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Friday Night Photos Safari Park Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Hooray! We've managed to make it through another week without the whole world completely imploding. Keeping my fingers crossed that smarter heads prevail and that holds for a lot longer.
Locally it's been a week of early morning fog and hot sunny afternoon's here in the lower left. I've had the windows open at night to keep the house cool. Normally I don't have to do that until May or June. If the last few weeks are any indication it's going so be a blazing hot summer.

Some old familiar faces and some new friends from my last few visits to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

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Open Thread - 3-27-2026 - Bookends

Submitted by studentofearth on Fri, 03/27/2026 - 8:16am

Good Morning

First calf of the season on the ground, a bullock, red like his mother. Dexter throw small calves. I needed to move him to another pasture and he is small enough for me to lift. The 80 to 100 lb calves were getting too hard for me to handle without assistance. Looking forward to making a variety of cheeses this season.

No nectarines or peaches this year. Enjoyed the blooms signaling spring had arrived. A few blooms survived the 22 degree night, last night was 16 degrees none survived. Typical, I consider them ornamentals for a short bloom in spring and beautiful fall color.

Open Thread - Thurs 26 Mar 2026 - Leave It To Norway!

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 03/26/2026 - 5:00am

Leave It To Norway!

I happened across this video the other day. It rocked! The Norwegian Consumer Consul made a video about the enshittification of everything in life by a (fictional for now, of course) professional enshitticator. I had to laugh, shake my head ruefully, wonder where we are headed, laugh some more... I’m in total awe that a Norwegian, independent, governmentally funded organization put this together. Norway! (6th happiest country in the world and the USA is umm, 23rd or something, gah)

Enjoy the video!

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