This is especially ridiculous because the (expensive) antivenin they administered was kept by the zoo itself specifically for accidents like this. It's like helping someone with their own EpiPen. (I'm also wondering if the original policy change was because the stuff costs so much.) #herps

You're my Ksoda pop!

The Turning Point ads stopped the day of the assassination. (Someone must have cut them off instead of letting the ad buy run its course. Which is an interesting organizational priority.) Today I got my first conservative hate group ad since then for PragerU, and filed my first report against them.

And I should be able to buy it, not rent it. And if I pay for it, there shouldn't be ads. AND it doesn't need AI shoved into it.

The Disney fans could push back on Kimmel because there was an easy way to express their displeasure, unsubscribe. Almost all of us are unhappy, but without an effective way to complain. Our reps are either Republican accomplices or Democratic quislings. I hope the Kpop stans find a button to push.

I had to go on FB to look up a local business today, and it tried to suck me back in with this glamour shot I took of Millie about a decade ago, when she was a young and lithe ball python. #herps

Show off your snake art! 🐍 Working on the underpainting for my next snek. #watercolor #SciArt

Just last night I used it to find links to news reports from the early 2000s that had been preserved on the Wayback Machine and I couldn't find via search engine. (Autocorrect, I do not EVER want to use the word "wetb*ck" instead of wayback. Why is that even an option???)

I MADE THE TOAD BREAD AND IT'S CURSED 🐸

I think most of us DON'T want to engage with politics. I would much rather enjoy my little hobbies and obsessions, but I've spent my entire life with weird religious freaks trying to take away my rights and rich, powerful men hoovering up every bit of my personal welfare for themselves.

Currently watching Sneakers.

Florida friends!

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"Heathcliff, it's me, your Cathy, I've come hooooooome..."

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Combining critters and Celtic knots was probably inevitable. Here's an Eastern Coral Snake for #SciArtSeptember day 11 #venomous. I haven't decided yet whether to outline it in black. #watercolor #gouache #SciArt #herps

The face of an ungrateful lizard. (I cleaned her nostrils yesterday.) 🦎

I just found out that Hank Green decided to condescend (inaccurately!) to knitters, and I have never been so happy to have a generally decent guy walk right into some mansplainy hobby drama as a distraction from a horrible week of media.

Autocorrect about to make "grouper" a trending google search.

Planned Parenthood saved my life. Defunding it will kill women.

Beautiful. Tucking this one in my pocket.

Adorable 🦎 enrichment!

If you're going to lower the flag for Charlie Kirk, it should be to three fifths, not one half.

Showed my kid this picture, and now he wants me to make him 🐸🍞 It would probably work with a braidable bread dough like challah...

The oldest known human structure is Tell Qaramel in Syria, built around 10,000 B.C. It predates agriculture, which was long thought to be a prerequisite for civilization. If someone gave you $1,000,000 a day, every day, since Tell Qaramel was built, you would get $6.6 trillion 6,000 years from now.

I want a TV show that combines Hoarders with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Call it Wealth Hoarders. Cue Robin Leach's smarmy voice: "And you live in this fabulous mansion, one of nine, two weeks a year. How many of your twenty thousand employees are living below poverty level? Sign it over."

Domestic violence is fascism at home, and fascism is domestic violence at scale. It's all about power and violence and violation of autonomy.

Two loaves of honey oat in Pullman pans for perfect sammiches this week 🍞

I've got bread in the oven and it smells ✨amazing✨

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I can promise you that the state of Florida will leap into action in response to these disturbing numbers and stop publishing those pesky reports.

A little mixed media cicada from the sketchbook for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #summer. #watercolor #gouache #SciArt #invertebrates

TeePublic is having a sale, you can get these shirts & more for $16 thos weekend! May be time to draw some new ones! You can get stickers, hats, pins, & other cool stuff there too. #TeePubic @TeePublic #TShitts #Mazes #Guitar #Food 🤘🏻 tee.pub/lic/AiXeLsyD13

#medsky #pedsky #idsky Important— please share and sign: c.org/cH9dxQySQg

If this is what the stuff they're willing to admit to looks like *before* noon, there's going to be a hell of a Friday afternoon news dump.

A little painting of a gator for day 4 of #SciArtSeptember (based on a photo I took from a riverbank near Lake Tarpon) and for today's #whistpr prompt of sharp. (Though the teeth aren't visible!) #watercolor #gouache #SciArt #herps

I discovered jewel beetles by chasing them around my animal crossing island, so here's a mixed media try at one of the shiny bugs for #SciArtSeptember. (Calling this one a learning experience.) #watercolor #gouache #SciArt

Going to repeat myself here. One of my old lady opinions is that every anti-vaxxer should be required to sit down and do 100-150 years of their personal genealogy, so they can see a couple generations worth of children's deaths due to preventative childhood diseases.

YouTube took away the block button for specific ads in my feed, but there's still a report button. So now every time I get an ad for Turning Point/Charlie Kirk, I use it to report hate speech.

IT'S ALIVE! My freestanding jewelry shop, Varanid Paradise, is officially open! varanidparadise.com Use code FREESHIP50 for free shipping on US orders $50 and up. Check out all the scaly maximalist goodies in the shop! #bsnm #jewelry

When I'm stressed out of my gourd, I tend to paint calming Celtic knots (instead of mushrooms, bugs, and other assorted critters). But it does mean I've got something for #BlueSkyMonday and today's #whistpr prompt of #angles #watercolor

the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

Amen.

A small moment of peace. (I can feel the muscles in my neck and shoulders relaxing.)

Researchers have made huge strides toward curing food allergies, @marynmck.bsky.social reports. But RFK Jr. has "endorsed an unsupported contention that peanut allergy is caused by childhood vaccinations," leading relevant NIH grants to get extra scrutiny. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

#Smaugust week 2 🫀 Whole bunch of favourites from past 7 days. Definitely very much in mood for scales, spikes and strong necks. #art #dragon

DeSantis and M4L are going to continue to try to ban books by claiming that queer folk ~existing~ on book pages is pornography....but this is VERY good news.

Happy World Lizard Day! I was only able to photograph the smallest of bleps, but Grendel is wearing a festive substrate hat to celebrate. 🦎🎉

A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.