snow flea

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

was just told by a doctor that I need to "limit and reduce stress" in my life but then he refused to put me in a medically induced coma -- pick a side, man

Pretty sure Canadian Post is doing this as well. The isolation is crushing

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

Millennials are killing the Being Alive Industry

I'm in one of the bluest states and I'm surrounded by trump signs. It's a really unhelpful metric

A selfie of Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis in a conference room in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They were casual business wear and white N-95 masks.

We’re at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Long COVID and related IACCs!

The conference is in Santa Fe, New Mexico and features talks, posters, and workshops from leading researchers 😷🏜️😷

Awww, hey bud! I would do it again

This is the THIRD July 10th in a row that there as been major flash flooding in Vermont. I don’t know if there are any communities that got hit all three years. But I know some getting hit now did in ‘24.
This is extremely freaky.
My area is fine this time. But others aren’t. Don’t know much yet.

last night, someone on tiktok asked
me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate.

so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

If you care about Medicaid, I need your help. These kids are the best chance we have of saving Medicaid.

Families are on the way to DC. We need to cover van rentals and hotel rooms. I will not, I will NOT, waste your money or time.

Can you help get this donation link in front of your people?

From a land use perspective urban cemeteries are not the greatest but on the other hand I'm walking by one and it's so cool due to presumably all the haunting that it's pretty great. Better than surface lots I guess

Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands

Two Leos 😅 (who somehow stayed married for 24 years, probably because their Gemini daughter was constantly refereeing and raising their other kid)

I haven't talked about this in a while, but while we are currently in a golden age of romance focused bookstores, it was within the last decade that readers were crowdsourcing a google map of bookstores that wouldn't treat you like trash if you asked for a romance novel.

So this is GOOD!

From the gov site:

"In the current era of high population immunity to COVID-19, additional COVID-19 doses provide very limited, if any, protection against infection and any subsequent onward transmission of infection."

This is utterly, utterly false.

if you are ever tempted to use chatgpt just text me and I will tell you the wrong answer instead. it will not harm the planet and it will have much more razzmatazz

I've been going outside a bit more lately because I can't let the agoraphobia win & I've gotta say: Would be easier if I didn't get weird glares anywhere I go from people who are strangely upset that I'm wearing a face mask. Many people have just mysteriously forgotten that high risk people exist.

I love and appreciate Ebony for always hyping me up.

My name on all the 💵 apps = heymrsbond and all donations will support my upcoming class!

The best way you can celebrate today is LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN.

A wombat undermined our house to build his burrow. Nearly $50k in foundation repairs, plus $200 in chicken wire to keep him out. Now he’s done the same thing to the shed, so $5k to build a new shed on the other side of the property. Here he is, old Fat Bastard himself.. Edit: it’s wild how many people are suggesting we “get rid” him... Apart from it being very much illegal, the idea would just never even cross my mind. It’s his home too. He’s now settled in his new burrow, and our house is wombat-proofed. The worst he does now is dig up my potatoes.

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?"

99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

That love is abundant, not finite. Humility. The government can’t be trusted. The earth is important and we’re not separate from it. How to spot good music.

Black Mirror has nothing on this reality.

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

Except this person (me) may actually be a nonbinary spicy woman.

Not applicable to most etc., but just saying...

The LaCroix of Pride. If someone yelled Pride in the apartment adjacent to you while you happened to be getting dressed.

From the Kansas City star: U-Haul bans, patriot front members after trucks rented in Casey for March

THANK YOU!!!