Are Bee

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Underground, overground Wombling free. NZ in the Salish Sea region.

Sunset silhouetting the Olympics across Puget Sound/Salish Sea
The sphinxs from the Neverending Story
The girl from the UK 70's test pattern Test Card F, interpreted as the "Girl with a Pearl Earring", from B3ta.
Hot dog guy
Promotional mural “Welcome to Seattle” on a 7-Eleven in Coke colours under a cool grey sky.
Blue Esky
Antipodes Map
-I’M- a pioneer. -YOU- died drinking raw milk Around an “Oregon Trail” ox-drawn wagon from the 80s Apple ][ game
Wavy gradients from a cool green to black. Kind of look like hills.
Simmering shrimp heads and tail shells.
Gfrgg
mf == matronly farmer, right? In Aniken Padme picnic meme form
… the Usborne Book of the Future.
Obnoxious boyfriend meme with boyfriend “NASA looking for a name for the moon missions” looking over his shoulder checking out girl in red dress “Apollo (Sun God)” and away from disbelieving girlfriend “Artemis (Moon Goddess)”
Cassette of Hair
A pad of schwag Windows Server 2003 launch Post-It notes.
Reading the operation correctly This isn't about admiring the operation or, condemning it, or diminishing it in any way. It's about reading it correctly. A two-hour, bloodless capture of a sitting president inside a presumably at least somewhat fortified environment suggests some sort of internal fracture, negotiated constraint, or temporary paralysis- not total kinetic victory. That distinction is relevant not just to our understanding of how the capture took place - but it may also shape what comes next, eg — whether authority consolidates or
The cover of the Crowded House album Woodface.
Crappy spam
Glengarry Glenross scene of Alex Baldwin teaching the sales team
Workers painting a small roundabout.
Gary Larsen’s classic Far Side cartoon of a dog luring a cat into a basement laundry room tumble drier with signs saying “cat fud”. The cat is looking in the drier. The dog, hiding behind the washing machine is thinking “oh please oh please”
Torquemada in Termight “Be pure… my Terminators are watching you!”
Business man with head up his own arse, tie drooping down over his shoulder between his legs.
Radical acceptance and other books in front of an erg!
UK Court Barrister Bands
The long-run history of child mortality. Shown is the share of children who died before reaching the end of puberty. The age cut-off varies slightly between studies, but is generally around 15. Basically a flat line since the year 0 CE at around 50% dropping substatially beginning around 1880, hitting 27% in 1950 and 4.3% in 2022. Norway, Japan, Estonia, and Slovenia have the lowest mortality rates at 0.3% in 2022. Data sources: Volk and Atkinson (2013), Human Mortality Database, and UN IGME, OurWorldinData.org - Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems. Licensed under CC-BY by the author Max Roser. From https://acoup.blog/2025/07/18/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-ii-starting-at-the-end/?edge_reader_page
Marionettes from the "Thunderbirds"
Being on the receiving end of the fictional Men In Black Neurolyzer wiping memories.
Since returning to office, Trump has dismantled every tool the US created to win the Cold War. It doesn’t need to be the case that Trump has stashed his Administration with actual Russian agents — narcissism and venality explain much of what we’re seeing — but there are somewhere between two and twenty Trump advisors who I have good reason to suspect are Russian agents
Screenshot of NPR BlueSky post: NPR @npr.org .23m With large parts of the country under opposition control amid an ongoing civil war, analysts warn that election logistics could prove challenging.
An open door in a frame standing in the middle of a field.
Office pop up warning that my benefits are about to expire in ... 11 months.
In a timely warning, Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, highlights China's tendency to delete data series that show worrying signs. The authorities want to create good vibes, but it doesn't instil much confidence in them and, Prasad argues, is no substitute for action
A Boeing 777 over Snoqualmie, Washington. Mount Si in the background.
A YouTuber (Hank Green) has a Furby on their desk in the background. The Furby is textured to look like it is made of baked beans.
Visualization of the calendar year as a circle divided into segments. A callout say you are here pointing to the period between 4th of July and Halloween - the "Halloween Retail Season". Calculated 3 August 2025.