Bruce

I keep asking myself: “How did we get so mind numbingly stupid enough to elect people who would be fascists?” And it all comes back to education. We started teaching to the test, stopped teaching civics, stopped valuing the arts and independent thought. We started teaching people to be profitable.

Welcome back Helen 🙂 #OnOneLeg for #BirdOfTheDay

Why did these dancers hide their identities? Soot-blackened faces once helped protect farmworkers who risked losing their jobs and homes by mocking the gentry. Full story as Kate Viscardi discovers the story behind the masks.

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Eric Bauza, an Emmy-winning voice actor who was the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters, has died. He was 46.

Please never give up on your dream that one day, you will finally have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

I am still mad about this. What do you mean the most high tech science fiction sounding power ever, nuclear power - "NUCLEAR" for gods sake! - is actually a giant *steam engine*??!?!!

me: You're generous, but I don't need any more fibrous tissue. my body: Oh, I encyst.

biblically accurate cat

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Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

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You might cry. You might want to take up Go. Possibly both. Only one way to find out.

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

Excited to see a beautiful male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail this week. By far, this is latest in the year that I have seen a Tiger since I started my butterfly journey in 2020. I hadn’t see one past September. #Photography99 📷 #MeadowStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋 #Swallowtails

A stunningly beautiful Common Buckeye butterfly surrounded by wild Asters 🤎🧡💜🤍💛 #Photography99 📷 #MeadowStrolling 🌱 #BloomScrolling 🌻 #Butterflies 🦋

I'm sure that when I looked at the linked shop this morning, there weren't nearly as many "Out of stock" notices... Hooray for a person selling cool stuff getting suddenly popular, but I'm gonna have to try to remember to check in a month or two once the internet moved on.

Okay, I really need to sleep now, but I will leave you with this PSA: The Next Fest page is good now. I spent three hours and found *fifty* games you can play NOW, that I had never heard of before, and all look cool. Many look very weird. The only AI use is a couple that use machine translation.

woo here it comes

Video of a regent parrot mum leaving her nest after feeding the kids - old river red gums are critical habitat for these birds but they’re under threat from logging and water stress

Same for the companion couch-surfing website. We put up a dude for the night who was rollerblading from Bordeaux to Toulouse along the canal footpaths. First time I ever saw marathon rollerblades.

#FernFriday

Thank you @catsofyore.bsky.social for hosting the show! Here is a bobcat drawing from a recent trip to Arches, Canyonlands, and other Utah locations. We didn't see a bobcat while there, I just imagined that we did, looking back at us skeptically. More, some with cats: brucewashburnart.com

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

#WaterDragon

Fantastic lichens of Finse, Norway

Seconding the 'please, if you have room and inclination, adopt' because what if you DO adopt some little creecher and you're like "I have never had a cat before, he is very cute but what do I do with him" and he's like "YOU DO THIS" for a solid month (Photo from July 2022)