Lisa Nazer

Love to cycle, Earth Dog Bakery owner, Stargate & Star Trek fan, mother of two, environmentalist, avid gardener, & Green Bay Packer fan.

[Lisa Nazer @LisaCycles]

Save Stargate with Martin Gero! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/KRRZsRQ7SY via @Change

[Lisa Nazer @LisaCycles]

One of my favorite videos

[Manoco @Moonlighhy]

Penguin chicks rescued by unlikely hero

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Florida When It Gets Cold

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On this day in 1945, six Americans died in the woods of Oregon, killed by a weapon launched 5,000 miles away.

It was a Saturday. Reverend Archie Mitchell drove his pregnant wife Elsie and five kids from his Sunday school class up to Gearhart Mountain for a picnic. Elsie was 26. The kids were 11 to 14.

While Archie parked the car, Elsie called out. They'd found something strange in the trees. A large paper balloon, partially deflated, with a metal device hanging beneath it.

One of them touched it.

The blast killed Elsie, her unborn child, and all five children instantly. Archie ran toward the smoke and tried to put out his wife's burning clothes with his bare hands. There was nothing to be done.

What they had found was a Japanese Fu-Go: a balloon bomb made of mulberry paper and hydrogen, carrying an anti-personnel charge. Japan had launched roughly 9,300 of them from the beaches of Honshu, exploiting a recently discovered atmospheric current, the jet stream, to float them across the Pacific.

It was the first intercontinental weapon in history.

The U.S. government knew. They had been finding the balloons for months in Montana, Kansas, Michigan, even Iowa. One nearly hit the Hanford nuclear plant producing plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb. But the press voluntarily agreed to a total media blackout, so Japan would never learn whether the weapon worked.

The blackout worked too well. Convinced the program was a failure, Japan halted launches in April 1945.

The Bly deaths happened a month later. By then there was nothing left to intercept. Just a single forgotten balloon, drifting through the trees, waiting.

They are the only enemy combat deaths on the U.S. mainland in the entirety of World War II.

Their names were Elsie Mitchell, Dick Patzke, Joan Patzke, Edward Engen, Jay Gifford, and Sherman Shoemaker.

And almost no one was ever told.

[Covie @covie_93]

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

[Covie @covie_93]

No ballroom for trump, give him some thoughts and prayers and a bulletproof backpack.

That's what schoolchildren get.

[Joe Cunningham @JoeCunninghamSC]

If you’re mad about Virginia, support a national gerrymandering ban.

If you’re not willing to take map-drawing away from politicians in every state, you’re not mad about gerrymandering. You’re mad your side lost this round.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Most people who plant flowers for pollinators forget one thing.

Bees need water.

A bee that lands on the edge of your pool to drink is a dead bee. They can't swim. A standard birdbath is a drowning trap.

Bees use water for more than drinking. They cool the hive with it. They feed it to larvae.

Mason bees need it to make mud to seal their nest chambers. Some species make 80 water trips a day during nest-building.

When natural water disappears, they end up in pools, ditches, and pesticide runoff.

The pollinator garden you built isn't complete until you give them somewhere safe to drink.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons won't make it up to grandma in heaven.

But they will return to Earth and choke wildlife.

[J @jasonllevin]

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race."

— Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor

[Covie @covie_93]

Christians,

donald trump isn't your savior, he's your test.

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

[Covie @covie_93]

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

[International Wolf Center @IntlWolfCenter]

Did you know you can visit our interpretative center year-round? Our winter hours are:

❄️ Friday & Saturday: 10am to 5pm
❄️ Sunday: 10am to 2pm
❄️ Monday through Thursday : closed

We switch to summer hours May 21, when we'll be open daily. Come visit us & our wolves! 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺

[Best in Dogs @BestinDogs]

When a dog is surrendered to a shelter, because they got lost, because someone moved, because the new home doesn’t allow pets, or simply because their family grew tired of them, this is what happens. They sit quietly, waiting for you to return. Not for hours. Not just for days. Sometimes for months. They don’t care about toys, treats, or even food. All they want is you. If you cannot commit to loving and protecting a dog for their entire life, please do not bring one home. Say no to abandonment. Because he never would. ❤️

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

I spent $500 on a limo and just found out the fee doesn't include a driver.

I spent all that money and have nothing to chauffeur it.

[Lisa Nazer @LisaCycles]

@BaronDestructo One of my favorite episodes

[Lisa Nazer @LisaCycles]

@SenatorBanks You're an embarrassment to this state.