landlady: “Hey, got time to fix the oven door in Unit 3 this morning?” me: “Yeah, but it might take a while. I’m feeling a little ragged today.” “Got the rabies, huh.” “Hm? Oh no, RAGGed. With G’s.” “Oh, RAGGed, yeah. But I could totally see you being RABid, seems very you-ish.” “…Bite me.”

The driver’s door latch doesn’t work on my new-to-me car (YET, the part is in the mail), so my left and right hands take turns holding the door closed while I’m driving, which makes for some very interesting lopsided muscle aches and gains that I can actually see in the mirror.

happy pride, shoutout as always to the 1978 gilbert baker pride flag which had pink and turquoise stripes for SEX AND MAGIC AND ART, and in this house we support gay sex and gay magic and gay art

Holy cats, this is right nearby. Autumn staycation dark sky vore house silent rave, anyone?

Happy full moon, y’all. However you choose to celebrate, may you have the transformative experience that’s right for you. 🌕

Last month I went to a live Tom Lehrer cover & singalong show, and it was amazing. But (much-needed ego boost) after the show the solo performer stopped me to compliment my voice and ask if I wanted to join some other show he was producing (“No thanks, I’m not from here”), but

We’ve officially reached the fan-in-a-bucket-of-ice part of spring. 🏜️

City Zoo Scrambles To Hide Animals Ahead Of Landlord Visit https://theonion.com/city-zoo-scrambles-to-hide-animals-ahead-of-landlord-visit/

Just fetched this derp out of storage where he’s been in a box for over two years. Might suit up Saturday (assuming he even still fits).

Local book club’s featuring a familiar name with a fantastic book by @restingdinoface.bsky.social … any other desert critters gonna pop in?

I’m kinda obsessed with Natalia Lafourcade’s album De Todas las Flores, which I heard for the first time last week. Trying not to play it more than once a day, but it’s so heartwarming and beautiful. Her other albums are nice too, but there’s something about the raw simplicity of these arrangements

Stephen Miller’s Forehead Vein Lunges Out To Catch Passing Bird

Some brand new art has been revealed in downtown Albuquerque, with the “Fantastic Animals from Mexico: Alebrijes and Nahuales” exhibit

The barber shaved my ears without asking 😾🖕

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

There’s this ecologist dude on Instagram, account called HowToLoveAForest, with banger stuff (go check it out!), where today I learned the word “kleptoparasitism,” specifically referring to bald eagles, which oddly enough evokes not just the behavior of our national symbol, but our whole nation.

I just learned about invasive common mallow, extremely common where I used to live in SoCal, a plant whose parts are all edible. BUT the most important thing I learned is that one of its nicknames is CHEESEWEED (your mom’s a cheeseweed)

I’ll go one step further and say, unless you have BOTH complete certainty about what the snake is AND a good reason to fuck with a snake, simply DO NOT FUCK WITH A SNAKE.

Long-form, good read about what it means to be human (and more-than-human), filled with prompts derived from science, paleontology, various faiths, literature, and more. If you’re questing to find your place in this universe, set aside time to take this relatively quick journey.

Maybe—just maybe—this author is worrying about the wrong end of the alligator

I’ve remarked before about mistaking my reflection for another person momentarily and so seeing myself in a very different light. Most vividly this happened when I was giant-puppeteering and saw some tall buff slender guy wearing my costume, not recognizing myself. Does this happen to other people?

Got the word that it’s time to move Great Aunt Wildred into her senior community, so all the siblings and cousins will converge soon to start squabbling over all the trivial and nugatory minutiae. Part of me hopes she finally succeeds in accidentally burning the place down.

Back when I lived at the beach and bodysurfedevery day, I bought some aquatic web gloves to leverage more pulling power. They were clunky and kinda ugly, but really let me get right into any wave. I have to visit the coast soon and I was thinking of finding a pair and OH MY GOD THEY’RE SEXY NOW

idea for a new bumper sticker. is this anything

Whooooo signed me up for spam from Hazard Fraught? Stupid head.

Congratulations! #Animalart #wildlifeart #wolves

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2. Authorities had planned major man-made flood infrastructure, but the beavers effectively created their own system — while also boosting biodiversity and restoring the ecosystem around them.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

the two times i almost drowned, i couldn’t call for help and didn’t flail around like on tv — an important read Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

Happy Glorification of Senseless Death Day. Remember your fallen. They didn’t have to die. Enjoy your barbecue. End war.

I just startled a ~4’ rattler in my front yard and it slithered away faster than I’d believed snakes could move. Sorry for the startle, neighbor, and thanks for your role in my home environment. 💚🐍💚

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Been working my tail off for months and I’m wearing a little thin but it’s paying off. I got an unexpected evening off yesterday so treated myself to two really nice dinners, some fancy cocktails, and a shiny trinket, and now I’m ready to wade back into the workaday grind.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

This needs to be normalized at conventions. (With ALT text)

🦨🧵 I pay a lot of attention to how my body smells, which you might think is weird, but I am an animal and it’s part of what we naturally do. My scents change when I cohabitate, but will soon spring back afterward; they change depending on where I live. 1/3

This bird is just too gorgeous. How are they even real? AI can’t conjure something this strange and gorgeous. #nature #birds

How do I get to do this please

q: How’d you sleep last night? a: Beep. Beep beep. Beep beep. Honk honk. Hassa gussa sussss shhhh.

Why did I read the news when what I really wanted was to go back to sleep.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Mezcal ❤️‍🔥

Turns out: Mom is a Chimera. One of her ovaries is her twin sisters that she absorbed in the womb as a fetus. The ovary that produced the egg for her daughter was not biologically hers, but her sisters. So the mother gave birth to her genetic niece! 😱 Her ovary is the ONLY part that is chimeric

No Bargain “There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit’s. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.” -Richard Adams

What’s that Illustrator alternative that several y’all suggested? Can’t find the thread. I’ve got some design ideas for T-shirts and stickers, vectory stuff that I usedta woulda banged out real fast in Illustrator, but I’m not upgrading my Adobe plan unless I’ve gotta.

Survivors will speak of the coming devastation till the end of days

What’s that Illustrator alternative that several y’all suggested? Can’t find the thread. I’ve got some design ideas for T-shirts and stickers, vectory stuff that I usedta woulda banged out real fast in Illustrator, but I’m not upgrading my Adobe plan unless I’ve gotta.