This very squishy and grumpy baby robin who also cannot keep its eyes open is my entire mood and being right now. #birds 🪶

Okay, friends. Who has tips for scanning/cleaning up/making prints out of traditional media art? One definite takeaway from SOS was that I would REALLY like to make prints of my multimedia bird art, but I struggle to make marker & color pencil work look good on a screen, nevermind reprinted.

Open Studios day two was also great, but I am burnt toast right now, and I am going to bed. Local art community is so good. ❤️

Today at Open Studios I sold a couple of photo prints, a couple of queer erotic comics, and one "Gina Torres as Wonder Woman" art print to a VERY excited lady who was sad that she hadn't somehow missed the existence of a real movie. ❤️ Also I talked birds and plants with several people at length.

I am loving the chill vibe of participating in Somerville Open Studios. Welcoming people into my own space as they ebb and flow is delightful. Come visit if you're around!

Being a bit low-key about it this year for various reasons, but. I'm participating in Somerville Open Studios this weekend! If you're in the Boston area, come by and say hello? I'm at stop #110, Mad Oyster Studios, with around 20 other participating artists (in a whole bunch of different media).

Being a bit low-key about it this year for various reasons, but. I'm participating in Somerville Open Studios this weekend! If you're in the Boston area, come by and say hello? I'm at stop #110, Mad Oyster Studios, with around 20 other participating artists (in a whole bunch of different media).

I'm trying something new: occasional blog posts about my nature rambles (on no particular schedule). For example, on Monday I visited my neighborhood hawk nest, then stumbled across some interesting behavior from another raptor species ... alliekleber.com/blog

Gen is helping me check over old files for printing ...

Their VERY SERIOUS small faces aaaaaah 😍

Life is intense right now, and it's keeping me home a lot ... but my little urban neighborhood has been outdoing itself when it comes to #birds recently. Our local hawks are nesting again, I caught a pretty spectacular wild turkey courtship display last week, and yesterday, a pair of towhees! 🪶

YEAH STEVE! 🦖🧟💚

I don't know about you guys, but I could really use some silly bird photos today. Specifically, photos of #birds giving me funny looks. Puts all the human nonsense into some brief context. What are you weird hairless ape things even doing? 🪶

This morning I interviewed a computer engineering professor about the open source tool he's been developing to help detect "hallucinated" citations in papers submitted to academic conferences. It's a growing problem, and traditional peer review processes are struggling to keep up.

ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

"oh, did someone lick the cake you left unattended in the kitchen for less than two minutes? that's terrible! who would EVER do such a thing?"

SPACE X is to be gifted a wildlife refuge to build its polluting, habitat destructive greed monstrosities. (I support space exploration, just nothing to do with Musk.) This series of petitions from this wildlife protection organization are legit. Have gotten specific responses from congress.

Too many things to say to put on a sign, so I went simple and visual. #birdart #nokings

Look, I don't care if you're still fond of the books or movies, if they were important to your childhood, etc. I was BIG into HP as a teenager. I drew fanart, read fanfic, went to book release events with my friends. But giving JKR one single cent now is inexcusable. End of.

Hey friends. So, my sweet boy has been going through the ringer lately with some kind of chronic GI problem on top of his diabetes and dental issues. We're working on treatment, and well. I hate asking this so much, but I need help, badly. (Again.) (Still.) www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

Hey friends. So, my sweet boy has been going through the ringer lately with some kind of chronic GI problem on top of his diabetes and dental issues. We're working on treatment, and well. I hate asking this so much, but I need help, badly. (Again.) (Still.) www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

Sailor Moon, random websites I found via a pre-Google search engine (I do not remember what it was), 14.

This. Forever. Do you know how I know there's no such thing as a good billionaire? They're still billionaires.

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

Already cute photo + Elle's adorable style = cuteness overload!! 🥹💕

... forgot the hashtag. 😅 #BirdWhisperer

The recent snowstorm gave me a little extra time and space to FINALLY properly participate in the monthly @birdwhisperers.bsky.social #birdart challenge! I mostly tend to draw local species; these black-cheeked lovebirds were such a fun departure, with their gorgeously bright & varied coloration. 💕

I can't believe it's taken me this long to draw my local dinosaur. The artist's tape I used messed up the paper right around the tip of the beak, unfortunately, but I think I salvaged it. #birdart

Enforced art break. ❤️

An unamused puffy robin. #birdart

Some native plant art I made for a loved one. 💕

Yep. And instead of, you know, questioning whether certain AI technologies (all the big useless consumer-oriented LLM crap) is worth having, they're pouring huge amounts of money into creating more memory/bandwidth so the tech can just keep expanding and expanding.

Painting of a chickadee based on a photo by @turtlesoup.bsky.social. Their bird photography is genuinely stunning, and when I saw this one I had to paint it. I got really into the shapes. The wing, the tail feathers, the leaves, they just excited me so much! #birds #watercolor #birdart #art 🦉

"Don't let the turkeys intimidate you ..." Or do, I guess, if you're going to put on this good of a show about it. 😂

More #birdart ... I'm not able to go birding much right now, and I guess I'm pining a bit. 😅 Here's a very vocal gray catbird I met in the fall. I miss these ridiculous little critters.

Colored a slightly older sketch on my lunch break, for further black-capped chickadee appreciation. #birdart 🖤

In the spirit of Weird Duck Time, finding a little joy and silliness even in the face of the horrors, and even that silly Hallmark romance holiday, I drew a hooded merganser doing his best to impress. #birdart

Okay, now I feel the need for a black-capped chickadee appreciation post, so here are four photos I've taken of them. Not always my highest-quality work, because these gutsy, adorable little #birds are FAST and sneaky! 🪶🖤

Oh yes. Black-capped chickadees (1) are abundant in my current Eastern Massachusetts neighborhood (2), and even moreso in Western Mass where I grew up (2b).

Humans: we like dumplings, bbq, and telling people about neat animals we saw in the woods one time.

"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics

I once did a LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN piece for charity. Moore and O’Neill both gave it their blessing (as far as I know it’s the only 3D version of these characters OKed by both). Tons of jokes in the base: behind Bond are Streptococcus & anthrax used to kill Martians.

Ugh, I used the wrong version of the link. I'm so fried right now, sorry. 😓 www.gofundme.com/f/gen-sad-ki...

Hey friends, I miss you. :/ As it turns out, my sweet boy is "medically complex" (the vet's words) and we are playing whack-a-mole with all kinds of unexpected symptoms and tests. I owe a proper update, but if you have some change and want to help, I do need it: www.gofundme.com/manage/gen-s...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writing A comp lit course on fairy tales & retellings Contemporary Japanese Womens' Writing The Old Testament Descents into Hell in Modern Poetry

I met Brianna through the feline diabetes community, and she has been one of the kindest sources of support as I continue to struggle with Gen's care. Xander is her best friend and constant companion, and she really needs help. PLEASE give if you can, and share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-be...

I'm Coreo. I can't work full-time anymore, and I need help paying down my revolving debt. Can you share this to people who might want to see some kittens? (1 more pic in my latest update on the GFM page!) gofund.me/4903591f2

Wish I could have gotten decently crisp shots, but still. WILD TURKEY BORB. #birds 🪶

Not the most amazing quality (it was very overcast, and my camera kept trying to focus on snowflakes), but - some of my neighbors, undaunted by the storm and freezing weather yesterday afternoon. #birds 🪶

... I thought the Onion was supposed to be satire. (Sob)