Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.

The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧 #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist

Apple Core birb🍎 #avian #bird #birdwatching #animal #illustration #digitalart #wildlife #drawing

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Laurelhurst Airlifted One Mile from Seattle Children’s into Lake Washington: tinyurl.com/4vppn6rs

It that's time again, a Monday morning and meeeeee want nap

Recession tornado siren.

We are meaningfully post scarcity on a technological level in a way that makes the inequality of distribution only more of a crime. We live in a time when every famine and starvation event is purely political.

The S line (the S stands for salmon) #art

Imagine the thrill of a lifetime in going all the way to the moon... And then coming back and being forced to meet with this piece of trash.

Don't call it "expanding" SCOTUS. And, for God's sake, don't call it "court-packing." Call it **right-sizing** the Court. (There are 13 circuits now -- not the 9 circuits there were when it was set at 9 justices 157 effing yrs ago!) Or call it *modernizing* the Court. Thank you.

My ankle buuuuuuuurns

My coworkers got me a little display case for all my Wee Fossils and cool rocks I keep at work to Ponder whenever I need a break. I need museum wax to keep them in place now.

💪🏻 shower door removed, now to get all that silicone off without scratching the stall to hell, patching the rusted out anchor points, and putting up the rod. Moved bath stuff into the full bath to use that for now bc I need a nap and am not getting the rod up tonight. XD Maybe tomorrow

For decades we've been told that Americans "want" giant trucks and SUVs (that just happen to have huge margins and skirt old emissions/mileage standards). Would be interesting if our government allowed foreign carmakers to sell well-made inexpensive EV sedans to see what the market actually wants.

Correct.

Tall ship pines. 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

Already had a big bowl of chicken noodle soup but tomato soup and grilled cheese also sounds excellent... maybe tomorrow that will be my dinner.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Atlantic Puffins — Jessica Eggers, 2026 Pen & ink, watercolor and gouache on paper www.instagram.com/p/DVh52RyiKs...

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

a fun fact the boundary waters contains 1100 lakes. unfun fact the type of copper-nickel sulfide mine that the US federal government just voted to allow in the boundary waters watershed has a 100% chance of leaking and poisoning the entire watershed #savetheboundarywaters #linocutprint #blockprint

I love nudibranchs so much 🥰

Local Beach Water Tests Positive for Viagra: tinyurl.com/mr4x8zcx

Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that Rahaeli runs a site called Dreamwidth, where you can do longform (or short form!) posting, just like you did waaaaay back in Livejournal days. www.dreamwidth.org

really funny to me that the democrats always have 1-3 guys on hand to make sure the democrats can put up the performance of resistance while still ultimately getting the government to pass what the combined democratic-republican party ultimately wants

Exactly one year ago today:

happy #fossilfriday! this is lyrarapax, a radiodont from middle cambrian china. incredibly, the holotype preserves details of the animal’s nervous system, indicating that their raptorial frontal appendages were protocerebral, as was its labum (art by @ultraluther.bsky.social)

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

Goodnight. ‘I whistle gaily on starry nights Through the arch of the elfin northern lights, But in long white valleys I pause to hark Where the ring of the home-lights gems the dark. Come, ye earth-children, whose hearts are sad, I will make you valiant and strong and glad!’ ~ L M Montgomery.

Stanislav Zhukovsky (1873-1944) Summer Meadow in Pobojka, 1938. Oil on board.

As an American. I make the decision to buy a gun and go shoot somebody. I get convicted and go to jail. An a health Insurance exec. I make the decision to deny care and kill someone. I get a bonus.

Gordon Mortensen (b.1938) 'Paint-Brush' 2004. Coloured Woodcut.

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

What a useless company.

This Tax Day 287 major companies are avoiding $139,256,870,000 in taxes on $1 trillion of their 2025 profits.

Campfire 6”x6” oil

wonder which warehouse will burn today

Night lights #oilpainting #art

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

“Look, I appreciate the pope’s efforts, but he just doesn’t understand Catholicism” is such a funny stance that so many people are taking. I’m not Catholic but I’m pretty sure the pope knows ball, so to speak.

Can confirm that chicken flavored thyroid meds do, indeed, taste like chicken. Confirmation made by trying to dose my cat.

Base Camp Studios says it has purchased Gibraltar Tower in downtown Seattle (1518 3rd Ave), with plans to convert the seven-story building to affordable housing for artists, including studio space.

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Love it, driver simply covers her mouth and yells as she runs a red light at like... 5 miles an hour instead of easily stopping just a bit over the lone

"Prowling Cat" Art by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen 1899 #MenWithCats