Nikki Bateman

Mother, wife, veteran, & flawed yet furiously fixing what I can.

[Luis Vercetti @97Vercetti]

when two people talking to me at the same time:

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

It was a ruff day..🐶😅

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

🏃‍♂️😥

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One of the most beautiful turtle photos

[📸 Philip Waller Photography]

[Nikki Bateman @listwithnikki]

@FreddyLA7 Someone get this man some biscuits and grits- he’s in GA!

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Name a book that you think is 10/10.
But only one.

[Abhishek @MSDianAbhiii]

Declare this the photo of the year already.

[Nikki Bateman @listwithnikki]

Thank goodness! I’ve had USAA for 30 yrs ❤️💰

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

USAA is returning $1 billion to Florida policyholders due to Florida’s successful market reforms.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

This motherfucker ran a solid kingdom and I think some acknowledgement of that is overdue. Low crime, clean streets, quality monarch.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you find out your best friend is better at something than you

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @80s90sJukebox]

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

[Nikki Bateman @listwithnikki]

I could not love this more! 🐝

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

A beekeeper went viral after calmly allowing a honey bee to remain on his arm as it worked its stinger free and flew away. 🐝

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

God always wins.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Learn geography terms visually

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is the least serious creature on the planet 😂

📹: sealionreggie

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Has anyone ever had a stronger start on this app?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Opossums live short, difficult lives, yet they spend their nights doing work many people never see.

Most only live about one to two years in the wild. They move through backyards, forests, roadsides, and neighborhoods after dark, searching for food while avoiding cars, dogs, predators, and harsh weather. Their lives are brief, but their role in nature is meaningful.

Opossums help clean the world around you. They eat pests, insects, carrion, and sometimes even venomous snakes. They also help reduce ticks, which can carry disease. In their quiet way, they support the balance of the places they pass through.

Still, many people fear them because of how they look or because they appear at night. But opossums are usually shy, gentle animals. When scared, they often freeze, hiss, drool, or play dead because they want to survive, not attack.

Kindness can be simple. Give them space. Do not harm them. Slow down when you see one near the road. Let them keep doing the work nature gave them.

Opossums may not live long, but they leave the world cleaner than they found it.