Squirrel sitting on the grass and wondering “Who is that strange man with a camera?” LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2024. OM Systems OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150 F2.8 PRO MC14. #laarboretum #squirrels
Cowboys place franchise tag on George Pickens as focus shifts to talks on a long-term deal https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-place-franchise-tag-on-george-pickens-as-focus-shifts-to-talks-on-a-longterm-de…
They’re afraid. Hit them harder.
“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”
“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”
“sudden demotion”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
Archive link: https://archive.is/kvBDb
Indian police manage long lines as panic grows over fuel shortages | US-Israel war on Iran | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/25/indian-police-manage-long-lines-as-panic-grows-over-fuel-shortages?traffic_source=rss
Assume this loutocracy is lying about ICE until proven otherwise (George F. Will/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/27/trump-noem-deportation-ice-border-control-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p1#a260128p1
Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the
Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in
their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the
moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a
dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect.
And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it
was all they had -- first they saved …
found a nice lake today while cycling off the beaten track
#lake