One of a few active Red-bellied Newts (Taricha rivularis) we admired along a creek path this week. They have an Imperiled (S2) conservation status.💚 #Amphibians #Salamanders #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷

a really nice list here

Tigrinya loves catnip 🤩🐾😻✨

#Caturday love.

basically astonished that certain things took place, even if i disbelieve the framing these events receive 20 years later

@botanical.bsky.social おはようございます。 今日も良い一日でありますように。

@veronicaf.bsky.social Had to find a kitten photo and came across these 🥰 April 2022

Reminder of when Chotiner interviewed Joe Biden's ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and Lew said that it was OK to kill the children of Hamas fighters. Lew and others in leadership also let slip that the purpose of the USAID humanitarian response in Gaza was to support Israeli military objectives.

Poetry doesn’t always have to be deep, or angry, or thought provoking, or sad Sometimes it needs to be fun, to make you smile This poem by Meg Cox from her collection ‘A Square of Sunlight’ does just that. And perhaps behind that smile a little recognition… #poetry #poemoftheday

Заседание комитета тутликов объявляется открытым.

well, the one i really wanted to play through doesn't work, so i settled for a two-stage Soviet germanium transistor overdrive with Matsushita germanium diodes clipping the signal near the negative output of each stage (almost surely unnecessarily redundant), mounted on a phenolic perfboard matrix.

#OTD in 1943 Hitler promoted Paulus to Field Marshal. German field marshals never let themselves be taken alive, but Paulus chose to ignore this not so subtle hint and surrendered on the next day with half of the German garrison remaining in Stalingrad. #history #WW2 #WWII

guy finds weird incunabulae in a bricked-up alcove in the dark passageway beyond a locked door concealed by shelves of books in a moldy antechamber behind a wall in the forgotten subbasement—it had been mislabeled "crypt" in the first floor plan of the town Library's shunned Annex; thereafter elided

annoyed with all this crap tbh 🤬

"SHUTDOWN THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL ICE IS DEFUNDED!" What we have here is a failure to appreciate the scale of both the problem AND the solution

Put me in charge. I'll straighten everything out.

🐸 Cornmeal‑crusted frog legs piled over a swipe of remoulade with a sweet hit of guava waiting on top for folks to stir in how they like. Bright chayote slaw on the side keeps it lively, crunchy, and swamp‑kitchen proud. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🐈 Chance the cat 🛒 Aubuchon Hardware, Ipswich, MA

okay here's some positive stuff. Cat Calendar

Today’s cat is supporting the general strike in the US #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky

what was your very first favorite song growing up as a kid? people have told me it was Laura Brannigan -"The Lucky One" but i dont remember that at all. But Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair was the first tape i owned. So put on your sunglasses and kick back to this almighty slapper.

Waffles has informed me that it is not in fact Caturday! #wafflesthecat #cat #cats #catsofbluesky #catsky #tripawed #threeleggedcat

From the cat cam last night. Jolene and Simon give Flower plenty of space because they are afraid of her. I kind of wonder if Simon at least briefly thought about pouncing her? Happy #friyay #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato

important news

So. Small update. They're trying to catch the fourth one now. They're all most probably the same litter - found on parallel streets. Which at least makes quarantine easier?

Kitten number 2 is about to hit the rescue at the moment for assessment (not me! our wonderful rescue owner/manager/everything-er Cath does this) and will possibly be joining us as well. They were trapped in the same area as number 1, so are likely colony mates.

Kitten number 1 is a little bush kitten, too weak and dehydrated to run away when someone spotted him and grabbed him in a driveway. He's been through intake and is arriving this evening. 550g and about 8 weeks old.

Today's Ginger #pigeonSky 🪶

ついこのあいだ新年を祝った気がするのに、1月ももう終わりなんですね（ﾋﾞｯｸﾘ 今日遭遇したミルキーピンクの梅🌸 そろそろ本格的に咲くのかなー、楽しみ 今週もお疲れさまでした🥂 @botanical.bsky.social

Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe A Gand: chez Louis van Houtte, éditeur, 1845-1880. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27765073) #nature #illustration #art

"Socialism is our launching pad", Soviet poster from 1962

!!!!

so i dug out some of my old electronic prototypes, playing with this stuff for the first time in slightly less than a year. In keeping with my kink ("distortion fetishish"), of course, these are distortion/overdrive circuits suitable for guitar. Charging batteries, i want to plug in... tomorrow..

Burn down the present internet so the new one can grow

guy finds weird incunabulae in a bricked-up alcove in the dark passageway beyond a locked door concealed by shelves of books in a moldy antechamber behind a wall in the forgotten subbasement—it had been mislabeled "crypt" in the first floor plan of the town Library's shunned Annex; thereafter elided

This is going in my “Ivies should be turned into public housing” file.

Yale is a rotting dumpster of fascist ideology.

my first act as Premier of the Union of Worker's Soviets is to immediately dissolve Yale University. We apologize for the inconvenience and normal service will resume shortly.

Quote with 5 jobs youve had (volunteering and internships count too) 1. barista in Actual Hell 2. Internet Marketing Strategist (highly spam-adjacent) 3. cattle farm (smaller operation than a "ranch" proper) 4. homeless busker 5. wildlife rescue (for a couple days but it was SO COOL & INTERESTING!)

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

Ok finally my deep and seething contempt for Aronofsky is publicly justified. I think I once promised jokingly to share my take on why Aster is a much better director, but tl;dr: Aronofsky sucks because his work symbolizes what a dullard imagines is Important

Well he DOES have big hair, but, not big ENOUGH

ran across this article while hastily looking up prolific 20th c illustrator Willy Pogany, who was once (erroneously?) misidentified as the brother of this guy, maybe as communists we can learn from mistakes made:

Its me.

ISW can eat an infinitude of shit

"maybe the biggest dick of all is the dick of the mind" - unknown

so far, Berlin Alexanderplatz seems to depict a slide from liberalism into fascism: Franz isn't fascist because he hates Jews; rather, it's because he can't afford commodities, the state must impose order no matter what, and he wants to believe that his war "service" was meaningful. Sounds familiar.

THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980, Rankin/Bass)