Lol with that username, you should be telling me! 😁

It looks to be beading up nicely in that photo.

I saw no update that it wasn’t released, so it likely got set free as planned.

Kewl!

I wonder why the second handle? Symmetry or something else? It’s not very big.

It looks like a nice tender moment. (Though for all I know, she may be scolding the little brat for the 15th time today 🙃)

I’m not sure how many baby pics you guys want. I see a ton, but I think a lot look the same and it could easily overwhelm things, so I’ve been trying to keep it to really unique things like this.

It may be my personal bias, since for every pic I share with you all, I probably see a dozen or 2. So just a general reminder to everyone, always feel free to say “gimme more/less of such and such!” I’m here to show you what you want to see.

Thank you for the input!

It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do since the 2 services were bundled, but whenever I got bored with YouTube or whatever other streaming things I was using, I’d take a break and read a book from my backlog or play a video game and then forget to try them.

I just want longer content to put on in the background or while I do chores, I just don’t want it to be AI slop.

I really need to give this and/or Curiosity Steam a try. I still get a lot of use out of YouTube Premium (oh, boo yourself 😄) but for documentary type things, it’s so hard to sure through the AI generated stuff anymore.

Yay for Blake the Donor Dog! My rescue clinic also has a doggy blood donor that helps make blood products for all kinds of animals.

Here is some random doggy blood trivia:

Doggos have over 12 blood types.

The first ever blood transfusion was done in England in 1665 between 2 living dogs. The first human blood transfusion was 2 years later. They gave him sheep’s blood! 🐑

Who let a sensible reply in here? 🤪

Before I got my depression treated, I was angry all the time, and like you said, it was physically and mentally taxing to be angry all the time.

I wish a lot of folks here would take the doomscrolling energy and devote it to some direct action. You will actually help those in need, work out a good chunk of your frustration, and you’ll meet awesome, like-minded people. Best thing I’ve ever done in my life.

That’s a big looking baby to keep happy!

No, no! I love Powerfowl!

You saying that just got me to look up if they had a different name for it like McDonald’s is Macca’s but I didn’t find any and was a bit surprised. Then I looked at all the other names.

Powerfowl is most excellent as it works on multiple levels, as you said! I just wanted to participate in brainstorming a name too. 😇

The Aussies are supposed to be famous for their shortening of words, I think they could be persuaded.

Looking at the big list of Australian diminutives, they’d probably choose Powwo or Powwie. Hmmm… I think Powwowl could work!

Cranky owls are the best owls!

It’s one tough cookie!

It was nice they grounded it until the owl lost interest. I don’t know how powerful a drone motor is, but I wouldn’t want it to get nicked up toes or anything. Good on the fire dept!

I’ve passed through their town and always remember it for being very lovely.

I just checked, and it wasn’t Camden, but their neighboring town, Rockport, where I stopped to see the memorial to Andre the Seal.

From Roadside America:

Andre was a harbor seal who spent his winters at the New England Aquarium in Boston and his summers in Rockport Harbor. Every spring for over 20 years the Seaquarium would release him and Andre would swim north to Rockport (150+ miles). It was always a high point for local residents when he reappeared. He was the honorary harbor master.

A granite statue of Andre was dedicated at harborside in 1978; Andre unveiled it himself. He went blind in 1985, and when he swam away in 1986, he never returned. Searchers found his body washed up on a remote part of Rockport beach. At the time, he was thought to be the oldest living harbor seal.

Andre will never have a successor, said the Rockport Chamber of Commerce, because “the Department of Environmental Protection will never allow it.”

Andre was the subject of a lackluster 1994 feature film starring Tina Majorino (who later played the girlfriend of Napoleon Dynamite) and a sea lion instead of a seal.

It’s hard to top Nemoy + Classic Simpsons!

Lol, I’m just picturing a bunch of middle-aged guys throwing their backs out trying to suplex each other.

As ridiculous as everything with this guy is, going on free dates with his girlfriend and sending himself to a different sports fantasy camp every week is seeming much less damaging than what a lot of other cronies have been up to. I’ll take funding a manchild’s excursions over a pointless war any day.

Send him up in one of Elon’s rockets next for his space camp adventure!

What a fun image! I love it. 😀

Lol perfection!

Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop 🤣

Wait…

I think I can make out what it’s saying…

Yesssss, it sounds like:

“Hoo hasn’t subscribed yet for the most fun and educational source of owl news on the entire Fediverse?”

That must be it, since we’re just 6 subs short of hitting 6000!

There sure are a lot of owl fans here. I’m so glad you all enjoy seeing these photos and stories every day! 🦉❤️