Yes, wild turkey can fly. They just prefer to travel by land most of the time. #birds

Going to try my first Carley Fortune book. Then as many of the others as I can get through before the due dates. 💙📚 🌶️📚 🎧📚 #romancelandia

Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing my first Winter Wren of the fall. A tiny bird with a BIG attitude! #birds #birding #wren #BirdOfTheDay

This is a total outrage and has crippled SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking and evolutionary analysis. Updating a file and giving access to Nextstrain & Cov-Spectrum does not require extensive resources, so the official justification is a lie. There has to be an ulterior motive here.

The photos in this thread drive home how recent this history is. Living memory.

This is why when folks were fighting to get an X gender marker on government ID, I went so hard on the idea that government ID ~shouldn’t have any gender on it at all~ It serves absolutely no purpose other than discrimination.

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖 Hint. Fucking. Hint.

#WildWebsWednesday with wonderful #waxcaps seen in the last week; parrot, blackening 'witches hat', I think butter waxcaps very sticky in the rain, scarlet, snowy, and splendid. All #Lancashire & #Cumbria #mushrooms #fungi

Many elements in this story are incomprehensible to people outside the US.

There’s no such thing as “conservative feminism.” They’re co-opting the label “feminist” as a shield against critiques of their misogyny. But you can’t be a feminist if your entire platform is stripping rights from other women to hand them to men.

The question being asked by the NYT after an election that promoted MANY women to power. It’s not a question. It’s a comment. An attack.

Speaking as a GAC provider: for years now, NYT has been a reliable spigot of medical misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (true facts presented in a way that misleads). NYT has goaded the anti-trans political machine as much as any institution in our country. I will never forget it.

Here's what's cropped for me on Libby. Anyone have a favorite you think should be on deck for my next read/listen? 💙📚 🌶️📚 🎧📚 #romancelandia

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

I'm my own worst enemy in this respect. Time was I could push through anything with enough ibuprofen and coffee. Since getting sick, I'm constantly reminding myself that pushing will wreck my baseline. Even knowing this is an unhealthy mentality doesn't ease the internal battle. #disability #ME

Bird flu is being painted as a problem wild birds are inflicting on the poultry industry, but it's precisely the reverse. Where do they think it developed in the first place, if not in the disease incubators that are mass battery farms? share.google/K4FBGkiuuUdc...

#tdih 1965, five men burned their draft cards in NYC in direct violation of federal law. An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence. A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

Good morning, beloved. It is difficult to change what we will not confront. Be courageous. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Bullfrog of the day! Thursday, 6 Nov 2025

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

the gop just ran a vicious campaign of anti trans propaganda in VA…and got absolutely destroyed not just in blue areas, but in red ones. every county went hard blue.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

full of envy for you readers who get book box subscriptions with nifty editions and fun swag. Is it just like constant Christmas at your house or what? 💙📚

make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!

Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Almost as though not throwing people under the bus is a winning strategy. 🤔

I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕

My dizzy self trying to navigate from room to room last night. Don't get Covid. 0/10 do not recommend. #dysautonomia #LongCovid #disability

Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

"It is very hard to delink Dick Cheney... from the evolution of the Republican Party that he ultimately came to criticize."

Cheney walked so Trump could run. This year is not an aberration, it's US empire being its same self louder.

Remember that time Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and then the guy had to go on TV and apologise for how being shot in the face made Dick Cheny look bad?

Nature and truth are one and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. ~Anna Brownell Jameson 🕉️ Have a sweet #TwosDay quail-peeps! 🪶🪶🌿 📸 Callipepla gambelii 💞 #TopKnotTuesday #BirdLovers #EastCoastKin #Photography #Birding

“it’s 2025, surely nobody could still be using ‘password’ as their password” the louvre: hold our baguette

That’s just the way it’s

Being poor, disadvantaged, or ignored doesn’t justify racism or Islamophobia. Punch up, not down. The real fight is with the elites who profit from division and fear. “Divide and rule” is their tactic. Don’t fall for it. Unity lifts us up. Disunity keeps us down.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

The United States didn't get here out of nowhere. Our system has been molded into a shape that allows for -- even encourages -- the current atrocities. Once we get Trump out of office, we need to repair the system that let him happen.

"The report outlines the way that systems in the US, including the tax code, social safety nets, and worker’s rights and protections, have been slowly dismantled, allowing concentrated wealth to turn into concentrated power." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Went looking for something new on Libby and this was available. I'm in the mood for light and low-stress. Never read this author before. Basically judged it by its cover and the fact that it was available for checkout. Bets on how good it'll be? 💙📚 🌶️📚 🎧📚 #romancelandia

I may rustle up enough photos for a weekly festive Robin if I’m lucky. I am very much enjoying the postings from the other side of the pond. #DailyFestiveRobin 📷🪶

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

Pretty sure the intent behind these equitable-treatment rules was to make sure that grocery stores didn't discriminate *against* the poor. But, sure, why not concoct a legal pretzel to make sure that a business can't do something that would both help customers and keep itself in business.

"Vote blue no matter who" only applies to politicians that support the status quo and do not want to change anything.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

I've developed this helpful sign for people who haven't done the reading.