk through the vacuum of space. 😳🤣😂

We took a sunset happy hour cruise on the Seine, it was lovely and included a glass of wine or champagne 🥂 #Paris #France

TAKEAWAYS: Max Plante is good at hockey.

One of my first days in Paris last month I went birding in the Jardin du Luxembourg and saw the sun shining on this statue and thought it would make a nice picture. #France #JardinduLuxembourg #Paris

I didn’t get many pictures of my new lifers but here’s one, a Pied Avocet feeding in the Camargue, a huge estuary in southern France 🇫🇷 that is excellent for birding. #birds #birding

Here is part of Monet’s epic 360° painting of Waterlilies, Musee L’Orangerie, Paris.

Greater Flamingo at the Parc Ornothologique de Pont du Gau in the Camargue, France. 🇫🇷 #birds #birding #lifelist #flamingo

eBird doesn’t believe that there are Black Swans in southern Portugal, oh yes they are! #birding #Portugal #eBird

My final count for new bird species on our trip to France (including the Pyrenees and the Camargue) and Portugal is 66, so the total on my life list is now 808. Travel and some terrific guides can really help. #lifelist #birding #birds #France #Portugal

Oh yeah, over 60 new lifers on the trip and I’m still going over notes but the new total will be over 800. #birds #lifers #lifelist

Bonjour and Bom Dia Bluesky! I am back home after an amazing trip to Europe. I’ll post some photos later but I still need some time to catch up on sleep and figure out how many new birds are on my life list- will I get to 800? It’ll be close.

The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated. www.ft.com/content/fe47...

24 hours to go! France 🇫🇷 Portugal 🇵🇹 and even a stop in Andorra 🇦🇩 just for fun. After tomorrow morning I won’t be on here until I get back. 🛫🚄🚆🚗🗺️🌇🖼️

Only a few more days until we fly to Europe for a nice long trip, hope to add a lot of new lifers. France 🇫🇷 and Portugal 🇵🇹 with my love, and no social media on that phone to distract me. I’ll post a few more things but Thursday begins a long quiet here.

Between the Unipiper and the naked bicyclists the fascists don’t stand a chance. Stay weird, stay strong Portland!

Also autism.

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

Jane Goodall made the world a better place. She helped shape how we view the world around us, fought vehemently for the environment, and her love of chimpanzees was infectious. She will be greatly missed. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

One week from tomorrow we fly! Nonstop to CDG, Vive Le France!🇫🇷

Wow!

I hope this is real because it sounds very cool.

I’m really kind of surprised and flattered that anyone would follow me. I’m pretty boring but thank you anyway. I won’t be posting anything for a bit over a month because I will be traveling and I have no social media on my travel phone.

Still rockin in the free world.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I could repost this every day with whatever fresh atrocity this maladministration is doing.

“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it’s all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Ok this looks real and if so very cool. I read 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea as a kid and giant squid and the legends about them have always fascinated me.

I think we should troll the regime with spurious correlations. Some dude did the work for us. www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor...

with all the Disney/Jimmy Kimmel/Star Wars chatter, allow me to offer an image posted by the Roddenberry Foundation a few days ago

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Yesterday was a great day; the Vikings kicked ass, the Packers lost, and the Wild won their preseason opener in Winnipeg. 🏈🏒

“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Everyone who can still read needs to read this, long but so worth the time.

Very cool!

I’m so glad Robert Redford lived long enough to see Leonard Peltier walk free. He worked a long time to try and correct that travesty of justice.

RIP Robert Redford, thanks for the great memories on film and thanks for all you did for humanity. I will have to go watch Sneakers in his honor.