Karo Pittosporum crassifolium bonsai forest of thrown together volunteer seedlings over 5 or six years. Rough weather today and temps dropped or cooler wind so Autumn may have finally arrived. 🇳🇿🌱

Just a lil guy defending his mushroom. We found a log covered in mushrooms and spotted some small hammerhead flies on it. Turns out these are feisty fruit flies and the males are serious about defending their patch. One of our coolest finds so far! #invert (Zygothrica sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

> Born on February 19 to mom Rosy, this adorable pangolin baby (also known as a pangopup) is the tenth pangolin born at the Zoo in the past decade! Pangolins are endangered and the most trafficked mammals on Earth, making every birth a meaningful win for conservation. [via Brookfield Zoo]

Criminal defense lawyer here. I get 3 or 4 cases like this every single month. For a while, the cops were charging people who screwed up at the self-checkout with Obtaining Property by False Pretense-a class G felony.

i've been in that scene from A Perfect Storm where the boat is climbing up the face of a giant wave. i was cowering in the foc's'le for it, but that's exactly how the skipper described it the next morning

Good thread about "connections" in entertainment professions — and how they develop organically as you find like-minded people, and gradually build a network. As Zack points it out, it's not like we were born into these networks. We built them, one person at a time, w/o realizing what you're doing.

One of my favourites from polar bear guiding is 'Einsteins'. We use it on the radio to let others know where a mom and two cubs are - MC^2 :) It's not really a hobby, but it's to keep guests from getting excited too soon.

"Corking" is a fishing one that is more region specific to coastal BC, it refers to someone coming into a pool you're fishing upstream of you (rude) but its origin is in commercial salmon fishing, referring to someone setting their seine net (with cork floats) ahead of where you were planning to

🌱 Rough weekend so made myself a nasturtium posy. The delicate scent is so lovely. I wish I could share it.

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Ok so if you haven't read this or the other two novels in the series please get in it It's absolutely fabulous and full of glorious ideas. Plus calendrical maths warfare!

A dose of beauty in the desert courtesy of my lunchtime run.

there's a new page of my 18+ short comic, TRAINING DAY, on patreon now for the sire tier! fun fact: lys is left-handed. fun fact #2 this is the only panel of this page i can show on my bsky patreon.com/byelacey

Can we have a moment of your time?  ‘Minute’ comes from the Late Latin ‘minuta,’ referring to 1/60 of a unit, such as an hour.  ‘Second’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘secunda,’ short for ‘secunda minuta,’ literally “second minute” (1/60 of a minute).

The wizard tries to engage the little cat in a conversation about reagents. The little cat leaves the room.

ALTtext: Smoked rack of pork, a cut also known as a Bone-in Pork Loin Roast.  This cut features the loin meat still attached to the rib bones, which helps protect the meat and adds flavour during cooking. The roast is often sliced between the bones to serve as individual chops. It looks delicious!

Awright, hello, #portfolioday ! I'm Alexandra, a brazillian comics artist living in Portugal, and I'm not looking for work, but if you're looking for comics to read, I've got it! And it's free to read! (but you can buy the book if you like it) 💙 sidequested.com

Scorching hot tulips set off by just a hint of #BlueTue from those grape hyacinths 🌱 #TulipTuesday #Bloomscrolling #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

you are not unc if you're in your 30s. you're unc if you are a black man that dresses like this.

Video: baby otter grabbing up kibble in his webbed hands and munching on it like a toddler left with a pile of cereal.

Video: razor-backed musk turtle balanced atop a much larger red-eared slider on a sunny rock. The top turtle has its flipper feet stretched way out and has to scratch their face, pink maw yawning wide. Bottom turtle ignores them utterly. [Kihocho Sea Turtle Park]

Images: tiny blob of drowsy Chinese hamster melting in their human's hand. One back footsie is dangling off the edge, although the rodent is so small that three of her could share the space.

The only downside to using Ellipsus is that there are so many aesthetic themes built in, I end up switching them out all the time. I’m currently running the “fig espresso” theme. No LLM crap, does everything I need a word processor to do, it’s free, and it looks nice???

Pigeon of the Day: Metallic Pigeon 📷 Andrew Spencer

airbnbs are just scab hotels and should be taxed and regulated as such, exhibit eleventy bajillion

Image: a comically huge cappuccino, in a mug broad enough to faceplant inside if you consume all of it, die, and fall forward. For scale beside it is a normal size cup and a table container of sugar packets. Not pictured: giant spoon.

if the point is "more men will admit to coercion when you phrase it innocuously," yes, that is worth unpacking, but any time someone tells you 95% of any group is *anything* that's automatically suspicious, you can't get 95% of a survey group to agree that the sun exists

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Greenland sharks are AMAZING! Yes, they're the longest-lived vertebrate and can live over 400 years. But did you know- 1) that means they're not reproductively mature adults until their 160's, a long time to go through puberty And 2) They eat polar bears and reindeer?

I've sold like 180 stories since 1999 so I've gotten maybe a thousand rejections There was ONE time I got rejected, and then later the editors wrote to say "We can't stop thinking about your story, can we buy it after all?" Since then every time I get rejected I think "maybe it'll happen again"

this is why i love watching rose anvil on youtube, where he cuts the shoes and boots in half and measures the soles and leather and shows you if they are good or crap

He stole my veggie cracker and is using it as a shield so I can't get it back. #parrotSky

What they didn't know was that the eels needed to return to the Sargasso to breed, which wasn't going to happen from CA. And even if some intrepid eel had made the trip, the elvers wouldn't return to the Sacramento area. Sometimes the eels win, folks. As it should be. /fin

Once upon a time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes. They are ON SALE this month for $2.99! www.kitrocha.com/series/merce...

Current activity: drinking rose genmaicha and trying not to stress out too much.

THIS little critter is Miltoniopsis phalaenopsis John Leathers (I know, talk about a confusing Latin binomial). It's unrelated to the Phalaenopsis hybrid #orchids (capitalized since that's a genus) found in big box stores. It is a full species that is a parent of many popular Miltoniopsis hybrids.🌱🪴

This is a great way to look at a very important issue! #science #climate

like your parents making you eat vegetables before dessert, here I am sneaking in one more old arbor tea tree pic before I start barking about a sale again

YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE RULES SO THAT YOU CAN BREAK IT EFFECTIVELY. Sorry for shouting but this applies to a lot of things with creative work (and IT Dev apparently), and people don't listen. Related but only like a little bit: This is why GenAI is so dangerous. It makes people stop learning

A rarely seen native of the Appalachian Mountains, the fur-bearing mountain piranha lives only in the most secluded and pristine streams. As an adaptation to the chill waters of the mountains, they sport a dense coat of "fur" (which is actually made up of modified scales.)

Lazy console-to-PC ports make for a very frustrating experience.

the kind of the east coast violets, Viola pedata | birds-food violet It was depicted as growing in the park I’m working on in the 1930s, and I had been looking for it for a while. I found it today. :)

Archie Belaney, a British man who called himself Grey Owl, became famous as a conservationist, but it was Anahareo who turned him to that path. Her story is often overlooked, but she was an author, conservationist, prospector and more. This is her story. 🧵1/12

I deserved an entire letter grade bonus for being a Buffer Kid.

Douglas fir and much more

🐸Desert tree frog (Litoria rubella). Max. size 43 mm (1.7"). Can change colours from white to dark brown. Found in most of Australia (except for the southernmost parts), in southern Papua New Guinea and on the island of Timor. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik.

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

I managed to snag a book early, and you’re gonna want one too because I LOVE this comic

I could not share the video for it but a red panda at the Lake Superior Zoo apparently HATES papaya. His name is Wiley and when they gave him a little piece, he shook his head and spit it out. The disgust on that adorable face!!

the British museum has some top-tier little guys