We are lucky in Western New York, to have Hawk Creek Wildlife Center. Way back when I was working at the mall, they would have frequent exhibits, and if I could, I'd go to look - although after my 3rd stuffie purchase, my boss made me leave my wallet in the store. (But the porcupine is also a puppet!!) Anyway...a couple of times, they had one of these little cuties with them, and they are soooo adorable and soooo little. Now I'm going to have to see if I can find a saw whet owl to go with my great horned owl.
“The main prey items of the Northern Saw-whet Owl are mice, and especially deer mice of the genus Peromyscus. Saw-whets usually eat adult mice in pieces, over the course of two meals.”
So Saw-whet owls love meeses to pieces?
Also, the nest turns into a shithole after the female leaves? That sounds about right.
I remark on them enough, because the tabs that follow generally blind me with rage, but your hed gifs are wonderful and welcome and heartening and artful and I love them and appreciate the way you soften the blow that follows. Thanks, M. Glambassador
Rebecca, I like how you grouped your tabs into sub-tabs.
UnderMamdani should be listed Sec. Duffy's plan to outlaw free buses in order to hurt New York, but would also sweep up a lot of other cities that have free bus services. But of course whatis it to the feds whether a city subsudizes free buses.
And also all the communities that are opposed to having concentration camps in their backyard.
New York Post today whining about how Mayor Mamdani got a new jacket, when he couldn't even personally solve the massive sudden snowstorm. And a whole month in office! The slacker!
At least they have pre-made whinging they can do all summer, what with the vulgar proles allowed up on city buildings. Why can't he be a people person, a populist like der Führer? 🤔
Guess all those WaPo gift links are going nowhere.
"Washington Post Says One-Third Of Its Staff Across All Departments Is Being Laid Off
Staff members in the newsroom were told they would be getting emails with one of two subject lines, announcing that the person’s role has or hasn’t been eliminated."
My favorite review of the "Melania" film debacle so far:
Natasha Jokic in Buzzfeed:
“Last night, I left an empty chickpea can on my counter. When I came back 30 minutes later, small, black bugs had swarmed the tin … I would rather relive that moment 100 times over than have to watch another minute of the movie Melania
Feeling like Elno & Thiel deserve some special attention because of their devotion to "technofeudalism" and their concomitant (and serious) commitment to apartheid
"1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project.
Epstein: brexit, just the beginning.
Thiel: Of what?
Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain"
Am I confused, or am I somehow being stupid, or...?
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You guyzes remember how, about two weeks ago, Lord Goldfish made some incoherent speech about "whole milk", as opposed to "hole milk" [if that was supposed to be a dirty joke, I don't get it, but anyway]...
Whole milk has ALWAYS been a thing. I've bought whole milk in the supermarket for my entire "adult" life (so, about 50 years). It has ALWAYS been readily available at supermarkets, convenience stores, etc., and it usually costs about the same as 2% milk.
Do they somehow not know that -- or, as I suspect, are they using "whole milk" and "raw milk" as though they were synonymous?
NONE of the people who killed these protesters have been arrested. It makes me so angry. AND scared.
Oh so poor Nance let me see what’s in your pants is having a sad? Maybe she could slither back to whatever sewer to crawled out of and get some mental health care.
I've been saying for ten years, Melania walked into that gilded cage with eyes wide open. "Her beauty was sold, for an old man's gold..." She should get along fine with Leavitt - they are birds of a feather.
Your hed gif source info is not in Axios format, but it does have a bulleted list going for it 😏 https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/shaking-off-a-snow-shower
And also too a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/3837f465-9e44-47d6-aefd-94ef82c39209?utm_source=share
Another Owl Morning! Yay!
And these are soooo cute.
We are lucky in Western New York, to have Hawk Creek Wildlife Center. Way back when I was working at the mall, they would have frequent exhibits, and if I could, I'd go to look - although after my 3rd stuffie purchase, my boss made me leave my wallet in the store. (But the porcupine is also a puppet!!) Anyway...a couple of times, they had one of these little cuties with them, and they are soooo adorable and soooo little. Now I'm going to have to see if I can find a saw whet owl to go with my great horned owl.
Being in Western New York, I shall have to check this place out.
Oh, do! They do good work, and have interesting activities, almost all year 'round.
“The main prey items of the Northern Saw-whet Owl are mice, and especially deer mice of the genus Peromyscus. Saw-whets usually eat adult mice in pieces, over the course of two meals.”
So Saw-whet owls love meeses to pieces?
Also, the nest turns into a shithole after the female leaves? That sounds about right.
Nothing worse than bachelor housekeeping, he said from experience!
Don't forget Olive Owl.
I'd like to say owl's right with the world but it is more like owl casts.
There sure are a lot of superb owls this week. Is there something going on? Hah, like it’s some sort of Superb Owl week!
It took me until today to figure out why there were so many owls this week.
Owls are the best.
Owly to bed, owly to rise.
I want to be an owlet and burrow up into this stoic beauty's warm feathery breast.💛
An owl a day helps take the pain away.
I thought of you today 😄
Owll come look at me sitting in my tree!
Tiny Superb Owl can't wait for Bad Bunny's half time show
It's fun how enraged some people are over Bad Bunny. Especially when they call them (?) Bad Rabbit.
Owl be seeing you in all the owl familiar places... well here, anyway.
I remark on them enough, because the tabs that follow generally blind me with rage, but your hed gifs are wonderful and welcome and heartening and artful and I love them and appreciate the way you soften the blow that follows. Thanks, M. Glambassador
This
Ditto!
I DON’T remark on them often enough…etc. Must go get coffee.
OMG, a pocket sized owl.
So you can have more than one...
Put that little guy in an IKEA kit, because he's a Daw-Owl.
Taylor Swift "Shake It Off":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6miTUwxeY
The sun is out! Let's get movin' and groovin'!
St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.
Um, I'm in a Tabs from 2 days ago. How the hell did that happen?
i don't know. i feel like the axios format is a little like the ken layne format c. 2006 (?)
Rebecca, I like how you grouped your tabs into sub-tabs.
UnderMamdani should be listed Sec. Duffy's plan to outlaw free buses in order to hurt New York, but would also sweep up a lot of other cities that have free bus services. But of course whatis it to the feds whether a city subsudizes free buses.
And also all the communities that are opposed to having concentration camps in their backyard.
I am LOVING the owls this week. This one is even pocket-sized!
New York Post today whining about how Mayor Mamdani got a new jacket, when he couldn't even personally solve the massive sudden snowstorm. And a whole month in office! The slacker!
At least they have pre-made whinging they can do all summer, what with the vulgar proles allowed up on city buildings. Why can't he be a people person, a populist like der Führer? 🤔
Guess all those WaPo gift links are going nowhere.
"Washington Post Says One-Third Of Its Staff Across All Departments Is Being Laid Off
Staff members in the newsroom were told they would be getting emails with one of two subject lines, announcing that the person’s role has or hasn’t been eliminated."
David Bauder
AP logo
Feb 4, 2026, 10:13 AM EST
The poor guy who owns the Post must be in a lot of debt. Wait...
"Melania 2"? Did we even need "Melania"?
My favorite review of the "Melania" film debacle so far:
Natasha Jokic in Buzzfeed:
“Last night, I left an empty chickpea can on my counter. When I came back 30 minutes later, small, black bugs had swarmed the tin … I would rather relive that moment 100 times over than have to watch another minute of the movie Melania
A saw-whet owl, I believe?
Many links popping up today to the Washington Post's 2019 Super Bowl commercial, "Democracy Dies in Darkness" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjfg8YlKHc
Number of Epstein mentions for folks keeping score at home - from TN Holler
Donald leads with 38,000+
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3me27xxw3rs2s
Feeling like Elno & Thiel deserve some special attention because of their devotion to "technofeudalism" and their concomitant (and serious) commitment to apartheid
"1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project.
Epstein: brexit, just the beginning.
Thiel: Of what?
Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain"
https://bsky.app/profile/jeetheer.bsky.social/post/3mdvxgynq222h
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-neo-apartheid/
(dated almost exactly a year ago)
#WeTriedToTellYou
And from today’s headlines, Raw milk warning after newborn baby dies from listeria in New Mexico
Am I confused, or am I somehow being stupid, or...?
`
You guyzes remember how, about two weeks ago, Lord Goldfish made some incoherent speech about "whole milk", as opposed to "hole milk" [if that was supposed to be a dirty joke, I don't get it, but anyway]...
Whole milk has ALWAYS been a thing. I've bought whole milk in the supermarket for my entire "adult" life (so, about 50 years). It has ALWAYS been readily available at supermarkets, convenience stores, etc., and it usually costs about the same as 2% milk.
Do they somehow not know that -- or, as I suspect, are they using "whole milk" and "raw milk" as though they were synonymous?
I'm starting to believe that I was better educated by 6th grade... 7th at the latest.
Where do these people come from?
NONE of the people who killed these protesters have been arrested. It makes me so angry. AND scared.
Oh so poor Nance let me see what’s in your pants is having a sad? Maybe she could slither back to whatever sewer to crawled out of and get some mental health care.
I've been saying for ten years, Melania walked into that gilded cage with eyes wide open. "Her beauty was sold, for an old man's gold..." She should get along fine with Leavitt - they are birds of a feather.
But...but...Ballerina Farm is such a cute name, and come on...it's just a LITTLE poop.
Kiwi Farms sounds like a cute name, too :(
TIL about Kiwi Farms,
Ballerina Farm sounds like a Jeffrey Epstein grooming facility..