NO SCROLL BACK IT'S A *QUILT*! closeups: museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t...

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Got home and there was a shrike on the balcony watching cockatiel TV with the birds.

Happy families collecting their new documents and discussing their celebratory plans providing me with more evidence for why I need a fucking divorce.

Get ready for the final immigration drag show, because my permanent residency was approved and once I pick up my new card today I never have to visually present myself as Tatsu's wife ever again! Trans colors for spite.

Survived first-time driver's license renewal with no English support. Continue to be disgusted by attempts to make systemic safety issues (extreme elderly drivers; unrestrained child passengers; moped/bicycle curbside lane-splitting; dashboard TVs) all individual drivers' problems.

an unexpected return 🌙 #housekinokuni #宝石の国

Almost all of them, early romanization has had great sticking power. Say "KYOH-toh", not "ki-YOW-toe"; "TOH-kyo" not "TOE-kee-yo".

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Watching "Only Murders in the Building" as I work and it's making me so homesick for the old neighborhood :(

It proceeds. Slowly, because I couldn't find a suitable leather, so this is what the fabric store had on hand, shaved down to <1mm thickness with a razor. The stitching is fake (well, non-structural) but the turned edges are real.

Scary cat #pixel #pixelart #animated

Elric no Melanin

I just saw someone refer to Elric of Melniboné as "Eric Melatonin" and I am deceasèd

I went to reassemble and equip the Dollfie Dreams and their goddamned human-priced pleather boots are disintegrating, this is why everybody else wears geta or waraji or goes barefoot >:( So today I get to make two matching pairs of 1:3 scale brogued leather boots.

Parabox now makes 16mm animetic eyes, look at the genre change on KOS-MOS! It fits the eyewell better than the original 20mm eye too.

Cleaning out the fabric hoard + swapping the kimono and doll storage (dolls need archival UV protection; kimono are stored wrapped in Tyvek, so they can go out on a wire shelf) and I finally found a home for this remnant, look how good it goes with Fubuki's color scheme.

It's perfect beautiful weather to go outside but the cops are circling my neighborhood stopping-and-frisking anybody foreign. They're driving around and hailing people on the cruiser's loudspeaker and I'm up high, so a couple times an hour I can hear the "そこの外国の方待ってくださあ〜い"

Endangered Species of Japan- the illustration vs risograph print ☺️💖

Interesting that the Quagga - an extinct type of Plains Zebra with stripes only on the front half of the body - occurred in the southern Cape of South Africa, an area with far fewer biting flies than further north. Lends credence to the theory. Zebras replace stripes with camo when possible.

It seems cruel to have given this an Ig Nobel, biting flies are a huge problem for animal agriculture in Japan. Environmental application of Bt is illegal so it's hard to keep the tabanid flies and blackflies from torturing the cows so much that milk production goes down.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

1-ton rental truck Cinderella and the bounty of Tokai. The fiberglass insulation is more wizard-luck shit, Yenya let me have it for 75% off because it's overkill for Nagoya-area building standards. The 5.7 R-value is in metric, that's R-32 for the Americans. Like a real human habitation!

Bricks at last! Took the train down to Chita, rented a truck, picked up my ton of specialty bricks, and now en route back up to Toyama, with wizard bonus:

A rare occasion to use the New York City Public Transit Voice this morning on a salaryman who wouldn't vacate a priority seat on request for a cane-user.

Wild to see neurotypicals on Reddit talking about ~nurturing their spouses through autistic meltdowns~, truly a different breed of human. In this house I do not want to Percieve your mental illness and if we ever get to a point where you can detect mine, one of us needs to physically leave.

My grandma was in the WAVES and it was a step up into a civil service career after the war, too, it's how she ended up in FL.

I miss West Side Market :<

Reading Chainsaw Man, having watched the anime first, and I didn't notice because of the flashiness of the animation but it is a period piece and not just an alt timeline??? The Shinkansen is a Series 0.

Oh Swiss-cheese-ass nanny state, why do you deny me an 8"dado sawblade and a mowing scythe but I can just order almost any non-amphetamine prescription I like from the global south???

The Saskatchewan Bird of Paradise glamming up my yard #birds

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Bohlinia attica- prehistoric giraffid, miocene of Europe.

Ahh bluesky. I wish you were more alive. Or idk maybe its just hard for art on here. Anyways heres a lil pet commission i just finished :)

meme about posting games released in the year you were born so here's mine

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

Two different shit-ass clerks have mistakenly yelled at me today for not paying! Die!!! One at Valor because I handed her 1万円 and small change for an expensive item and she assumed it was a 1千円札 and berated me in front of the line and THEN didn't apologize suitably (just "oh, my bad")--

The dream generator was excessively on the nose. I dreamed Tatsu bought us an apartment in Tokyo, and walking into the genkan/kitchen it was worn but acceptable, but then instead of a living/dining/bedroom there were beds lined up like an old military hospital, full of the elderly.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Hate to do this but I only had two orders this month and I'm overdrawn so if you could boost or check out my shop that'd be a great help! thanks anaisfae.art/shop/

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

The chimney project manager told off my rude shitty garden-destroying neighbor to his miserable inbred face <3

My favorite dinosaurs

My favorite dinosaurs

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

All four of these are native to the U.S. 🌱💚🌼 Which is your favorite? #nativeplants #wildflowers #fallflowers #plantnatives #bloomscroll #botany

The chimney guys are here and confirm my heavily-contested thesis that the most important language skill is being funny.