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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I might or might not have an overwhelming number of sunflowers in the garden right now, but I’m loving the variety of bees on them. #bloomscrolling #bees

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is definitely the pattern you expect for a species first introduced in 1978!

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is such an amazingly revealing question. I love it!

A bar chart of survey results for the question, “Who do you think would win in a physical fight between you and Donald Trump?” broken down by party affiliation and gender. The results show Dem men thinking they would win by 82-4, Dem women 71-7, Rep men 46-25, Rep women 19-55.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

From the garden today - feels early for the wisteria to be blooming, but it’s been so warm, I’m not really surprised. #flowers #bloomscrolling

A photo of a sprig of wisteria in a small crystal vase on a wood table. Two strings of purple blossoms are draping down the left side, a bare bit of branch stretches up to the right.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I feel like a change of pace, so I’ve been going through my album of toddler photography from times I’ve let my kids go crazy with the phone camera. Some striking stuff in there. I call this playroom still life. #toddlerphotography

A color photograph taken close in on a wood coffee table with a duplo building in the foreground, a large green duplo baseplate to the left inexplicably has a matchbox news van on it. In the background right two duplo dogs stand on a play drum. A spatula is artfully - or carelessly - arrayed across the space between them. Soft light filters in from the upper left of the frame.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The agents who murdered Alex Pretti rolled him on his side to count bullet holes without even checking for a pulse first.

A screenshot from an affidavit by a doctor who witnessed Pretti’s shooting from her apartment and rushed out to provide first aid. The relevant paragraphs read:
“As I approached, I saw that the victim was lying on his side and was surrounded by several ICE agents. I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.
“I asked the ICE agents if the victim had a pulse, and they said they did not know.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

You have to decide how big is big enough first. And there will never be a big enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

In offering up his initial design, Mr. McCrery could not have known that Mr. Trump’s vision for the project was growing. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350. Even as Mr. Trump assured the public in July that the ballroom would not touch the existing structure, he already had approved plans to demolish the East Wing to make way for something that could hold several thousand people, according to three people familiar with the timeline.

The latest plan, which officials said was still preliminary, calls for a ballroom much larger than the West Wing and the Executive Mansion. Mr. Trump has said publicly that he would like a ballroom big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Enjoyed this moody morning’s low tide. I always feel much sympathy for the starfish clinging to the rocks waiting for water to return. #pnw #intervertibrates #beach

A foggy beach scene, some yellow sand in the foreground giving way to wet black rock. A single orange starfish clings partway up. Oysters, barnacles and sea plants cover the farther rocks. In the far background, a seagull perches on a rock island.

A rock peeking out of the sand is covered in barnacle-ridden oysters. Under a slight overhang, purple and orange starfish cling to the rock surface. Some seaweed is visible in the foreground. A black rock wall is visible through fog in the background.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Cats aren’t the only thing that love catmint. It’s reliably the most popular plant in my garden this time of year. #bloomscrolling

A Hunt’s bumble bee visits a purple flower on a large catmint plant.

A Hunt’s bumble bee flies between blossoms on a catmint plant. The bee is large and fuzzy yellow with a thick orange horizontal stripe across its back, black shoulders and black face and limbs.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s too early for native bees here, but I’m so excited for them to be back in my garden. Sweat bees are beautiful, but I love my big goofy bumblebees especially.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you see this, quote from flowers in your gallery. Bee balm with a Great Northern Bumblebee. #gardening

A purple bee balm blossom with a large black and yellow Great Northern Bumblebee pollenating it.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I went looking for a nice throwback picture of our senior cat and found…a picture of him napping in the sun that could have been taken yesterday. Cats like to nap at all ages, it turns out.

A long-haired tabby sleeps sprawled in the sun on a brown leather chair. His eyes are closed and his front paws with toe beans visible near the camera.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I was very distracted on my run today taking pictures of the amazing hoarfrost.

A landscape plant with green leaves shows directionality of the frost growth.

Brown oak leaves still clinging to a tree with edges lined in white, spikes of frost growing from edges and especially branches.

A dried weed poking above unmown grass along a ditch is covered in what looks like thorns of white frost.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So do we think that #walmart and #ge are knowingly doing a wink-wink Fourteen Words or did a white supremacist at one of the orgs just slip it past people who should know better?

An aisle display at Walmart for remote controls and cables. The display box is GE-branded with a large $14.88 on the box. Above is a Walmart Everyday Low Price placard bearing the same dog-whistle neo-Nazi number.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater.

A clip from Weekend at Bernies: Bernie lies propped on a chaise lounge, a drink in his hand, sunglasses covering his eyes and a cigarette dangling from his lips. Larry (Andrew McCarthy) is cheerfully waving to someone offscreen as he pulls a cord, raising Bernies arm in an approximation of a wave.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It’s cold and snowy, which means I’m looking back through old insect photos, like this cool little milkweed bug. #insect #bug

A close up of an immature milkweed seed pod with an oval bug on it. The forewings are mostly black with red triangles meeting at a point in the middle of the bug’s body, two small white dots and white edges.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Found these little guys while at a U-cut Christmas tree lot. #fungifriends

An array of small mushrooms with light brown caps and darker stalks grow out of a mossy ground cover interspersed with dead stalks of grass. Fine spider webs line the undersides of two mushrooms.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

One of the things I love about the PNW (coming from a place with much less water) is how moss and mushrooms are growing everywhere - like on top of this post on a footbridge. #fungifriends #moss

A wet wooden post is topped with green moss and six small pinkish-red mushroom fruiting bodies. Out of focus in the background is a riot of other growing things.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Look at this goofy new-to-me creature! We at first assumed a sea cucumber, but apparently it is a totally different animal called, appropriately, a sea pickle.

An oblong translucent pink creature lying on on the sand where it has washed up. It is covered in knobbly protrusions.

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Luminiferous Aether @luminiferousaether.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

This may be the lowest stakes one in the list, but it still feels deeply weird

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