As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.

For Artists and everyone! Tree Lungwort (Lobaria pulmonaria) fungi is pure magic! #becurious

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Uh this is enormous

Northern cardinal all fluffy and cute.❤️ #birds #photography

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Things are not what they seem in the art of Thomas Deininger.

me nine innings ago / me now

for the love of everything holy, somebody please post the score!

Bearded Reedling on the Somerset levels #birds

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

I am once again asking you to post raptors 🪶🌿 Pele, a peregrine falcon at Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka!

I demand you look at this bird. (Photo by me)

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

My best backyard bird portraits from the past few months. 1/2

People over 40 watching birds at the bird feeder

Barred Antshrike. The barred antshrike is a passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae. It is found in the Neotropics in Mexico, every country in Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. 📸: @sergiogregoriophoto

Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) in Brazil 📷 Renato Sproesser.

My friend took this picture and I think people need to see it.

Holy cow a lot is going on in the US right now. You may also need to take a deep breath and look closely at a painted lady butterfly.

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social Technically not “in” my garden but only five mins walking distance from it, you’ll find Black Swans a Swanning. And it’s been an absolute joy having access to such beautiful creatures as these paired swans. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Australia #BlueSky #EastCoastKin

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay from @robcrank68.bsky.social is ‘Any Bird Having a Bath’ or an alternative a ‘Robin’ A Emden goose at #JimmysFarm U.K. having a good wash!! There’s always one, isn’t there? 😁 📷 🪶 #Photography #Birds #birdphotography #EastCoastKin #Nature #Smile #Breathe #MentalHealthAwareness

Okay, I warned you yesterday but SPIDER POST SPIDER POST SPIDER POST. Look. Spiders are great! They're our friends. They do good work out there and in our houses. I love spiders and how can you not love THIS spider, who is both a work of art *and* wildly successful at this game of hide-and-seek?

Louis Harris’s free surfing school for kids in Queens teaches more than just how to ride the waves. Parents whose children Harris has taught say his efforts have transformed their children’s lives. nyti.ms/3Iwg7EI

Another pic of the lil guy today #puremichigan #photography #macro #jumpingspider

I'm reposting this, because I refuse to believe no one wants to see a tiny #jumpingspider bro on a plastic golf tee #macro shot. I mean, unless you just walk around all day with super magnification glasses on and marvel at all of the cool shit you now see, I get it.

Some of my bros: #spiderbros #photography #macro

I’ll end this week of oil-rewarding flowers with Angelonia, a genus of nearly 30 spp from the American tropics. All spp have oil-secreting hairs in the throats of their corollas & are pollinated by oil-collecting #bees. It's a popular bedding annual. #Plantaginaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

🐟 Arctic river turns toxic Alaska’s remote Salmon River, once clear, is now orange and metal-laden due to permafrost thaw exposing sulfide minerals. Toxic levels threaten fish and salmon-dependent communities. 🔗 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Arctic 🧪

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

New 🐟 just dropped. 🧪🌎 www.mbari.org/news/mbaris-...

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

This bird with a gotdamn jheri curl been killing me since yesterday.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. And guess what, taxpayers are going to pay for it.

your moment of calm, with chirrips...

Next month, deficits will look about $130 billion lower than they otherwise would due to a one-time reestimate of the outstanding balance of our student loan portfolio, stemming from the changes in OBBBA that make student loan repayments more burdensome. (1/3) www.cbo.gov/system/files...

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt #summer

British Columbia

Painted Bunting at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, South Carolina #birds #nature

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Birds are dinosaurs

I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

Blue Jay: My scientific name is Cyanocitta cristata American Robin: Oh that's beautiful, I don't know mine, not sure if I have one

"as a slew of recent studies show, animals have the potential to make our increasingly scorched planet more resilient—if we let them" www.biographic.com/its-time-for...