Another of my original artworks in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Deck the Halls' auction ending tomorrow, 12pm EST. An older Holiday Hadrosaur from 2011. Sepia ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 209 ×128 mm. www.facebook.com/share/p/17fi...

Sir, I must protest; I am not a merry man. — Worf, son of Mogh

Hey bsky. My favorite thing right now is forward-facing Brewer's Blackbirds. Just so you know. Show me your forward-facing birds! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

All those other people need to stop sinning so they won't be in front of me in the confession line. — Alice Sophia Gardner

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

Life. Dont talk to me about life.

Today's dark thought: I want to get offed in a mass shooting because then i'll hopefully get tagged as bycatch.

The Aegean never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.

Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"

Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries. No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.

happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]

Just a reminder, that possibly the oldest piece of palaeoart dates to the Neolithic. The petroglyphs of horned characters with trumpets, recorded on the same rock as a ornithischian footprints (Zagaje Formation) in Poland, might be an early reconstruction of the Jurassic tracemaker.

A female Gideonmantellia pauses for a moment to watch over her young. She is an attentive mother, and although the chicks are capable of feeding and fending for themselves, during the early stages of their growth they will be accompanied and watched over by their parents

Somehow, like fascism and Emperor Palpatine, Nanotyrranus has returned.

Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper a warning for Caribbean region. Via @sciencex.physorg #MarineBiology 🌊 🐟 #geophysics #seismology #EarthScience #RocksForJocks #Geology #Volcanology 🌋

The committee has gathered to assess your fate.

This place needs to increase the ratio of shitposting to doomposting.

*grasping shoulders* I want to hear your least interesting thoughts, your half formed philosophies, your ruminations, your desperate wishes please please do not run those scrambled words through the dullness machine, do not let a language model attempt to summarize those gasped pleas I so cherish

You can’t be in love with me I am just a network of quaking aspens on the side of a cold mountain

Among the reasons I absolutely loathe genAI is the fact it devalues and undermines skills like learning how to research, fact check, and communicate. It’s like answering a question with a print out of search engine results, taking it as truth because the computer said so.

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

You are not alone. Find your community out there. Find them haunting used bookstores. Find them telling tall tales in dark taverns. Find them shambling in mossy forests, communing with others in the gloom.

CHILDREN OF THE SEA × LITTLE PRINCE A boy dives into his dying goldfish’s tank and is swept through evolutionary time itself, from ancient seas to land’s first breath, to learn how to let go. MG/YA graphic novel · coming-of-age · sci-fantasy · grief #DVPit #DVArt #GN #MG #YA #Asian #LGBT

Pippin and I are having a snuggly morning.

This is MASSIVE news for anyone without institutional access! Tagging @thetransfemininereview.com in particular, since we've discussed this issue before.

#SciArtSeptember 22 - Fellowship For as long as we have had imaginations and languages to convey them, humans have been seeing our fellow creatures as more than just food. Here, an elderly neanderthal is pondering an unusual injured bird - a yellow-breasted bunting, today critically endangered.

major traffic incident

I think the collective noun for Acorn Woodpeckers should be "A Circus."

Just Raven Things.

Irruption.

I don't know who needs to see this but

Do something good for yourself. Whatever thing that’d make you even momentarily happy, just savor it. Bring some joy to this fucker of a year.

Audre told us.

If a white person asks you to go antiquing, there is no higher show of respect in their culture

Dogs, fungus, and even range cattle are helping restore a rare orchid to Arizona's sky islands. I'll tell you more in my latest for Smithsonian.

I got to paint some paleobirds! (The headline art is by the incredible Chase Stone) 🪶🧪

This screaming female Swainson's Hawk is pretty much my poster animal for how I feel about 2025 so far. Big mood.

Listen to your friends and people you love. Stay grounded in what you know. We live in a world awash with misinformation, fakes, and deep pocket sociopaths who want to tell you how to feel because they own the newspaper. Bullies. Hold onto yourself and the people you care about. Trust that first.

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker. West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University #Archaeology

Woodpecker 🪶 #illustration #birdsky #nature #animalart

Every decision I've ever made has been wrong. Except for asking my friend to take this photo. I wish my life was as epic as this Scythian Thirst Trap would lead you to believe.

Me: Here’s how 11th century nobles broke the rules to obtain power. Folks: Yep, makes sense. Me: 21st century oligarchs are breaking the rules to obtain power. Folks: OK BLUEANON

Flirting by allowing dark magic to seep into my bones like the cold, by allowing it to numb my hands to a blue buzz. Flirting by becoming a fixture of the old woods, by becoming a footnote of local legend, a ripped out page of a lost traveler’s journal.

Birds called "vultures" belong to three separate groups, one found in the Americas and two in Afro-Eurasia. But just over 12,000 years ago some "Afro-Eurasian" vultures lived in N. America, like Neophrontops, closely related to the living Egyptian vulture! #InternationalVultureDay 🪶🧪 (📷Sarah Murray)

Eurasian Chaffinch Portrait These colorful birds visit our garden regularly. The males are a handsome brownish red with a grey-blue back and bright yellow and white spots on the wings, while the females are a bit more subdued in color. Acrylics on matte board 5.1″ x 5.1″ (13 x 13 cm) #birdart

I never realized until today how stunningly iridescent White-faced Ibis are. Maybe I just never saw them in perfect sunlight before.

I said this as a joke at first, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense: Tom Bombadil can't take the One Ring because the Ring Verse doesn't scan to his own poem's meter.