The Texas Quote of the Day: "After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch." ---- actress Mary Martin bemoans the impact of aging. Mary is from Weatherford, Texas and is most famous as the star of Peter Pan. She won four Tonys, an Emmy and was the mother of actor Larry Hagman. Shown: Mary Martin, 1939

Côte des Neiges Road, Montreal Kathleen Moir Morris c. 1930

If you don't love capybaras, we can't be friends. But I've always wished there was a capybara big enough to ride. It turns out all I needed is a time machine set for the Pliocene. There I would find 'Josephoartigasia magna', the largest rodent ever to exist. It may have been larger than a cow.

#USDemocracy Today we remember a World War II Naval Hero, a torpedo boat commander, the recipient of the Purple Heart, A Harvard graduate , he served in both houses of Congress and became our 35th President beating out Richard Nixon. 62 years ago today he was assassinated in Dallas. Salute 🫡 JFK

If I were choosing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize

Caution: the ten-year-olds have discovered the Macarena. I repeat: the ten-year-olds have discovered the Macarena.

Op 30 mei 2026 houden we onze eerstvolgende Holland Dag. Dat wordt een heuse Holland-Utrecht Dag, want dat doen we hier: www.ontstaanvanholland.nl/evenementen/...

Tuxedo Fany is a senior whose owner is terminally ill. She's smart, independent and gentle. Her owner has considered putting Fany and her other 2 cats to sleep out of fear that they won't be taken care of. #caturday #Perthamboy #NJ #adoptable www.petfinder.com/cat/fany-561...

22 minutes of #timeless www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogna...

new shape

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

Waiting to see Elon’s AI robots provide warm blankets and change bedpans and dressings on unstageable sacral pressure ulcers

Tatiana Schlossberg "My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half. They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered.." One truly never knows what others may be going through.

An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Cambridge wildlife

Meanwhile back in Rome. #pope #rave

"The Moderna moves come amid the federal government's pullback from both mRNA and vaccines, a pivot that has included the government axing funding for Moderna’s bird flu vaccine candidate earlier this year."

heads up, this WILL ALSO REMOVE the automatic sorting that Gmail does, so you will no longer have updates/promotions/forums tabs and instead have just one big inbox. Which is stupid

As the old saying goes, "What other people think about you is none of your business."

I hope this is for real in the CDC.

I spent the entire semester with a group of students studying the relationship between poetry and birds. Now they are what I call "deeply bird aware," noticing life around them with empathy and fascination. We will all be fine if we can stay connected to the living world beyond our human folly.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Yesterday was Rocky & Bullwinkle Day! Premiered 66 years ago, November 19th, 1959, Rocky & His Friends "Hey Rocky…. wanna see me pull a rabbit out of my hat 🎩? ……nothin up my sleeve...!" WhatsamattaU ! 😜 "Fanmail from some flounder" Here are hours of episodes! youtube.com/playlist?lis... names 👇

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

This lovely Northern Flicker perched on my fence and allowed me to take its picture this morning. Good #WoodpeckerWednesday timing 😉 #birds

#Nature #Photography #Reflections

Respect the bubble.

"Oh fuck, here comes Ted in his man-dress."

And on December 2 just keep on going, they're totally dispensable. #amazon prime membership never again.

What a people!

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

this little fool really makes my day

"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." In #providence #RI where the other 2 local Sinclair owned stations failed to report the above today.

DINNER AND KARAOKE WITH WILL FORTE! this is just one of the incredible experiences you can bid on for our Homes for Our Troops auction to build specially designed homes for wounded veterans! Auction ends Friday! Check out the items at eBay.com/HFOT

And proof that there really were thousands of birds (this is zoomed in between the two trees in the previous photo, when there was a big takeoff) . Sound up!

I don’t mean to brag but I live with a #dog who looks at me like this most days and it makes my heart SING #BestFeeling #DogsAreTheBest

It’s never too early to see Angela Merkel ironing her Christmas gift wrap. www.granger.com/0188584-ange...

I managed six years without flying. If you won’t do it for climate, maybe give it a try because you don’t like getting screwed.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

God, #GeorgeHarrison wrote the most gorgeous lovesongs. The opening, the slide, so ethereal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=31B6...

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

Paris, 1973 by Josef Koudelka

Good fortune isn't a skill set.

Warren Buffet said goodbye today. His final thoughts in his farewell letter:

.@JamesTalarico: If you rob young people of the ability to afford their first home, you are really locking them out of the American Dream. I don’t think older generations understand the damage being done to young people all over the country

#sweet #veterans