Canada released 89 sea otters into a bay – and brought back an ecosystem:

Next, more #ETTD (Everything Trump Touches Dies):
While they loot the country, Trump’s staff is keeping him busy and distracted by giving him pointless redecorating projects — the gold crap all over the White House, for example, and that Ballroom, and the Arch de Trump. 

Now he’s trying to get the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial painted blue. So he gave out a $7 million no-bid contract to a buddy’s company that had never worked on pool painting before. What could go wrong?

Then Trump drove his motorcade on it for a press conference.

Trump inspecting the Reflecting Pool.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 7, 2026 at 6:22 PM

Heather Cox Richardson writes:

…The contract is for more than triple the $1.8 million Trump promised, and officials say the repairs will last for seven to ten years, rather than the 50 years Trump claimed. Even that might be generous: One expert warned that the motorcade the president took onto the pool yesterday to review the project was heavy enough to have sprung the newly-repaired joints between the concrete slabs that make up the pool bed.

The reflecting pool will be brown with algae & goose turds before the end of July. The reflection has always come from the sky bouncing off the top of the water. The bottom is rarely visible. Painting it blue, or pink for that matter, won’t do a thing. I’m an on & off DC area resident since ’72.

— WesCsays ❌👑 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦 (@wescsays.bsky.social) May 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM

Next, a comment about Trump’s war:

And Trump has released more UFO files – though even Joe Rogan is not impressed:

Isn’t it Ironic?

the way Republicans brag about being the party of dismantling racism in the 1800s is like me bragging about how Yankees have 27 rings. OK if you knew how to do that 100 years ago isn’t it even more embarrassing that you don’t do it anymore

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 4, 2026 at 6:18 AM

It’s not just Trump – everyone around him is utterly incompetent. 

I suspect Marco Rubio never thought about a gift for the Pope until he was leaving the State Department on his way to the plane, then sent an aide into a gift shop to find something quick:

A few sports stories
This was a very classy hockey move:

Some academic laughs
I know we are all concerned about AI slop, but there used to be some pretty sloppy writing in real life, too:

Here’s some funny stuff

This is hilarious – from Instagram, its a great parody of the ridiculous Met Gala costumes:

Some men don’t realize how annoying it is to be told by a random stranger to “smile!”

Ringo Starr does – “Its just me face”

Homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark

Here’s a watch commercial that confounds:

I was today years old when I finally understood relativity:

Banksey’s newest:

American Banksey:

A sweet video here:

Trees talking to each other

Friday was the 100th birthday of  David Attenborough