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I've been chimping through my pelagic pics all rainy afternoon here on the Oregon Coast. I have a lot of editing still to do, but I'll share a couple highlights: Laysan Albatross and Sealion with fish. #birding

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Dracula - Frank Frazetta

https://gacha.o0o0.jp/gp/archives/43686 『ザリガニボーイズ フィギュアコレクション』12月発売予定。体は怪人だけど、ハートはザリガニ！ 日々楽しく遊んで暮らすだけ！！ The "Crayfish Boys Figure Collection" is scheduled for release in December. Their bodies may be those of monsters, but their hearts are those of crayfish! They simply enjo... #ガチャポン #gachapon

In more positive international shipping news New Black Phoenix just showed up from the always wonderful @richtommaso.bsky.social

Lito Barrientos - Cumbia En Do Menor [Colombia, Cumbia] (1960s) Classic cumbia chugger with enchanting clarinet. https://redd.it/3fwb3u https://youtu.be/QcyKExm6je8

They don’t tell you this but those walk-through metal detectors at the airport show the TSA agent how long you have to live and no one knows where that feature came from or how to turn it off

Mr. Gadwall F. Duckington, at your service. Sackville, #NewBrunswick, Canada September 2026 📸 #birds #duck #GADW #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

It Follows For Tax Purposes

Cynthia Richards - Jungle Fever [Jamaica, Reggae, Surf] (1972) https://redd.it/q0vd3a https://youtu.be/y7Oo7lN1Wus

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Mendelsohn talks about what he was going for in his translation of The Odyssey and how that compares to the aims of other translators youtu.be/ER92zBZ6BZY

I'm not sure if it was a fish or a frog that this Green Heron spotted, but it was something exciting enough to make the bird go into mohawk mode.

well shit, terrorizing immigrants and electing a subhuman kleptocrat to do patrimony for his sycophants and retainers didn't work. let's try these other guys who we will immediately blame when things continue getting worse

#FirstNameInSong #MusicChallenge Day 10 Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds (aka The Beverly Brothers) - Poor Jenny youtu.be/UoB-t8LL1EE?...

Dinnertime! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

They just always seem like they have no idea which direction their legs are going to take them 😂 #emuzoomies

Later it'll turn out Kraft made his donation to Kars 4 Kids variety.com/2026/music/n...

From last year. A good history lesson.

Juvenile Reddish Egret #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

PRECIOUS BABY SCAMPERING!!! 🐣 🪶

【気まぐれ生態写真】 ムラサキヤマドリタケ　Boletus violaceofuscus Chiu

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Was looking for aca subsidies news and this is what I got.... The news is completely completely complicit in Trump's crimes

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I don't fuckin know; sometimes you just need to look at a jellyfish.

The thing triangulating Democrats seem unable or unwilling to internalize is that the right wing thinks people who espouse liberal and leftist views are full of shit. Walking those views back, from their perspective, doesn't win their support but rather confirms their priors.

25 years.🥺 most years i read tom junod's falling man out of respect/grief for the victims. my memories of the day are mixed with sadness/anger for what our govt did after, parts which i know too well. this is well known but worth remembering, i think

Friday fungi friends. Not everything that is orange is evil. #fungifriday (Hygrocybe miniata)

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

just put up a video on this youtu.be/COUIZyAZtkA

Extremely ancient and incredibly weird. The inimitable GBH. #birds

kinetic plovers

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus): These raptors have eyesight that is adapted to spotting underwater objects from the air, useful when 99% of its diet is fish. With a wingspan of 180cm (71in) this bird is found in all continents (except Antarctica). #osprey #ospreys #fishhawk #raptor #raptors #birds #bird

it's September, so it's time to decorate for 2026 Halloween with specifically 2026 Halloween decorations

PLEASE take it from this local weed grower with a LOT of experience with herbal remedies: DO NOT FUCK WITH KRATOM. It is as addictive as opiates and completely unregulated. Just look up people's experiences with Feel Free from Botanic Tonics, the company mentioned in this story. archive.is/QHqsV