Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

This is not a drill, friends, we've got a post-rain stinkhorn fungus egg hatching situation afoot

Extremely satisfied this morning to witness guy in a neon blue truck straight screaming at the car in front of him at local coffee drive thru for (correctly) zippering the line instead of letting him cut. When we finally got to the pickup window, blue truck guy had zoomed off without his credit card

Look at this crab I found the other day🦀 It was way too cute.

I'm not unsocial, it's just that every time I write a response to some idea online I get so overwhelmed with how pointless it is and delete it. This is probably why I'm feeling increasingly disconnected to others online, but also. My takes are just as good or bad when I keep them to myself, lol

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

you have been visited by the Quail of the Double Top Knot. Like for good luck. Ignore to go fuck yourself.

Aristolochia phillipinensis stealth-flowering for the first time (for me). I have never grown this genus until this year and idk if December is the time it should be doing cool stuff, lol, but here we are

Added in the shiny reflections and he is pretty much done. I'd like to touch up certain areas after resting for a bit, but I may as well show him off early. This is "Regal", a male Australian blue swimmer crab that took nearly 250 hours to paint, spanning over 3 years #sciart #crustmas 🦀

If geckos have taught me anything, it’s that the Virgin Mary reproduced via parthenogenesis and Jesus should be a female clone of Mary

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

There are hundreds of stories out there- books, movies, albums, etc- from throughout time, that are completely perfect for you. And you haven’t found them yet. You have to keep looking your whole life

I’m 12 (circa 2021)

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life

Nervous System puzzles are my go-to gift every year (including last year when my family and I gave the same owl puzzle to each other lol). @franzanth.bsky.social art puzzle is a complete no-brainer

The ride never ends

For the first time, husband is being subjected to the worst tortures known to man… loose cricket chirping under the fridge…

I got this friend who loves barbed wire, collects barbed wire, attends barbed wire conventions. It's SO fucking hilarious to me because it sounds so fake, but apparently is real. I involuntarily start smiling whenever he talks about it; it's so rude of me, but I can't help it.

Cycads have been around since before the dinosaurs, they're a pre-flowering lineage that produces cones. Plants are dioecious, either male or female. This is because of woke.

Been doing an exercise program for about two months. It usually starts off with doing "cat cows" and "downward dogs" and after weeks of this shit i've finally decided that Cat Cow and Downward Dog are shitty jewel thieves

After a year of some significant personal failures, I'm glad I at least get some professional ones to lean on. Got to contribute to one of our biggest releases this year AND got to manage this thing. Can't have it all but I guess you can have something.

After a 41 days, including a week in overtime, our campaign is finally over, finishing 1st the BK comics category and 4th overall on the site with over 2.6M raised, gee whiz. I'm really happy how this turned out (and happy I get to sleep again, lol)

UHM… I have two different clones of D. gigas flowering at the same time… this is not a drill… I feel like the dog that finally caught the car, I have no idea what I should do now, lol. I guess just makeup brush pollination and pray to the powers that be

*scratching neck* where them NYC results

living on the edge (repotting a sensitive plant in november)

love when websites want you to give up your biometric data. why the fuck do you need to know what i look like. even i don't want to know what i look like

Pondering large catfish, as I often do... re: the phenomenon of Noodling (fishing), I imagine it would be immensely satisfying to have that bigass fish dangling off your arm like Samus from Metroid (I'm disregarding ethics/ the wants of the fish, obvi) (just pure selfish noodling (thinking))

I’ve been in Tucson for 20 mins and already drowning in best friends

we did it reddit

It's that beautiful time of year where, as the sky's clear blue gives way to oranges and deep purples, the evening is ushered in by the dulcet tones of the 9 ft tall shrieking animatronic demon with flapping wings that our neighbors put in their front yard

i can't overstate this; screaming, crying, throwing up

Rest in peace to Queen Silver, my favorite quail. She was 4.5 years old. I'm glad I gave her an inadvisable amount of mealworms as her last meal yesterday. She's survived by her sisters Caramel and Irish Creme. Very on-brand of her to bounce on the first windy, rainy day of autumn. I'll miss her.

Got to see some real Tiffany lamps today from an interesting friends’ private collection… I didn’t get it before, but now I do. Goddamn they did some crazy stuff with glass and metal

my husband got me DRUNK

DORS

About to make the wisest possible investment of time and materials I’ve attempted yet. I’ll update with a pic if successful.

Comic books are (and this isn’t hyperbole) the greatest story telling medium that has ever existed. The combination of text and images rendered with a human hand is the most direct path from one mind to another. All other medium pale in comparison.

I don't talk about dayjob stuff much anymore, but I'll make an exception here cuz I'm happy with how our new campaign for Dungeon Crawler Carl came together. And proud of the creators and everyone who worked on this thing!! (except @adamccahoon.bsky.social) www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

EXTREMELY betrayed to find out that all the Gulf Fritillary caterpillars I've been herding from my chewed up seedlings to an adult plant for the last 2 months are not in fact harboring dangerous spines, but are just spiny for show to fool predators!! I thought we were FRIENDS. I've been had.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

I've had this on my computer for 2 decades. it's still funny tho so whatever, happy autumn

How ghost crabs 👻🦀 run so fast 🏃: At top speed, they push with their trailing legs (L if crab running R) like a vaulter's pole, leaping into the air! Their leading legs (R if crab running R) don't "step". They use those legs like skis 🎿, bouncing off the sand! doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Thank you to everyone who at-ted me on this. You are correct, this truly is me.

I am filled with JOY. JOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

very cool of google to change their sun icon to a Dorstenia gigas inflorescence just for me