TIL Ball Corporation (maker of aluminum cans and glass canning jars and eventually satellites) once made a jet aircraft which could fly extremely slowly.
Puffins! I often wonder why I bother lugging the big camera around when iPhones are so damn good these days. Then I get a shot like this. #puffins#Iceland#birdphotography
#Iceland day 3. 🇮🇸. Lots of driving and lots of rain. Black sand and columnar basalt beaches, more waterfalls, anxiety over running out of gas, up close and personal with bazillions of puffins, and the northernmost southernmost point in the world.
I tend to be the least squee person in any given room but OMG!!! PUFFINS!!! They are utterly charming. #Travel#puffins
@jonobie@mdm@karabaic@mekkaokereke That’s because in Washington (and Colorado, and other civilized places) voting is seen as a feature not a bug. In Texas, you have to run a marathon over flaming hot coals to even get a ballot, and then be told you don’t have the right kind of ID (the kind that shows your skin as white, of course).
Hat: blue, Boots: yellow. Occupation: Merry fellow.Ex-academic astronomer living, playing, and working near the mountains, trying to squeeze as much as I can out of life. Member of every advantaged class in every way, but ally to 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇺🇳. Bigotry and willful ignorance not tolerated