Day 5 - Scarlet Macaw #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2026 #Birdart

There's also a livestream of sea lions in a cuddle puddle.

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 2h ago

Orcas are swimming and vocalizing right now on the livestream! 🫍 orcalab.org/live-streams/

omg that is SO COOL! Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in Earth's atmosphere are responsible for one of my favourite species of clouds! (photo of K-H clouds over Duval, Australia: GRAHAMUK/Wikimedia)

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 2h ago

This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.

I was trying to organize music lessons for my kids the other day when I was suddenly struck with the thought that I, too, could take lessons? I could.. play the instrument I always wanted to play? And actually practice it and care about it because it would be my choice, not something foisted on me.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 2h ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

the best of america

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 3h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

I find the need to produce content about the horror of wildfires that inhibits the actual fighting of fires to be one of the most nihilistic things I can imagine. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Drones force grounding of firefighting aircraft in Spokane

On Sunday, there were 26 reported drone incursions in the restricted Spokane fire area, and four drones were "directly in the path of firefighting apparatus."

seattletimes.com

my Library of Things has a paper shredder right when I need one!

I for one would love to be lead by someone who isn't able to sneeze $6 million into a tissue without a second thought

Kate Rozen@katerozen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Things that feel yucky. "The most recent public filings show the governor making a $6 million donation to his own campaign in mid-July, adding to more than $3 million already deposited by Lamont into his campaign’s account." www.ctcapitolreport.com/mondays/5dfc...

i know these people are evil but their need to constantly prove just how evil is so disturbing.

Happy (belated) World Owl Appreciation Day! In tarot, the Popess or High Priestess represents intuition, mystery, spiritual knowledge, and the power of the unknown. #art #furryart #furry #tarot #owl

Progress on my raccoon star painting. At this stage I’m still defining texture, shading, and what I refer to as “reflective shading”. It’s where I glaze colors like purples or greens over areas because I want those colors to be present in those shadows. I’m still only 1/2 way done at this stage.

I don't think anyone should be allowed to spoil the skies or deface the moon. Fuck that horrible evil disgusting man.

One thing I haven't seen folks write about about Power Rangers Green is the fact that Mirella, Tommy's descendant, signs instead of speaking. @paulallor.bsky.social wanted to create a character who is noticeably neurodivergent-- Mirella can hear, but she uses ASL to talk to her family.

Does your account manager have a signed Joey Chestnut hot dog roller cooker? Didn’t think so. The smell of hot dogs is permeating my clothes.

Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature apnews.com/article/braz...

Capybaras keep their chill while crashing Brazilian legislature

Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature. These chill rodents strolled into the legislative building in Cuiaba, Mato Grosso, last week, catching lawmakers off guard.

apnews.com

Whenever I go to bed having left buckets of berries on the table, come morning there are berries all over the floor of my house. My cat, who is of course forbidden from the table and knows it, knows nothing about how this happens.

this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

This is so beautiful.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Dead things left corpses behind to rot. Dead gods were no different. They just made more of a show of their rot, Rowan mused. #amwriting

I want to read the thing all on my own like a grownup and make my own notes and draw my own conclusions. Reading is the joy of the thing. I like reading and thinking. I don’t want to know what an algorithm wants to present as useful and I REALLY don’t like robot errors.

And for the really bad news? They've put a target on VPNs. Sites are required to identify (and age-verify) any US citizen, regardless of whether they're using a VPN. In fact, the default is to get the ID and biometrics of EVERYONE unless you can somehow prove their not a US citizen.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

"VPNs are a privacy and security tool used by millions of internet users every day, and their use should not be treated as suspect. It is particularly galling that the SCREEN Act forces users who intentionally take steps to protect their privacy to identify themselves."

this FUCKING GODDAMNED SHIT AGAIN GODDAMNIT we making more phone calls tomorrow right?

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

if your phone dies, then you die in real life

obsessed with these sandwich studies by @mnnfrr.bsky.social

i did not know that being trans was a possibility until my late teens. we have informed consent now instead of RLE. we can prevent HIV. mental health treatment has come leaps and bounds. there are a million medical improvements, period

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

A local hero not getting the respect he deserves from the birds.

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.