Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not one but two somersaults of enthusiasm

Both music and birds can fly freely across borders 🥰

Locus Award winner and a damn great time!

Me: Time to take my pill Me: gets glass of water Me: drinks water Me: thinks deep thoughts Me: finishes drinking water Me: stands in the dark kitchen Me: leaves five minutes later Me: MY PILL

An American Redstart settling into his new digs after a long journey north. #birds #nature #wildlife #warbler

As long as the weather cooperates, one week from now I'm gonna be in a high elevation alpine bog in the blue ridge mountains

I have too many new books to read and it’s the most glorious problem in the world

I’ve been sick so I haven’t left the house in two days and I’d really like to know what in the Lorax is going on one street over because for the last two days it sounds like they have been cutting down and woodchipping every tree on the block

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

🌼 american columbo 🌿 Frasera caroliniensis these grow for years as just a rosette of leaves on the ground. when they bolt & put out flowers, they die thereafter #nativeplants #ecoregion71

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

This is the best music video I've seen in ages - the Damien Jalet-choreographed sequence in the last 3 minutes is just chill-inducing, incredible, spectacular. Gener8ion - "Storm (startting Yung Lean)"

This is the best music video I've seen in ages - the Damien Jalet-choreographed sequence in the last 3 minutes is just chill-inducing, incredible, spectacular. Gener8ion - "Storm (startting Yung Lean)"

Me at the Disclosure show having missed “latch” as today’s wordle 😐

Great thread/article about the extremely unusual cases of hantavirus on the MV Hondius that I can't stop thinking about - because (1) it's fascinating and (2) it's the only kind of cruise I could ever imagine wanting to go on - filled with lectures and wildlife viewing and visits to penguin colonies

Adulthood is just the slow progression of all your favorite things getting discontinued and your favorite establishments going out of business

merlin should id frog and toad calls

Just Fern doing Fern things

Who up obsessively checking radar

Um I think it was like $3.50 youth farm wages in 1995 - I was a tour guide on a hay wagon at a pick your own apple farm in upstate/western NY when I was 14

Just spent five hours in the forest at Scott’s Gulf Wilderness State Park and it was glorious. SO MANY FERNS. New York, Christmas, Cinnamon, and Narrow-Leaved Glade Ferns. FERNAPALOOZA.

Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Images here from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899, a remarkable journal recounting the highs and (many) lows of the Belgica expedition, including experiencing a night two months long: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Me at every music festival I’ve ever been to

"Begging for food isn't sweet it's lazy and it's a welfare mentality" Damn straight, birds - the feeders don't get filled until you get me dressed for the day

Yay earth day! Mine uses images from: Karakaya Dam, Turkey Lake Mjøsa, Norway São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil Sea of Okhotsk Liwa, United Arab Emirates

Ooh I’m reading @dghaskell.bsky.social’s How Flowers Made Our World right now and this one is a stunner

A zen moment - forest light passing through a reed

Stayed up to watch Röyksopp's DJ set at Coachella last night and I was so delighted when they closed with this one!

The rise of Epifanio 12 x 16 inches ✂️ #cat #cats #collage #eyes

On one hand, I don't enjoy it when a large fly has gotten into the house - on the other hand, this is gonna entertain the cats for the next solid hour

These cottage cheese commercials have gone too far I refuse to believe people are actually putting that shit in smoothies

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

I'm just going to keep moonscrolling for the rest of the day, y'all. These photos from the #Artemis II lunar flyby are just incredible. You can see/download them all from NASA's gallery here - www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

First look at the Moon and Earth together! 4 people on the left, 8.3 billion people on the right 🌎

Overall the Moon is about as dark as an average asphalt driveway, the mare -- the dark patches you see on it -- as dark as freshly-repaved asphalt

I am seriously enjoying sitting here watching this live view of the other side of this moon getting to be one of the very first humans who thinks Hertzsprung basin kinda looks like a kid's drawing of Shrek

If you're following along with the #Artemis moon flyby, they have been flashing this up on the screen for reference but I also found a handy resource online - a USGS map of both sides of the moon with lots of features labeled: pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2769/i...

I, personally, would like to be on the dark side of the Moon too.

Took my parents on a little wildflower walk yesterday and Jonathan got this stunner of a blooming mayapple

It’s pretty fun to look at the full moon and know there are four people headed there right now

My parents were at our house last night when we heard this news and all got super sad so this morning I got to make and send my mom this

Who brings the Easter eggs? At various times & places these have been: - hare - rabbit - fox - cuckoo - stork - flying church bells - crane - lark - 'heavenly hen' - 'the red-egg bird' - Paschalia the Easter Spirit - flying old man - St Nicholas - God

The problem is that people assume that the Easter traditions they see today have been there since the start, so they focus on 'eggs and bunnies' and think 'ooh must be surviving pagan fertility symbols' instead of tracing the actual history of the customs involved

Eggs were relevant to Easter because they were banned during Lent. This is why you use them all up making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and then make a big deal of them when Lent ends, e.g. decorating them, hiding them for kids to find, and of course making your traditional Easter Tansy

The Easter Hare was only one of a remarkable collection of egg-bringing entities including the Easter Fox, the Easter Stork, the Easter Cuckoo, the Flying Church Bells, and the Old Belgian Man Who Flew To Rome To Get Eggs From The Pope. He didn't even become a rabbit until he was exported to America

'but what do eggs and rabbits have to do with Jesus' is as historically oblivious a comment as 'what does a bloke riding around on a herring have to do with Jesus' They both have to do with Lent and the observation of Lent