Whoabegone

I need these mysterious scout children to materialize and sell me all the thin mints

Fully endorse. Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) have allowed white-collar corporate crime to explode because there are no real consequences for bad actors. Shareholders eat the fine and it's back to business as usual.

Movie villain Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore realizing he looks like Andy Ogles

Shooter McGavin vibes...

Very good reporting, and it doesn't even get to the fact that a lot of the life-saving food supplied by USAID was purchased from American farmers and suppliers, hurting them, too.

Overheard. My grandparents lost their thriving business in the great depression, and though they recovered financially after a few very hard years, my grandmother shopped the same way for the rest of her life. She wasted nothing; she even washed and hung dry lightly soiled paper plates.

WOW...

this would be a game changer for my daughter... house dust mite allergies can be pretty awful.

this is really good work... bravo to you and all the candidates who are stepping up.

Now you're cooking with gas, Senator! I'm not going to drag the man when he's getting the right message out (voter registry purges are a huge part of this bill) and keeping his caucus in line on a 'no' vote.

Good reporting (and also please review and edit your lede).

Remington.... of course.

Felonius, min eale frend...

Two cactus wrens sitting atop a chollo.

I love the way these cactus wrens (photographed today) have a safe shelter inside a chollo catcus where they built their elaborate nest.

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

🐣 🪶

Awful. Trump's US Forest Service is also planning to clear cut 25,000 acres (with an additional 57,000 acres of other targeted logging) in a 40 mile span of old growth forest in the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan. No window for objections yet, but they decide this month and are steaming ahead.

That's what I worry most about, & even if they were ethical leaders (they're not), who's to say the next guy will be? We have lots of real world examples of C suite leaders doing heinous stuff in many industries, but AI under unethical leadership has the potential to lock down expertise completely.

I know I posted a pic earlier in the week, but I couldn't get enough of the Common Whitlowgrass on the walls of Tonbridge Castle. #SignsOfSpring #wildflowerhour #KentNature

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Some might call them weeds. I call them welcome garden visitors. White and blue forms of sweet violet #wildflowerhour #signsofspring

Bee on lilac coloured alpine squill with sticky green cleavers looming overhead.

Bee on alpine squill with cleavers umbrella just incase. #WildflowerHour

Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.

100% agree. New Deal tax dollars funded the arts too, and helped people like Rod Serling develop and flourish.
It was a righteous gift to us all.

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

I take your point, but also I shop at thrift stores, and it's been some time since I've seen an unlimited amount of high quality used clothing. The rare cottons, linens, wools donated are all quickly upsold to other markets, and there are unending racks of fast fashion polyester available instead.

Respectfully, do you know a lot of working-class people? I do, and they don't buy cheap fast fashion because they want to. They buy it because they literally can't afford anything else. It's always the Sam Vimes boot theory. Hard to save for quality items when your kids need school shoes right now.

"Man torches tiki hut in ill-conceived fart prank"...hahahaha! Your alt text is fantastic.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

well done, Michigan