Sam Beebe @sbeebe@social.coop

Awooo

Great idea from a terrible company. Too bad a non-profit or similar entity didn’t implement it.

"The F.C.C. approved [Amazon’s] 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/science/amazon-project-kuiper.html

Solomon, from Ethiopia via ten years in Kenyan camp.

Chinook

Elijah McClain, violinist, rest in peace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain

Norrland, Sweden

#dogs

#dogs

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This ten-lined June beetle aka watermelon beetle kept falling on its back. It’s wings looked slightly out of sorts. Maybe it had been attacked by a bird? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-lined_June_beetle

This NYT cover photograph by Jonathan Ernst is beautiful, one for the history books. Rest in peace, John Lewis.
https://www.jonathanernst.com

The stripes on this blue jay feather are fantastic.

A flag enthusiast, a vexillologist, has been hanging a new flag each day. Here are two recent Cuban flags.

Marah oreganus aka Oregon manroot, coastal manroot, or western wild-cucumber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marah_oreganus

"Big Tech Funds a Think Tank Pushing for Fewer Rules. For Big Tech.
"Google, Amazon and Qualcomm finance a George Mason University institute teaching a hands-off approach to antitrust regulators and judges."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/technology/global-antitrust-institute-google-amazon-qualcomm.html

Who Gets to Be a ‘Naked Athena’? by Mitchell S. Jackson
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/opinion/sunday/portland-protests-white.html