Acting like the big dick on campus going outside and yelling at Mysterious Night Noises to stay the fuck away from my quails. I hope the male quails see my dominance and feel emasculated by me

this happened all the time during the age of dinosaurs, I have learned from books

sorry this shit is extremely funny. he does not have my vote, but I respect him for adding an element of boomer chaos to an otherwise boring candidate research session

In other news, a cool Dorstenia in my collection that doesn’t have any mealies. Some of the longest and coolest appendages I’ve seen so far.

Modern problems require modern solutions (mealy infestation on my D. horwoodii and D. lavrani vs 25 hungry Cryptolaemus montrouzieri “mealy slayer” beetles)

Stories of Elf World - part 1 of 2

My kingsnake is turning 20 this year... is it weird to throw a birthday party for a snake...

My husband discovered a new type of [??? unknown] where I lay down on the bed and he roughly rolls me around back and forth like I'm a piece of dough, it's my new favorite thing ever. Simply developing my gluten

Comics friends, if this account just followed you, block them. It's an AI platform for "comics" -

not built for it (2024)

For never was a story of more woe than this of [Der-shing picking a bunch of scale insects off of their expensive Aristolochia salvadorensis cutting]

It's stupid baby season

I was informed this morning that I have a cavity, for the first time in 12 years, despite my fastidiousness irt brushing and flossing. The dentist kept apologizing. "You're doing everything right," he said, "I'm sorry this happened. I don't want you to feel discouraged." His grief reassures me.

Papaya can produce fruit 9 months after being grown from seed and other information that should be illegal for me to know. Infinite papaya hack

After weeks of feeding the resident garden lizards (mostly S. occidentalis & U. stansburiana) they've stopped running away when they see me and now scamper briefly to get my attention and then wait to see what I'll do, lol. They all do a celebratory pushup after eating, it's so cute. Some old pix:

hmm... its lookin' like a work weekend

A periodic reminder that you can live without "modern" tech and do fine. I have never owned a smart phone and am doing great. Still using a circa 2006 Intuos 3. Still driving a 2009 Nissan Versa with knobs n everything; still listening to CDs. If tech makes you unhappy, you don't have to use it~

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Lately I’ve been pushing my luck at the olive tree beehole, trimming around/ getting all up in the beehole. They don’t care all that much as long as I don’t block the runway area… even if I do, they just land on me a bit or go around without getting too bothered about it. Doin the My Girl speedrun

This week I am trilobitemaxxing (going about my business on the sea floor, becoming wildly successful as a species, then going extinct due to circumstances out of my control)

In other news: forbidden grapes

adult legos in progress

God in her infinite wisdom made this flower on day 1 and made you as an afterthought

some kids before bed. third childe soli was not behaving so they go to the trash for now

feeling pretty good this wednesday night. so. time 2 share my great opinions/ top male pattern baldnesses

Idly researching how hard it would be to build some kind of storage in a closet and I did not realize that any part of a cabinet is called the “carcass”.

I'm happy to know that Ocypode celadon was described recently. This one is found in Christmas Island. For #InverteFest インド洋のツノメガニの仲間、O sp. 改め、Ocypode celadonです。ついに素敵な種小名がつけられたようです。写真はクリスマス島のビーチにて。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

Sleg, 2026. I was being clever and made it a right leg as a nod to gastropod dextral chirality, then realized that if I was doing the torsion correctly it would be a left leg. Oops

Spotted in the wild: He Who Fights With Monsters Vol. 1 got a surprise release at Barnes and Noble! It’s waiting for you now on their shelves. #HWFWM #LitRPG #AethonVault www.barnesandnoble.com/w/he-who-fig...

annoying: lying in bed talking softly to my husband to unwind before going to sleep and then the male quail in the qaviary screams his “shut the FUCK up“ call at us

workin late and needed to look at my bitchy guy for a sec

GET SALTMARSHED IDIOT 🧂

I'm glad folks are leaving substack now, but also I remember when [prominent YA comic artist we all love] quietly turned down a five (six? it was very high) figure sum they offered to get him to join, and that was years ago. Not signing up for stupid shit from the start is the only correct approach.

I've been waiting for this little bastard* to open for 2 years... I think tonight's the night?? *either Epiphyllum 'Stern Von Erlau' or Epiphyllum 'Showboat'... the Epi club labels these by writing on them with marker, lol, and the writing eventually wore off after repeated waterings

Went to Joshua Tree NP this weekend and didn't even see any giant ground sloths :\ waste of my time

saw some incredible lads today

I took a public speaking class earlier this year just so I wouldn't fuck up a talk I had to give this weekend and... it went pretty good! Turns out that learning things from people who know more than you is way faster than inventing the wheel from scratch

I picked up a ton of early 2000's clothes from my late (and slutty tbh (non-derogatory/ it is what it is)) mom which, unfortunately, fit me perfectly... some observations - they don't do these jean washes anymore?? the brownish-yellow kind? - no pockets + thong required - sooooo low cut lol

Here's a new song called "Do You Have Any Idea How Most People Live?"

south pole of jupiter is an underrated perspective (all true jupiter fans know this) 🔭

me all week so far

me, once my husband has left for home depot: perfect, now i can cram a bunch of food in my face without any witnesses the 20-30 industrious crickets that chewed their way out of a plastic bag I left in the kitchen this morning: ... ,

-important, necessary work that i will regret not doing 1 -important, necessary work that i will regret not doing 2 -important phonecall -make custom soil for time-sensitive seedling repotting -draw fanart guess which one i am choosing to do

Just sharing this very good name with you all

All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

Alright, you get a guy (or whoever) roughly your demographic, a time tourist from 1890s who speaks your language, and a $500 budget to take them out for the day. Neither of you gets to keep extra money so you’re incentivized to just use it up. Where u going

Can't believe it's been almost 10 days since we said goodbye to the big baby. Been seeing a lot of pet loss posts lately and I hate that we're going through it, but love that we had them in our lives. Kinda nuts that all these atoms were in the right place at the right time to love each other.

When your friends are succulent nerds they let you come over to their house and borrow their massive flowering gigas so you can make seeds

a dude we found elgaria-ing around on our front steps

Pausing my sadsackerry to propose convergent evolutionary strategies in fig newtons and pineapple moon cakes