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December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Spring is upon us!
An orchid starting a flowering stalk. An orchid flowering stalk with buds forming. An orchid flowering stalk with the first bud starting to open. An orchid stalk with one white blossom open and a second just starting.
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Yes. One of us went back for seconds. Guess who.
Two people standing just beyond the foot of a massive sand dune on Moreton Island, just off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia. One of them went back for a second go at sand tobogganing and managed to face-plant spectacularly. Going by their facial expressions, it is fairly obvious who it was.
August 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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How do you _do_ that?!
K.B. Spangler posts, “Dream: You were rude and sassy to Lorne Michaels and now you’ll never get a job writing for SNL! Me: Oh no! Wait…was that even an option? Dream: Not anymore!” Endless Screaming bot replies with several screams in sequence. …never not funny…
July 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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A photo of Chuckanut Island in Chuckanut Bay from a car travelling south on Chuckanut Drive in Larrabee State Park. Lummi Island is clearly visible in the distance, sporting some artistically lit puffy clouds above its crown. Gorgeous day, ten of ten.
June 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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An aerial view of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge looking towards Fremont (left) and Milpitas (right). The Guadalupe Slough (right) and Guadalupe River (center) wind their way into the south San Francisco Bay here. To the left, the Cargill Salt ponds reflect shades of pink and white in stark contrast to the adjacent coastal marshlands.
June 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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You know what you did.
June 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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A photo looking down at a low-lying stretch of forest at the edge of the dunes. Heavy rains have flooded the basin and the placid waters are reflecting the canopy and sky like a mirror. It gives the impression that the forest in the middle distance is somehow upside down.
May 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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A panoramic photo of Hyams Beach near Jervis Bay, NSW, Australia. To the right of the photo, a creek, swollen from the previous night’s rains, has cut a channel to the bay. The Bindijine headlands are visible in the distance, in the shadow of an approaching storm cloud.
May 16, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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A panoramic photo of Lake George, Victoria, Australia with the glass-like waters reflecting a dusky sky and the distant hills.
May 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Who is this pet? Say! He is wet. You never yet met a pet, I bet, as wet as they let this wet pet get.
April 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
Officers Garcia (played by Benjamin Bratt) and Erwin (Rob Schneider) giving each other a no-touch high five in front of Chief Earl (Bob Gunton).
April 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Photo of a four year old kid in a dark blue baseball cap and light blue fire truck shirt, wearing aviators indoors, and raising his fist to the sky in fabulosity. Somehow he turns nineteen tomorrow.
April 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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A photo of a laughing kookaburra just chilling on the railing, being a good fluffy boi.
April 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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“Yeah, it used to be Shithouse.” (Latrine - “Men in Tights” by Mel Brooks)
April 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A dusk view of the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II from the Ponte Sant’Angelo, looking toward the lit dome of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The placid waters of the Tiber River reflect the city lights and the cobalt sky.
April 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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A still from the film “Idiocracy”. Left stands Anthony Campos as the Secretary of Defence & right stands David Herman as the Secretary of State. The caption reads “Brought to you by Carl’s Junior.”
April 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Yes.
A screenshot of a Bluesky timeline. Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com): “But like...you're all seeing this too, right? This is nuts, right?” Endless Screaming (@infinitescream.bsky.social): “AAAAAAAAHHHHHH”
April 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A panoramic view of Samish Bay in the Puget Sound south of Bellingham, Washington, USA. The photo is taken from the edge of freight train tracks that seem to disappear in the distance to either side. The Taylor Shellfish Farms wharf is just visible to the left and you can just make out the southern point of Lummi Island to the right. The sky is a bright summer blue and appears ringed by fluffy clouds.
March 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Ah Endless Screaming, never not funny… but is it “ha-ha” funny or “uh-oh” funny? (LOLsob)
Post 1 - The illustrious K.B. Spangler: Time to gear up and start dooming in the doom mines. Post 2 - Endless Screaming: AHHHH
March 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Dimorphotheca ecklonis (a.k.a. osteospermum, Cape Marguerite, or African daisy) growing in the garden box near our home. They’re beautiful, but alas, also an invasive nonnative in Australia.
March 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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A view down the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris circa 2009. Two large dinosaur skeletons stand towards the foreground, with a mammoth skeleton visible toward the back. Elevated wrought iron viewing galleries line the long walls of the hall. Plentiful natural daylight filters in through the frosted glass ceiling. (Indeed it was a beautiful day.)
March 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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A photo of the Bergdorf Hot Springs north of McCall, Idaho, USA. The photo looks out from under a rustic wooden awning toward the main pool, wooden bathhouse, and the valley beyond. These natural hot springs flow off the mountainside, through a set of smaller hot pools, then into a large, man made, gravel bottomed main pool before flowing out into a creek down into the valley below.
March 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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An aerial photo of Crater Lake, Oregon, USA, after a late spring snow. Mount Scott stands in the foreground while light clouds hover in the background. The lake is a deep blue reflecting the sky, with the cinder cone of the volcano reaching just above the waters of the far side of the caldera lake to form Wizard Island.
February 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM