Random acts of senseless beauty #121

Video credit Anthony Urso #Winnipeg #Canada

On this day in 2009, Them Crooked Vultures released their self-titled album. With “New Fang” and “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” leading the charge, it debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 and showed the full power of a rock supergroup firing on all cylinders.

Harvest Moon -Neil Young 🇨🇦 tidal.com/browse/track...

Clarity

On this day in 1981 at 9 a.m., Richard Truly deployed the Canadarm from the Space Shuttle Columbia while orbiting the Earth. It was the first time that the Canadarm was deployed in space. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2023/01/10/c...

AOC "It's unconscionable that what we are debating now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece, and we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor? How can we enrich ourselves by stealing from people?"

I love crabs and their perfectly round balls of sand ❤️

Love a beautiful sky before the drive home.

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Fire & Ice. A Red Maple leaf stark against a thin layer of freshly fallen snow. #Photography #Autumn #Winter

Old caves yield new secrets from Canadians who went over the top at Vimy Ridge The earth threatens to swallow messages of love and home from men facing oblivion #Canada #France #WWII #LestWeForget www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

First-ever atlas of brain development shows how stem cells turn into neurons There are 6 excellent human brain development papers in Nature - www.nature.com/articles/d41... Check them out!

I’m pretty sure he’s friends with the tech bros to delete stuff this time around. There won’t be docs in FL this time.

In Flanders Fields - poem by Canadian John McCrae #Canada #LestWeForget Pathologist and army physician, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a poet; he wrote “In Flanders Fields” — one of the most famous poems of the First World War. youtu.be/K6BlOkpdkg8?...

Sunset Ireland (November 10th), (Timelapse) West Field, Galway, Ireland #TimeLapse #Sunset #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography

When I read the full review of THE OCEAN'S HEART I cried (tears of joy)...Okay, I'm still crying. The reviewer connected with this book on every level. I hope other readers will, too. ❤️@steelworksliterary.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social #Edusky #Skybrarians #kidlit

This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

A lot of Canadians lost their lives and everyone at home sacrificed too to help defeat darkness. Very few lives were not touched by WW I and II. Let’s remember, give thanks and promise to stay in the light. 🇨🇦🙌

When daydreaming is real 🕊️ ….

A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...

There are so many reasons to be AI wary. Read Atlas of AI!

Bird of the day, Northern Lapwing captured yesterday on marshland in Galway Ireland. It's the first time I've seen these here... #BirdOfTheDay #NorthernLapwing #Lapwing #Least #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography

The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent. The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.

The face of a dog suffering from an addiction to the white fluffy stuff... #dogsofbluesky #SnowTO #snow #Toronto #SpringerSpaniel

A few long exposure shots taken on various trips.

Quiet footsteps

Random acts of senseless beauty #118

“This was a very very bad vote”

China just extended its lending facility to Tesla by $2.38 billion last quarter. Now he disses them right after getting his $1 trillion pay package approved. Tesla shareholders are stupider than followers of Jim Jones.

And water writes what none can name

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on Canvas.

Cyndi Lauper turned “True Colors” into a defiant call for courage and the music of Outkast, Soundgarden and the White Stripes brought waves of emotion at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. See this photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

I’d chase them!

"Kyoto -- falling straight down the first winter rain" Issa Kobayashi (image: rain in Kiyomizu temple, Takeji Asano)

QB1 reporting for duty. 👍 #GoBills | #BillsMafia

.. #writing is a solitary event..it's where you face your own questions about how you feel..want to feel about what comes from the quiet parts of you..and spills in honesty onto the #page..

And I'll say it again: ‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening. He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.

Perfect Sunday morning album Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢 Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain. That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.

Belted Kingfisher in it favorite fishing spot #birds