Holy hell! #SPNFamily rocks! In just 9 hours, we’ve raised more than $150k thanks to over 5,500 of you who have donated so far! Help keep us going! Let’s get to our goal of $202,020.20! bit.ly/SPN20th #SupernaturalDay #SPN

It’s done. Burial of 1/2 the ashes, scatter the rest in the lake, 2 memorials hosted. Three different states, six long solo drives, months of planning & logistics, it’s all done.

The random confusion when you’re burying your parents & your 65yo sister casually drops out of nowhere that she used to spar w this li’l kid Joe Rogan back at her old Tae Kwon Do dojo

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Just was talking to a fanfic writer who had a revolutionary new idea for “gumball machine” stories (like those random prizes in plastic balls): you wouldn’t know what you’re going to get, bc it’d be *untagged*!!! You’d know the premise but not all the details. Books. She was describing books

Big Chick is showing alula pin feathers. Thank you, @northernsparrow.bsky.social, for teaching me those terms :). ^The two eaglets are currently Big Chick (hatched 3/4) & Small Chick (3/8). Midnight PST is the last chance to submit name options!: www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/fobbv-chick-....

LinkedIn keeps excitedly telling me that there are hundreds of openings for my exact job title (“professor”). Hate to break it to you, LinkedIn, but a professor of biology and a professor of Spanish literature do not actually have the same job

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

To Americans (and others) who want to support Ukraine despite the cowardly, immoral, rude, shortsighted actions of the US government: We have to step up as individuals bc our nation is letting down the whole world. You can donate directly to Ukraine here: (Zelenskyy’s official site) u24.gov.ua

Another update from my northern Virginia uni: Apparently we have been flooded this week with CV’s from “very highly qualified” federal scientists who were laid off last week & are desperately begging for bare-bones, poverty-level temporary adjunct positions just to try to put food on the table

Am in a faculty meeting in a science department at my university, re Trump’s EOs that are crippling American scientific research, and the departmental chair just said “Your best course of action is to start drinking immediately” 😂 😭

yes, it’s real…

Happy #SuperbOwl Sunday! 🦉 Our MVP (Most Valuable Predator) Forrest is celebrating in style! Our Eurasian eagle owl is 19 years old and still bringing his A-game. With those big orange eyes, he's always on the lookout for a touchdown snack. 👀

I heard it was #SuperbOwl Sunday.

To help survivors of the LA Wildfires, #BDDW is hosting a tee-shirt auction to benefit the @randomacts.org Natural Disaster Recovery Fund! I’m making a t-shirt for this. Are you? bit.ly/BDDW4LA

The great beast came again last night, & flew away with my father. He died this morning. Mom in Nov, Dad today. (Even lost my kitty too, at Christmas) Yet the world keeps turning, the sun keeps rising, the birds keep singing. My dad always loved the birds… Hug your loved ones close 💕

Even with Trump and Musk trying to fuck up the whole world, this still exists.

If at first you don’t succeed … smack, smack again 🦪

Elephant calf update: very baby

(GIANT KAIJU EMERGES IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN) ugh can we not? sorta got a lot going on rn

Lost mom at Thanksgiving. Put my kitty (my only buddy) to sleep over Christmas. Dad went into the hospital end of Jan, and today he was moved into hospice. Dad is at peace with it, me not so much. I just wanna say: hug your peeps, look at the sun & moon & stars & sea & the birds, sing dance & play 💕

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

In dragon books the hero always ends up with the biggest dragon, or the rarest, or it’s a super cool color, or TWO dragons even, but you know, I think I would really be fine with just one ordinary dragon. It could be just a little brown dragon, I’m not picky. A little brown dragon of my very own 💕

I love this time of year because people will post something super dramatic and vague like “Nooooooo” and I can’t tell if it’s about football or *gestures outside window* all of this.

Once on the Alaskan tundra I saw a short-eared owl (like in the photo) gliding by, and on a whim I made a little mouse squeaking sound. BAM that owl’s head whipped around and it STARED at me & banked into a huge 360 circle allllll the way around me, staring me down like “WHERE IS THE MOUSE MF’ER”

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

Sagan was a prophet.

Today is bad. Here’s a whale. I hope it helps. His name is AP9 “Red” and he is from the southern Alaska resident killer whale population.

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

Here are some nice mushrooms

You are not alone. youtube.com/shorts/oUrBE...

"I think we have this idea that we're gonna make friends with bad guys and bend them to our will, and really we're just...friends with bad guys." --The Diplomat, S2 E4 (I've been binge-watching this, and it is excellent.)

youtu.be/tNNAnz9vcuk?... Los Angeles, we’re with you. Here’s something we can all do to help: bit.ly/RADisasterRe... @randomacts.org

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏