Move over salmon. Here are some lesser-known but no less spectacular fish migrations, including redhorse, sharptooth catfish & Nopili rock-climbing goby.
Plus gar with @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.
I went through a pretty aggressive agrarian moment for a hot second but now I think I’m firmly on team “everyone should just have a nice garden please dont try to grow all your own food or argue we can feed the world with boutique farms”
Juan de Fuca enters the chat
It's giving something about Mary vibes
An amazing stat:
Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.
It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
I'm on episode three and damn. This is an incredible piece of journalism, reflection, and examination of things we take for granted.
This speech was a particularly enjoyable one amid the predictable political arguments.
The Ascension of Christ, by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710, 📸 by Issac Baldizon
Indeed. Flattening language to a beige paste.
Since I had the Grammarly account for a bit anyway, I ran a couple of paragraphs from my blog through it, and my god this is a machine to smash every last bit of life out of your prose. Original then the Grammarly "improvement" cc: @biblioracle.bsky.social
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
"Only F1, the Brad Pitt-starring, Apple-funded blockbuster about the billion-dollar racing industry, cost more to produce and market than Noem's 60-second warning about "consequences" for illegal immigration."
The bill was amended significantly in the House, and it still needs to go back through the Senate and be approved over the next 53 hours.
"The Senate’s vote comes a couple weeks after Everett temporarily turned off its Flock Safety cameras last month, making it the biggest city in Washington state so far to stop using automated license plate readers."
Senate Bill 6346, "establishing a tax on millionaires", just passed the Washington House on a 51-46 vote after more than 24 hours of floor debate.
absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase
"With fewer trusted and local news sources, disagreements will be harder to overcome, the shared sacrifice and contributions may be less widely understood and our vulnerability to being misled will be far greater," columnist Brier Dudley writes for The Seattle times.
Rock wall along the dam looking into an orange sunset
Another from last night’s #sunset at the lake. #IdahoEscape
And they say there’s a housing shortage in nyc. Checkmate, YIMBYs
This sounds like somebody who grew up rich trying to imagine what poor people sound like.
We know how cash money works FAR BETTER than you do. You might know systems like stocks & IRAs & bonds & trust funds, but we do know cash money. We know SNAP doesn’t buy EVERYTHING at the grocery store.
Background information here:
70s style office building
Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET
Many progressive Christian influencers not only pushed unproven claim of military leaders saying Iran would spark "Armageddon" but also claimed this proves danger of Pete Hegseth & Doug Wilson. Like this from John Pavlovitz, who insisted Hegseth is "undoubtedly hearing" this in church. Not true! 1/
A worker in a mango orchard
In order to protect the mango trees from moles in Coachella CA "Fidel" is applying castor oil-based repellents that moles hate the smell of. This is important as mole tunnels can expose young roots to air, causing the roots to dry out and destabilize the young trees. #WeFeedYou
They went all night. And are still going…
This is the most over-the-top (bad) lawyer-written government declaration I’ve ever seen.
"The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege."
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