So as I mentioned, went on a misty, windblown sun-shower hike in the cloud forest yesterday, and there found the Roundest I'iwi. More pics of this one coming but had to get this out there. :) #birds #borbs 🦉🌿📷

ok it is time for a thread of MERMAID PARADE photos

I'm part of the very specific fragment of the population for whom this image is the best joke of the week.

Phil McAndrew

He's lying. You know why we know? WE HAVE THE AGREEMENT HE SIGNED!!!! Here's the operative language: "The U.S. undertakes, together with regional partners, a comprehensive plan...for the rehabilitation and economic development of Iran...of at least $300 billion."

Tehran ate his lunch and kept the tray.

This is some world class trolling, the internet remains undefeated, Trump not so much.

Jamelle Bouie: >>Any result short of victory for Trump and his allies will be denounced as “fraud.” Not because there is anything wrong with the system, but because, as they see it, this is their country and theirs alone.<< gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

Maybe change is possible? www.instagram.com/heathcliffco...

One year ago today 🌿 Hoffmannseggia glauca, our Indian Rushpea, blooming near Comanche National Grassland in Higbee Cemetery #nativeplants

#ThingsIranGotInTheMOU Lee Greenwood forced to add four stanzas condemning Sunni Islam to “Proud To Be An American”

The strategic calculus now has changed for everyone. The first term could be written as an anomaly that was barely worth hedging against. The second is a pattern that the American people may repeat any time. A nuclear weapon is the only certain defense to this reoccurring, and against Israel.

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Our voice is our power - and I’ll always raise it!

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

Akwaboa's International Band – Yoyeo Ala Sakiki [Nigeria, Highlife/Reggae] (198?) Relaxed swinging reggaefied Highlife rarity from Ghana sung in Hausa language. https://redd.it/1973xb5 https://youtu.be/HB2q6Ei7nvk

If there was any truth to be found in today’s news media, the headlines would read: TRUMP SURRENDERS TO IRAN ON HIS BIRTHDAY

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Meanwhile on the White House South Lawn

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Well isn’t that lovely? American White Pelicans gliding by 😊 #birds 🌿

Context for Belfast riots

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

JP Brammer: >>I was never sure what was important, and what wasn’t. I experienced reality as a series of disconnected images. Each one was loud, urgent, and temporary. The feed refreshed, and there was an entirely new constellation.<<

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

welcome to Boo York mr president

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Sent this to Husband and Beloved Son: “I’ll never peak like this and that makes me sad.”

If we want Trump to stay away from MSG tomorrow night, tell him Jr is getting married there.

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

this example is an EXCELLENT insight into two things: 1. why the opinion "we should run government like a business" should be treated similarly to the opinion "we should kill and eat more human infants" 2. how even a single node of friction in a system can halt a more powerful person's evil plan

Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 🪶 🐣

On our hike this morning, a shadow pattern fell over me. I shouted to Husband (≈100 m ahead), “LOOK UP!!”

Adolf Born - Czech illustrator ca.pinterest.com/AngeZhangIll...

If we ever get widespread solar in this country there will instantly be a movement claiming it’s causing aches and pains by “stealing vitality” and the only cure is to chew insulation provided by an influencer married to the guy with the last remaining insulation warehouse in the country

You previously enjoyed my fuchsia - it’s happy after a rain! #FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVib

I heard something outside my bedroom tonight and caught the mama tapir enjoying some of my garden. She looks a bit guilty. I have a sense that she's pregnant, as she's been coming by almost every night for a snack. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #tapirs #tapiroftheday #nature

I’m bored of the “is bluesky an echo chamber” debate, we need a more exciting one: is bluesky an evil haunted carnival?

This is inaccurate because it's not a pivot. I've witnessed for months now ICE agents physically drag immigrants out of 26 Federal Plaza as they were following the legal requirements to work here, as immigration judges were confirming that they were following the rules.

it's almost surreal how much commentary there is on here about twitter vs. bluesky

this is the ideal car body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

This Hooded Merganser trying to look dapper for the weekend that lies ahead... #BirdOfTheDay #headshots #birds #ducks #portraits

you people in your BLUESKY BUBBLE are obsessed with the RUSSIA HOAX, and I...oh wait