A 4-piece Happy Meal is $7 now? WTF?!

I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out. nature.ca/en/visit-us/... 🧪

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

One of the UK’s most beautiful mushrooms to my mind, the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus) is much less rare than one might think. I’ve found it in at least 3 different locations. As appetising as it looks, and despite its name, this one is in fact not considered an edible - bitter and rubbery.

Watercolour of gardens in #Winchester with the cathedral in the background. This was done on one of several sketching visits in the '90s. You can soak up history in Winchester which has a wonderful atmosphere, dank and timeless, very nostalgic for me. #watercolour #pleinair

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Nothing beats a crisp evening stroll #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky

Ejections from the Sun could cause the northern lights to be visible further south this week.

A cup of fungus from the Blue Mountains.

DHS under Kristi Noem is in shambles. Under the Big Beautiful Bill Act, ICE’s budget ballooned to nearly $30 billion. And what does that get us? Bottom-of-the-barrel agents who only meet bare minimum standards.

Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits. Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?

Went for a brief ramble as the sun set, watching the kite surfers catch their final waves.

🌊🩵🌊Sat, Dec 6 Bigg’s orcas the T46s (minus Strider) & T46B2s have been keeping a presence inland Puget Sound. Good chance the orcas reported this morning in Possession Sound is that group. 📸 More from Deception Pass end of November: T137A Jack by Kat Martin from atop the bridge. #psws

Yellow Faced Bumblebee on a Pride of Madeira #photograph #flowers #bees

The Northern Trifid Nebula (NGC 1579) is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Perseus named after the Trifid Nebula (M20) in Sagittarius. In this photo reds are ionized emissions and blues represent bright starlight reflections. Exp: 7 hours 11/22/25 #astronomy #astrophotography

🌻Anonymous Feline Fatness🌻 My favorite shape My favorite leg pose My Secret favorite, favorite … Fat Striped Orange-Gingers with straight up twinkle toes. 🐾😊🐈

One cannot go to Hannah Arendt’s work for comfort, Jennifer Szalai writes of the German-born political thinker. What she offers instead is “the company of someone who had direct experience of the horrors of the 20th century yet never relinquished what she called amor mundi, or ‘love of the world.’”

#corgicrew “Where’s the trust mom??!! Cannot believe you put a lid on my treat basket. Utterly betrayed!”

Pond frog as a predator of hornet workers: High tolerance to venomous stings Paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪 “… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”

Sam Bates, known as SMUG, Australian-born, realistic street #artist. This one is in Glasgow. In the comments, I've included different views of this piece, as well as some other pieces of this hyper-realistic street artist. #StreetArt #WallMural #murals #UrbanArt #art

So cool

Pantone says the color is calming and relaxing. Critics say it's a reflection of the current political climate.

🐈👀 Caturday

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

I’d rather my kids go to drag queen story hour. More fun, engaging, not to mention safer.

Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.

88 yer. old Ed Bambas received more than $1.7 mil after a post of him went viral on TikTok. He’s an Army vet. who works at Meijer in Brighton 5 days a wk. and 8 hrs. a day to make ends meet. In 2018, he lost his sick wife, and before that lost his pension. Samuel Weidenhofer posted his story.

This looks far away for many of you. But it is exactly the same everywhere. Chickens are bred in a shed for 6-8 weeks. Thrown in crates and slaughtered. Your chicken had a miserable life. 99% of all chickens are factory fHarmed. #EndAnimalAgriculture #LiveVegan have compassion🙏

Nova Scotia fishermen are finding larger sized lobsters this year, much earlier in the season. #NovaScotia www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

I love it when two weekly news cycle events converge to make an old story timely. Cc: @dashkaslater.bsky.social

🥺 oh baby girl, you have many Bluesky friends sharing your story. We will find you a home. Hopefully soon 🤞 Here's MELIA's bio. Please read and repost. She needs someone who will be fully committed to her. ❤️ 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Awesome

She knows

Skating into Saturday

An Upper Peninsula of Michigan pine plantation for #ForestFriday!

Wound up taking care of some stupid hermit crabs because nobody in my friend group is a fully formed adult and they were just going to let them die. The people who breed these things just to starve thousands of miles away from their habitat need to be kicked in the junk until they promise to stop.

A new study found nearly 1 in 10 young adults with non-metastatic cancer later develop metastatic recurrence. Researchers analyzed more than 48,000 patients, revealing the urgent need for tailored survivorship care. @ucdaviscancer.bsky.social health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

Welcome back to #FossilFriday! Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.

Ephraim Heller's photos of birds from Brazil's Pantanel region. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/04/r...