If you can't say anything nice, come sit by me. | GoT nerd | Conservative, Female, USAF Vet, US History Teacher | #BravesCountry

Joined April 2022
1,820 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
My life has never been better defined. 😂
8
1
26
8,179
I need one of these. Sloth?
It's #TongueOutTuesday! 👅 Just look at that face. Sago's little one keeps getting stronger every day and somehow keeps getting cuter too. Have a great Tuesday, and come visit soon! 🦥
1
23
💀
Gonna be hard to explain how male to female connections work on wires and pipes to them...
14
Adding tenrec to my list of Needed Animals.
✨This is the life✨ of a tenrec taking a sand bath! Tenrecs use dust or sand baths to absorb excess oils, clean their fur, and exfoliate their skin! 🛁🧼
1
17
*curtsey*
A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know… It has not “peeked” your interest. Nor has it “peaked” your interest. …It has piqued your interest. You are not “phased” by something. You are fazed by it. If you’ve had a long day, you are weary. If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary. It is “due course”, not “do course”. “Per se”, not “per say”. And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost. Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping. This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙
12
I need a popcorn-eating porcupine.
Rico loves his popcorn! 🍿
1
23
If you have a spare prayer, send it over for Brix and his humans, "Dadguy" and "Mommyfav". And, of course, his older brother (Bunsen), sister (Beaker), and BFF (Bernoulli). Brix is still a kitten and fell ill suddenly yesterday. 🙏❤️
Thank you all for the kind words today, words of support and prayer. It’s been an awful awful day and shocking that Brix got so sick so quickly. Our hearts are just so broken for him. He is our little sweet guy and we love him so much. But Brix is still alive, and still fighting. He hasn’t given up and we won’t either. For those wondering - his blood work shows little to no elevation for any kind of infection, yet his X-rays show crud in the back of his lung. This is why the vet team is thinking acute asthma from some kind of allergic reaction. He has to survive first before we worry about what might have triggered it. The good news is that he appears to be responding slightly to the steroids, and his heart rate is back to near normal. His O2 is also ok, but he is still breathing so hard. We won’t post a video of it because it’s heart wrenching. We are going in to visit him one more time before bed. He knows it’s us and moves to greet us, but he’s just so sick. 💔
2
2
10
510
RedInDC 💐 retweeted
If you can't separate out politics from our 250th celebration, it might be time for you to move.
14
24
320
2,548
I love lemurs. Or "leem-yurs" (iykyk).
Meet the newest residents of Lemur Lookout! We recently received a new troop of 4 male ring-tailed lemurs: Apollo, Hades, Lee Lee, and Leo.
18
After livestreaming all day and night trying to see Trump’s name being removed from the Kennedy Center building, Jim Acosta exclaims: “This is very much like watching the Berlin Wall coming down." "It is a sign that humankind can stand up against tyranny." Holy hell. Just absolutely incredible journalisming.
21
Well, shit. Now I need a muskox.
Move over, World Cup stars, Hudson is ready for kickoff! ⚽ Our male muskox is showing off some seriously powerful soccer skills as he headbutts and chases a massive soccer ball around. Enrichment plays an important role in animal care by encouraging natural behaviors.
1
22
RedInDC 💐 retweeted
We're getting dragons!
23
7
110
1,399
Let's ask ourselves why South Africa doesn't have a trillionaire, but America does. Then, let's make sure Graham will never see public office in America. Or South Africa, despite their fascist tendencies.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
1
9
RedInDC 💐 retweeted
California’s machine didn’t bury Spencer Pratt because he was on track to win Los Angeles. They buried him because he was already making the entire rigged operation look mortal. That’s the part they can’t afford. A pragmatic outsider running on crime, homelessness, and basic competence ... using modern AI-driven ads instead of the same tired yard signs and mailers ... started cutting through the hopelessness they’ve spent years cultivating. He wasn’t some generic Republican reciting talking points. He was showing people what a fixed city could actually look like, and too many were starting to pay attention. So they moved. Not in November, when a Pratt run might have made Karen Bass uncomfortable. They moved now, in the primary, because five more months of him existing would have done permanent damage to the illusion that resistance is pointless in California. The machine can survive losing. It cannot survive voters realizing the game isn’t as locked down as they’ve been told. This was panic dressed up as inevitability. When the establishment has to openly kneecap a candidate in the jungle primary just to protect the narrative, it tells you everything about how fragile their control actually is. They didn’t kill his campaign to save the city. They killed it to save the con. And everyone watching just saw the mask slip. (article below)
81
1,058
4,001
90,464
Here's a plug to watch "Flags of Our Fathers". Eastwood did a excellent job directing the cast, and the guy who plays Iran really brought it.
Ira Hayes drank himself unconscious after watching America turn his dead friends into a photograph. By 1945, millions recognized the image instantly. Six Marines raising an American flag on Iwo Jima. The photograph became one of the most famous wartime images ever taken. Newspapers printed it. Statues were modeled after it. War bonds were sold across the country. To America, it looked like victory. To Ira Hayes, it looked like a graveyard. Three of the men in the photograph were already dead by the time the country celebrated it. And Hayes could not stop thinking about them. When the flag went up on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, the battle for Iwo Jima was far from over. Marines were still being torn apart by artillery, mortars, hidden machine gun nests, and Japanese soldiers in tunnels. The black volcanic sand smelled like sulfur and blood. Bodies covered the beaches so densely that some Marines later admitted they stopped looking down while walking. Ira Hayes was only 22 years old. A Pima Native American from Arizona, he had already survived some of the worst fighting in the Pacific by the time he climbed Suribachi carrying the replacement flag. The famous photograph happened almost accidentally. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the moment in seconds. Then the image exploded across America. Suddenly, Hayes was no longer just a Marine. He became a national symbol. The government immediately pulled Hayes and two surviving flag-raisers from combat and sent them across the country for the Seventh War Loan Drive. Cities packed with cheering crowds welcomed them like celebrities. Politicians shook their hands. Reporters followed constantly. But something felt deeply wrong to Hayes. The country celebrated the photograph while the men inside it were disappearing. During speeches, people asked about heroism, courage, and glory. Hayes kept thinking about the Marines who never came home. Especially Harlon Block. He became obsessed with correcting misidentifications in the photograph. Military officials initially got one flag-raiser wrong. Hayes privately carried enormous guilt because Block’s mother was grieving without proper recognition. Most people around him wanted silence. Hayes would not let it go. At one point, he reportedly hitchhiked over 1,300 miles from Arizona to Texas to tell Harlon Block’s parents the truth. Not for publicity. Not for money. Because dead Marines deserved honesty more than America deserved mythology. By then, Hayes was already struggling. Crowds overwhelmed him. Friends said alcohol became the only way to numb the memories. The memories never stopped. Not the gunfire. Not the bodies. Not the faces. Especially the faces. Most Americans saw six heroes raising a flag. Ira Hayes saw the three men who never made it off the island alive. By the early 1950s, his life collapsed under alcoholism, arrests, and emotional isolation. Then, on January 24, 1955, Ira Hayes was found dead in the desert near his home in Arizona. He was 32. The official cause involved exposure and alcohol. Marines believed part of him had never really left Iwo Jima. Years earlier, a little girl asked him what it felt like to become famous after raising the flag. He answered quietly: “How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me… and only 27 walked off alive?”
1
33
I honestly can't find fault here.
Le gars voulait vraiment la vue 🤣🤣👍
20
RedInDC 💐 retweeted
Bedtime for Bumpy! He approaches his room at a sprint, then - one little whir of the ears later - flops onto his mattress. A day spent cavorting in the water is tiring work, and our little hippo is more than ready for a good night’s sleep. Bumpy is one of our newest arrivals. His mother died, likely in a territorial fight defending her baby’s life. He spent at least a day huddled by her body before the Kenya Wildlife Service rescued him and brought him into our care. You can become part of Bumpy’s journey. Read his full rescue story and support him through an adoption: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o…
85
1,052
6,762
77,329
May I have a word, please... English: A dog. Swedish: What? English: The dog. English: Two dogs. Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna. German: Wait, I wan’t to try it too! English: No, go away. Swedish: No one invited you. German: Der Hund. English: I said go away. German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde. Swedish: Stop it! German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden. Finnish: Sup. English: NO. Swedish: NO. German: NO. Finn, you go away!! Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin. German: WHAT? Swedish: You must be kidding us! English: This must be a joke… Finnish: Aaaand… koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne. English: Those are words for a dog??? Finnish: Wait! I didn’t stop yet. There is still: koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan. Swedish: Breath!! German: Whattaaa? English: Okay, now you’re just making things up! Finnish: And now the plural forms….. English: WHAT?!?!
180
610
4,677
302,757
"so many of them Virginians" I'll bet you this bint doesn't know why the National D-Day Monument is located in Bedford, VA. Or that she could locate Bedford on a map.
Today marks the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

Today, we honor the brave American servicemembers, so many of them Virginians, who stormed the beaches of Normandy. These heroes ran toward danger to liberate Europe and defend our nation’s values — altering the course of history. 

We continue to carry with us their memory, their sacrifice, and their commitment to freedom.
1
32
Neil is a spirit animal.
Neil the Seal just thrives on pure chaos.
1
22
Japan is the counter to Australia.
This is a gray Ezo squirrel, a subspecies of the Eurasian red squirrel found on the Japanese island of Hokkaido
42