More nice work from Bellingcat

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I'm hoping that the bats stay in their roost for the first part of tonight. Here's a couple of Lesser Horseshoe #bats having a wash and brush up in my garage last night before going out hunting.

The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has declared certain areas of #Boston Harbor safe for #shellfishing for direct human consumption for the first time in a century www.capecod.com/newscenter/l...

@martian-observer.art This made me smile, so I'm sharing it. Alt txt. Some variety of gull standing on a concrete wall with a sandwich cookie in its mouth. The treat looks like a vanilla cookie with a red jam filling.

See a fox 🦊 Post a fox 🟠

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

Melt, and no more be seen

Deploying emergency kitten videos Sound on

A friendly reminder that ICE officers are already some of the least trained and least educated law enforcement in the federal government — and then the Trump admin cut both standards even more last year.

"To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: you’ve done enough. I have issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. ...I remind you, a warning order is a heads up for folks, and these National Guard troops are OUR National Guard troops. ...They are Minnesotans."

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Renee Nicole Good Say her name.

The victim of today's ICE shooting in Minneapolis has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

Gonna have a nap. This day sucks.

@ghobubo.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Phrazle 101: 3/6 ⬜⬜🟪 ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟪 🟩🟪🟩 ⬜🟪🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟪 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Apparently it’s #NationalBirdDay in the US! Please show off some of your favorite birds!! I love Tree Swallows for their shiny feathers, their bubbling sounds and their incredible flying abilities. #birds 🌿

This morning a hawk mooned me really good 🪶

'Live Long and Prosper, Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura at 84 yrs Robin Damore, 2017 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

The son has gone back to work after winter break. The puppy is despondent. I sacrificed a cardboard box to the puppy woodchipper in hopes he'd get tired.

lol

I'm minding this rehomed young collie dog - his future career as yet unknown, but sheep trials were very definitely not for him. He crossed the stream at Derrynane strand in two magnificent skimming leaps yesterday.

@martian-observer.art 😬

The time has come to reveal the name of the Tyrant. She's called Sir Michael Atherton. Honestly. 'Michael' or 'Athers' for short. And the title is so there's no confusion with the ex-cricketer turned journalist of the same name.

I bought a ball pit for the cats and filled it with their toys and some homegrown catnip. Success!

Phrazle 97: 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle 🙄 @ghobubo.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social @martian-observer.art

Elegant

bebe grebe water taxi ❤️

behold the face of a cat who cannot read and has no social media

Excellent tips from the excellent Benjamin Dreyer. Number 4 is especially good.

Thank you all for your concern, and yes, PM Tuxley II has been moved to a safe location with cell geolocation disabled. He can be marked as “safe from American kidnappers” on social media. Thank you for your inattention to this matter!

I have wine.

Welcome to capex-by-blackmail. “.. They’re saying, ‘you gotta go in if you want to play and get reimbursed,’” said one industry official .. “But the infrastructure .. is so dilapidated that no one .. can adequately assess what is needed to make it operable.” #OOTT www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Timeline cleanse

Hard to resist a heron bird in action! #UKWildlife #caughtinmotion #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #greyheron #Ornithology #WildlifePhotography

The Tufted Titmouse takes off. #Titmouse #TuftedTitmouse #BirdOfTheDay #caughtinmotion #nature #wildlife #photography 🪶

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

(staring at you through the dining room window as I shove your tulip bulbs into my cheek pouches then flip you off)

wake up those asshole i want to hear about kitchen table issues

this is blowing my mind “bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT