This guy was special. Young people today are missing out on some of the greats, Stevie Ray Vaughn was to me the greatest guitarist ever, there are many great ones, but no one could make their guitar sing like this guy! We had some great music and bands in this era. youtu.be/cFwTbsKkqxE?...

Amazing and beautiful

Cabin we used to stay in had a batch of baby bats (and some adults) sheltering behind the trim and boards one summer. The board the bat is behind is a 1x4 so you can see how tiny this furry flyer was.

New York City near Washington Square Park. #canonphotography #shotoncanon #canonr #photography #streetphotography #motocycle #nyc #newyorkcity #manhattan #nightphotography

Agitprop and lies. Be aware and wary.

A pitcher with quite the baseball pedigree, former Expo reliever Mel Rojas turns 59 today. He is Felipé and Matty Alou’s nephew and Moises Alou’s cousin. His son, Mel Rojas Jr. is currently playing in Japan.

There are now only 1,062 days until the next presidential election. With only 9 days remaining for the DOJ to release the Epstein files, it will be interesting to see what delay tactics may be used in the next few days. Americans must continue to demand the release to allow justice for the victims.

🪬🧿 The Deadly Secret of Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. #beautiful #scotland #castles #medieval #fortress #trap #MilitaryHistory #visitscotland #secrets #history #medieval #architecture youtube.com/shorts/56Qpa...

Another batch of lovely flowers.

This #HumanRightsDay I am proud to be supporting Amnesty International’s efforts to support asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees, as well as stopping the spread of dangerous authoritarian practices. Join me! amnestyusa.org/act

You write like men haven't been doing this for decades. You write like you don't want him exposed. Modeling agency/escort services still normalize it. www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

True. I won't admit if I've ever done this, though.

Lovely, but not something I'd like to get close to.

The transcripts show a darker reality: Flynn double-crossed American democracy and betrayed the United States. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

multiversal waves licking sanity's shores clean black moonlight, pale sand by midnight turning tides had washed many driftwords ashore #tanka #retroartprompt #poetry #poetrycommunity

Make Yourself Vulnerable oil on copper panel 12 x 12 To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. - CRISS JAMI Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p809/m... #art #painting #abstractportraiture #portrait #cowboy Story-ALTtext⬇️

There's a baby in the pod!

A 50 Million Light Year Structure Caught Spinning

Read @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social's 2023 investigation into Gregg Phillips here:

冬夜へと 息と祈りを 放つ君 Touya e to Iki to inori wo Hanatsu kimi Into the winter night You set free your breath And prayer #Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #DailyHaikuPrompt : Breath / Cool Evening

Hopper retired in 1966 at age 60 but was recalled to active duty in 1967 to standardize the Navy’s computer languages. She remained on active duty until she finally retired as a rear admiral in 1986 at age 79. She was the oldest active duty commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy at the time. /5

Hopper joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943, obtaining a special exemption because she was 15 pounds underweight. She was assigned to the Harvard Computation Project, where she became one of the first programmers for the Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale electro-mechanical computers. /3

#ResistanceRoots Grace Hopper was born on this day in 1906 in New York City. Hopper was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and a pioneering computer programmer who was called “Amazing Grace” and the “grandmother of the computer age” for her innovative work. /1

Awesome!

A male and female wood duck cruise slowly across a pond covered with water lilies. Photo is from many years ago, taken on a trip to a park with my then-toddler niece.

Today is #HumanRightsDay. What better day to remind everyone that either we all have human rights, or none of us really do.

I'll never forget the image of him picking up garbage left behind by the Jan. 6 rioters in the Capital. He's a good human. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

🇱🇹 Belarusian special services are preparing a "false flag" operation using Lithuanian citizens, - Militarnyi In recent weeks, unknown individuals posing as Lithuanian intelligence officers have been offering citizens "earnings" in TG in exchange for carrying out an alleged intelligence task.

One of those leaves isn't a leaf.

Oh - it worked and saved some ppl!!

Thinking chicken breast in a buttery white sauce with rosemary and sage on fettucine, with broccoli and leeks on the side. Parmesan and romano on top, of course, and liberal amounts of smoked szechuan pepper and salt. I could do all that without the chicken breast as well.

Evil sons of slugs

Lurking.

🌿 After a lengthy wake n bake, I'm going with the #TurningAway option for today's #BirdOfTheDay... 🫣 ...mostly because I'm sharing the next frame on the roll tomorrow for #WoodpeckerWednesday... 😉 ...but also POLKA-DOTS!!! 🫧😍 📸 Colaptes auratus, red-shafted...I checked 🪶 #Woodpeckers #BirdLovers

It almost glows, it is so bright

1951 Rosemary West 3rd woman 2 graduate Engineering Sciences @ Oxford Uni. Worked 4 GEC Ltd until sacked after birth of daughter. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championed women's right 2 return 2 work b #OTD 8 Dec 1928 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...

La Lune à un mètre (The Astronomer's Dream, 1898, dir. Georges Méliès) 🎥 A melancholy, effectively creepy three minutes in which the moon eats people.

So - is JaeB right? I think she may be onto something.

12/8/1805 — b. Adeline Blanchard Tyler, American nurse, Episcopal deaconess. The first Union Army nurse + a #CivilWar hospital administrator; later the “lady superintendent” of Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA(1869–72) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #NurseSky #MedSky #PedsSky #HistNursing #HistMed #BOTD

Can feel how cold and windy it is

"The Immigrants", 1899. Oil on Canvas, 74.3 × 54 cm. Ellen Bernard Thompson (American, 1876–1936) Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, USA. #art #painting #illustration

Photo of a log, sans bark, showing beetle trails and bare wood.

stretch of forest wakes blackbirds' song and falling leaves softly kissing ground #haikufeels stretch #haiku #poetry #poetrycommunity

Some cool things can be found in the most unlikely places and, um, excretions. Yeah.

Daily sketch 🪾🪨🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? #art #artsky #sketch #ink

when you see Trump on camera angrily attacking female reporters for asking straightforward questions, it doesn’t take much to imagine what he does behind closed doors when a woman says ‘No’

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1897, Marguerite Durand founds 'La Fronde', a French feminist newspaper written entirely by women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory 🗃️