Modern life, man…

I discovered walking back from the Kennedy Center that there is now a one-room Watergate Museum an exhibition of portraits by Laurie Munn

Found this great little predatory fly in my garden when I was back in the UK the other week. Not a common sighting as they normally spend their time in tree canopies. Xanthostigma xanthostigma (Small Snakefly)

Don't Let Congress Censor America's School Libraries @sarahkateellis.bsky.social, the President and CEO of @glaad.bsky.social, and John Chrastka, the Executive Director of @everylibrary.bsky.social, have co-author this important, timely, and must-read op-ed. www.advocate.com/opinion/hr76...

While the sun shone last week, @nationaltrust.org.uk's High Down near The Needles was great for insects - Glanville Fritillary in numbers, as well as Dingy & Grizzled Skippers. And Rose Chafers loving the Thrift above Alum Bay. #IsleOfWight

Toronto! Come to the comic arts festival happening right now! I’ll be there today and tomorrow :>

NYT cooking recession indicator continues to deliver "I developed these spinach meatballs as a way to feed six people with just a pound of meat"

#SciArt friends! Check out this amazing animatic from @chamimation.bsky.social 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw9q...

Hyperlocal weather report: bumblebee. Adolescent squirrel with paws and tail too big for its body. Air persists

If you see this, post your bird art. 🦜 #arttrain #SciArt

Also here’s a recent one that I’m very proud of, not least because I designed the polish for the background! I named the polish “Soup, Goliath, Albireo” because I am good at naming things. The art depicts the inspo: microbial soup, a Goliath beetle, the double/triple/maybe quad star Albireo

It’s just been browns to me attention that I haven’t posted here in at least a month. As it’s Pride month, let’s have some rainbows, shall we? Here are a few recent manicures I’ve worn.

with @weissmann.substack.com on his terrific new book, hardening the rule of law, and lying liars and what to do with them

Kestrel Gryphon 🦅 #furryadopt #characterdesign open for $120

Where are all my vulture lovers?!?! This one is for you 😜 #Birds #Raptors #Vultures #bsnm #SciArt #BirdArt

A retired colleague clearing her office just left me this great find from 1997. Portland State held a 24-hour marathon live reading of Moby Dick, & the readers included students, teachers, the owner of Powell’s, a US senator, Susan Stamberg, and -- pictured here -- Portland legend Darcelle XV.

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If this pride you'd like to kick in a few bucks to Gavin Grimm's GFM that funds a trust for his benefit: www.gofundme.com/f/gavin-grim... (disclosure: I'm a trustee)

in my head it's always EMPORER but in reality it's EMPEROR and every single time i spell it, i make the switchy switch and get it wrong >.<

Made this recipe to use some some leftovers a few months ago and it’s become a great easy option: it doesn’t need the sugar in my view and you can interchange the sausages with mushrooms if you want:

Not a bird. That is a Muppet.

Pope Leo XIV said the war in Iran does not qualify as a "just war" according to Catholic teaching, while answering questions by journalists aboard the papal plane for his six-day visit to Spain. n.pr/4e5J0DH

Child molestation under color of law.

“Frog, I am glad to have a brave friend like you,” said Toad. He jumped into the bed and pulled the covers over his head. “And I am happy to know a brave person like you, Toad,” said Frog. He jumped into the closet and shut the door.

“The deep sea will never run out of things for us to dream about. Places will remain unseen & unvisited ... and nimble creatures, whose existence nobody can guess, will keep slipping out of sight. We need to do all we can to keep it that way.” -Helen Scales "The Brilliant Abyss" (📷: MBARI via YT)

Headline writers are usually not the authors of the piece or their direct editors. They can undermine the entire piece, or in this case, be prescient and brilliant. Good headline writer!

Yourself, but as a cartoon.* *More than one friend came up with this comparison. Apparently I will NEVER be cool.😅

Every once in a while I whine online that Europe needs to build its own bloody Patriot system, and stop relying on the US for them… You’re welcome, Europe! 😅 youtu.be/TJ9dfyuS2Y4?...

Bobby Ginn, the adjutant general for the Mississippi National Guard, has been trying to get paid healthcare for his soldiers for at least 20 years. That goal is now realized. Mississippi will now pay the Tricare premiums for its National Guard members.

Bonus cat enjoying scritches.

When I did the Brompton World Championship we had to start on foot, then run to our bikes and unfold them before we could start cycling. (1m 26s -> 1m 36s.) youtu.be/FGMstwEQUeg?... The timer didn't start until we crossed the start line on our bikes, so this bit was just for fun.

Different from the box art if nothing else

Just bunged a load more games on Vinted. Help me clear some space please! www.vinted.co.uk/member/31283...

Kindness is resistance now

plugged the Tortie into the Tortie Dock recharge

Cuz ppl growing more conservative a they age isn't just the natural state of things, it's a result of a lifetime of accrued enfranchisement in the social and economic contract. If your buy-in is rewarded, you see no point in agitating to change the system. Rewards have been withheld for ~20 years.

Always important to keep your cat charged...

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Still another 2 1/2 hours to check out the Brooklyn Pride Comic Book Fair! Go see, go see!

Take this with a grain of salt, but: I'm finding since living in the PNW, in the same way a certain kind of right winger loves "the unborn" because they're this perfect innocent victim who never asks anything of you, a certain kind of liberal loves the idea of "nature." Especially trees.

Didn't have time to post the past few days, which means yes - today - you got Squeezy on #Caturday, but also #TeamJavelina. Wish this had volume because the baby #javelina barks at the cam! #cameratrap Wait for the Slo-Mo replay. So FEROCIOUS!

I always loved this New Yorker cover too

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.

Remembering my dad's dad, Norman Senior, who was killed on D-Day+2, June 1944, in the fight against fascism.

it is genuinely insane that a couple weeks ago in his trans piece toby wrote "they may come for the sikhs next," people told him he was being hysterial, and then immediately after they started coming for the sikhs

THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

You may not like it, but this is what peak masculinity looks like.