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Blackburnian Warbler visited our back yard! 🤓🪶

My day was made better by this morning post of Franklin-the-Bunny staring out the window, courtesy of Becky Grambo @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social I hope your day has a surprise that is happy, cheerful, sweet, thoughtful, generous, stress-reducing and just plain old fun! #friends #nature #rabbits #joy

@michaeljklein.bsky.social Wall art outside the med facility waiting room. I'm in getting my oil changed and tires rotated. 🧵 1/

Interesting to see the early stages of a watercolor portrait This posted by Belgian artist Agnes Geets @agnesgeets.bsky.social #art #watercolour #watercolor #portrait #drawing #painting

Harmonious colors in this expressive watercolor by Edo Hannema @edowatercolourart.bsky.social #art #watercolour #aquarelle #landscape #trees #painting

Disgraceful. Try to imagine what would happen to rioters who tried to overthrow the govt if they had been Democrats. Even peaceful protesters get shot and killed. This is not democracy.

Add a bit of this to your day: ⬇️ 😊 Thanks @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social

My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm scrolling through the old pc in the studio and this one came as a bit of a surprise because I'd forgotten about it. Interesting colours for this old watercolour of Portugal Place, Cambridge. I don't know where it is now.

My wife love flowers, so we bought a few.

@sallybartonart.bsky.social Any watercolour painting or detail you could post? I miss seeing your work 😊

Today you all need to see an otter swimming with her baby they are so cute 🦦🥹

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This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Well, yes. No surprise there.

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

I created SallyScope, a tiny Julia package to analyze signals from Saleae oscilloscopes. These USB oscilloscopes are awesome at acquiring mixed signals, but the ability to analyze analog signals is limited. Exporting as binary is easy, however, and SallyScope takes it from there. #julia #hamradio

😥 For anyone who missed crazy, revenge-fueled event: maga-mania-DOJ indicted James Comey (FBI director under Obama) for posting a photo of sea shells on a beach. Shooting & killing peaceful protesters is OK, apparently

@agnesgeets.bsky.social Hello Agnes. Any samples of your paintings to post? I hope you are enjoying the spring 😊

We don't have to go back to dark times. #impeach rfkjr #impeach tr__p #voteblue

Finding beauty on a cloudy day: Watercolor sketchbook plein air by Wil Freeborn @freeborn.bsky.social #art #watercolour #aquarelle #painting #landscape #clouds

Enjoy the lovely reflection in this watercolor painted by Dutch artist Edo Hannema You can follow him at @edowatercolourart.bsky.social or find his excellent demos on YouTube #watercolour #art #landscape #painting

Plus every vaccinated child and adult protects those who cannot get vaccinated - either because they aren't old enough to be eligible themselves or because of underlying health conditions.

@michaeljklein.bsky.social My watch told me I needed more steps to be sufficiently active last hour. So I walked into the kitchen for a cookie and cup of coffee. I'm not certain that was what the watch intended 🤔

By far the youngest baby burrowing owl I have seen this year. So cute! 🪶

And the dog ate his homework? So he thinks the problem is that people found out about the undisclosed "gift" (that's quite a gift!) rather than his accepting and not reporting the "gift"?

Sadly true. Such hypocrisy by gop-maga-twerp-republicans

This is not good. Emboldened behavior is a warning: Translation➡️ "What is astonishing is not the meeting itself... what is astonishing is the normalization. It is being cheerfully posted that representatives of the Bundestag participated in gatherings attended by known right-wing extremists."

Some milkweed fluff. The #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Soft all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #nature #sunlight

Out for anniversary celebration dinner in advance of Ted leaving for a conference Lovely evening although about to be chilly. He's off getting me a coat Grab joy when you can.

Common Redpolls have been here for a while, but they nest in the Arctic and the remaining stragglers appear to have all left now. This male redpoll, however, was still around a few days ago and frantically foraging to bulk up for the rest of his trip! #Birds 🪶

The full photo of the average size Kingdom of Kent oak tree, and an average size citizen The tree is Majesty, the largest oak tree in Europe, & my son Oliver, who is 6 feet 6 inches 🙂🌳

From my travels a few months ago! Thanks @ellen-friedman.bsky.social for the encouragement 😊 #drawing #watercolor #england #london #art #travel

Just heard from @bsky.tdunning.com : "Here's a bird I don't see every day on Merlin app: the American crow. Because I don't open Merlin every day." 😆

The Book of Birds is, quite simply, wondrous. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris reimagine the humble field guide through breathtaking artwork and lyrical storytelling, drawing readers into the lives of 49 threatened species. Discover it here: uk.bookshop.org/a/16968/9780...

Get your children vaccinated against measles. Keep them safe.

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Saw a bumper sticker today: "I do not think, therefore I do not am" (I say apologies to René Descartes, but it did entertain me while I waited in traffic 😆)

A small pomegranate, from our garden - painted where it sat on the table. I loved the contrast between the weathered skin, warm reds and golds, and the quiet white space of the sketchbook page. Sometimes the simplest subjects hold the most character.

Might he try?? Bizarre question given that he is already actively assaulting our right to vote *attacks on vote-by-mail *trying to require name on voter regis to match name on birth certificate - really bad for married women who changed names

But his gop maga govt doesn't think we can afford to pay for school lunches or healthcare or university research Sadly this $1billion for a tacky ballroom is small compared to low estimate of $25billion SO FAR for his illegal war on Iran Gross corruption and waste

Good late pm walk last Sun, lots of hills, in nearby neighborhood & open space reserve. My legs still feeling it. I need to do more! Some things I saw along trail: *Western hills *Sunny grass along trail *Black-tailed deer *Native wildlife photographer aiming at small flowers #nature #photos

The lack of health insurance kills more Americans than Iran, yet Trump and Hegseth prefer spending 200B on war over care. Prioritizing weapons while ignoring lives is national neglect, not national security. #HealthcareNotWarfare #USDemocracy

As Ohioans head to the primary polls today, even Polymarket has Democrats favored to win the governor’s race there. Take that with a grain of salt… but the momentum is real. Show up. Vote. Let’s run all the way through the tape and finish the job.

Apply for our Young Bird Observatory Visitors Programme grant ➡️ www.bto.org/ybov Each year the BTO provide a number of grants of up to £250, to support young people looking to visit one of the accredited British and Irish Bird Observatories. #Ornithology 📆 Closing date: Sunday 31 May

A huge collaborative effort this week from the UKCEH team and NatureScot colleagues completing the biennial Puffin census on the Isle of May. 15 people, ~600 hours, ~1.5M steps, tens of thousands of burrows counted. Now we wait for the 2026 Puffin total 🐧 #seabirds #ornithology #fieldwork