The Mailbox That Spits Bones At People

Going through files salvaged from a corrupted SSD and there be gold in them hills

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

Alberta friends, the list of medical conditions that exempt you from the ridiculous $100 "administrative fee" for this year's COVID vaccine includes ASD, ADHD and depression. I do not know if they ask for proof, but get those free shots!! Source: www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-...

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite! Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4 #prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil

very authentic footage of me and @keirad.bsky.social at the club

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Imagine reading Matthew 24:36, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” and then having the hubris to try to predict the end of the world

I thought using “gay” as a synonym for “stupid” died 15+ years ago but here we are, I guess.

It’s often pointed out how people don’t read anymore, how social media has broken our attention spans, and our capacity for critical thinking. BUT, also, there are still a TON of avid readers in the world, of ALL ages. I know many of them. Let’s not forget to celebrate, and take comfort in, that.

Nanosaur (1998). This game came bundled on the first iMac.

More isopods, more happiness

The deafening force of the sonic boom I create when renaming my to-do list “hit da bricks” at Mach 3

I know it's easy to get lost in the noise, anger, depression and hate of these dark times, but you matter, you're important - even if you can't see it - and I'm glad you're here.

if you want to have the true Heck Experience, serve chicken nuggets for lunch at an elementary school canteen for the first time in recent memory

Me when I see a hot water dispenser at any event

I climbed all the way up the pole for the first time on Thursday so I am allowing myself One (1) lazy skip the dishes order to my house

Yeah I’m on SSRIs: Serious Surf Rock Instrumentals

You love to see it. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: please sign and share our petition, tell the Alberta Gov’t you don’t support book bans! Censorship escalates rapidly, put pressure on the gov’t now to ensure it doesn’t take hold in Canada. Change.org/AB-book-ban #CAIABB #ABbookban #FreedomToRead #NoBansInCanada

As a retired software engineer, I am still baffled that in the year of our lord 2025 it still takes Microsoft Word approximately one decade to eventually count and display how many words are in a document.

The inclusion of Crystal Pepsi under the umbrella term "transparent tech" makes sense, but my brain is still going to chaos-mode parse this as "Crystal Pepsi is a hardware platform."

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (read: let me see the Tech Guts, cowards) vapor95.com/blogs/darkne...

What could possibly go wrong?

For the very first time, this chronic un-finisher of journals filled an entire book journal. 65 titles (and the last one was a banger: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia).

Hallucigenia 🪱

(Disclaimer: I am still scatterbrained at best, but it no longer feels like my brain's busted. Forgetting stuff because I get excited about so many things > forgetting stuff because I don't have the mental capacity to form a memory.)

It took a boatload of therapy, stress management, and self-care (+ a pinch of medication adjustment), but having a short-term memory again feels incredible. There's a certain stability that comes with remembering little things without having to write them down immediately.

I'm really excited that these Thimble plushies are finally becoming available to preorder for January from @themerchguild.bsky.social - as well as new shirts and stickers, and some other PRETTY COOL stuff soon to come. themerchguild.com/products/leg...

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

both Autoheart AND Bastille dropped new music yesterday and I’m thriving. Thank you for this feast, indie musicians from England who excel in writing songs about being sad

conducting an LIS study tracing the iPod owner to metadata librarian pipeline

Great article. If you build it, they will come (and similarly, if people are asking for a book, good, or service, public libraries will often adapt to offer it). www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Illustration of the Cambrian explosion! Based on the fossils found in the Burgess Shale in Canada. This 500 million year old ecosystem is a drawing from my new book: DINOSAURS📚🦕 which covers a lot more than just the Mesozoic! Preorder book here: a.co/d/79dZ2Qb #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

A banana nut muffin and a cup of coffee can't cure all the world's ills, but it's a step in the right direction.

When my grandma passed in 2022, she left behind her very full Girl Guide camp blanket. I’ve been going through the patches she collected, and man, some of these old commemorative patches go hard.

I finally watched kpop demon hunters

my friends always laugh when i thank roomba. i’m not a fucking idiot dude (okay i am), it’s an inanimate object. but we must always practice good manners. when you stop thanking things you stop thanking people, and then you stop seeing people of having value. i will always thank roomba

self-care is begrudgingly choosing to use decaf coffee in your 7pm latte

CHARD

My parents and I send each other photos of weird cautionary signs we find on our travels. Mom just sent me this. Watch the skies, traveller.

Every cheese grater has four sides: - The big one - The small one - The three moons - The one that obliterates cheese and accomplishes nothing

day, night, both alien concepts to those who dwell abyssopelagic. mcdonalds 'breakfast' holds no meaning to a pelican eel, a snailfish will never know there are separate menus that change over with the sun's passage! bring them all to the Surface. let them understand the hash brown, the big Mac

It's about time I updated my "some of the things I enjoy" pinned post! 💙 📚 Books, Libraries & Literacy 🪶 Corvids 🎮 Cozy & Collecting Games 🐉 Dragons & Other Mythology 🐝 Entomology 👻 Horror Media & Halloween Stuff 🍄 Mycology 🦕 Palaeontology 💾 Retro Technology 🪐 Space & Astronomy

Historically I have hated aquarium maintenance in the past (part of that thanks to a total lack of education on it) but... what if Shrimp Aquarium

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

Local mall has photo-ops set up for CowboyCon. I just watched a kid pose in front of a giant pancake backdrop by lying face down on the ground and then very excitedly beckon their mom to take a photo.