Day Three and I’m still compiling these tweets.
This is a bit like going on a diet: I’m trying to create a new habit in my life.
There are a lot of good tweets today. In fact, I’ve already got ten I have to save until tomorrow because otherwise today’s offering would be too long!
Also, sorry this is so late up – I lost the internet for a while during the installation of a new modem. All is running smoothly again though.
Cat Tweets
Not bad camouflage! She can smell it, but she can’t see it!
‘Tom and Jerry isn’t real’ pic.twitter.com/HrybRsOPVg
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
One of those pictures that captures the moment!
On your meowk, get set, go! pic.twitter.com/1FMglXFbeV
— HUMOROUS ANIMALS (@CUTEFUNNYANIMAL) August 6, 2017
I think it’s a good thing horses are vegetarians!
Rare friendships are the best friendships pic.twitter.com/Ip6YuD1rfC
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
Anyone who’s been in a house with a kitten and a dog has seen similar scenes …
Instant Regret trying to catch that tail pic.twitter.com/9zoLpjPGrg
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
Other Animal Tweets
These cute hoglets are being brought up at SWCC after they lost their mother in a dog attack. Some of the hoglets had bad injuries, but are recovering nicely.
3 wks since arriving and baby hoglets are managing to lap up their food! You can help us by buying from our wishlist https://t.co/LLD7yCsk9v pic.twitter.com/sY7UsXanxl
— SWCC Hedgehogs (@SWCCHedgehogs) August 6, 2017
This is a picture of the hoglets the day of their rescue. You can see the change.
They were attacked by a dog but all have survived. They’ve grown so much since we got them! pic.twitter.com/b5FGVo4qFj
— SWCC Hedgehogs (@SWCCHedgehogs) August 6, 2017
Beautiful!
Slurrrp! Chalcidid wasp (Conura sp.) drinking from her cup o’ tea – an extrafloral nectary on an Inga plant. Photographed in Belize. pic.twitter.com/GbDL8GaZ6j
— Gil Wizen (@wizentrop) August 6, 2017
Now that’s cute! I often think the phrase “bird-brain” is a misnomer.
Street performer bird puts coins in a piggy bank pic.twitter.com/lwQtjjYfOF
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
It doesn’t matter what penguins do, they’re lovely!
Dad sick and tired of a bully picking on his kid. pic.twitter.com/c3nbft4FM8
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
Dogs know religion after all!
THIS VIDEO IS SACRED… ???? pic.twitter.com/o7ivZtJf8x
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
This is really cool!
School of young fish using a jellyfish as protection from circling predators pic.twitter.com/pTvDLiSFUS
— Life on Earth (@planetepics) August 6, 2017
And I saved the best one for last in this section …
This is why I love elephants so much. Please watch the whole clip. pic.twitter.com/2JuvLjKj1I
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 6, 2017
Science Tweets
#ICYMI our #ImageOfTheWeek shows a gorgeous cloud where #stars are being born, beautifully imaged by @ESAHerschel: https://t.co/0SXOJ2iI4x pic.twitter.com/sUmSgt15V8
— ESA Science (@esascience) August 5, 2017
History Tweets
Not sure how useful it’d be, but it sure is beautiful.
Ottoman Empire armor belonging to Sultan Mustafa III -18th century. Topkapi Palace, Istanbul,Turkey. pic.twitter.com/kLeqzOpSs8
— History In Pictures (@historyepics) August 6, 2017
Atheist Tweets
Atheists, amirite? pic.twitter.com/7REpM8IIAl
— Megavolt (@Megavolt1) August 6, 2017
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Keep up the tweets, it’s a fun diet! 🙂
Nice to see the hoglets healthy.
Re. the cat race caption…how about:
On your mark, get set, meow.
Ha! Good caption!
Ottoman armour – 18th C. Post flintlock mechanisms, so it’s for ceremonial use, not “battlefield ready”. Chain mail was of decreasing use (shortly followed by plate armour) after the invention of the “bodkin” arrowhead in around 1200CE. Still effective against edge weapons, but one properly laid arrowstorm and you’ve got a battlefield covered in moaning, dieing crow-food.
I don’t know whether the Ottomans had fighting against bodkin-equipped peoples, but it’s not as high tech as the flintlock – or even matchlock.
In other news, yesterday (day before?) Robert Hardy, actor and toxophilite shot off, stage right.
I assumed the armour was ceremonial. Interesting stuff about other armour.
You’re going to have to tell me what a toxophilite is though. It’s 2.30am in NZ right now, and I’m not up to looking it up!
You are a saint for doing this – especialy when most of the human population wishes he would fallinto an abandoned open pit coal mine in the wilderness.
Thanks for taking the time to post these tweets Heather. I have not followed the masses into Tweet land but do enjoy looking at the well chosen ones.
Thanks Glenda.
All these people saying nice things, I’m going to feel really guilty if/when I fall off the wagon!