Lori Lou Freshwater

Indeed.

Renewables give you cojones grande.

Is the US primed to house its petroleum reserve in Douglas County self-storage units? No. But there’s a story.

I don’t think this made it out of the 24 hour news cycle last year.

I managed to capture the silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge with the sun bursting through one of its pillars. ☺️

#landscape #landmark #goldengatebridge #sanfrancisco #california #urbanphotography #urban #travel #eastcoastkin #photography

Consider yourself graced by a gentle green sea turtle ☺️〰️🔮🐢🪸〰️🌇 #greenseaturtle #seaturtlesofcoralcity #seaturtle #coralcitycamera

rough (like uff in buff)
cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
thought (like aw in saw)
through (like oo in woo)

Enough.

Canyon Rim Visitor Center, New River Gorge National Park & Preserve

Canyon Rim Visitor Center, New River Gorge National Park & Preserve

#NPS #NationalParkService #NewRiverGorgeNationalPark

Our meerkats received a new enrichment item for the first time: bubbles! Watch our playful family curiously interact in their new dayroom.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - well that's fun. 🧪🌍

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump's Iran war is estimated to cost in the billions already, with no end in sight • Rhode Island Current WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have not formally authorized a war in Iran, though they may soon be expected to approve emergency funding for the endeavor without any projection from the Trump admini...

“One lesson of history is that a war that is supposedly short or brief has these huge repercussions that ripple across time,” Stephanie Savell, Cost of War project director at Brown University's Watson School. By @jennifershutt.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/03/11/r...

standing at the edge of the vast canyon between rubio's heel and the back of his shoe, shading my eyes against the sunrise

This is populist slop.

Do better.

Hello America

Learning ASL at the same time as Spanish is actually helpful!

C.P.E. Bach // 'Sonata in C Major, Wq 136 (H 558)' by André Lislevand, Emil Duncumb & Jadran Duncumb YouTube video by Outhere Music

From the Bach boy who would easily pass the “Two Beers & a Puppy” test*,
the quicksilver shimmer of CPE Bach’s Sonata in C Major, Wq 136. He was *such* a middle child…

Bright and witty, it’s empfindsamer Stil at its most charming. #ClassicalMusic

*See post below for explanation of the 🍻& a 🐶 test.

we dare you to find a museum more ready

Trump Borrows Nazi Playbook to Imprison Firebomber’s Family in 'Hell Hole' ICE Prison “This is a nightmare," immigration attorney Eric Lee tells Status Coup about the 9-month imprisonment of Colorado firebomber's innocent wife and children at Dilley ICE Prison.

🚨“This is a hell hole,” attorney Eric Lee tells us about 9-month imprisonment of innocent family members of Colorado firebomber (wife & 5 kids) in disease-infested Dilley ICE prison.

He notes Trump is borrowing from Nazi playbook of collective punishment. www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/trump-borr...

Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems A major sewer pipe collapse has dumped hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River, highlighting a nationwide problem involving failing infrastructure.

At least 18.7 million people are served by one of roughly 1,000 utilities that are in serious violation of pollution limits. At least 2.7 million live with a system that violated federal clean water rules over the last three years, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.

A true Prince is always happy to share their fur knowing it will always be replenished.

Crow party up in here and they took fur with them.

When you're afraid to jump off the dock: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

#OnThisDay in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was 1st published. It's not been out of print since. Read Sharon Ruston on the scientific background to the novel incl. contemporary investigations into the possibility of states between life and death: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Vittore Carpaccio of Venice. Turned the ordinary into the marvelous in his paintings. Here, a particularly luminous Flight into Egypt, 1515.

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing."

Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy

Jacob Lawrence, The railroad stations in the South were crowded with people leaving for the North, 1940-41
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134636

Spangled with eyes more
numerous than those
Of Argus, and more wakeful
than to drouse,
Charmed with Arcadian pipe,
the pastoral reed
Of Hermes, or his opiate rod.
Mean while,
To re-salute the world with
sacred light,

XI, 130-134

Windswept Point, US Virgin Islands National Park

#NPS #NationalParkService #USVirginIslandsNationalPark

An adorable raccoon.