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Tommymo's avatar

“They also enter torpor when food supply is low.” My bruthuhs from another muthuh!

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

What an amazing, adorable, tiny creature.

OneYieldRegular's avatar

Blossom bat! Blossom bat!

Cuter than a tiny cat!

Eating flowers is where it's at!

Blossom bat! Blossom bat!

The Golden Hamster's avatar

And that my friends is how baby bananas are made.

tehbaddr's avatar

Huh, no fucking?

Warren's avatar

Asexual reproduction, neither male nor female, as they taught us in Ag Science before Charlie Kirk got 4-H and FFA banned for being “woke”.

tehbaddr's avatar

Adorable was exactly the word I had in mind for the tiny nectar eating batty!

Menotsure's avatar

I'd never seen one with appeal

Until my eyes saw that

Banana blooms must taste real great

To a bantam blossom bat.

C&A Bongo Man's avatar

In the full length video Blossom Bat is later joined by Joey Bat, in a tiny leather jacket, and quirky best friend Six Bat.

Richard S's avatar

Not Bubbles Bat and Buttercup Bat?

memzilla's avatar

It's sad that Kellogg's Fruit Bats Cereal did not have better success.

Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

Well, they forgot to remove the claws in that one box, and... they were never a big seller after that!

Warren's avatar

RFK Jr said bat claws, like fingernails and hair, are pure protein.

Al Bellenchia's avatar

Holy blossoms, batman!

Linda1961 is proudly woke's avatar

I couldn't decide if today's gif was a bat or a frog, but I did know that the critter is a cutie pie!

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I was just going to say, A1 tree frog bat!

The Wanderer's avatar

Happy batty!

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

WHAR STRAW??!?!?

nodak.   5150 47's avatar

Well now, this is an interesting development.

US to license Ukraine to build Patriot interceptors.

It's going to take them a good bit of time to stand up production, and they are already talking about building a cheaper interceptor that fits into the Patriot system.

(Bloomberg breaking news)

NatalyaResists's avatar

Yay Detroit Commies! Looks like fun was had!

marydn's avatar

"I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country," Carlson told the Columbia Journalism Review.

Oh Tucker, lying as usual. You don't care about what benefits the country. You only care about what benefits the white christian males of this country. Take your third party and stuff it where the sun don't shine, Tucker Carlson.

nodak.   5150 47's avatar

Bring charts with you...

NewLarry's avatar

Mee too. It can't help but to split the Cletus vote.

calliecallie, aka pollyanna's avatar

I have had it with these motherfucking snakes* on this motherfucking planet.

* and by snakes I mean corrupt politicians.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Rebecca Solnit is a brilliant essayist and she is onto something!

RepackagedMeatAwareness's avatar

“So far, the NDS boasts of having built several websites, including … Freedom.gov (not actually functioning right now).”

😭😭😭

nodak.   5150 47's avatar

And there is some very janky code on those web sites as well.

Ars did a bit of a dive into it a while ago.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/trumps-plan-to-redesign-every-gov-website-leads-to-ai-designed-horrors/

Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Whew! Getting hot! Mrs. Toomush made me give up my guitar practice and get out there and load up the Gator and two carts full of mulch from the pile before it gets any hotter. She's gonna work out of whatever shade she can this morning before she holds Open Art at the Libarry this afternoon. I had to do it now, because I have to go get a spot on my back looked at later this morning. Then, off to the printer! The Cheboygan Project is about to get printed!....

Rosy red ASS's avatar

We are now locked in the heavy fog that we usually get in June but finally came in on the 4th. It's COLD here. Currently 54 feels like 46. I won't see the sun until possibly Monday. November is warmer. I wish I could send some of it to everyone sweltering right now.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

BGC said yes. We are set up.

Yeah you fucking fascists. Now we're going to get Black girls working with a bunch of white guys.

Because they are the fucking future.

Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

I have not said this before and it certainly doesn't let Platner off the hook, but here goes: None of us men really understand women. We make a lot of false starts, many of them bad. We tend to think we have to be the "doers" in relationships, and feel that women have often acquiesced, letting us make bad choices and then blaming us. In addition, the idea of being really successful in life comes with a lot of guilt. The flip side of ego is the shame of feeling unworthy, which also leads to public figures doing things to trip themselves up, with spectacular consequences. I'd venture that there is no public figure, man or woman, who does not share these attributes, and hopes that no one really sees them in their full, human range. That is not to say we shouldn't be held to account, but the idea that white girls or Black girls are innately better is pretty suspicious...

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

I'll fight you on that.

I teach Black kids. And say fuck you.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Changing tech? Yah. Fuck all y'all. I'm going to do it.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

What's going to be amusing is my prep meeting

You're gonna be fine with this

I fucking swear a lot. You have to be ok with that.

Beyond that, you are fucking great, ok?

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

"Communism is their word of the day…

Obviously no one is buying what he’s selling, but I really think we need a rebrand of the Democratic Socialist moniker that doesn’t invite this kind of reaction.

SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ✊

Still Democrats, but socially aware, connected, and responsive."

https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mpyigosruc2i

Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

It really doesn't matter what we call ourselves. If we let them call us something, it will always be that we are weak, pathetic, anti-individual, cowardly losers who shouldn't be allowed to live. Whoever is trying to split Democrats should be called out. We have always been a wide Party, inclusive of a range of views. Letting the media pull this shit for the sake of columns and bylines is bullshit...

TerseNurse's avatar

i dunno, I'm kind of partial to Hardcore Godless Commie myself.

tehbaddr's avatar

Heathen Librulz!

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

"The Childless Cat Ladies They Warned You About"

Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

The irony being that they are constantly trying to erase social factors like race and gender from the conversation.

Rhand Holm's avatar

Huh, I didn't know that McConnell's first name is Addison. "Addison Mitchell McConnell III"

Fartknocker's avatar

AMM sounds like a medical abbreviation for projectile shitting.

Rosy red ASS's avatar

Did they finally write the obituary?

TerseNurse's avatar

somebody published one 'by mistake' (and then retracted) the other day

VaselineHabits's avatar

Well, that gives me some hope

Rosy red ASS's avatar

😳🤣 (It's not the one I am REALLY hoping for but it will do for now)

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

How cool is it that Martini has a blossom bat in the hed gif today! 'Cause I haz a story from yesternight!!! Mrs. Thors and I got into the swimming pool for the first time this year (long story, mustard algae and I had an epic four month battle, but it finally gave up the ghost) and we have these AWESOME swallow-tailed kites in the neighborhood.... like four foot wingspan, really impressive birds.... anyhoo, one flew low overhead and then swooped over the house and I was looking and said, "hey, he got something to eat!"

about that time, the kite relaxed his grip for some reason and two, count them TWO bats flew off in different directions from his talons.... it was really a wonder to see....

lucky bats!

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

"Amid the fuel crisis, the Russians began to chase fuel trucks - upon seeing them, they get on their tails and accompany them to the gas station, in the hope of refueling."

https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mq2x7gstec2g

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Let he who hath never got a SS tattoo and committed SA cast the first stone

We’re gonna need a bigger dump truck full of rocks

Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

Dems: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Vistory

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Our Liz Dye: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘷𝘳𝘰𝘯, 𝘌𝘹𝘹𝘰𝘯𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭, 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯, 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦, 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦-𝘎𝘳𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴.

𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦, 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵-𝘚𝘬𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘴., 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘴 𝘊𝘕𝘕.

𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦-𝘎𝘳𝘰, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘱, 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘜𝘍𝘊 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 $1 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦-𝘴𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘓𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘭. 𝘐𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘏𝘚 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘔𝘈𝘏𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰’𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴.

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 '𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁' 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

But the grift goes on.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-great-american-state-fair?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=501423&post_id=205780911&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3i9ct&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Antifa Commander's avatar

I hope RFK Jr.’s brainworm glitches and thrashes whatever’s left of his brain to pudding.

Mike  O’Brien's avatar

Why support McMurrow when you have Al Sayed?

MRK's avatar

Because they thought McMorrow was a better candidate when the endorsement was made, and El-Sayed hadn't really taken off yet so probably didn't look like someone who had a real chance to win. Assuming that's who you meant.

abbienormal's avatar

I went to Rebecca's fundraiser for McMorrow and the general vibe among the people there was support for both candidates.

MRK's avatar

There's that, too. And McMorrow's biggest mistakes came after that fundraiser.

PrimerGray's avatar

It's the reason we have primaries in the first place. Name recognition isn't everything. Pete Buttigieg took second in the 2020 NH primary, just 4000 votes behind Bernie Sanders. No one knew who he was at the time. I caught him speaking via YouTube and was highly impressed. National vs. state election but the point is the same.