one last artie cannibalism disclaim for the road

Peek! Like most of our native bees, bi-colored sweat bees live in ground burrows that are easy to miss but worth looking for

bought some sourdough penne rigate on a lark and they're funny because if you try to sub them into a recipe for normal noodles they taste bizarre and wrong but if you have them dressed with mustard they taste pleasantly like an alien tried to copy one of our human "sandwiches" via mass spectroscopy

Madame M.

THE FINAL PONY EXPRESS POLL

A peek inside one of the earliest Gundam fanzines: Gundam Fun Club's The White Base Editing Room. Created by a mostly female band of high school students as the series aired in 1979, it's full of technical information, carefully written speculation, drawn illustrations, and character profiles.

To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.

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Commission in progress: "Untitled navigational chart" (detail), oil on map, 14 x 22 3/4", 2026. Got a few of hours on this early this morning, because sleep eludes me. The rest of the day has been cleaning & tomato sauce.

Monarchs and swamp milkweed cup. Greenware. I’ve lost so many pieces this past year if I loose this one I will shatter instantly

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, this manga about the little dinosaur is called Gon? Me: By Masashi Tanaka, yeah. CHOTINER: This is badass. Thanks for showing this to me. Me: No problem.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

The real winners of the Kentucky derby were the Botai hunters (c. 3700–3100 BC) for domesticating horses and bringing glory to KAZAKHSTAN

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

I just want one coach to be the hardest atheist imaginable. No gods. No masters. No salvation but existence. It's 3rd and 17 and we need a first down. The universe will never care and no one is here to help you. Now go get 'em, cowboy.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

Happy May Day

the ten dollar / founding father / who got a lot farther / by having ten dollars / by fifteen / he was in charge of ten dollars

My local community college has a mascot called the Ricky the Riverhawk. They have recently updated it Elda the Eagle, who looks mean as fuck. So all the photos its in looks like they A. Don't want to be there. B. Actively despise the activity or cause.

drawing isn't really going too well for me rn so for #invertefest im sharing a bunch of tiny moths that i crocheted a while back. the pattern isn't mine but i did modify the wings for the last one so it could look more similar to a hawkmoth!!

did you know his name is Gimpel in german, which is a perfect name

Creature

Blue Landscape (2024) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Happy birthday to Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs”

Pedro Friedeberg, Two Cows, 1969

Happy #InverteFest! 🐛 This is Cameroceras, an extinct endocerid cephalopod from the Ordovician #pixelart #invertebrates #SciArt #paleoart

The West Castleton Formation has high pyrite content which I suspect is the cause of these patches of intensely yellow, orange, and black calcareous precipitate on a nearby roadcut (including spots where the precipitate seems to be calcifying over the lichen)

eastern newts, adult and not-quite-adult

Trout lily.

Periwinkle. Very pretty! Also invasive in North America. :-(

STYLE

A spider with her web full of spiderlings. I think an orb-weaver (Araneidae) based on the eye arrangement and general body shape but I've got no idea as to genus.

yellow-rumped warbler (field mark: handsome)

👁️👁️ again

a loon shakes out its wings after a round of preening

if american idol was for cats one of the judges would have been simon yowl

malt qisney

Today is the birthday of artist & letterer Henry Shikuma (April 23, 1922-Nov. 25, 1985). A veteran of WWII, he became an assistant to Walt Kelly on the Pogo comic strip in 1958 and soon took over lettering, beautifully inking over Kelly's blue-pencilled layouts.

Ammonite Rock ~ 🐚🦑🦀🪸 . For years I’ve been curious by all the different ammonite shapes and types, I knew I wanted to create a design that brought them altogether! . #paleoart

Happy Earth Day! Some fan art for Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”, easily my favorite read so far this year

decklike roguebuilder

first-person episode of the flintstones, "yabba dabba you"

the meager meager employeetones

yellower submarine theory