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Gone Whale Watching San Diego "Amidst all of this orca mania, it’s been an outstanding start to humpback season! Over a dozen humpbacks were seen in San Diego yesterday, including this spectacular breacher captured by Captain Michael!" 📹Captain Michael Irwin Merriam

1909 Baker Electric

#Iran hosted a security summit with leaders from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. #Makkah Joint Defense Agreement member states also met with Iran's President. They want to promote de-escalation, dialog, and support regional mediation initiatives led by #Qatar and Pakistan. #peace #war

#Anthropic #Claude #AI accessed #electiondata that normally requires payment before downloading. It did not access private information like voter registrations, it requested a token for public voter count stats and received them without paying. www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a... #voting #elections

Eleven days and it's still not clear who throttled #Ukraine #Starshield #Starlink capabilities. Lots of finger-pointing. It's incredibly important to our own national security and our influence on life-or-death in other nations to know what happened and who's pulling the strings. #Russia #Putin

A cosmic iris blooms in the velvet dark, crowned by a halo of ancient, burning dust. Gravity spins these stellar embers into a radiant diadem, an eternal eye gazing out across the silent void.

This man was dead weight, hanging high above the ground after touching a high-voltage line. His coworker climbed up, held him in place, gave him mouth-to-mouth. Randall Champion survived—and lived another 35 years. Rocco Morabito’s photo, “The Kiss of Life,” won the Pulitzer Prize. True heroism.

Lightening At Priest Mesa…

Ukrainian soldier shows booby traps he says Chechen fighters left behind in recaptured territory, a hidden danger for demining teams and returning civilians

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Now wolves are showing up in villages because their forest got destroyed for a giant corporate data center. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

#ScottPresler allowed out-of-state persons to use his address to vote in PA. The PAC claims they "established residence" but if they didn't intend to stay or change their driver's license, auto plates, and other documents to that address then it's #voterfraud. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-electio...

A first-year male blue grosbeak. Isn't he pretty? #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

While in Arizona last week I went to Waterhole Canyon. Unfortunately, due to recent rains I was only able to tour the first, above ground, portion but it was still enjoyable and of course I took a few photos along the way. Nikon Z9, Z 24-70mm S lens at 70mm, f2.8, ISO100, 1/60 second

scheduled post Shawn Heinrichs Photographer & Conservationist Emmy Winning Cinematographer

Some more rainbow magic. Photo taken yesterday in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. The little blobs are raindrops, it wasn't easy keeping the rain off my lens 😂Despite a coat I was absolutely drenched as the rain and wind were a bit intense.

Market day in a Lancashire town, painting by Salford-born Edith Le Breton (1912-92).

“Our old horse is blind. He walked into the creek and couldn't find his way back out... He kept turning toward the deep water. His donkey waded in, leaned up against him and walked him to the bank one step at a time. They've been best friends for eleven years.”

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

Elizabeth Aline Colborne (1885-1948) Table Mountain and Bagley Lake, Mt. Baker National Forest, 1928. Coloured multi-block woodblock.

Dramatic Sunrise on the Gulf Coast #bluesky #love

Nika Ritshel and ballerina Anastasila Shylnikova use a motion-trail effect to create layered, translucent silhouettes that capture the arc of a high leg extension in ballet photography. IG: @nika_ritshel ~ Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.instagram.com/nika_ritshel...

A bicolor double-ruffled Picotee carnation, Belén de Escobar, Argentina. The clove-scented petals are edible and offer a mild, sweet, and peppery taste used to garnish salads or desserts. The scientific name Dianthus translates to "flower of the gods" #BloomScrolling #Flower #Floral #Gardening

Davyon has been honored by the Muskogee Police Department and Muskogee County Sheriff's Office. Mayor Marlon Coleman declared Dec. 10th Davyon Johnson Day. "He's always been a helpful person, from, I would say, about 3 or 4 years old," says Davyon's mom, LaToya Johnson, a daycare worker.

I absolutely did not see this cutie at first. A Tennessee warbler. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Democratic Senator Chris Coons says Elon Musk should not be able to influence the course of a war "with one switch." He compared that level of control to a private individual being able to turn fighter jets, aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines on and off. #Ukraine

Trump’s accounts bought up to $5 million in SpaceX debt just 48 hours before he signed a policy benefiting Musk’s company, which holds billions in federal contracts, raising serious questions about presidential conflicts of interest.

Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

Never leave a turtle behind: #AGoodPlace Source: We Love Animals

Artist Alex Peter Idoko uses his “Pyro-Fusion” technique of burning and sculpting with fire on canvas with collage to create hyperrealistic portraits. www.alexpeterart.com/artist IG: @alexpeter_idoko ~ Nigeria www.instagram.com/alexpeter_id...

Stunning 820 years old linden tree in the Czech Republic Original post

Opal is not a crystal. It is hydrated silica holding up to 20% water, and inside that dull crust sit millions of tiny spheres that split light into red, green and blue.

Remember when Elon introduced his robots they used radio control behind the scenes and actors inside costumes to promote it? Well... some people are now claiming they may have lied when they said the Roadster used suction. They think the ramp itself may have been magnetic. youtu.be/jNRdqJHuuYo?...

A robot arm uses air suction to turn fragile pages without touching the spine, scanning up to 2,500 pages per hour. The Treventus ScanRobot is helping libraries digitize old books safely.

The Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina is an early 1900s German orchestrion that uses a rotating bow and pneumatic fingers to play three violins and a piano from a perforated paper roll, dubbed the “8th wonder of the world” at the 1910 Brussels World's Fair. IG: @andreridd ~ Netherlands

Like other animals, crabs generally like to play without much human assistance; and when they have the right entertainment solution, they couldn't be happier. This one is particularly creative [📹 wangweilu123] Repost of @HAZEIM04041985: Original post

One of the best Halloween costumes ever [🎃 utahstories]

Purple-crowned fairy-wren 14cm Endemic to tropics of northern Australia Diet primarily insectivorous and seeds Female builds the nest and incubates for 14 days male feeds her both plus helpers (previous siblings) feed the chicks and they all stay together as a tight family unit in a large flock

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

I served as an OSCE election monitor multiple times--in Ukraine, Poland, and Kazakhstan. Inviting in trained international observers both builds confidence in domestic elections and demonstrates support for free and fair elections to the world. Trump has banned OSCE election monitors from the USA.

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine