Today #GarWeek is visiting some other species. Here are some pictures of spawning Lake Sturgeon in the Wolf River. Wisconsin is home to the largest lake sturgeon population in the world in the Lake Winnebago system, largely because of early protection of the species here.

If that's owling, this is definitely full pelican 🪶

🚨I got an ice mold that makes big numbered d20s🚨

I! Friggin! Love!! Oak! Leaf!! Pinwheel! Season!! (Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)

Head of a young girl looking down, Francesco Curradi (1570-1661). And Pepper.

Phillistines Bakery is like the movie ideal of a bakery with glittering glass cases filled with elaborate cakes and beautiful pastries, giant pans of golden kunafeh, and trays piled high with perfect cookies and sweets. Find it hidden away in Vista Heights light industrial in NE #YYC

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social yessss 😅😎

Look at this beaded goose. And also the other cool things.

Some not-mud from today, to keep the rock people happy.

Beach colour doodles. Made by wetting soft ochrey pebbles & rubbing them with a flint to release colour. Used sticks, rolled up paper, other pebbles, fingers etc as brushes. Will scan some of these tomorrow when I'm back home with Kitty & the cats. Just wanna share how to doodle with pebbles. 🪨 🖌️

My favorite comment on the FT story

McConnell orders the government to fully fund SNAP benefits for November immediately via TRO—written order to come. Any motion for a stay is denied. The Court will stand adjourned. Wow.

Murderbot is life. PLATFORM DECAY by @marthawells.com is up next in the series. Look for this treasure May 5 as our favorite SecUnit hilariously learns how to cope with emotions while, as always, rescuing and protecting hapless humans. @macmillanlib.bsky.social #ewgc

According to a person familiar with jury lunches

The ATA has filed a challenge to Bill 2, the Back to School Act, on Thursday, Nov. 6.  Read the full news release and watch the press conference: abteach.cc/Nov6PressCon...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Looking to adopt? Now’s the perfect time! 🐾 All November, adoption fees at Animal Services are reduced: 🐶 Dogs $100 (reg. $225) 🐱 Cats $84.52 (reg. $169) Every pet is spayed/neutered, microchipped & licensed. Visit calgary.ca/AdoptAPet 1 - Jack 2 - Blue Jay 3 - Khan 4 - Ollie

Here is the goose artist! A lot of her work is in conversation with museums: www.carrieallison.art/beaded-botan...

It's absolutely WILD how routinely self-avowed superfans of hard science and modern technology IMMEDIATELY default to magical thinking, and don't consider that a red flag at all. "Excited to see what CHatGPT thinks about-" IT DOESN'T THINK!!! It's not a mind!

Look at this beaded goose. And also the other cool things.

During Gar Week 2025, between Tuesday and Wednesday, offer your name ideas for the hybrid gar! #GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm

GARtwork contest ends Friday 11/7 at 10 am Central!

Okay let me avoid my deadlines by making a thread of the recommendations you all made to this verbal hiccup I made this morning:

While reading this Wired article I smiled at the fact that TRAFFIC was a chief complaint from neighbours about Mark's illegal school and thought of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. He might have gotten away with it if only he'd had a bus.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer (1891-1992) of Kahnawake, in Broadway Brevities, the 'notorious' gossip rag of the 1920s. As PWD, Esther Deer was a very successful vaudeville actor, performing across stages, from New York to Paris. Labeled as one of 'the most beautiful women in...

It’s time for round two: how many shark species can you guess from my emoji hints? 1 🦓 🦈 2 🐆 🦈 3 😇 🦈 4 🇬🇱 🦈 5 🍪 🔪 🦈 6 🔨 🙂 🦈 7 👨‍⚕️ 🦈 8 🚶 🦈 9 🎋 🦈 10 🐊 🦈

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while you’re assembling your transition team, my awesome husband @edidin.bsky.social is available and has worked with women and gender-expansive people, advocating for ATIs, supportive housing, and other resources for folks impacted by the carceral system.

Good afternoon.

And now over to sports where... the Calgary Flames coach is doing what now?

In my head this is 100% Benoit Blanc speaking

Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.

And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century. Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Phillistines Bakery is like the movie ideal of a bakery with glittering glass cases filled with elaborate cakes and beautiful pastries, giant pans of golden kunafeh, and trays piled high with perfect cookies and sweets. Find it hidden away in Vista Heights light industrial in NE #YYC

feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞

The UCP government pretty clearly tried to artificially suppress demand for COVID-19 vaccines by forcing people to pay out of pocket for them. It didn't work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

Sorry not sorry 😅 via Gar Week fan👍

Roberts: "Mr. Gorsuch?" [pause] [me sitting up] Gorsuch: * JUMPS IN ON THAT ASS * yeah it's a wrap these tariffs are going down

just....enjoy this

Say what you want about how much this year sucks, but I haven't had anyone try to sell me an NFT "to raise funds for the environment" in months.

Hannibal (2013-2015) and Killing Eve (2018-2022)

today in animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Klb...