Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Milkshake puck

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I can't believe this is a thing velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

Recent Commissions! Weird round dinosaurs inspired by cattle painting :3

my god right i KNOW it's a fossil i UNDERSTAND but it also CLEARLY DEMONIC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Days since I have been baited by my children into discussing hagfish at the dinner table: counter reset to 0.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

We are hiring a benthic ecologist at the researcher or senior researcher level 🧪🌍🦑 The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources is an excellent place to work, with friendly colleagues, support, and teaching opportunities. naalakkersuisut.emply.net/recruitment/...

purrfect balance

Keep it Shrimple

There's a super-viral post going around on here with replies and quotes disabled that is just a rip-off of someone else's image from more than a decade ago. See old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte... for what *might* be the original source but it's hard to say.

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

I am having a loud mind

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

The sky is doing the gradient thing again, and I can’t get it to fit inside my camera.

Celebrating Superb Owls day, here are some of our burrowing owls being particualrly superb! Training isn't just tricks; medical behaviors like learning voluntary nail trims here mean not having to catch and restrain birds, much less stress for people and birds alike. #SuperbOwl

Welcome to the Winter Olympics don't ask about how many people died or were injured in the making of this sport please and thank you.

“Exquisite Creatures: An Immersive Journey into Nature's Art” #Seattle bio-sculptural #nature #art #exhibition by artist Christopher Marley

A friend of mine suggested that we give him exactly what he wants. Name Penn Station and Dulles after him. Then name every other airport and train station after him too. "Yeah, I'm flying from Trump O'Hare to Trump LAX on Tuesday." Within a week, nobody would use it, anywhere.

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

on the whole, I would not recommend “the long september 11th” as an era in which to spend one’s entire adult life

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

Near Wild Heaven.

dig if you will this picture

WOOSH 🪶

Late afternoon sky, walking home from seeing friends.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

I'm MY ENGINES ARE GOING FULL SPEED ASTERN. Pretty much constantly these days.

we love the tyrannosaurus roundboi

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

A tide pool pattern for your feed 🐚🦀

When I was in high school I did a constitutional debate program and witnessed this exchange: JUDGE: what’s your favorite amendment? KID: the third JUDGE: why the third? KID: because if there’s soldiers in your house, the other ones really don’t matter BORN READY FOR 2026

Shipworms aren’t worms. They’re bivalves that eat wood with the help of symbiotic bacteria turning wooden shipwrecks into functioning ecosystems. #MolluscMonday Fantastic image from seahistory.org/sea-history-...

Today's Meyer lemon harvest tally: thirteen jars of marmalade, five jars of lemon curd. The tree looks largely untouched.

If I want a bullshit unreliable response from a walking environmental catastrophe, I'll ask my teenage son.

I was thinking about that 1980s James Bond movie where everybody's trying to get their hands on a Fabergé egg for some reason And then I realized: It's an Egg McGuffin.

been saving this photo of the in-laws pet blob from christmas for strategic deployment and i think now's a good time

First otter of 2026

Me: getting into the groove of some technical work that demands concentration PG&E woodchipper truck parked out front: not so fast

I stored my kids’ sex ed textbook on the same shelf as our D&D manuals and now boyfriend pointed out it looks like I’m in the middle of a puberty-themed RPG.

Dems need to start running right now on a platform of "This is what we are going to do to fix **all of this** and here's why each of our decisions conforms with established law and is informed by the evidence of recent misuse."

This young-looking male turkey and a friend (not pictured) have been hanging out in my work's parking lot for a few weeks. It is sort of silly how much it cheers me up to see them.

I know what dogs like I know what hounds want I know what dogs like Dogs like, dogs like TREATS

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

The most fucked up thing is that we don't even need oil anymore, not really.