Kathy

Gorgeous! I'm coming for a visit next week (Mon-Thurs) (YAY!!!) so I hope the amazing weather holds on! 😎🧜‍♀️🪸🪼🦋🐳

MORE. OF. THIS. PLEASE.

If you are a reporter and not following up on questions this aggressively....quit...and go knit a pair of socks, play in the sand. Anything but pretend you are a reporter.

Trump ended the IRS Direct File program that allowed millions of taxpayers to file taxes for free.

That happened after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government to block the IRS from launching its own program.

Intuit also donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

See how this works?

Just ordered it. I trust your taste.

Cylindrical clay cylinder, tapered and flat on each end, covered with cuneiform writing. It's a 'toasty' color, yellows and browns, and a bit chipped here and there.

"I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken, with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain." - Nebuchadnezzar II

So says this Babylonian clay cylinder (604-562 BCE), inscribed with cuneiform. 🏺 1/

#MetMuseum 📸 me

Understanding how “marine snow” acts as a carbon sink news.mit.edu/2026/underst...
A new study finds hitchhiking bacteria dissolve essential ballast in ubiquitous “snow” particles, which could counteract the ocean’s ability to sequester carbon.

Thor's Helmet, taken from my balcony

Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) is an emission nebula in the Canis Major region, visible only for a short period during the winter season. It also remains quite low on the horizon, right in the middle of the light-pollution belt. These are nearly 21 hours of integrated exposure. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Administration: It's unfair to criticize members of ICE because there are good people working for them.

Me: The fact that they're willingly working for ICE is prima facie evidence that their status as "good people" is questionable.

A spike of purple and blue hyacinth

Hyacinth orientalis
#Winter #flowers #bloomscrolling

If there's a draft, ICE agents should be first in line.

Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a seated greyhound.
1st/2nd century AD, found in Lincolnshire.
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Scientific Shot of a Peacock mantis shrimp eyes which are the most advanced in the animal world. Photo by Daniel Sasse.

the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.

humans have 3.

we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.

the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.

#addOcean

'Headless chicken monster' spotted swimming in Antarctic Ocean Unlike many other sea cucumbers, the headless chicken monster can swim up into the water column.

Today, on International Women's Day, I, a human woman, want you to know there is a type of sea cucumber called the Headless Chicken Monster

“I voted for Democrats and look where we are. I am not voting for them again”.

People who talk like this quite simply might be just too damn stupid to be reasoned with.

Firefall, Yosemite 2/2025
Horsetail Falls, illuminated by the setting sun for a couple of weeks each February….

#flowing #blueskyartshow #nikon #yosemite #landscape #landscapephotography

Skilled excavator operator deftly returns a soccer ball to a group of kids

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A bright yellow nudibranch with black and blue markings crawls on underwater vegetation against a dark background. Photo by Olakhalaf.

There's a sea creature whose common name is the pikachu nudibranch and I need everyone to see it immediately.

This is *nothing* dignified about wearing a cheap baseball cap that promotes yourself to the otherwise solemn ceremony to receive the bodies of the troops you had killed to distract from your bad economy and rampant pedophilia.

Like clockwork.

World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over ‘blue tick’ sustainability label Aker Qrill is facing criticism of its fishery management amid calls by environmentalists for curbs on Antarctic fishing of the keystone species

The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.❗

To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some talking head on YouTube stated

"Donald Trump has now created a whole new generation of Islamic terrorists"

and this is not incorrect.

😡😡😡😡

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.