Phew, its been a busy week botanising and orchiding. Here are some of the finds for #WildflowerHour: Chalk fragrant #Orchid

I think there’s arguments for Paintball Duels, both in harm reduction and judicial economy.

This is not entirely true. The Dutch have an indifference to making and eating good food that could be Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Closeup of a Desert Cottontail Rabbit This was at the Tucson Bird Alliance's Mason Center (as I recall)

No, you don't get to have an Emotional Support Ethnic Cleansing. What the fuck.

When I had an iPhone my phone's keyboard had had almost 15 years to learn the words I frequently use (across a few models) switched to an android and now when I swipe "fledgling" it thinks I want to say "foreskin," so if you see that typo from me it's not my fault lol

For the 10 Million Initiative to pass in Switzerland, they needed to win an overall majority and also win a majority of cantons. They lost both.

Anglo leftists are really good at Calvinism Without God

I keep conflating "The Age of Men is over, the Time of the Orc has come" with "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters"

Unexpected Tolkien

Dartmoor. #dartmoor #devon #nature #Stunday

Sing it! Yellow-headed Blackbird sharing the “song” of his people #birds

I love how it looks like a model with the double-mirror trick.

Daniel Cole (1965, UK) Two Puffins. oil on board.

They could paint the Washington Monument green and build a second one painted red right next to it and then it will look LIKE IT'S RIGHT THERE WITH YOU

They should divide the reflecting pool in two and fill the other half with red algae and them the reflections can be for 3D glasses

Because of this internal 'pee balloon', they maintain a near-perfect neutral density, allowing them to float effortlessly on the water column, to rest in a world without surfaces, maneuvering only when hunting or being hunted. That's right, Internet: "Pee is stored in the squid's central chamber."

Currently in a charming old-school beer bar, sipping wanly at my sparkling mineral water. Continue not to drink alcohol out of stubbornness.

🌱 Get ready, Leiden's giant stinky penis plant is gearing up to flower...

Sadly there's no love lost between Sanrio and Dick Bruna's estate, because I would love to see some art of Hello Kitty and Miffy playing football for the 🇯🇵 v 🇳🇱 Raw Fish Derby tonight.

So... um, happy 16th anniversary of the time Russian art collective Voina painted a giant cock and balls on a bridge opposite the headquarters of the security services in St Petersburg 🧵

ah, Devon testators and their bequests of tin. ⛏️ 'Item I gyve to elisabeth Coyle the doughter of John Coyle a pece of tyn and also to John Coyle the some of the forsaid John a pece of tym Item I gyve to Joane Coyle the doughter of Roger Coyld a pece of tyn'.

Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth

It's just struck me: if King Charles ran to be a labour MP he'd say his mum was a truck driver and public sector worker and his dad a first generation immigrant.

i suppose "writing a big essay about why you use doordash" is better than rw social media, which is about shameless assertion of desire no matter socially inappropriate ("i will bring back genghis khan to get homeless people off the streets of LA" )

The annual "tug off war" in the village of Henstead, Suffolk, remains one of rural Britain's most controversial festivals.

Wordle 1,821 3/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, damn!

Our chief advantage is that they don't know shit about us and think they do.

In a world where marketing is so much bullshit, puffery and AI fakery, we can be reassured that the Cosh Factory will indeed sell you a usable cosh. Classic style, bar of soap in a sock.

Layers. The Eastern Sierra comes alive in winter and spring with these layers of color and light. #landscape #photograph #photo #photography #sierras #layers

This Common Yellowthroat was playing hide and seek with me in a cedar tree. They finally emerged long enough for me to grab a couple frames, then it was gone again. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada June 2026 📸 #birds #warbler #COYE #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

This is a cat who's desperately trying to think of a credible way to blame it on the dog (bottom right)

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

Just to clarify...this IS the Onion, right?

A couple new mini prints up in my store! 🌊 oliviawhen.com/store

Mallows are great, aren't they?

Well, fuck off back to the village then. You're replaceable.

Day 308.5 of my cover challenge: (2011) The 5 yr olds at the Sullivan School in Seoul, So. Korea having fun with "Judy is a Punk" by the Ramones. They learn English by exposure to foreign teachers, whose unique approach will enrich their language experience.(😁) #MusicSky youtu.be/sVJfErLlyLI?...

Refugees to britain are given £49 per week to feed themselves in run down former hotels. The owners of these dilapidated former hotels charge the government £1000 per week per ‘customer’. Why do the Gammonatti obsess about the former while ignoring the latter?

I'm going to die from cute, the girls made her WINGS from @carmcdhume.bsky.social "We drew her some wings, we went colourful for Pride" 😭

Apropos of nothing: Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney

"the trans community must boycott monster energy," a sentence I never thought I would type for a number of reasons

Discussing Portuguese sweets and we've decided there should be a board game based around Posh Nuns Baking Cakes.

It's not actually the D. We are getting a sneak preview of the P tape

I found out about the existence of this from following Wikipedia links and I have to share it because it’s so neat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

The fans were just having too damn much fun in the concourse, bonding over recipes for pork with sauerkraut.

90’s PE Teacher - ‘A likely story. Fine, you’ll have to do it in your underpants then’

I fucking love birthright citizenship