tennessee fireflies be like

The fireflies start up at different times depending on soil, temperature, and other factors known only to bugkind. This year, they got going around the turn of the month. Viewing events are scheduled through June 7th, though getting in this year might require an extremely powerful wish—the spectacle has become so popular that the park only issues parking passes through a lottery. If they let everyone in who wanted to come, the fireflies would likely get trampled, park spokeswoman Dana Soehn explained to WBIR. (via)

91 days!

#VolNation in 90 days #VFL @SterlThePearl16 will have #NeylandStadium 🔥Be #EL17E 🍊🍊🍊🏈https://t.co/cutvyyNfeT

— Tennessee Football (@Vol_Football) June 3, 2016

RIP blue angel

one crashed in stinky smyrna this afternoon. =( yesterday they gave this nashville news lady a ride.

fyi

Introducing Duffy, Brian and Biggles, some of our police explosive search dogs for Wimbledon 2016 🐶

A photo posted by Wimbledon (@wimbledon) on Jun 2, 2016 at 5:02am PDT

hillary is not the only powerful woman to be featured in a fancy magazine

everyone make sure your subscriptions to murfreesboro magazine are up to date, because ktv is going to tell you what's what in this month's issue!

hillary feature in nymag

READ IT.

did you know?

Did you know a baby #porcupine is called a porcupette? These cute critters have soft hair mixed with barbed quills that stick up when they feel threatened to deter predators. Porcupines sleep in trees and feed on the inner bark, twigs and leaves. They live to be 5-6 years old and have one or two young, which are born with soft quills that harden within an hour. Photo courtesy of #California Department of Fish and #Wildlife.

A photo posted by U.S. Department of the Interior (@usinterior) on May 31, 2016 at 8:23am PDT

fortnightly boat

New York Harbor is not only one of the largest and busiest natural ports in the world, but also the most complex. State law requires any foreign ship, or American ship with foreign cargo, to be escorted into the harbor with one of their pilots.

The entrance to the harbor from the Atlantic is protected by two thin pieces of land that jut out into the water: Sandy Hook from New Jersey and Rockaway from Long Island. These narrow outreaches have shallow shores that make entering the bay tricky.

Henry Hudson ran into the Sandy Hook Bar, a barrier of sand built up on the seafloor by downstream currents, when he tried to come into the harbor in 1609. It took him three days to successfully get in and explore his namesake river. Hudson enlisted the help of men who held long, straight poles off the sides of ships to test the water’s depth. The men who were experts with these pijls, as they were called in the Dutch shipping days, were called pijl loads, a title that eventually became “pilot.” (via)

on a related note, i watched the finest hours last night. it was not great but i liked it anyway.

fridays with(out) flim

C'mon weekend! pic.twitter.com/IAV1nWDD1l

— World of Wonder (@WorldOfWonder) May 27, 2016

this is a nice trip to memoryville and a look at some new stuff. they want your money but you don't have to give any.

HAPPY BEARTHDAY TO JOEL

the G.O.A.T.

happy birthday TO MEEEEEEE

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— Saint Pest (@KidFury) May 25, 2016

OH NO THEY DONT

Huge, wind-powered "strandbeests" arrive in San Francisco https://t.co/jo7I18QjAw pic.twitter.com/NKBFOq213Q

— CityLab (@CityLab) May 27, 2016

Yantar?

save the turtles! next they are all going to be wanting designer shells

This tortoise lost her shell in a bushfire—but thanks to 3D printing, it was soon revived. pic.twitter.com/HieTtHcoGq

— National Geographic (@NatGeo) May 26, 2016