if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

putting it on my CV: getting real good at handling and recovering from rejection

Proper thread time! Today marks the publication of my fourth book, Spinosaur Tales, this one written with and illustrated by @markwitton.bsky.social. It's out now in the UK (hardback, audiobook, ebook) and will be out elsewhere in Jan 2026. It covers all things spinosaurian, including Spinosaurus.

I have a parrot on my right shoulder telling me "hello" and a parrot on my left shoulder telling me "step up." Not sure where this puts me, morality-wise

Guy Rawkes

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

We had an actual great day, with multiple separate good things? One less monster in the world, elections that inspire hope, *and* I went to a great gig and got to laugh harder than I have in a very, very long time. When was the last time things looked this positive?

See @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social on this tour if you can! Because I'm a little less professional than I was in 2019, here's the video I was *this* close to sending to my entire professional organization before the GNSI conference in Brisbane to make sure everyone was prepared for the sun

Did you know that if you don't clean the filter on a dehumidifier, it can grow an enormous block of ice back there? You'll never guess how I learned this

'You're adopted' ---------- (For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

He was mad because I moved my coffee

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Drew up a poster for what was probably my favorite movie at age 6: the Rankin-Bass/Topcraft animated feature FLIGHT OF DRAGONS

Witch hazel 🌿

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

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

Makes total sense that you can't get a train from Boston to New Haven after 8pm, good job, Amtrak

Sketch of a crow Pastel and charcoal 5x7 #art #birds #nature

Happy Halloween 🦷

Spooky fruit

I genuinely like these pumpkin skeletons.

Happy Halloween, bad skeleton enjoyers

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

Parrot-assisted* drawing *it does not help.

I put my silly poster on Inprnt 🎨

You know what? Affinity Photo's painting tools aren't even that good. It doesn't even support pressure-controlled opacity. Should've sorted that out before sticking AI in for no reason.

Three weird little plant guys growing together. Assorted lycopods - Shining Firmoss, Fan Clubmoss, and a tree-clubmoss (Dendrolycopodium)? 🌿

Are you in North America, and want to try growing native plants in your garden, yard, public park, community space, or in containers on a balcony / porch? I've made a beginner's guide! It's long but I wanted to share all the info I have. Please consider trying. featherdust.com/growing-nati...

Beaver evidence 🌿

Fall Sarracenias

I'm so goddamn tired of saying this but: this is it. All the worrying that trans folks have had since he took office? This is why. This is the first step on a short road that ends with the criminalization of trans existence in the US. It isn't doomsaying. It isn't panic. It's right in front of us.

This mutant fern looks like a fish skeleton

This one's for the expat New Englanders

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

Journey

It's always nice to find an American Chestnut, even a little one. The roots are still here. 🌿

Get yourself on an entomological society's mailing list

Pretty sure my wacom's colors are more saturated after reinstalling the drivers 🙃

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

i love Mulholland Drive but i actually prefer Mulholl Drive and Young

A cat ran out into the road and basically under the wheels of the car in front of me. Somehow it spun around and made it out of the street, but the car didn't even slow - it was an SUV, and the driver may not have seen it. Keep your cats inside.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

A Green Heron poised to catch a fish. I love how the sun lights up his beautiful colors! #BirdOfTheDay #Sunlit #herons #birds #photography #nature #wildlife #EastCoastKin #photographersofBlueSky

Sound UP! When a gang of young male Superb Lyrebirds surround you, often within less than a metre. I zoomed back to 80mm but often had to lean back to get this footage. I've left it largely unedited to capture the mayhem of the moment. #birds #birding #nature #lyrebirds