I reeally enjoy this blog post demonstrating how English has changed. It uses a story to demonstrate, where each subsequent passage uses older and older language

It's June

dark-eyed junco getting protective 😤

Nice day out here

📍 Las Salinas de Calpe #CostaBlanca Centuries old salt flats, now a salt lagoon home to greater flamingos enjoying the brine shrimp. Black-winged stilts flying around protecting their young, and pallid swifts shrieking overhead.

Grumpy frogs in Japanese art

yellowthroat with food for baby

Please enjoy the only photo I managed to get of the Marsh Wren when it was airborne doing a territorial display today

*chanting* BLUE JAYS BLUE JAYS BLUE JAYS

somehow missed this beast on the way up

Day 29 of #Coverbirds! Today’s coverbird is the Belted Kingfisher, and she’s a perfect subject for the cover of my imaginary book of short stories about infatuation, obsession and frustration (1/5) #birds

do you like my dog

whimsical small town statues thread alert

Slow, slow, slow your boat: Vancouver Park Board to vote on jet ski ban

Fewer than 1,000 leatherback sea turtles remain in the Eastern Pacific. To protect them, scientists tagged the first nesting leatherback in Ecuador, named Lucero, and are tracking her migration south to Peru to help fishers avoid critical turtle habitats. Bobby Bascomb reports for #Mongabay.

HOLY SHIT MOOMIN FONT

We love to see it 🦆🦫

"Ghost" fishing nets are a menace, catch species indiscriminately as they float around in the water. Die-offs of entangled animals like this is the result.

weekend in sight 🏞️

There is something so amazing about bees.

new (to me) animal alert

Mongabay is opening applications for the Southeast Asia Ocean Reporting Fellowship. This program is designed for early-and mid-career environmental journalists from coastal nations in the Southeast Asia region. Help us tell the stories that shape the future of our oceans. mongabay.cc/meZsN9

On this day in 1907, Rachel Carson was born. Her 1962 book, Silent Spring, helped launch the global environmental movement. Chemical companies tried to discredit Carson by calling her a Communist and/or a “hysterical” woman. #WeTheMen

the people yearn for centaur Adam Driver

Saimaan pesälaskennoissa havaittiin 101 syntynyttä saimaannorpan kuuttia, joista tähän mennessä tiedetään kuolleen 12 yksilöä. Apukinosten ja keinopesien merkitys saimaannorpille on korostunut entisestään. wwf.fi/uutiset/2026...

“Rather than treating individual and system change as opposing pathways, we focus on how people can exercise agency through the social roles they occupy.” 👏

Gratitude to @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social for his decades of service for people + planet. I've been using this photo in @cape-acme.bsky.social talks for years because he epitomizes the best kind of decision-maker: genuine, kind, science-informed + values-driven. Merci beaucoup et bonne chance.

Western Meadowlark bring the yellow #birds 🌿

If you’re wondering how I spotted it, it has a VERY distinctive call 🕵️‍♂️

Good morning* from the buttercups, leaning into the sunshine Good morning from the Mock Orange, scenting the yard so sweetly Good morning from the Dahlias that bloomed so early this year And good morning from my feet in the dewy grass, un-pictured because no free feet pics for the internet 😂

coding jams for today 🦦

Barbarian (2022)

"Really, it’s much bigger than that, because those same fatty acids [in the biofilm] are responsible for the eulachan fishery, salmon fisheries and it goes up to orcas and marine mammals. It’s really that transfer of fat — these fatty acids — through the system"

Hokum was EXCELLENT. I haven't been that scared watching a horror movie in a long time

A distressing feature of this whale watching excursion was that it included a professional photographer whose photos were much better than mine, and he sent them to all of us before we'd even left the boat. Ha ha. #SanJuanIsland 📷🌿🦭🐳

got the good film (kodak ektar) again

My toddler watching Curious George order a hundred dozen donuts

Some English gardens; and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co., 1904. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18503499) #nature #illustration #art

A peaceful morning at the pond to hopefully slow your heart rate a bit.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The vaquita "little cow" porpoise is the smallest cetacean, a charming little animal, and one we may soon lose. Due to their size and small habitat, they're prone to getting entangled and killed in fishing nets. Today as few as 10 vaquita porpoises remain; they deserve our protection. 🐬

Suurin syy sille, miksi ihmiset eivät pidä sosialismista, on se, etteivät he tiedä mitä se tarkoittaa.

Hello friend! This Gray Catbird is asking the question "is it called 'birdwatching' because you watch birds, or because birds watch *you*?" (Magee Marsh boardwalk, NW Ohio USA, last weekend) #birds

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