Life sure is challenging but at least there are baby birds. Here’s a Clapper Rail chick #birds 🌿
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Life sure is challenging but at least there are baby birds. Here’s a Clapper Rail chick #birds 🌿
Judging human for not being home
an important reminder: if a trans person tells you they want to try out a new name/pronouns/etc in a space you're responsible for, be it a classroom, a lab group, or social group, that's a huge sign of trust and a pretty big deal.
Quote with quiet photo. (with AltText please)
we’re having our welcome to the English department party and students in our department are always a little shy so our chair printed out little packets with discussion ideas
I can’t skate at all! 😂
There is only two places to see art of really plump hogs : - the @themerl.bsky.social - my doom portfolio
I share a birthday with Tony Hawk. He seems like a good guy!
I am informed that the photo I posted was a black square and then I tried again and IT WAS A BLACK SQUARE AGAIN wtf I thought technology was all about cats Anyway trying again on my Hated Device??
Just heard the greatest line for a question I never know how to answer. A woman at the checkout asked the man behind me “Hello how are you?” And he said: “I’m stable thanks.”
Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE
BTS J-Hope Instagram 2025-09-03 www.instagram.com/stories/uarm... J-Hope says thank you for the award: best individual Kpop singer.
Friends! Beloveds! I beg you! Never ever put username or password info in plaintext. Do not send it unsecured in an email. Never ever. Do not. It's bad and people can easily steal it and do bad things. Love and kisses, Ash who is drowning in security breach work joy
BTS J-Hope Instagram 2025-09-03 www.instagram.com/stories/uarm...
Moisture from Hurricane Lorena is likely to surge into the Desert Southwest of southern AZ and southeastern CA late tonight and into the weekend. Heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding across the region. nhc.noaa.gov
Wait this bit about his choice of entrance makes SO much sense! If he came out singing *at* us, it would have felt like a normal concert. But he was just the party host, starting off game night with his “dojeon!” JIN YOU ARE A JINIUS!
GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN
There are ravens on my balcony (HUGE!) And one of them has discovered my bike bell.
Well, you are super beautiful, and I bet you’re even prettier now!
I wear mine frequently, and always wear my necklace with the Korean version of “everything will be okay” on it. I need the reminder a lot, a lot.
Warning anyone who uses paypal for business Starting feb 1st Paypal will dox you if someone can correctly guess your email. Log into paypal go to your invoice settings and change all the info to "Hide From Recipients" www.paypal.com/invoice/s/se...
Holy hell, more like this:
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Important thread, make sure you read to the end.
still cannot believe my bias went and got a TATTOO while I was away, doesn't he know I need to be informed of such things 7-10 working days beforehand???
💜 BTS is/in Art 💜 He's magical! ART USED: The Oracle, Marguerite Louis Blasingame (~1935) #btsisinart #bts #taehyung #v
When you want to see where your bestie is going, but you don’t want to get up
Like all textile enthusiasts, the Clothworkers’ Team love to see the underside of a piece to help to understand the making process. We are working to add photos to the database & wanted to share this Kuki shawl, known locally as Thangnang ponsil, which is as beautiful on the back as it is the front!
cozy cozy
Jeremejevite is a mineral that shows pleochroic properties, which is an optical phenomenon in which the mineral's color appears to change depending on the angle at which it is viewed. This mineral is also piezoelectric, meaning that it would generate electricity when under mechanical stress. #vote
Jeremejevite is an aluminium borate mineral with variable fluoride and hydroxide ions. It is considered as one of the rarest, thus one of the most expensive stones. For nearly a century, it was considered as one of the rarest gemstones in the world. New to me, this gets more write up below.
Hayüne old name Azure spar, is a rare tectosilicate sulfate mineral. It is a feldspathoid and a member of the sodalite group. Hauyne was first described in 1807 from samples discovered in Vesuvian lavas in Monte Somma, Italy. It fluorescences under long wave ultraviolet light.
jeremejevite X haüyne in the #MinCup25 sketchbook. 💎 I've cast my vote, what's yours? #sketchbook #b&wart #sciart #minerals
Shopping for ingredients for my twins’ birthday dinner and cake took me, like, 3 times as long as it would have a year ago, and I was straight up limping by the end (I did go to 4 different stores to get everything). I was gonna bake the cake tonight, but my ankle is too sore, so tomorrow it is!
A literal fact
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Today I go for the dark & dramatic #stibnite in #MinCup25! Not only because we have a specimen in our lab’s mineral display 👇, but also because antimony was one of the bright & energy saving luminescent ions in fluorescent tubes (incorporated as Sb3+, yielding the blue component).
Great #Stibnite crystal spray with #Calcite from Herja, Romania. #MinCup25 #MinCup #minerals #crystals #mineralcollecting #mineralexpert #rockhounding #mineralogy
I missed Aug's #InverteFest bc of difficult pain recovery cycle, so here's quote-post thread of belated art shares. Turned the devil reef crab watercolor study into a lil invertebrate queer cheer sticker! Slowly testing out this format. Salty but here 🦀🌈 #SciArt 🐡 #TradArt 🎨 #painting #WildlifeArt
Too late for #InverteFest (coz I've been on holiday), but here are two drawings with inverte representation at an exhibition of children art in Bangkok. I especially adore the second one named "Stag beetle on a stick". I mean, look at the kids looking at the beetle 🥹
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
i am being informed on IG that there is also a car driving around the city with a plate that just says ANXIETY common winnipeg W
in fairness, in some states it's merely a 7-14 day quarantine that you will probably have to pay for out of pocket but yeah, why even take that risk?
“37% believe rabies vaccines could make their dog autistic.” Uh-huh. Even if that *were* a thing - which it’s not - if your dog bites someone and it doesn’t have proof of a rabies vaccine, it has to be tested. And that makes your dog DEAD. So vaccinate your dogs!
Hey look, new eruption at Kīlauea! Return of the "inclined fountain". www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
EDMONTON: this is Fiasco, @premeemohamed.com's beautiful boy. after slipping outside a few days ago, he needs help finding his way home. can you share this with your local circles?
Gorgeous goth stibnite for me. Go vote! Also, mindat dot org is a great place to research your choices. www.mindat.org/gm/3782
my genetics class once again falls on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and if I plan to take those days off (which obvs i do), i have to provide "equivalent instructional time" still. ditto for Passover in the spring semester. meanwhile we're not even *allowed* on campus on Christmas.
That looks freaking delicious.
And by most important, it is the equivalent of putting a training on Christmas. And something like this happens *every year*. I once lost a friend over something scheduled on Yom Kippur that she was annoyed I suggested we had to move.
FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are: Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it. (AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)
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One of the Binturongs in a tree #PaigntonZoo #binturong #mammals
Oh look. Soft emotions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciRf...
roses are red gold is the key
Two solar storms have combined to produce spectacular auroras across parts of Europe and North America—and even more breathtaking views are forecast.
good morning d-day good day (myg 2024:4-21)
![Yoongi on a snorkeling trip, wet and sitting on the boat. The sub says “[(Nom nom)]”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fjcrhjcvd3r6xfl63hzrwliq/bafkreibiqf2a22zqu2paasg62smwqahhjzhdtdijermcchppvngzhnthtu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Oh, that sounds like a truly awful dream!
Namjoon on instagram. He shared @shiho_style's post. 💜🐨💜 #RM #BTS 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DOFSpa7khF_/
Tae on instagram. 💜🐻💜 #V #BTS 🔗 www.instagram.com/stories/thv/...
It's been a genocide for the past two years, but maybe more people will listen now? www.middleeasteye.net/news/world-t...
I mean, it’s also very useful, but I’m mainly voting for it because it looks cool. You know the throne of swords from Game of Thrones? It kinda looks like the back of that. #Okenite apparently can be bendy in its little tiny puffball crystal fibers which is pretty cool too, I guess. 😂
I used to think kohl (used as black eyeliner historically, like the ancient Egyptians) was made from, like, charcoal, but no, it is made from antimony. #Stibnite forms in hydrothermal deposits. Both minerals form under similar circumstances but stibnite gets my vote today b/c it looks really cool 🤷♀️
#Okenite is round and white and like a puffball, and is often found in geodes (which, again, form in vugs, often in volcanic rocks). #Stibnite is a type of antimony and forms really cool black spiky crystals that fan out from a center point. If you grind it and mix it with fat you get kohl.
And in the end, I think he came up with a take on grace a lot more genuine than any number of paintings of Extremely White Jesus in freshly laundered robes on cloud background. Thus endeth the screed.
That’s art. You can not understand it or even hate it, but it wasn’t a gimmick. He wasn’t trying to get away with something. Dude was completely sincere and took days in the studio to get everything just right.
And the point of this photograph is to bring that moment to life and show the grace of this man’s god shining through all the filth and dross of mortal existence. And it does it really fucking well, if you ask me. It fucking GLOWS.
Despite all the religious art, poor dudes in Galilee did not wear white and people who hang around lepers get a lot of nasty shit on them. You have a human god so that they can say “I was one of you, I understand, I went to the hard places where I was needed.” Grace, embodied.
And the whole point of having a god embodied on earth is that they are down there, on earth, being human! Which means dirt and blood and piss and a host of other bodily fluids. That’s why you HAVE a god like that in the first place.
The places where you actually NEED grace are filthy and bloody and despairing. Grace is the last cigarette shared in the gutter, the hand of the dying being held by the stranger, the kindness done by the broken.
244 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Pectolite: - A sodium calcium hydroxide silicate mineral - Forms in hydrothermal cavities in basalt - Individual crystals are fibrous - Can form dense, botryoidal (rounded) masses - Its name comes from the Greek words for compacted and stone #minerals #MineralMonday #MinCup25
He also hasn’t lived there for that long, like, maybe his house is exactly as furnished as he wants it to be, but also, maybe he will change things around or add stuff or whatever as he continues to live there, like most adults do when they live on their own for the first time.
Okay. I have had Enough. I get a large number of y'all think Jungkook's place is ugly and needs help and you don't think you're being mean but trust me after a while it just feels shitty and judgemental because EVERYONE Is making the "jokes". He's happy with his space, as far as we know. Can we not.
yes. tasting fabrics is one of the easiest ways to test fiber composition. natural fabrics, such as wool, cotton, and linen, breakdown in the digestive tract. synthetics such as polyester will not. so to test fiber composition, eat the garment. if fibers appear in your poop, it was synthetic.
Grace is a thing that happens in the world. It is not confined to churches, and I suspect you find it more often outside them. It is not a pale bloodless thing wrapped up in incense and white altar cloths.
The voice actors behind HUNTR/X from K-Pop Demon Hunters talk to Billboard about which songs could seal the honmoon. Check out their BTS picks!
Definitely 613% would seal the honmoon. 💜🥹
I was thinking about how much I adore my coworkers and I thought, “one nice thing about teaching is I bet very few psychopaths go into it.” Then I had to check and it was TRUE I also enjoy that doctors are on the non-psychopath list but surgeons are on the psychopath list because that tracks lol
stumbled on this today lol
Hobi on Instagram stories:
#MSH45 | May 17, 1980 ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| •.•) Got some USGS photos from the day before the blast. ┳┻|⊂ﾉ ┻┳|
For comparison, looking into the caldera today (what’s left of the upper 25% of the mountain pictured above).
@vicmmic.bsky.social
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
KPop Demon Hunters! Set of Three 4"x6" postcards for $20 OR 11"x17" poster $40 each, $100 for the set ((I'm only bringing a few of the big ones)) yoshiyoshitani.store/products/kpo...
Found a treasure in the Dragon Con vendor hall.
Are the patterns being liquidated because investors and private equity have decided that existing assets are more important than legacy or ongoing operations? Yes. But the money that comes from buying Mimi G's patterns does in part go back to Mimi G, for example.
The little pygmy possum is the smallest possum in the world! Weighing ~0.4 oz (10 g), it's about the weight of 10 almonds. This omnivore has a taste for the nectar & pollen of flowering plants: It can consume up to 7% of its body weight in a single day! Photo: Tom Hunt, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
“I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,” the Rev. James Martin, S.J., told the AP. “It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, a lot of fun.” https://to.pbs.org/46hrN7l
Also, for the wasp phobics, I just had two good looking paper wasps nope out on me in a row. If you’re afraid of bugs, try to get a nice picture of one. They’re afraid of you too!
Some more fun fall flowers. If you’re shooting macro on a day like this, one thing you can do is turn yourself into a cloud and lean over the subject to put it in shadow. That gets rid of the hard highlights you get from direct sun.
absolutely cackling at this picture someone drew of jk’s basement with the rest of bangtan lmfaoooo 🔗: www.reddit.com/r/bts7/s/jMn...
September star-shaped pumpkin flower. #bloomscrolling
I want to be a student in your class, it sounds wonderful!!
I'm adding a new week in Field Natural History focused on hidden networks in forests: fungi, detritivores, chemical ecology and plant "communication." (I structure this class around themes/stories.) Each week a I do a hands-on skill session, and I'm looking for ideas for activities we could do. 1/2