Good morning. Spring theoretically begins the transition to summer. I’m not convinced yet. #photography #Today #Spring #Chicago
TL Jordan
Writer of silly blog features Cinematic Distractions and Food Memories, gardener, bioscience nerd, meteorology zealot, volcanology fan, lifelong botany student, locksport novice...
I share science news. I have two cats. I spend too much time playing Elder Scrolls and Magic the Gathering Arena.
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The Duel
I can almost hear the wind whistling between their ears as I gaze at that photo.
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RFK is using his family name as cover, but make no mistake: the MAHA movement is class warfare against working people.
The restrictions on the COVID-19 vaccine make sure only well-resourced people can get it. Busy working people will just get sick.
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2y ago, on tour in several Latin American countries. I mostly played concerts but took a lot of pics too. Nature but also human things, like this one in #CostaRica. #baño #bathroom #toilet #wc all #genders all #nationalities all #ethnicgroups - More civilised than one of its neighbours up north...
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The other day, I was wearing a tshirt that said "fuck transphobia" (it still says that, but the point is it said it the other day) while in the checkout line at a grocery store.
The woman working the register appeared to be having a bad day, but was trying to be cheerful.
When I got to the front, she saw my shirt and she smiled and her eyes lit up. It looked like she was holding back tears.
A lot of people are scared right now, and need to know we are on their side.
I'm on your side.
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Moving back with my parents made me realize how society makes young people struggle
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-person-moving-back-in-parents-1.7363898?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Edmonton @edmonton-cbcnews
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Food dye ban, whole milk in schools part of Pa. Republicans’ MAHA push
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/05/food-dyes-whole-milk-schools-robert-f-kennedy-pennsylvania/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Spotlight PA @spotlight-pa-SpotlightPA
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Black headed gull, alone on the cut: other waterfowl: mute swan, mallard, water chicken, Canada goose
Birds: house sparrow, blackbird, robin, wren, wood pigeon, song thrush, chiffchaff, magpie, carrion crow
No mammals spotted today
#NatureToot
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Pa. is the last state to elect poll workers. Local officials say they're short 1000s of candidates.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/05/pennsylvania-poll-worker-shortage-election-crisis/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Spotlight PA @spotlight-pa-SpotlightPA
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Is it possible to control the Internet connectivity of an app installed from the Windows Store with the Windows Firewall?
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Heavy rains lash Mumbai amid India’s ‘earliest’ monsoon in years
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/27/heavy-rains-lash-mumbai-amid-indias-earliest-monsoon-in-years?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into In Pictures @in-pictures-AlJazeera
A few months ago I complained in a post that Apple News had stopped recommending news stories from Al Jazeera. They had been recommending them so frequently that I mistakenly thought I'd followed Al Jazeera. After not seeing any news from that outlet for about a month, I purposefully followed it.
Nothing. Not a single story since late January or early February. That was the case until Friday, then this story popped up:
Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s famed Prakhon Chai hoard, looted in the 1960s and smuggled abroad.
Texas woman sues state Lottery Commission for unpaid $83 million jackpot
The woman, identified as Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit May 19 alleging the Texas Lottery Commission hasn’t paid her jackpot winnings from February.
"The lawsuit says that the commission is “not allowed to change the rules after the drawing” and it is trying to refuse to pay Doe’s winning amount through a retroactive ban.
Doe alleges she presented her ticket to the Lottery Commission on March 18 and was not advised that it was invalid in any way."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-woman-sues-state-lottery-rcna208964
(article with video)
Roof of historic Ming Dynasty tower collapses in China
Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof collapsing, narrowly missing a number of people.
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Exeter Cathedral, Devon
Worn but still wonderful medieval inlaid tile showing a griffin.
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