68° and sunny. i’m calling it. you don’t have to work anymore today if you don’t want to

Who among us hasn't accidentally eaten a little bit of cadmium

Mark Bittner, who wrote the book that shares this title and stars in the documentary, just passed. Good time to watch this if you haven't, it's lovely 🪶

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

The US army corps of engineers is considering, right now, what would be the largest destruction of coral reefs in US history. To make a port slightly bigger. People know this, right? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 🧪🦑🌎

Test print! There are some things that need to be adjusted, but it's so cool to hold it! 🪶🎨

Did you know there's a new option for registering 2D artwork with the U.S. Copyright Office? Group Registration for Two-Dimensional Artwork (GR2D) now lets you register 2–20 published two-dimensional pieces with a single application and one filing fee as long as they're from the same calendar year.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in. That’s Horatio of 3:1.

Cooper's Hawk with lunch (not too graphic) 🪶

Folks please light up their phones TODAY. The Dems failing to stand together on this is bullshit.

Illustration I did for this paper on feather development onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐡🧪🪶

Sigh. RI, MI, and VA people, something new to yell at your reps about.

I once ate about half a lethal dose of deadly nightshade by mistake because I couldn't believe anything poisonous would be so delicious

Please enjoy these loud cotton balls

Somebody please hire me to design theropod plumage full-time, I want to get weirder with it

the alt is almost as good as the image

Fenner School scientists from the Difficult Bird Research Group have rescued the lost song of the regent honeyeater, offering new hope for the survival of the critically endangered bird: bit.ly/4l2D5Cc @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social

requiem for vanished birdsong

Caracaras are the best. Just look at this cute little crest 🪶 Carunculated Caracara, 📸 Gary L. Clark, Wiki Commons

there's not really a point to this, i just wish non-tech people knew: every part of the web has become worse because of GenAI. Millions of SEO-optimized sites packed with cognitive asbestos. Companies taking down our services scraping every word they can find. Hardware is too expensive to buy...

Greg: So. Escape the cave, sail home. Shouldn't take long, assuming nobody's insulted a god. Alex: Well, let's take a look at how Nobody did! Odysseus: (head in hands)

Revamped Spinothingie!

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

GEMATRIA IS NUMBERWANG

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild. "Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon www.fws.gov/media/2025-c...

If you see a snail crossing a path & grab its shell to move it out of the way, you might be injuring it while thinking you're helping but grabbing the shell is a problem ✅ How to move a snail safely: #GardenWildlife #GentleGardening ee

Birb

Chickens with nail polish. I will not elaborate

in honor of St. David's Day I want to share my favorite leek-based sugya in the Yerushalmi. (What, doesn't everybody have one of those?) This is from Shviit 6:4, discussing which vegetables are permitted to be eaten immediately after the sabbatical year in which growing vegetables is forbidden.

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

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What fake "security" would be worth destroying places like this.

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

🪶 We've been seeing a lot of ❌ misinformation ❌ surrounding the proposed legislation in New England. Here are the facts ✔️ We need YOU to write to your legislators NOW in support of Massachusetts Bill H.5137, which will end pet store bird sales in MA and support overwhelmed rescue organizations.

Annoyed Barbet 🐡🎨🪶

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Literally was just thinking of this - if you’re part of the “why do I care about trans people getting their license taken away” crowd - you really think they’ll stop there? Are you a woman who likes wearing pants, having a job or a credit card or driving? All of those things had to be fought for…

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Hey, so, reminder that Tennessee Republicans are introducing a bill that would kill women who get an abortion. I dug up the MAGAs names, numbers, emails, & a script to use when calling them. Men—we need to step up. Act. Inundate them. Shut this trash down ASAP. www.qasimrashid.com/p/tennessee-...

#Borb?! #BirdOfTheDay is BORB?!!!! My time has come! Choice No. 2 - Back up y'all! He's gonna blow! Male Brewer's Blackbird How is @saskajanet.bsky.social going to tennis ball all these borbs?! #birds #becurious 🪶

Reconstructing fossil birds again! I have the coolest job.

Are vultures cute? Yes, and yes. Yes they are. Yolo is showing off his newly colored beak, shifting towards orange. His full transition to bright king vulture adult colors will take about five years! 🪶

Proceeds for this zine go to Hot Meals For Gaza! If you want to read a short comic about Jewish Superman and Indonesian Lois Lane that criticizes America as a global superpower, check it out! #DCcomics #Superman

Buy a t-shirt, support some causes this fucker hates (ACLU/Trans Lifeline)

Funny addendum: two chickadees sat nearby and cursed out the merlin until – kid you not – one of them left to nab a seed from the feeder, eat it, then return to curse the merlin some more.

weaver dam. Hard working little guys, building little micro ponds on the sides of larger bodies of water. Spider Beavers, one of the small pieces in my Canadian-fantasy collection. #silly #originalart #weirdart #spider