"We're gonna run the country..." Bitch, you can't even run your own country. How are you going to run Venezuela, too?

Happy New Year! If we keep going through them at this rate, surely ONE of them will end up good! 🥳

Jingle Bells: Happy, uplifting, joyous Silent Night: Peaceful, pensive, calm Carol of the Bells: Santa Clause is hunting you through the woods with a knife

They were selling green shower curtains at the grocery store for $3 so...

I've been busy with life stuff/family emergencies recently so I'm still far behind on a ton of things I was hoping to have done by the end of this year. That said, I did managed to get myself a much more powerful computer so it's not all bad news!

Turn on your sound and listen to this choir of dorks

Affordability... is a hoax... started by democrats? Like, the concept of things being affordable? Is a hoax? What does that even MEAN?!

More sprites for my game, getting the hang of Aseprite. Need to polish this one and get a harvest animation. (Having trouble in Godot to show the animations on a spritesheet instead of individual files) #pixelart #Godot

Who else is really sick of being in a kitchen?

First pixel art for my first Godot game, Aseprite is fun

It's spiced apple chip day! The best smelling day of the year!

I'm thankful for all the people that keep me hopeful in these dark times

Whipped up a nice, basic holiday meal for me and my elderly ward. Now I get to relax and play a new video game I got as a little treat, BALL X PIT. That's a good holiday by my books.

Slow-mo snow ❄️

meow

Purple jellydisc, looking weirdly meaty. #fungifriends

8 miles of soup. no bowl

If I ever have a podcast it's going to be called "Paul F. Tompkins isn't allowed on this podcast" and after 2 or 3 episodes I'll have run out of material and will need to have him on as a guest.

man, trump fucked our economy. under joe biden, you could buy a car with this

I'm going to spend the next hour being EXTREMELY online

Thanksgiving is a Macy Gray holiday and I literally cannot explain why. Listen to "I Try" at any point during this week and it just fits.

Finding out most of MAGA twitter is non-American is the least surprising thing imaginable. Like finding out today that the common cold is caused by a virus.

Tea Time

The loneliness has been hitting hard lately. I knew it was going to be tough moving out here but, man, I don't know. Maybe it's just the change in the weather.

i also photographed some shrooms

And I just did make an image of BA 1-55, because it looked interesting. Shaped like an eye. 👁️ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Su...

Tried tracing one of my mushroom pics in Aseprite and I'm really happy with the result!

More attempt at nature journaling. Pen and water-soluble color pencils. My goal is to sketch things in situ as much as possible rather than from photos. But today, my toes got cold. Time to pull out the heavy winter rubber boots. #NatureJournaling ウバユリのスケッチ。足が寒かった。 #スケッチ

Sarcomyxa serotina has beautifully spaced orange/yellow gills #fungifriends #shroomscrolling

It's the power couple of the season: Pleurotus and Armillaria #fungifriends #shroomscrolling

just existing with u >>>

Just a little something to zhuzh up my worknight ramen

Spore prints from some honey mushrooms that I stuck under the mini-microscope #microphotography #fungifriends

I'm simmering some mushrooms in a garlic/soy/honey/beef broth mix so I can dehydrate them into little umami bombs and now my house smells like a ramen shop and I'm not mad about it

New pfp, new me

Auroboletus mirabilis Growing tall and looking fabulous A beauty I won't soon forget This Admirable Bolete #fungifriends #mushrooms #pnw #naturephotography #mycopoetry

I'd like to introduce you all to my childhood friend, the rough-skinned newt! Fun fact: they secrete the same toxin that makes pufferfish deadly (tetrodotoxin) on their skin, which I did not know when I handled them frequently in my youth!

Hail to the king, baby! Boletus edulis (King Bolete) #pnw #mushrooms #fungifriends #naturephotography

snaaaaaaaaaaaaail

Today’s mushroom 🍄 #fungifriends #mushrooms #pnw

I think if I played this in the forest I could draw in gnomes like the pied piper youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...

"As droughts intensify & insects thrive in warming forests, trees are dying of thirst while being eaten alive. It's a double assault turning once-green mountainsides into graveyards of standing dead timber...'This trend could continue as our climate continues to warm."🌏 www.king5.com/article/tech...

Why did "snarling animal" become such a popular motif with auto mechanics? How does getting mauled by a bear relate to rotating my tires?

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

The Moon, Time-lapse November 9 , 2025

Copse for coping #ThickTrunkTuesday

Perspective: You Are A Bug

Alloclavaria purpurea looks like tentacles reaching out of the soil #pnw #fungifriends #mushrooms #naturephotography

Trying not to knee-jerk react to every piece of bad news these days because I don't think an extra person panicking on your timeline is helpful (unless I have something actionable to share). But please know I'm deeply outraged all of the time at our government.