Happy Earth Day! Let’s Take Good Care Of This Beautiful Planet We Call Home, Today And Everyday 🌿

As cat owners we like to joke about how the cat is the one who’s really in charge, but let’s be honest here: my cats think they’re in charge, but they’re also fucking dumbasses. It’s sort of an incompetent-king-and-long-suffering-advisor arrangement, if the king were prone to getting their head stuck in Kleenex boxes.

Follower celebration: Make me choose between __and __

@x-kytanna-x asked: Thorin or Bilbo?

This account has been sharing old videos of the many decades of lava flows on Kilauea. Often that volcano will wake up after only a few months of inactivity when it does go quiet, so it probably won’t be long before they get new footage.

Here’s an incredible lava breakout. A crust of pahoehoe is fractured by the pressure of the lava behind it, and the lava spills out onto the surface. Watch how some of the other still-soft rocks nearby flex downwards as the new lava moves on top of them. Also watch how the videographer slowly retreats…

epiclava_

Break on through…

There are three breeds of cat:

Chonk

Goblin

Yeah that looks like a cat

Bandon, OR

Jonah Reenders | Instagram

The deep sea is radical. Two miles below the surface and not yet to the bottom, this Paraphyllina sp. jellyfish hovers in the vastness of inner-space. At home in the dark water world that covers most of the planet, the beautiful, bizarre beasties that the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) discovers in our backyard give us sunlit surface-dwellers a run for what it means to be an “Earthling.”

I legit cannot wait to go do amethyst hunting in GA again! What a blast. Take a look at the dark purple in this one. 😍💎⛏😁👍

paleocris

shanemichaelblack

Stormy skies at Maroon Bells a couple years ago.