Not quite creative feedback, but my mathematics PhD advisor told me I'd do better pursuing a career as an artist rather than going into teaching like I'd wanted to (ngl it kinda broke me, haven't taught since I graduated)

New to me #bug in the yard just now: a white-tailed horntail, which looks like a huge-ass wasp but is actually not dangerous unless you’re a dead or dying conifer tree. This little lady (and I used the term “little” loosely) was well over an inch long

Get in losers, we’re goin’ whale exploding!

2 of my DnD group are getting married this weekend - the bride plays an ocean-themed dwarf Druid with a familiar named Rawn the Prawn, who has a tiny prawn-sized grappling hook; the groom plays a fairy Warlock with a corgi named Comet as a mount. Painted this as a card for them

When I speak, toads fall from my mouth. There was a fairy dressed as some kind of fucking royalty. I got cursed for insufficient deference. As far as I can tell, my toads are not any of the 500-ish known species. If you have a degree in biology and want to cowrite a paper on new toads, hit me up.

Reply with ☠️ and I'll give you a letter to list your 4 fav characters I got K (since I can't quote-post it, from @seanendcrafter.bsky.social)

Has anyone else noticed that there's like no pride merch out in regular stores this year? I was out running errands yesterday and went to 3 places (BiMart, Dollar Tree, and Safeway) and didn't see a single bit of rainbow in any of them, just tons and tons of patriotic crap for the 250 thing in July

Relaxation tips: - picture a quiet forest - picture yourself wandering in the gloom - picture finding a mossy little cottage in a clearing - picture moving into that cottage and becoming the reason it's considered haunted

Two new fuzzy dinosaur lumps have just hatched!

@tkingfisher.com Happy Birthday!

Female birds with confusing names.

@grizzlygirl87.bsky.social what has your provence wrought?

Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

I love this.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

@pushinguproses.bsky.social Managed to catch an episode of Murder, She Wrote while visiting my mum recently, seemed to have the sort of silly shenanigans (possible ghosts! a killer leaving messages in blood! Grady!) you might enjoy? S3E19 No Accounting for Murder

There’s something odd about the rhubarb today… Computer, enhance!

Y’know, Oregon has a particular way of dealing with things that have beached themselves and died…

Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤

The most epic comic about a very lost wombat reluctantly going on a quest to mercy kill a dead god you'll ever read! IT'S SO GOOD Y'ALL!

is this what paradise looks like

How about a #bloomscroll, been a hot second since I did one of those? First up one of my deciduous azaleas has started blooming! Just a few flowers so far, but lots of buds all over the plant. One of the first plants I put in when we moved to the new house - love these guys, they smell so good!

A new generation of poets rises, inspired by the same springtime that roused Dickinson and Shakespeare. A torch, passed.

Finished @tkingfisher.com's latest horror novel, Wolf Worm, and as always she knocked in out of the park Also I'm wondering if my squeamish-meter is broken, cause while there was plenty of gross stuff (positive) I wasn't as grossed out by it as all the other reactions I've been seeing

Some weirdo wrote a thing that I read this morning that still moves me deeply. I can plant the seeds I can plant.

Only @drawfeeshow.com fans will understand this reference but I I had to give myself a Trans Rig mani for Trans Day of Visibility. Hand painted with nail polish as always - I did this one on a live stream so if you’re so inclined you can watch the VOD at www.youtube.com/live/ACQn3w0...

I made a friend! (She was under some English ivy I was pulling out; I felt guilty about tearing off her cover so I moved her to a sunnier spot with lots of leaf litter to hide in) #snake

I got you some native spring ephemeral wildflowers today because you deserve it <3

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

'AM I BAD?' is a grand and cosmic question that is well beyond our scope. fine. here on the ground, the DAY TO DAY effects are that your actions contribute to hurt and suffering in small or large ways, and those who hurt and suffer because of you are allowed to not like you because of it. SORRY BUD.

Protecting women and girls my entire ass.

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

And a Super MAR10 to all to celebrate

Bad news: it seems no one else in the DnD group remembered that I said I had plans for tomorrow and couldn’t make it Good news: just got a text from the DM saying he had something come up and he’ll have to cancel tomorrow’s session, so it’s worked out anyway and now I’m not the bad guy :P

Cats making me say sentences that have never been said before, part 168: “Möbius, get out of there. I don’t want to Cask of Amontillado you but I will if you don’t move”

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This is, allegedly, hot pepper suet. I think I might just be training the local squirrels to like spicy food

These pretty, day-flying moths (Heliolonche pictipennis), only about 1 cm. long, are one of my favorite desert spring insects. The only flowers they visit (desert dandelion, desert chicory, or scale bud) close up at night; the moths sleep inside them, which is scientifically adorable. #BugSky 🌿🐙🌼

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

people are so extraordinary in what they can do

Alas, too cloudy out to see the eclipse tonight. Did manage to startle 3 deer who were in the front flowerbed chomping away at the bulbs when I went out to check, at least

Wet libertarianism doesn't work any better than dry Grind critters into candy while getting my steps in HONK!

I went to a park today since there was finally a day without rain, and in addition to the usual geese and robins and ducks and a bald eagle, there were freaking *swans*! I’ve never seen swans in the wild before! I didn’t know we got swans around here!

Khajiit has wares if you have coins

So far today on the suet feeder I’ve seen a scrub jay, juncos, and bushtits, plus a robin on the front steps and a hummingbird at the top of a tree - very busy day for yard #birds!

He drove me across state lines to a DMV so I'd get my learner's permit, then drove us to the middle of nowhere (back roads amid wheat fields) and had me practice driving. Then we went to Shari's and got strawberry waffles That was almost 20 years ago now. Reader, I married him

I am so so excited for this one, Swordheart is one of my all time favs and I can't wait for book 2 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...