It was Exeter Comic Con and Gaming Festival this weekend. We decided to go today and have a look. There was one - count it - one actual comic stall. 😒 There was way too much 3D printed junk and Cricut made bits. Which totally has its place but shouldn't take up the majority of the Festival.

This thread is everything!!

I have just spent the most delightful afternoon in the company of Martin Luff (Devon county recorder of beetles). I had the pleasure of seeing his beetle collection and talking all things entomology. I am a very happy girl. #coleoptera #beetles

Welcome home committee #catsofbluesky

Achievement unlocked 🖤🎩💜 #morris #stonehenge

This morning I caught sight of the Atlas beetle. As she's the first of my larvae to successfully eclose, I shall call her Lilith. I've never bred Atlas beetles before and so I'm really chuffed! #beetle #beetles #ChalcosomaAtlas #entomology #entosky #coleoptera

I am SO EXCITED that I'm going to shout at the Internet. I was just checking on my Atlas beetle larvae, making sure they had enough rotting leaves etc and in one of the tubs I noticed a cocoon 🤩 I am so excited about this 😁

Sipping cider and watching my favourite Nigel Kneale play. Join me: youtu.be/b_pTzBqrQ0s?...

English Riviera at its finest 🖤

Anyone else love listening to the birds that signal the start of the #BBCFour broadcast?

I agree, love. Everything can eff off, cos it's too hot! #catsofbluesky

Hey bae 😘

Spent the afternoon at a local (and I suspect poorly advertised) outdoor bushcraft show. Hardly any people were there but it meant that we were able to attend talks and see demonstrations without crowds of people about.

Me (grocery shopping online): oat cream. Supermarket website: Out of stock. Would you like a bread bin instead? Me:...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn... Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces - BBC News 😥

Quote with a picture of you from the 80s.

Sure, Frank Herbert's Dune series is a work of diminishing returns but what if we appropriated his titles for a series of heavy dub albums? Results: Amazing. Dub World The Prophet of Dub Dub Messiah Children of Dub God Emperor of Dub Heretics of Dub Chapterhouse: Dub The Road To Dub

They could use his photo from the front of the Waitrose paper.

Cough please

OK. How do I get hold of one of those enormous #beetles on the top of the Other Stage at #Glastonbury? It would AMAZING in my garden. Big lust.

Doubletake ad just popped up on Reddit. Kinda impressed that they were brave enough to leave the comments on 😂

Hello gorgeous. The gothest of moths - 6 spot burnet

Ahh finally caught some goldfinch action at work in my pollinator patch. 🖤

Hey @squidita.bsky.social!! Looks like K. Tastes like White Lightning 😂

Chips by the sea 🖤

How can this not make you happy? I commandeered a wee plot of land at work last year and this is the result. Ox-eye daisies, ragged robin, buttercups, vetch, thistles, brown knapweed and cuckoo flowers so far. Oodles of pollinators. And tonight I saw goldfinches feeding on the knapweed 😍😍

Today I had the delight of showing my husband a Green Tiger beetle. He'd never seen one before. This little dude posed for me a little before I let him go on his way. #GreenTigerBeetle #CicindelaCampestris #BeetleSunday

Made another Frankenskirt this week. It's been cobbled together from various tops, skirts and leggings that were old, broken or didn't fit. #recycle #frankenskirt

That acorn weevil segment on #Springwatch was worth my licence fee alone. Thanks @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and team.

Oh Emm Gee. Lawrence Fishburn (Fishcake as he's called in our house) was Cowboy Curtis in Pee Wee's Playhouse...

Highlight of my weekend so far has been gorging on The Old Fools podcast. Thanks @ianmartin.bsky.social and @quantick.bsky.social

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

The small tortoiseshells have started to emerge 🖤🖤

Amid GROWING RECOGNITION??? What the actual fuck?

Oooh my Sapphires of Persia (Cetonischema speciosa cyanochlora) have started to hatch. They're absolutely beautiful. #beetlesunday #beetles #sappiresofpersia

We took the bike up to Hound Tor this afternoon. Kinda loving that my hair appears to be a million different colours in this photo.

Wow. Austria has got lungs!

Who else panicked that they'd hit the TV control and turned off the TV during Ukraine's song? 🤣

Did someone say #Eurovision? 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Episode 4 of The Eternaut is SO up my street!

Morning, everbode.

I really love this documentary about the A303 on #BBCFOUR, mostly because I've lived so many places along it. Genuinely seen it about 4 times, now.

Guess the latte art. Wrong answers only...

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

Morris Mayhem with my tribe at the Bovey Tracey Green man spring fair. Great day with some great people. Nice to meet the resplendent @drracheal.bsky.social in person. Very broken now.

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Why aren't these #Pebble faces? They need to be...

Exactly my thoughts...

Ravens have 17 primary wing feathers, called pinions. Crows have 16 primary wing feathers. So the difference between ravens and crows is a matter of a pinion.