You know it's gotten bad when you're sitting thinking "I fell asleep around 6am - that's a big improvement!" (The "night" before I didn't fall asleep until 10:30am) (The actual goal is 2:30 btw)

For the first time in my 33 years upon this Earth it is actively snowing in the place I currently am on my birthday.

It is 4:03pm on December 22nd & I have officially lost Whammagedon. At a Boston Irish pub of all places...

DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three

Platecarpus & Hoploscaphites

realistic ichthyosaurs

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

Catching up on missed Jeopardy! episodes from earlier this week and now I've had to explain to my Boomer mother what a weeb is

I’m so very tired of “Trump doesn’t care about that!” posts. Thank you, yes, this is not news. His lack of caring is well-documented. It’s not actually necessary to breathlessly inform people of this anymore.

once again screaming at people about her public document full of historical clothing references and resources (which had it's most recent update on the 12th of january last year!) heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...

more realistic dinosaurs

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

Celebrating my dad's birthday by wearing the sweater I stole from him (& which is about a decade older than I am)

helloooo please help my nation, my family’s town, and our sacred land and sign this petition thank you

When I imagine myself as the only human left on Earth, and realize I would keep creating anyway, I feel myself touch a truth that I often lose in my scramble for productivity.

extremely realistic basilosaurus reconstruction

while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! www.badinternetbills.com

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

I officially made it to 6:25pm on December 6th before I had to see the horrible bear from Boston Ballet's Nutcracker this year.

I really wanna know how YouTube calculates this 'cause, for context, I rewatched the entire @drawfeeshow.com back catalog this year &, like, @danfloydplus.bsky.social posts a lot but I don't think it out weighs more than a decade of videos...

Also USPS didn't loss money because it doesn't make money because it's not a business and if never makes money to begin with. It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.

Hey. Hey, airport gate lady? Manchester & Manhattan are not the same place and you REALLY need to not say one when you mean the other.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

it's december !! 🙀 good excuse to post these guys again ...!

Today I discovered my father pronounces "treasure" like Fred from Scooby Doo youtube.com/watch?v=yZpR...

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Nightlife.

I gotta put my dad on blast because the man, while reading out recipes, just said "tor-til-yas" (tortillas) & "poor boys" (po' boys) in quick succession and I KNOW he knows better

What a great headline

Visitors!

paint pen otter

Aye but what about the NEW razzle dazzle?

Love that Elmo gets top billing over the humans in the "Special Performances by" section in the parade intro. As he should.

Today's local drama: hunters from the next town over have been illegally running their hunting dogs on the private properties along the private road my dad lives on. The guy at the top of the street is a retired cop & he is NOT HAPPY; he's currently camped out in his driveway like it's a speed trap

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Okay. Explain to me why the ONLY ruler my dad has in the house is a trianglular engineer scale?! This man is a biologist who worked in policy making; WHY DO YOU OWN THIS?! Also, it has decimalized inches which is a problem because what I needed it to measure is quarter inch seam allowances

My step mom is an excellent, accomplished cook... who I just found out can't cook rice