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Garden visitor
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Praying mantis hunting among a stand of black-eyed susans
BennyTheIcepick
She’s splendid
New cat just dropped
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Against a black background, a small spotted cat with large eyes and rounded ears stares directly at the camera. It looks fierce, or at least as fierce as a three-pound cat can.
source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals...
Leopardus tilcayo, a newly-discovered species of tiger cat (like an ocelot) from Bolivia, which weighs 3 pounds full-grown and is Very Mad about it. Photo by Joel Sartore for National Geographic.
Leopardus tilcayo, a newly-discovered species of tiger cat (like an ocelot) from Bolivia, which weighs 3 pounds full-grown and is Very Mad about it. Photo by Joel Sartore for National Geographic.
And it's already mad at you
One Short Of An Even Dozen
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eleven shiny green-blue Emu eggs in a nest - bed of leaves on a forest floor
A batch of Emu eggs in the Marrinup State Forest, south of Perth. Discovered during an archaeological survey we were doing in there. Dad would have been lurking around somewhere but wasn't seen. Mum shot through a while ago, as is the Emu way.
That’d be a big carton.
I’d ask how the omelette tasted but I imagine there’s some massively Aussie curse around consuming those things and one just doesn’t.
@MackReed They’re mostly like enormous duck eggs. The only emu-based curse we have is more… general purpose. https://youtu.be/UL5cA4-z...
a poem about a plum
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A skeet by John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) posted Sep 22, 2026:
Look goddamnit
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
Look goddamnit
It's entirely possible
To eat a plum
And not make a poem about it
The one I just ate
Wasn't even in the
Goddamn refrigerator
Or anything
Sometimes a plum
Is just a plum
You can just eat it
And go on with your life
WHAT
Why are you looking at me
What'd I do now
(looks) oh GODDAMNIT
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
I remember in college, we read a book about Williams. His widow recounted unannounced visits by young and aspiring poets. I think Allen Ginsburg was one of these, at one time. Williams would let them in, read their verse, maybe offer a little advice. He was kind to them, but sometimes, when he had gotten rid of one, he would say: "The darned fool".
A Quokkarchaeologist
Cabin Camping
Happy Dolly week, y’all!
Deviled Emu Egg
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Lol there was someone on Flickr years ago who cooked a Rhea egg, I think poached, and it took like 45 minutes or something. It looked absolutely disgusting.
CRIKEY!!!
The Movie That Captured Light That No Longer Exists
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The film is Barry Lyndon.
Do you know photography? Like, the technical side? You may appreciate this!
Do you know photography? Like, the technical side? You may appreciate this!
Does @cowboycoffee come around here these days?
I have a directory of screen captures of Barry Lyndon.
A lot of scenes are that beautiful.
The only other movie that I did that with is the soviet War & Peace
A lot of scenes are that beautiful.
The only other movie that I did that with is the soviet War & Peace
Daily Affirmation
winning!
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Not one of them fit to lead. Not one.
All of them are fit to get in on the grift, though
I remember being worried about Mitt Romney winning the Presidential election......he has to pay for security for himself and family now
Cruz and Scott are already dead, they just don't have the intellect left to know it. Rand Paul is just waking up to the fact of his mortality, and no one is forgetting the couch, or his guilt by assssociation, and even as a "faithful," Catholic, messing with The Popes.
New lair just dropped
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What looks like a giant steel long, triangular shape, with many windows on the one side. It is perked on the very edge of a large mountain, with a sheer drop next to it.
Santnerpass Hut is perched on a sheer cliff and resembles a giant Toblerone still in its foil – an eye-popping hit of modernity and innovation’. Photograph: Andrew Gilchrist
Picture from https://www.theguardian.com/travel...
Picture from https://www.theguardian.com/travel...
I love your title because you just know location scouts are drooling to put a James Bond antagonist at this site.
Debbie is a Punk Rocker
Peak Evanston
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Alt text: **A cyclist wearing a yellow jacket crosses an urban intersection on a cargo bike, towing a trailer carrying two large black dogs. The bike has an American flag attached to the trailer, and cars, traffic lights, trees, and brick apartment buildings surround the intersection.**
source: ba's wife
oh my lord, the LABRADORS license plate bolted on there is either the cherry on top or the last nail in the coffin (take your pick)
@nikkuneko didn't even notice! I was too busy trying to work up a yoga mat joke/reference about the flooring...
@ba hah, oh man!
spoiler alert, the dogs' names are probably NAMASTE and COEXIST
spoiler alert, the dogs' names are probably NAMASTE and COEXIST
local friend had a "my house is turning 200" party and the snack table was off the chain
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an impressively long table absolutely full of cookies and cakes and little numnums of all description. It is under a tent and the sun is shining. People are eating numnums
An older friend of mine had a big party nominally about her house's bicentennial but really just to hang out and eat indecent amounts of snacks. I showed up two hours into a three hour party and this was "all" that was left. 😂 House is in the background, it's a nice house. This lady calls me whenever she needs to update her email signature file.
Oh you Eaterners! I brag about my 150 year old house out here in the Rockies but 200... for America, dang! That's purdy old.
I am loving the sense of community in this pic.
Oh, I'll have the whole little orange topped cake! Wonderous!
keeping time
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
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matchbox cover for "tokyo jazz club" with an illustration of an octopus floating above a drum kit, with three sticks
Saved to T-shirt ideas!
this is excellent
I'm wondering about that detached arm at the bottom, partially behind the snare drum. Did it drum an arm loose?
How I feel on Yom Kippur
arrivals
They don't write 'em like this any more
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The paperback cover to the classic science fiction novel "I Missed the Space Space Bus to my Space Office" by Gary Flapbutter, Author of "I Fell Asleep Watching Space TV."
Steamed Hams but everything is fully explained
Bird of the Year
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Close-up photograph of a small black bird, giving an impression of roundness and fluffiness, perched on a branch. It has tiny black eyes and a tiny black beak.
source: https://www.cnn.com/2026...
"Small, shy and clad head-to-claw in black, New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
"The critically threatened bird is found only on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of mainland New Zealand. The karure finished at the top of the pecking order with more than 25,000 votes, beating previous winners the kākāpō, a large flightless parrot, and the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, into second and third place, respectively."
Photo by Oscar Thomas
"Small, shy and clad head-to-claw in black, New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year.
"The critically threatened bird is found only on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of mainland New Zealand. The karure finished at the top of the pecking order with more than 25,000 votes, beating previous winners the kākāpō, a large flightless parrot, and the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, into second and third place, respectively."
Photo by Oscar Thomas
i love how it looks like a house sparrow that's going to the bauhaus show
Nankeen Night Heron
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A Nankeen Night Heron, standing on a partially submerged tree branch, looking into mossy water for a feed.
Did a Bird Watching Walk at the local lake (Herdsman Lake) and had a great time.
ooh, self guided or are they offering tours? I'm def moving into my old man bird watching phase. Bird Count coming up on the 19th of this month, can't wait
@Argie https://www.wagouldleague.com.au/event-de... was the one we did. Couldn't see an October one, but it should be up soon. It was really good. They have binoculars to borrow as well if you don't have any.
@jordanbrock ooh cheers, now on my to do list
uh-oh... I think I'm an antifa
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My brother in law is setting up this fundraiser music/poetry/art show thing, and I'm letting him use some of my pictures.
Also: I'll give a nickel to the first person who identifies what this flyer homages.
Also: I'll give a nickel to the first person who identifies what this flyer homages.
My first impression was how much it felt like something from the early Batman & Robin TV series.
The PET Family Tree (1982)
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a hand-drawn family tree of computers, starting with the 6502 chip in 1975 and ending up with Commodore's BX range, which was unreleased at time of writing (1982)
by the late and much-missed Jim Butterfield
cleaned up from source: https://www.tpug.ca/tpug-med...
cleaned up from source: https://www.tpug.ca/tpug-med...
All in just five years, by a handful of people.
In hindsight, absolutely wild.
In hindsight, absolutely wild.
I want to go back. Just for a visit.
Tag yourself? I am "P" Series
highlands
The Shark Nebula
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Murky golden brown gas clouds partly hides three blue stars
The Shark Nebula, located in the constellation Cepheus.The stunning image was chosen as the overall winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's 18th ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
Photo - © Ali Alobaidly
https://www.livescience.com/space...
Photo - © Ali Alobaidly
https://www.livescience.com/space...
Haumea, out past Neptune
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Dwarf planet Haumea
Out in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, there’s a dwarf planet called Haumea.
Haumea doesn’t look like a planet at all. It's ovoid and has a ring system and two satellites.
https://www.threads.com/share...
Haumea doesn’t look like a planet at all. It's ovoid and has a ring system and two satellites.
https://www.threads.com/share...
it egg!
whoa, TIL about this one.
a couple of wild factoids from NASA that tripped me up:
"If Earth were the size of a nickel, Haumea would be about as big as a sesame seed."
"Haumea takes 285 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. As Haumea orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 4 hours, making it one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system."
a couple of wild factoids from NASA that tripped me up:
"If Earth were the size of a nickel, Haumea would be about as big as a sesame seed."
"Haumea takes 285 Earth years to make one trip around the Sun. As Haumea orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 4 hours, making it one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system."
@scruss "can i offer you an egg in this trying time?"
The overThinker
Not The Onion
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I... I feel like I've stumbled into a weird timeline.
I had no idea "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
I had no idea "Idiocracy" was a documentary.
SEPTEMBER!!! by Earth Wind and Fire (Pomplamoose cover)
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video of Pomplamoose singing Earth, Wind & Fire's "September"
My favorite cover of this song
chicka chow
Go Grandma!