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CA gal living life in UT. I write, travel, & make awesome smoked habanero salsa. Goes great with tequila. Ok, so do most things. Except ice cream; that’s icky.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

Who says we're not? RT @UberFacts Left-handedness is also known as "sinistrality" because left-handed people were once thought to be demons.

[戻橋 modoribashi @modoribashi237]

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[Sunny @sunnyright]

The world, including America’s top adversaries, are watching the Mullahs of a far weaker country push America around and take repeated blows while still granting a ceasefire.

It sets precedents for China or Russia or Brussels taking you seriously in every other arena including trade. Punch back or give up the tough guy act.

Can’t talk tough and then fold when it comes time to act, and expect people to take your future threats seriously.

Time for choosing, my man.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@patricia831b Hope you're feeling better ❤️

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@Latentem 😢

[Ith @Ithildyn]

Fed babies, they're actually pretty peppy. I'm surprised. At least they're happy.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

Every year, there's a baby bird that survives a fall from the nest. Found out a couple years ago, that when it gets hot, the nest gets so hot (under the roof tiles here) that the babies literally throw themselves from the nest 😐 House is on a hill, so it's instant death

[Ith @Ithildyn]

But at least they died, not alone, and with full bellies. That's the best I can do.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@DrFrancisYoung Mmmm, sticky toffee pudding! Congrats!

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@mamboitaliano__ @Lionessinus I think you have the best of it.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@Stultis_TheFool @JonahDispatch Ruh roh 😸

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You've seen the meme: one opossum eats 5,000 ticks a season. Unfortunately, it's wrong.

When researchers dissected the stomachs of 32 wild opossums, they found zero ticks. The number came from a single lab study that got stretched into folklore, and it still gets repeated everywhere.

But the opossum doesn't need the lie. It's the only marsupial in North America. It cleans up carrion, rotting fruit, slugs, snails, and the rodents you'd rather not have around. It eats copperheads and rattlesnakes, because it's immune to their venom. And it almost never carries rabies, since its body runs too cool for the virus to take hold.

So when one waddles through the yard at night, you're not looking at a pest, you're looking at the cleanup crew that works for free.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@johanirae Oh, good! I miss her. I really hope that, one day, I will meet you both in person 💞

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@johanirae Awesome, but sorry about the knee pain. Hope you had decent weather. How was Eugenie?

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

The artist and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow #OTD 7 June 1868. The Mackintosh House at the Hunterian, Glasgow, is a recreation of the house CRM shared with his wife, the artist Margaret MacDonald. It's furnished with their work, including this bench. 1/3

[Tootsismyname🏴‍☠️ @BeeDoDoobieDo]

GET YOUR DOG! 🆘 They may NOT get out alive💔

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[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

Dry thunderstorms with lightning, Red Flag warnings, and Fire Weather Watches today and tomorrow.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, Martha Gellhorn was sitting in a London briefing room when the news broke: D-Day had begun.

She had already been denied press credentials. The U.S. military had banned all female journalists from the front. Her editor at Collier's had quietly handed her D-Day assignment to someone else.

That someone else was her husband, Ernest Hemingway.

She got in a cab and went to the docks at Southampton anyway.

She talked her way past a military policeman by claiming she wanted to interview nurses aboard a hospital ship. Then she found a bathroom, locked the door, and waited in silence until the HMHS Prague was too far out to sea to turn back.

The Prague was the first Allied hospital ship to reach Normandy. In the dark water off Omaha Beach, Higgins boats ferried shattered men out to the ship. Gellhorn moved among them, helping carry stretchers, holding hands, recording everything. On June 8, she went ashore herself, one of the only civilians to set foot on that beach during the landing operation.

When she got back to England, military police were waiting on the dock. They arrested her, revoked her accreditation, and sent her to a nurses training camp outside London as punishment.

She went AWOL within 48 hours.

She went on to cover the Battle of the Bulge. She was among the first journalists to enter Dachau after liberation. She reported conflicts on six continents over six decades, never once embedded, never once asking permission.

Hemingway flew to Normandy on a press plane. Full military clearance. Official credentials. He watched the landings from the air and filed his dispatch.

He won the Nobel Prize.

You know his name. You probably didn't know hers until just now.

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@orthokotan I don't even watch soccer during the Olympics 😸

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@Stultis_TheFool I came across this YouTube channel a couple days ago. It's a real vibe.

https://t.co/Q7wixpoS58

[Nadya Williams @NadyaWilliams81]

In my latest @thedispatch, I appreciated the chance to write about fairies, reflecting on @DrFrancisYoung's excellent new history of fairies and the bigger implications of why it matters what we believe--or don't. https://t.co/D9gbVftcDn

[Ith @Ithildyn]

@eclectic_evntde Nifty!