Volguus Zildrohar

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@cosmopterix GM! The stamen look like eyelashes to me.

Gm. Pinxterbloom azalea (Rhododendron periclymenoides) in woodland. Native to eastern US, its name comes from the Dutch “Pinxter” meaning “Pentecost” as its blooms often coincide with the commemoration of the Holy Spirit’s descent to the apostles 50 days after Easter.

@pennyelizabeths GM!

GM! Wake up, wake up, wake up!

@redrose_anna GM!

good morning

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@vocalcry Excuse me waiter, it clearly says chicken nuggets, plural.

This is a “chicken nugget”

@cosmopterix It’s quite charming.

American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) in breeding habitat, a bird that was once hunted to near extinction and now has recovered to an estimated population of less than 100,000.

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@caesar_pounce GM. It’s me 😅

Good morning I can't think of anything to say

@pennyelizabeths Been there, it’s the strangest thing.

How do people cut someone significant out of their life without even a conversation?

Rise and grind kings. Earn that beautiful bean footage.

@redrose_anna GM!

good morning

@cosmopterix GM!

Gm. Common sassafras (Sassafras albidum) now flowering, a tree that feeds birds from bobwhite and wild turkey to woodpeckers and songbirds, and hosts several species of butterflies, including spicebush swallowtail.

@lee_bail83 @AsTheWorldBurnz 🎂🎉

Happy belated birthday @AsTheWorldBurnz

@ING2Firebrand I really have no clue who the cast is.

Have you noticed that the current cast members of SNL all look… off? As if they aren’t real people? Very uncanny valley.

@damintoell Damin puts his mayonnaise is the over AND he votes!

Spells “oven” as “over” three times “These people vote”

@redrose_anna GM

good morning taking a moment to meditate on His beauty today, everywhere around us

@cosmopterix GM

Gm. Sunset Beach, NJ, this past Saturday. You can still see a piece of the SS Atlantus above water, an experimental concrete ship which struck a sandbar in 1926 and has remained a slowly disintegrating fixture since.

@vocalcry Boss says zepbound costs less than the food he no longer buys.

I’ll admit I did not foresee fertilizer costs going up because of the blockade but food prices staying flat because of peptides