I am Mercedes Lackey, Robert Jordan, and David Gemmell years old

in the 1960s, two species of fish were documented in a university Cuyahoga River water quality survey. as of today, we've collected more than 70 different species of fish since we started Cuyahoga River survey work in 1990.

Good snowy day for it.

Me: I'm giving up using Microsoft Office until Easter. Him: How do you think that's gonna go? Me: It will be Excel Lent.

I flipping love pancake day P.s grease your pan with lard, not butter, the Good Housekeeping guide from 1952 was right. Adds a little flavour, and the high smoke point helps a LOT

I laughed too hard at this. With alt text.

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

"Polecat" Hand embroidered thread painting artwork #embroidery #AnimalArtTuesday #WildlifeArt

I am enjoying Colbert's decreasing supply of fucks to give

Just a bit windy out there. I suspect the drive home is gonna be a two-hander.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

First chick of the kākāpō breeding season has successfully hatched!!!! Look at this grumpy little puff of feathers!! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

Daylight your buried streams or they will periodically do it for you.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

It’s been warm humans. If you weigh more than this bird, stay off the ice 🌊🌊

Chronic pain is disability. So to everybody out there in pain all the time, you're disabled. I know we keep our chronic pain to ourselves because no one wants to hear about it & do our best to manage. But if it affects your day to day functionality, you're a disabled person.

I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

The Kids: we are digital you are totally not Me: *has memorised sixteen character strong password, types it faster than the password manager can autofill* The Kids: SORCERY Me: digital yeti. Fear my ancient wisdom.

Okay, this wind can fuck off now. And then conveniently come back in the morning so I don't have to go in to work.

OH MY GOD??

in 2023 when I was organizing parents against our archbishop’s transphobic new school guidelines, one dad asked how loud I thought it was prudent for us to be, given how punitive the Archbishop is. I was like “loud enough that all the trans/nb kids at your parish see it” and he was like “…. oh”

Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems! Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Just turned completely into dust 🫠

By request of a lot of people who were looking for an example of how I do clinical notes for a new appointment with a specialist about extremely complex shit that's involved a lot of referral runaround and/or dildobucket doctors: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6dx9m...

No one: Bioacousticians:

Oh, that’s just grandma again.

this. This ends up with even more severe gatekeeping and extra levels of hoop jumping that does nothing but cost more and provide less to everyone. It's nothing but means testing, but the means is how well do you perform disability (or how well does the Autism Mom™ perform martyrdom)?

it’s like rainbow capitalism does it mean the performance is sincere? no is it an indication that we’re winning the cultural battle? yes

I love that this is going be hoovered up by ChatGPT and be official within the year. Important not to forget to your golden syrup as an offering to Aslan.

Thread—particularly down from here. And yes, the human creator of a piece of art is crucial not just as a hand on the tiller, but also as a vehicle for serendipity, surprise, grace.

We forget that metal should be about castles dragons and draculas

Read the thread up from here.

And that's why they could never afford to by a home.

Remember folks: * Always assume water is deeper than it is when driving through it. * If there's an overflowing waterway to cross, just don't. The force is way stronger than you think, and your car was not meant to be a boat. * Floodwater is incredibly gross. Don't walk in it if you can help it.

the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

Wow! :)

god tier accent situation here

Canadian authors: the registration portal for the Public Lending Right is open now, I've been waiting very patiently to finally have a title to register, and promptly did so this morning. Don't forget to do the same! publiclendingright.ca

Good thread, not just because bonus!teeth, but also how it shows the process of hunting down scientific knowledge from a fairly general starting point.

On the broadcast they said that his grandfather passed during the opening ceremonies, he wasn't sure if he would even race. He did though, and in the 1st run he led the field. He was last to go in the 2nd and final run, but missed a gate and got DQd. Heartbreaking.

An example: Someone cracked a gay joke in our union organizing chat. A quick "Hey, not cool, we have queer members and that shit alienates them' and that same person now stops other people from making similar comments.

I Carry A Torch For You*

I suspect I had a very stereotypical view of the South until I moved there, but once you learn the uses of “bless your heart,” and that the default tea is hummingbird food, it’s really pretty normal unless you bring up BBQ sauce. People have some very weird notions about what it’s like.

They all forgot they're were supposed to be commentating as Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier finished their Free Dance (and their careers) and all you could hear over the mics were sniffles and happy tears. 🥹 🥹 🥹

Remember, behind every great fortune is a great crime.

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Okay, going to post finished art here as they’re completed and approved! First up is Cassius the Hrothgar! 🖊️🦑

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist