ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Great stuff @anassarwar.bsky.social now direct it to the Governmeht and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Scotland deserves better from all parties

Are you ok @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org

Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Is that really the worst part? Not the part about people being gunned down, and survivors in the water hunted and killed and their families thrown into a lifetime of grief and trauma, not that part?

Living La Vida Severance

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”

Cladonia lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungifriends #fungi #hiking #lichen

From Rik Gern, photos of fungi taken in northern Wisconsin. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/29/r...

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

shaggy one

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

We’re trying something new this weekend and opening up the first Human Petting Zoo. Please don’t make it weird.

Merry Christmas

happy 81st birthday indeed.

Another little Mycena species emerging from lichen - the local peat bog is now alive with smaller fungi fruiting bodies #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom #mushrooms

this is an owl

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

@nytimes.com editors - accurate headline exemplar

Great analysis open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

WTF

Interestingly, Nigeria is one of the few countries where Trump is quite popular. In fact, it's the one where he's most popular.

Have you seen the AI video Fox News thought was real? @azzacohen.bsky.social explains how discriminatory AI videos target the vulnerable, especially Black women.

“Frog,” said Toad, “this kite will not fly. I give up.” “We must make a second try,” said Frog.

Grapefruit 😏 #oilpainting #art

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN. Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️ findmypollsite.vote.nyc

OMG #Labour Greens are wiping the floor with you by a guy with a phone camera and a 20 year old social media intern. This is how you beat Reform like duh

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

emotional support jellyfish

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

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Eh, no thanks. I've signed the petition. #NoCompulsoryDigitalID #DitchTheBritCard petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Great reporting, accurate headline

A little morning magic courtesy of the Oregon coast! #tidepools #oregoncoast #seastacks #beachhike #hike #morningwalk #wander #photography #love

Water firm bans tankers from transporting water for billionaire's lake #LetThemEatCakeEra

PICKLE RICK

What is the city but the people?

This chick already looks like it’s seen too much 💭🦤😂 #birds #humor

What a beautiful labia he has for a neck

After a very relaxing bank holiday weekend its time to get back to work on this painting of a Marsh Tit. These rare little bird s nest every year in a hollow in a tree behind our cottage. Seeing them visit the sunflower seed dispenser is always a relief. Knowing they have survived another year.

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc