A northern rough-winged swallow impatiently inhales its parent's face in its search for food. I'm pretty sure the adult had no food at the time. #birds
May you wake in peace, O Purified, in peace! May you wake in peace, O Horus of the East, in peace! May you wake in peace, O Soul of the East, in peace! May you wake in peace, O Harakhti, in peace! (PTF)
this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited
the main experience of adulthood is saying “why do i have to do this again i did it last week” about a thing that needs to be done every week and which you havent actually done in 3
one of the funniest things that happens on earth is when you meet your friend's brother and he looks like your friend if they sold your friend in canada
This rebate usually takes the form of an angled joint perpendicular to the sloped bottom of the tread. The rebate allows an inclined soffit (reducing the self-weight of the tread) while avoiding an acute salient in the stone. Stairs became impossibly thin in section.
Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate
Hey Bluebies! (that's what we call Bluesky Newbies 'round these parts🤠) We do things a lil different then Elmos Hecksite. Each post creates a "shard". 50 shards makes a Sky Gem 💎. Gems can be spent on swag like custom hats for ur PFP...but you mustnt wear hats in the Cloud Level or a Bird may attack
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
In city after city, police are the single biggest budget item. And I don’t mean like 2% when everything else is 1%. I mean like 40%. Police take priority over drug treatment, psych care, housing, etc etc etc. And now we are here.
"em dashes are a sign that something was written by AI" you are simply jealous that i've memorized that I can hold alt and press 0151 on the numpad to produce an em dash whenever i desire. look: —. it's beautiful. i'll even do it again: —
I think we, as humans, really nailed it with traffic cones. Really good design
Women naturally gravitate towards caretaking roles, which is why they are biologically disposed towards battlefield close air support for infantry and armor and aircraft designed to fill that role. It’s basic science.
Mavi Reshef@mavibluecatte.bsky.social · last yr.the fact that most of the A-10 pilots I ever worked with or had CAF come in were flown by women only makes this better.
I am an elder millennial. We were the last generation to drink from the hose. We played Nintendo and the loser would drink from the hose. We got summer jobs, earning $5 an hour drinking from the hose. We had no cell phones; if we were out late our parents had to trust we were drinking from the hose.
The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.