A small thing making me happy this spring:
The Northern Flickers in my neighborhood (think: woodpecker’s cousin) have figured out that if they rap their bills on the top of the street lamps it makes a great noise that travels far. They seem to be using it as a supplement to their usual calls. So, walking to school I’ll hear four or five Flickers alternating between vocal calls and street lamp percussion. 🥁
#birds #tools #drums
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Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa is now free on YouTube!
(alt-text: YouTube link to National Theatre's Importance of Being Earnest, full show)
https://youtu.be/obX-HGs-PS8

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html
Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.
You cannot afford rent.
You cannot afford groceries.
You cannot afford to get sick.
You are lying in the street, unable to endure the cold.
Yet they found a billion dollars a day for bombs.
The money exists.
They just decided you don’t deserve it.