efarina

typos and coffee are always welcomed.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Orange Tip Butterfly! 😍
Taken in my Somerset village.... love these little butterflies, they're always on the move! 😁🦋

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Do not be afraid to sow without immediately seeing the fruits. The sowing belongs to you; the growth belongs to God. No gesture carried out in the name of Christ is useless.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Kingfisher by the lake. 😍
Taken last week at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊🐦

[Straight Florida @StraightFlorida]

CNN and the blue hairs want you to believe Florida Man is just bath salts, broken lawnmowers, and wrestling deputies in a Waffle House parking lot at 3 AM.

Meanwhile in reality: two good ol' boys head offshore for grouper and stumble into a glitch in the simulation where the sky is literally raining drowned grim reapers.

Think about the sheer Florida logic here. You look out over the horizon and instead of a school of baitfish, the ocean is full of soaking-wet, miserable vultures paddling around like deranged floating trash bags. Normal humans would assume the portal to hell had opened and pinned the throttles for safe harbor.

Not these savages. They grab a dip net and decide today is bird rehab day.

Look at the back deck of that boat. You have a dozen waterlogged scavengers stacked up like cordwood next to a Yeti bucket, reeking of wet roadkill and despair, looking like they just got kicked out of an Ozzy Osbourne cover band concert. Then one solitary vulture locks into the stern at forty miles an hour, catching sea spray in his feathers, fully accepting his new life as a high-speed nautical pirate.

They didn't feed them to the bull sharks. They didn't panic. They chauffeured twenty pissed-off turkey vultures directly to an Uber drop-off in the mangroves like it was a routine Tuesday on the Gulf.

God bless Florida Man. We will rescue the literal heralds of death itself if it means we get to drive a boat fast while doing it. 🦅🌊🚤💨

[Deb Lee Carson Photography @DebLeeCarson]

Who seeks solace and peace from the wild things?

Oh how I long to sit
in the prairie grass
and feel the wind

witness the quiet
purpose of their
wild lives

One by one
two by two
they move

free as the birds
who share their
world

free as the sun
the clouds
the land

without them
we have
no past

Grateful for each of you who are here with me and sit with the wilds when you can, through these images taken in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Have a beautiful night in your part of the world!

[efarina @efarina]

so effing true

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They say we don't teach about socialism in schools. Yes we do: group projects. Where you do ALL the work because your 3 lazy teammates do nothing, but you have integrity and don't wanna fail, but they end up getting the same grade as you for nothing. That's socialism. It sucks.

[Jim Musil Painter @JimMusilPainter]

My painting CATTLE COMING HOME

My Labor Day Sale is on now! All prints marked down. Use code SALE20 for an additional 20% off!

[Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto]

Hallo Bay, Alaska #wildlife #photogrsaphy

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

The Office of Legal Counsel has issued a legal opinion clarifying that when a state chooses to participate in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, all agencies within that state — not only those that administer TANF or SSI benefits — must report individuals known to be not lawfully present in the United States to @DHSgov.

“When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States." -Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel

Read more: https://t.co/6QfjjxBXc7

[Virginia News Vanguard @VaNewsVanguard]

🚨IT'S NOT FAIRFAX: Former Chesterfield, Virginia, teacher given 565-year sentence for sexual crimes against kids

A former Chesterfield County teacher was sentenced to over 560 years in prison (with 110 years suspended) on 27 counts relating to child sexual abuse, including the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material.

WRIC's Allison Williams explains:

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A foster mom caring for THREE special-needs kids couldn't afford the parts to fix her van's broken AC.

So a total stranger bought the parts himself, fixed it for free, and had it running before she got there.

When she reached in and felt cold air for the first time… she broke down crying. ❤️

The strangers name is Michael Kuba.

And that story? It's just one of thousands.

About 11 years ago, Michael's own van AC died and the car shop quoted him almost $4,000.

He had 3 little kids crying in the back seat in the Arizona heat… and no way to pay it.

So he did the only thing he could do.

He bought some tools. Watched YouTube. And through pure trial and error, he taught himself to fix it.

Then he had a thought: how many other families are stuck in this exact spot?

That was the birth of The Junkie Garage, a nonprofit in Glendale, Arizona.

The rules are almost unbelievable.

No income checks.
No paperwork.
No questions about your money or your past.

You bring the parts. Y
ou donate whatever you can afford for the labor.

That's it.

"I don't ask you for your income. I don't ask you who you are, where you came from, or anything like that. I just wanna help people get their cars working right."

An AC job that runs $2,000 to $4,000 at a normal shop? His average customer pays less than $300, donations included.

...but Michael doesn't do it alone.

His son Matthew has been right there beside him, wrench in hand, since he was EIGHT years old.

He's a teenager now, and he's still there every week, fixing cars for strangers in his community.

"It's an amazing bonding experience, and it gives me an opportunity most kids don't get."

A dad teaching his boy how to fix an alternator… and how to be a man.

Michael puts it like this:

"You haven't lived until you've done something for someone that can never repay you."

He's got dreams of a bigger shop, more volunteers, more cars, more families kept on the road to work and school and church.

"If you have the ability to help people, just do it."

GOD BLESS Michael and Matthew Kuba. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

Bet someone out there can shed some light on this.

A family member transferred a large amt of money related to a house payment from his regular bank to Fidelity where it needed to be wired the following week.
The money left his checking account the day he made the transfer (meaning it wasn't available for him to use).
But weeks went by and Fidelity wouldn't clear it to be used.
When he finally called Fidelity, they said that due to a general pattern of increase in fraud (not related to him), it was holding onto transfers longer before releasing them, but they couldn't give a time frame (a month? a year?).
In the end, the money was cleared after six weeks.
The man was prevented from accessing his own money for any reason for six weeks, without advance notice given.

I see numerous problems with this:

1. The Fidelity website still said transfers were typically cleared in 1-3 days. There was no warning to people that they wouldn't be able to get their money for an undetermined amount of time, let alone many weeks.

2. The money was *somewhere* for those weeks: it just wasn't available for the customer who owned it. Someone was collecting interest on it. Multiply this by how many people they're doing that to...

3. Something stinks: This customer had been with Fidelity for many years with no fraud involved in his accounts. In today's electronic age, if there was real concern, Fidelity could confirm in an instant with the bank that the money was good.

I advised him to try to take it up with someone in a position of authority but he just kept getting the same answer: "due to general increase in fraud, this is what we're doing...". When he insisted on filing a complaint about the lack of notice and the credibility gap in general, they told him to write a snail mail letter to some corporate address, and he sent me a copy. It was a good letter, but nobody ever bothered to reply.

I, too, have noticed similarly oddly long (and I think unjustifiable) delays.

Another family member transferred cash from her checking account to fund her Shopify account and, again, the money was gone from her checking in that moment (not available to her).

But it was listed as "pending" on Shopify for a week, which seems like too long.

What do you think is going on? Incompetence or something by design?

[efarina @efarina]

@Kristin_Mae This one or the golden hour (third) in the last post… tough choices. Love the storytelling with the big horns.

[efarina @efarina]

@thecapitalistt0 I head to the @vmfamuseum - order a coffee and take some notes; then stroll through like it’s my private gallery to admire. The creative masterpieces really break through the brain fog.

[Jocelyn Anderson Photography @JocAPhotography]

A Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) passing by overhead.

[Julie Perry @Julie4Virginia]

It is hard to believe that early voting starts on September 18th. If you are Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, please vote for @GenBert2026 for U.S. Senate, @Beckwith_VA10 for U.S. Congress, and NO to the three Satanic Amendments on the ballot. Here some information on the three Amendments.

[Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto]

Greed is wanting more. Ambition is wanting better.

[Sue Wood @SW_PhotoNature]

A Loopy Leveret evening 🤣🥰

[EddyFisher Studios @EddyFisher240]

Johnny Carson introduced Sam Kinison as an outrageous comedian.

Then Kinison walked out and sang “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” so beautifully that, for a moment, you could almost forget who was standing on the stage.

Then he started talking.

The performance quickly turned into classic Kinison taking a romantic song and turning it into a furious conversation about betrayal, heartbreak and a woman who supposedly “never loved” him.

Carson was fascinated by the contrast. He talked about hearing Kinison’s tape for the first time and being completely caught off guard by how good his voice was.

But the conversation became even more interesting when Kinison talked about his past.

Before comedy, he had been a Pentecostal preacher. He married young, went through a painful divorce, became disillusioned with that life and eventually decided to go into comedy.

That makes this appearance fascinating in hindsight.

You're watching a comedian known for screaming and outrageous material sitting with Johnny Carson, casually revealing that he once stood in front of a congregation as a preacher and then proving he could actually sing.

It’s a side of Sam Kinison that doesn't always get remembered.

🎬 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. ( May 24, 1989 )