Category: Social media

People who claim to have seen aliens have actually just seen baby owls

Here.

A horse named Covfefe

And it’s doing well, according to this Daily Caller report a couple of weeks ago:

A horse named “Covfefe” won a Breeder’s Cup event at Santa Anita today. Named after President Trump’s famous mistweet, she has now won six of her first eight races.

Further proof that Trump has the best words.

Ripped piece of paper under the microscope (100x magnification)

Here:

I included the 100x in the title, because that strikes me as not a lot of magnification, considering what it looks like. 100x is not that much more magnification than you can get with quite a lot of bridge cameras nowadays.

I’ve acquired a new camera, as noted in among this ramble yesterday. It has 60x. I wonder if I could persuade it to take photos like that. Probably not, because presumably microscopes get right up against what they’re microscoping, but cameras can’t do that.

The pronouns of Ricky Gervais

Yes, Ricky Gervais:

I identify as a comedian so my pronouns are He He.

This is not in an individual tweet. It’s currently at the top of his Twitter site.

Creatures hitting the news in the USA

I’m not just talking about the hero dog who helped to catch an austere religious scholar, whose austere religious scholarship inspired him also to become a rapist and a torturer.

I’m also talking about goats:

A hungry herd of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires.

In May, the library hired the goats to clear flammable scrub surrounding the complex as a preventative measure.

The goats ate the brush, creating a fire break that slowed the flames and gave firefighters extra time to react.

Okay, the goats didn’t exactly put the fire out. That was done by firefighters. But, the goats did help.

This next titbit is a bit stale, from two months ago, but I am still interested, because it concerns a bridge:

Engineers in southern California are hard at work designing the biggest wildlife corridor in the world, to extend over US Highway 101 to the north-west of Los Angeles.

The corridor will connect different parts of the Santa Monica Mountain chain, which is crucial to the future of mountain lions – but it will help other species as well. The $87m bridge has entered its final design phase and is on track to open in 2023.

Other Californian creature news involved voracious purple sea urchins:

Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.

Meanwhile in Colorado, some 66-million-year-old fossils have been discovered. I’m guessing something threw their delicate ecosystem into disarray.

The delicate publication process for this posting was also thrown into disarray, by me pushing the “Publish” button last night, at a time when I should merely have been pressing “Save Draft”. Sorry about that.

Drone photo of a Roman amphitheatre

Built by the Romans at Caerleon, which is near Newport in South Wales:

Photo supplied by Gareth Blayney:

Courtesy my drone.

Drones are good for photos like that. Not so good, I speculate, for photos like the one I recently posted here.

“Bill – do not do this!”

This is a Tweet where you have to show it all or it makes no sense:

(LATER: In the first version of this posting, it said “22 people are talking about this”. And I put, at this point: “Make that 23”. Ho ho. But now I note that the above manifestation of this tweet automatically updates itself. Blog and learn.)

Maybe, to you, that tweet still makes no sense. Well, on the right there is a black-and-white fifties British film actor, saying all that stuff. And on the left, William Hartnell, about to become the very first Doctor Who.

It was surely this attitude, that television didn’t matter and would never amount to anything, which was all part of why some of those early Doctor Who episodes went missing. Shame. Selfishly, I don’t much mind, because I never got excited about Doctor Who when it first happened. But I have a friend who still does mind.

Cement

Jason Crawford:

Someone asked me recently what’s a boring topic that I’m excited/fascinated by.

That’s easy: …

Anton Howes liked this, which is how I encountered it. (Off topic, but: Howes actually looks how Macaulay Culkin should now be looking.)

One of the things they don’t tell you about having a baby

Rachel Riley:

Currently have an in-womb baby hiccuping on my vagina … well that’s a new one.

I Twitter-follow this TV letters-and-numbers lady for her anti-anti-Semitism. Wasn’t expecting that.