Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

Saturn's Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230312.html #APOD

#ElizabethWarren: "President Trump and congressional #Republicans' decision to roll back Dodd-Frank's 'too big to fail' rules for banks like #SVB —reducing both oversight and capital requirements—contributed to a costly collapse." #SiliconValleyBank https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-era-deregulation-deemed-a-key-culprit-in-failure-of-silicon-valley-bank

Opening up a whole new can of worms.

Morning Mastodon,

The weekend is flying past again, Sunday already. I hope that today brings you good things.

This photograph is of the house at Baddesley Clinton. A small pond before the moat surrounding the house.

#DailyPhoto #Photography #Architecture #Landscape #Reflections

@victoriadecapua I bet I can find something you wrote that offends me and take time out of my day to label you, but I prefer sticking to pointing out the irony that the people making fun of mastodon also can’t figure out how it works. Have a great day 💕

Amazing agility.

Look at this northern cardinal. Despite being in the center of a thick tight tangle of branches it moves with relative ease. Any acrobat would be envious. The bird is making its way to one of my bird feeders. In this photo, I'm not sure whether he's flying to his next perch or simply jumping. I suppose it's probably a combination of both, because he will need to right himself from the dive. Don't you think so?

"The female cardinal sings duets with her mate during courtship and while she's on the nest. During that time, her singing tells her mate when to bring food — and also when to stay away. This warning keeps the more conspicuous male's visits to a minimum, lest his flashy color expose the nest to predators." - abcbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #NorthernCardinal

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between LA County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #MonoLake #OwensValley #NativeAmerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #IndianWar #HabitatDestruction @bookstadon

I sure hope so.

This has been a weekend of minimal socialising and naps.

#SilentSunday #CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #pets #floof #catstodon #DogsOfMastodon #dogs #dog

#silentsunday

#woodland #trees #forest #landscapephotography #nature #art #MastoArt

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. government will not bail out Silicon Valley Bank.

"The reforms that have been put in place means that we're not going to do that again," Yellen told CBS' "Face the Nation."

https://apple.news/AnHeiaKL5QRWE8W4zaYsePg

sorry, no story today - my recent experiences would interfere too much with this story, and that's not fair to anyone, even my characters

A lone #CanadaGoose seems to step cautiously on the snowy field on a foggy winter day in #Guelph #Ontario Canada as it moves slowly towards the eerie, #mystical #woods in the early morning.
Goose Step here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/goose-step-debbie-oppermann.html
#fog #foggy #goose #bird #BirdArt BirdLover #wildlife #nature #NatureLover #animal #BuyIntoArt #SpringIntoArt #SilentSunday #landscape #LandscapePhotography #photography #PhotographyIsArt #ArtMatters #MastoBirds #BirdsOfMastodon #winter #snow #mood #NaturePhotography

#SilentSunday

Through the window.

This is one of my hanging feeders. They work better than the one that is standing on a post. The pigeons and squirrels aren't able to easily access the bird seed, so it lasts longer.

Here's a couple of chipping sparrows and what I believe is a northern cardinal. I've watched these a lot and I think the sparrow on the far side of the window is approaching.

"The chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina ) is a species of New World sparrow, a passerine bird in the family Passerellidae. It is widespread, fairly tame, and common across most of its North American range." - animalia.bio

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #ChippingSparrow #cardinal

awwwww, I gotta go rescue some of V's hip campers who got their vehicle stuck in the mud on the grade yesterday - I really love draggin shit with that truck, especially when I get to help people with it 🔥 🖤

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4kPqP5MWbNA&feature=share ⚡️🇺🇦Nightly Address of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of the 381st day of Russia’s full-scale invasion | Day 3301 of The War in Ukraine and Invasion of Crimea (March 11) | dubbed into English (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine

https://t.me/United24media/6289 ‼️🇺🇦 Fire! (VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine