Quoth the Rodent Queen, "Squeak."

Raw Velvety Malachite

「しっぽを追いかけすぎて」

(The colors weren't as bright on my computer idk what happened)

Aleyse Shannon as Breanna Casey LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION (2021—2025)

Elizabeth Taylor talks about her commitment to HIV/AIDS activism and her reasons for stepping up and raising awareness at a National Press Club luncheon held in Washington, D.C. on June 3rd, 1987. An early trailblazer in the fight against HIV/AIDS and a staunch and outspoken LGBTQ+ ally, Elizabeth devoted her time and energy to the cause when her close friend and co-star Rock Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS prior to his passing in 1985. Elizabeth went on to become a co-founder (alongside Dr. Mathilde Krim) of the first AIDS research center amfAR, and later founded her own separate Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991 with the specific focus of providing nutritious meals (as well as medical and financial assistance) to people living with HIV and AIDS. She also lobbied the U.S. congress to contribute more money for AIDS research and education, devoting the last twenty-six years of her life to the cause. After Elizabeth passed away in 2011 at the age of 79, a large percentage of the $156,800,000 raised at the Christie’s auction of her legendary jewelry collection was bequeathed to her charity in order to continue providing the services and assistance she believed were important in perpetuity. The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, now helmed by her grandson Quinn Tivey who serves as an officer and co-trustee, remains active providing assistance and promoting HIV/AIDS awareness to this day. Great strides have been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and the disease, with access to the right treatment, is thankfully no longer considered the death sentence it once was. As Elizabeth stated at the Eighth International Conference on AIDS in 1992: "If you do your bit with all of your heart, and I do my bit with all of my heart, and everybody out there does the same thing, we will make a goddamn difference."

Many Grackle babies seem to have fledged, and the parents love to drop them off at the pond while they forage. The young ones are still a bit bumbly on their feet but also very curious and inquisitive. No leaf remains unturned 😆 And they are so cute! It is like the perfect summer - spending time with friends, bathing and getting snackies from the parents ❤️

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY June 17, 2026 at 05:00PM Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image center? Astronomers think that it shows where a massive star exploded as a supernova whose light reached Earth 1,700 years ago. The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, and blue), radio from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa (large red cloud) and X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton (shown in blue). The large cloud is a star forming region called Sagittarius C, which is approximately 50 light-years in extent and about 26,000 light-years from Earth. It is located only about 260 light-years from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Galaxy (off to the left of the image). If the blue blob is confirmed to be a supernova remnant, it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the Galactic Center. In this dense region, the deaths of massive stars are connected to the birth of new stars through gas and magnetic fields in a complex way. Image: https://ift.tt/8t6HqLj via NASA https://ift.tt/qMBheN0 APOD --> https://ift.tt/310pAlF

ph. Bill Cooper

If anybody's wondering how the rats are doing

many such cases

by Gary Stephenson

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1322 BC. From Thebes (uncertain). Now in the Penn Museum. E14295

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

oooooh so cute :3  big kitties~

(by marc.hennige)