🚨 There are corgis at the Pro Bowl 🚨

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #One. So here's one bird. It is an incredibly beautiful black crowned night heron enjoying the sunrise at our local wildlife refuge. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #EastCoastKin #herons #birds #birdphotography #photooftheday #photographersonbluesky

Every Catholic ICE agent should remember the final words of St. Thomas More “I am the King’s good servant, but God’s first.” Right now, you’re serving an organization that defies our faith at every turn. You have seen it with your own eyes: cruelty celebrated, lies justified, families devastated.

Brave Ukrainian energy workers,day and night,in severe frost,are repairing Ukraine’s energy networks destroyed by Russia Russia is trying to organize a “cold holodomor” -an energy genocide Russia is killing the weak&the helpless.It subjects them to torture.We are talking about millions of people.

The question media should be asking: if Minneapolis only needs 600 police officers to perform all general law enforcement activities in the city, why did Trump send 3,000 federal agents to execute a statutorily and constitutionally *much* smaller task? Answer? He wanted a *war*.

“We all have a reason to eat better.” UNLOVED: a very good, cheerful ad from Intermarché, worth watching for just the Hedgehog. ❤️🦔 youtube.com/watch?v=2u5a...

Some good news! Let's hope private projects follow suit. #SaveOurStarrySkies www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

Bye, Bobby. Thank you.

Bob Balaban in Close Encounters tho’ www.gq.com/story/bob-ba...

Just want to remind everyone that ICE's jurisdictions stops 100 miles from the border and coast. Minneapolis is 300 miles from the border. "No you can not enter. Let me see a warrant. No warrant? Fuck you!" If they do anyways go silent. Say nothing. Hire a lawyer, you just won the lottery.

And now, Bobby

Dave Matthews speaks for me. Well said, Dave.

The ❤️Beavers are GETTING THEIR SANCTUARY🎉🎉🎉 They close on the 🌟property in four days! 🙏🏼✍🏼❤️🥳 then 🪏👷‍♂️🏡🌱🐾🐾 #HappyNews #Success #Wildlife Soon, You will be able to visit 🧳and stay with these adorable 🦫role models and the ecosystem they create. youtube.com/shorts/9TIgm...

Celebrating 30 years of the Kākāpō Recovery Programme Part 2: 1995 to 2025. Art by kākāpō ranger Sarah Little (www.instagram.com/sarahmaylittle). #kakapo #conservation #parrots #birds

Always a thrilled to see one owl but to see three Northern Saw-whet owls on one hike was just amazing. #birds #owls #birding #birdphotography #nature #Ontario #Canada

From lending someone a hand with their car to giving a simple “thank you” to a cashier, acts of kindness — whether big or small — can have a huge effect on both recipients and givers. https://to.pbs.org/47RLoJd

Michael Pham fled communist Vietnam by boat as a child. Now, as bishop of San Diego, he is putting faith into action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Russia continues damaging Ukrainian environment. The Russians damaged a tank containing sunflower oil, causing it to spill into the estuary and then into the sea. Birds affected by the oil spill were taken to the Odesa Zoo for rehabilitation. 📹DW

Get your CCC 2026 calendar while supplies last 🪸🪸🪸: coralmorphologic.bigcartel.com/product/cora...

Look where it put Oaktown🤣

Can you sign & share our letter to HHS? freakinfrail.org Thank you to the 1600 who have signed! Congress has mandated that Medicaid recipients work 80 hours a month unless they can prove they are “medically frail." We want to protect Medicaid access for #pwME & #pwLC.

Fascinating! -> bucking a multi-decadal decline in Mainline Christian denomination membership, membership in 2 of the traditionally most left-leaning, Quaker and Unitarian, seem to now be increasing in the state of Maine. These 2 were *never* big, but historically they were heavily influential.

Empathy + Action = A Better World Thank you, Rick Steves

It's true that he isn't canonized yet, but if anyone wants to anticipate celebrating the feast of Dom Pérignon, today is the day. Tag: @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Remarkable courage and selflessness here. A private citizen at Bondi ran up on a man actively firing a gun and barehanded it away from him. Stark bravery. Fred Rogers told us “Look for the helpers.” Wow. Note: I have not verified the ID cited below.

New frog has dropped. Prepare accordingly.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, appeared in Mexico in 1531. The pattern of stars she imprinted on the tilma (cape) are scale diagrams of Cassiopeia, Virgo and others over the hill she visited—-but as seen from SPACE, looking to Earth.

A rare wild teapot. Or a Cladonia lichen:) Teapot (or lichen) is about 1.5cm high. Northwest Territories, Canada #lichen #fungi #fungifrienda #teapot

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is 12 December, this Friday. Thursday and Friday, this Shrine in Des Plains, IL and Catholic Churches and Basilicas nationwide will draw in many Mexican-American Catholics. I pray that all our faithful Brothers and Sisters are protected from ICE. 🙏🏼🇲🇽❤️🙏🏼

Happy News: There were 2.5 donations PER SECOND this year, just at Go Fund Me! You don’t have to look very far to find good people, or generous acts of charity. Please remember this, through Christmas and beyond 🎄💝 www.gofundme.com/c/gofundme-2...

A new study shows the danger of pesticides isn’t only in what they kill, but in what they change. When bees forage less and fish behave differently, ecosystems begin to fail long before we notice the losses. apple.news/ALzThv-E0QfS...

A mushroom-lined bunny trail through Sphagnum moss. Newfoundland, Canada. #mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #bolete

Massachusetts: looks like we are skunked😔

Have you ever seen a close-up of spider silk? 🕸️🕷️ royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

> Keeper Lydia spotted one of Audubon Aquarium's resident crawfish in the middle of a molt! Video: brown crawfish wiggling out of its old carapace like they're shaking off a too-tight sleeping bag. [via Audubon Zoo]

Just…conversations.

Church Street in Burlington Vermont. 📸 Adam Silverman

EARTH-DIRECTED SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Both NOAA and SOHO coronagraphs have detected a full halo storm cloud heading directly for Earth. NASA simulations of the CME suggest an arrival on Dec. 9th. Earth is the yellow dot in this forecast model spaceweather.com/images2025/0...

The Beavers and Dr Muraco (researcher/rehabilitator) got even CLOSER to their goal! Folks, if you are playing PowerBall tonight, you’ll pay cash and probably get 💵 change. How about you send that to 🦫🦫🦫 right away this evening? youtube.com/shorts/lScBl...

A free Ukraine will outlive Trump and Putin.

The beavers are up to 46% of their goal! They got another 3%!! Any amount helps. This is a great initiative: to give 🦫🦫🦫 a sanctuary that’s an ecotourism destination too—here in America. gofund.me/d2cfc9394

I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

A generous couple, the B’s, are matching donations up to $50,000 for the Beaver Sanctuary + visitor center! It’ll be in the USA—easy travel😊 Your $5 gets $10 to the 🦫🦫🦫 and the ecosystem they’ll support— but only until Christmas. Soooo close now! youtu.be/AgYk6Nd746I?...

This book was a treat. Do get it as an audio, read by the author.