you know that feels so goood

Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

Nererid, Sabellid, Polynoid, Spionid, Echiurid, Terebellid

I would like to submit: a tablespoon of quail.

Did a bunch of gardening today, which I usually do with my phone in my back pocket and an earbud in, listening to audiobooks. The Bluetooth goes 20-30 feet. Through walls. Appliances. So when I bend over and my butt is briefly between phone and earbud and it disconnects, CONSISTENTLY... Rude.

Good morning, Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNS...

Little chick making a big stretch

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Happy Mother’s Day everyone, and best of luck keeping all your little ones together.

Some insects will go to great lengths to avoid answering email. (Blue death-feigning beetle, Asbolus verrucosus, very much alive but trying to convince me it's not; Mojave Desert, California.) 🐙🌿 #bugsky

Fashion tips from nature. A very old comic that I still really like.

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

don’t

I think about this all the time.

Guys and Dolls and Grogu.

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

DC, Maryland, Virginia

Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

And here is the nepenthephile crab Geosesarma malayanum (the photo credit is 2 posts down, I thought it would get more deserved attention if the actual photo was visible) 🧪🦀

anyway here’s baby hummingbirds

I love this essay very much!!!!

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #PassportPhoto , Kolea is ready for her closeup... :) #birds 🦉📷🌿

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

We should try to get to 53 states, because that is a prime number. One nation, indivisible.

First of all, bird. Second of all, bird. Mostly importantly, bird. 🪶

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Today the 12yo has declared it Bunny Harvestman Awareness Day! Let your feelings about arachnids be tempered with the knowledge that some inexplicably and adorably have bunny ears.

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. Wait. Not that acid-trip-fueled horror clown bird. I don’t remember signing off on that one. 🧪

You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em both together. - Limentations, 19:71

HEY EVERYBODY ITS FISH DOORBELL SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[on dog walk] Spouse: Hey, you wanna die? Me: What?! Spouse, gesturing futilely at the sidewalk: That did not sound the way I meant.

He apparently loves leaf blowers lol... #dogs

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Holy sh*t. A solar eclipse, seen for the first time by human eyes during a lunar flyby. The Earthlight illuminating the crescent of the moon and part of the spacecraft, the stars and planets in the background…I’m in tears 🤯 📸: NASA 🔭🧪

Timeline distraction: Amazing Artemis II images of Earth and the Moon together. 🔭🎢 🧪🚀 🌔

God this poem is haunting me again.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office