A backlit Mallard, showing off (Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional park. December 2025) A Great Blue Heron, being a bit random (Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, June 2026) #BirdOfTheDay #ScrenFiller #photography #birds

Humans, don't change a single thing for fear of accusations. "But this reads as if-" That's because they stole my fucking work to train it, Hubert. I will change nothing. I look forward to the day someone accuses me of using AI in my writing. I have choice words at the ready.

So hey, do you remember last weekend's goal? For plumbing and preventing big issues with the government? Well, the plumbing is mostly fixed, but I made a tally of what I owe in back payments and it's a shocking 2530 euro between us. WEEKEND GOAL: 0/2530, every cent counts!

Good evening everyone 👋 Here's a lovely Ringlet butterfly that found some shade for a little rest in our garden today... a very fine and beautiful specimen! 🤎 🦋 📷 #ButterflyWeek #Invert #Butterflies #Insects #MacroPhotography #Nature #Butterfly #Photography #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography #ECK

Bird Of The Day (Rob's theme for the day - #BlueSky) It's FlyDay, Gull flying over the lake today... Co. Galway, Ireland. #BlueSky #Gull #BirdOfTheDay #FlyDay #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #ECK #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #PhotographyIsArt

@robcrank68.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae, any of the species will do. The Alt theme is #BlueSky, any bird with a Blue Sky in the background. Here are Sandhill Cranes on a beautiful blue sky day #Birds #SandhillCrane

A Red Kite showing off its intricately patterned underparts against a #BlueSky for today's #BirdoftheDay alt theme by @robcrank68.bsky.social #photography #birds

Let's go for some blue on blue: a Tree Swallow being all graceful in the air, a Tree Swallow posing (Iona Beach Regional Park, Tlahutum Regional Park) #BirdOfTheDay #BlueSky #photography #birds

Fucccck they got him with the Gun That Makes You Italian

Your move, guessers

agentic engineering

My painting DARK STORM

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally Rowling: finally!!! Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss

This is the future of climate change denial as it becomes more difficult to ignore, it'll just be endless scapegoating

Let's go for both themes: Just shot today, a Song Sparrow is carrying a nummy snack for its hungry child (which I heard calling from a nearby tree, but it kept out of sight) -- Stanley Park, Vancouver #BirdOfTheDay #SingersAndWingers #RSVP #photography #birds

Mallard mother and her chick. The chick looks like he's ready to take on the world. #NewLife #BirdOftheDay #birds #photography

all these old farts are terrified because they think this is a jump from silent to sound or horses to cars and they don't want to get left behind when it's like pet rocks being touted as a replacement for dogs and also the rocks are uranium

Some of this year's babies, with bonus flowers. Starlings (George Wainborn Park), Song Sparrows (Brydon Lagoon), Canada Geese (Lost Lagoon), Pied-billed Grebes (Blakeburn Lagoons Park) #BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Flowers #NewLife #photography #birds

New ABA young birder essay up on Owen Deutsch's blog! Kaia Hansen reflects on spark birds, and how a single encounter can change a whole life. Read here: owendeutsch.com/spark-birdin...

Good Morning ☀️ folks Rob says, today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Flowers, birds standing with flowers. Yellow Warbler amongst the milkweeds Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware June 2025 #ECK #photography #birds

I want to know now why I didn’t know about #ButterflyWeek 😠😂 Have to walk Sam but I’ll be back later to help Rob and do some reposts. Here’s a High Brown Fritillary. A very rare Butterfly here. #Butterfly #NatureLovers #Macro #photography #ECK #Alanhasnomoretags

Harriet the House Sparrow #BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Flowers #birds #photography #ECK #ukbirding #naturephotography #BirdLife

This monstrosity, the Charlie Kirk Monument, is set to be unveiled in New York’s Times Square on September 10. It was handcrafted by Italian sculptor Sergio Furnari. I give it 20 minutes.

For #PerfectPoise, we have this Great Blue Heron catching its balance on some tricky rocks. For #MomentsOfMajesty, a Song Sparrow working the camera like a supermodel #BirdOfTheDay #photography #birds

Downy woodpecker singing (Dryobates pubescens) on sand pine branch (Pinus clausa) Bonita Springs, FL 5-28-26 Alan & Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ButtShotts: birds showing off their rear. Alt theme is #OpenBeaks: birds with beaks open. Mine’s a twofer. #birds #photography #ECK #threewordgenre

The Best Shots From the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest. Some amazing work here, including one of the best shots of the Golden Gate Bridge I’ve ever seen. [kottke.org]

I call the piece "Towhee Butt On A Frosty Branch" -- DeBoville Slough Trail, Port Coquitlam. January 2026 #BirdOfTheDay #ButtShotts #photography #birds

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

The exquisite female Blue Dasher #invertebrates #BugSky 🌿 #dragonflies

A family of Pied-billed Grebes (five ravenous behbehs at last count!) -- Blakeburn Lagoons Park, Port Coquitlam. June 2026 #BirdOfTheDay #AmongTheRipples #photography #birds

Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

Follow my 17000 km cross-Canada journey with my pup Berton through the pictures we take on TravelMap. You can see the path we have taken, and where we are parked for the night 👇 craig-baird.travelmap.net

🪶 Since my repost of an older shot yesterday was well-received, and I have posted an original today, I'm going to dig into the archives for my favorite #FunnyFaces for Alan's @alan678.bsky.social alt #BirdOfTheDay theme. A cold pine warbler wants to speak to the manager. #birds #photography

I am an old enough nerd to remember these exact attitudes being deployed to say "a Black man in charge of a space station is PC bullshit" and "hur hur a lady captain would be bitchy on her period amirite," you don't get to love those shows now Go watch Earth 2 and cry about it

A Brown-headed Cowbird, male. This is one of their moves to impress females, apparently. The taller the sexier! -- Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, April 2026 #BirdOfTheDay #UpAndDown #photography #birds

my favorite thing in here is "6 hours later" lol. that's what the person who generated this thinks is a long amount of time to spend on a piece of art

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

OMG I AM SPEECHLESS LOOK AT HIM (White-tailed Deer) #mammals 🌿

A Great Blue Heron quietly taking in the great orange sunset --Vancouver English Bay seawall, April 2020 Less meditatively, a showy starling on the low tide rocks, busy looking for crawly isopods -- Vancouver False Creek seawall, May 2026 #BirdOfTheDay #Rocky #photography #birds

your occasional reminder that i DO IN FACT make art for a living and that I sell prints that you can purchase for your home! #art 🇨🇦 aplante.com/shop 🌎 www.inprnt.com/gallery/apla...

Wide angle perspective of the puffins on the cliffs of Ireland. I sat there for a while in the evening light just enjoying the moment.

So there’s this gaslighting going on for people mistreated by Christian institutions/communities. They’re like “hey, Christians/Christianity harmed me.” And the response is “You’re wrong, that didn’t happen, because Christians wouldn’t do that. Those were fake Christians.”

Some black birds really polishing their shine (Crow: Rocky Point Park, May 2026. Red-winged Blackbird: Piper Spit, July 2025) #BirdOfTheDay #BathTime #photography #birds

They say that #butterflies are flowers with wings. When I was sorting through my pictures of a rare French colony of mountain Apollos, I found something I hadn't realised I'd captured. For #insectThursday here's a beetle that mistook a butterfly for a flower (the Apollo didn't seem to mind at all!)

Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Finches Goldfinch #birdsofbluesky #Birds #Birdphotography #Nature #ECK

A couple days ago, they were deep in the reeds, like moving shadows with a hint of orange. But this morning one decided to explore and popped out of the reeds for just a bit. This is a baby Sora, and as it dashed to another reed clump, those little wings helped for balance! #Birds 🪶

I will be signing at The ARC festival this Sunday from 1-2pm at the @goshcomics.bsky.social table. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social is an exciting, new, free comics festival in London on the 11th and 12th of July. Come along! www.arc-london.uk

Mr. Costa’s shimmers in the golden hour

A burst of colour for you today, with a Golden Sweat Bee (I think) contrasting beautifully against the deep orange and yellow of a flower on my patio. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada June 2026 📸 #Invertebrate #insect #bee #nature #wildlife #macro #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor