This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI

Ahhhhhh! I'm so nervous/excited about SLEUTH-HOUND! It's about the Scottish surgeon, Joe Bell, who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. It has a bit of everything: Victorian forensics, Jack the Ripper, and even a ballistics expert named Dr. Watson. You can preorder here: shorturl.at/fdGnV

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

one of the many things i do not like about the days getting warmer is how my skin suddenly decides i need to be covered in a thin but palpable layer of grease at all times it's not even that humid out yet. why are we pushing the slippery self-revulsion button already

how long does it take for ant bait stations to produce a dearth of ants because i have had them sitting in the laundry room for two days now and they just keep marching around and now they're coming into the kitchen but the instructions have told me NOT to "interfere with" the ants

📰 600-year-old anaesthetic residue uncovered in the tomb of a Chinese surgeon indicates Ming China's medical professionals knew a great deal about reducing pain during surgery. 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @newscientist.com institutions.newscientist.com/article/2527...

Remember when I temporarily lost my marbles last summer and made a bunch of eel animations to promote the eel facts advent calendar? That was fun. I hope I have enough time to do that for snails.

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

me: silent, outside in nature, supposedly appreciating the peace of the river my brain: 🎵 FROOODDOOOOOOOOO of the NIIIINEE FIINGGEERRRSS and the ring of DOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM🎵

"oh i have enough pictures of cormorants" NO. NEVER

lil knubs

Sometimes, you're lucky and the unloved volume of Punch for sale in the used book corner happens to be the 1885 one with May Kendall's 'Ballad of the Ichthyosaurus'.

(reading a mystery) character: I don't particularly like it when all the answers are just handed to you at the end me: oh no. oh no. does that mean (later) the end: ??? me: GAH

bald eagle that is maybe 4ish years old? -- not quite at full adult plumage but getting close

On a family trip to Michigan this weekend, was happy to get to watch two adult sandhill cranes with two chicks in the short grass of a park.

ok have blown through three audiobooks in three days and starting to feel a little delirious and very resentful that i am going to have to do real life at some point instead of listening to audiobooks so i guess i should stop. probably. right? i guess? maybe. fuck

blue heron ink and watercolor on paper sketch, 3.75x6 inches

happy mother's day to the mother possum who broke into my aunt's kitchen to have her babies under the stove last night ONLY

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Now well into Sophie Hannah‘s The Couple at the Table and I lost track of time and left very late to a Mother’s Day breakfast and also drove in the wrong direction because I was too into the book. Reading (audiobooking?) ruins your life kids

Have just listened to the latest of Sophie Hannah's Poirot books and although it is not my favorite of them due to personal biases regarding setting and characters I continue to be extremely fucking impressed and I hope she writes a billion of them, or at least as many as she desires to write

I strongly suspect this is true of every field. There is what people think they know about it, and then there is what the daily experience of it for those who are in it. There is a wide gulf, and every one of those jobs is harder than it looks from the outside.

watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now

I am over the moon. I stalked this ruffed grouse for over half an hour, only moving when he drummed so that I could slip close enough through the tangle to get a relatively clear shot. This was filmed with my Z8 and 180-600 lens, hand-held while in a full squat over wet ground. #GlobalBigDay #birds

it seems very unfair that ostriches have ended up with the reputation for "burying their heads in the sand" when sandpipers are out there doing this sort of thing on the regular

i did brave the relentless brightness of the sky yesterday to attempt birding anyway

There’s rain in the forecast again but I dunno guys. Yesterday it was supposed to be “cloudy” and I literally did not see even an individual cloud anywhere i want to go back to the river but I want the river to have water in it. Sky must do water pls

One of my favourite things about my game is that the only time there's proper capitalisation is when you wake up in a hospital bed, just before you see a dad with a horse head & die of bonegone horsefright (shitting yr bones out due to fear). Does that mean it's the only real bit? What does it MEAN?

There are 4 species of gulls- Monster (think Great Black-backed, Glaucous), Regular (Herring, Ring-billed, etc), Cute (Little, Bonaparte’s), and Wow (Ivory, Ross’s).

my opinion is that all large Larus gulls are the same and just molt into whatever they want each season simply to fuck with birders

Great, now I’m suffering from FOMOOE (fear of missing out on eels)

Swung by Penguin today! It’s beginning to feel very real! SLEUTH-HOUND: THE CASE OF THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES. Coming just in time for spooky season. I’m grateful for your preorders: shorturl.at/33kxb

this book made me want to eat my own mouth and foam out of it at the same time (laudatory)

weather forecast keeps promising clouds and rain, and the weather keeps dangling clouds at me and then yanking them away just unmitigated, hideous sunshine

Have recently learned that the same man who made millions in the 1930s (yes, during the Depression) peddling bullshit goat testicle transplants as a cure-all also was critically formative in the history of radio and music

sometimes i think about how sir arthur conan doyle believed in fairies because of someone's photo manipulations

"complete tasks before your appointment" i am doing tasks! i did tasks! the appointment is the task! what more do you want from me

i am glad they put menthol in these face wipes because if there's one thing i always say it's "i want my face twice as pungent as it is clean"

listening to an audio recording of the novelization of Black Coffee and genuinely loled at Poirot’s “the international news was awful: Nazis had taken the courts, fascists had taken Bulgaria, and home news was little better: women were going to be allowed to wear shorts at Wimbledon”

omg you guys i was listening to an audiobook and the narrator said "heart seizure" and i thought they said FART seizure lolol can you believe it oh man

📣 STUNNED ARCHAEOLOGIST KLAXON 📣 ... (It is actually an interesting find in the context of funerary practices at that time and in that place - where Roman, Hellenic, and Egyptian practices clashed, combined, and syncretised) #mummification #archaeology www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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if they are caught outside the monastery then they are paraded through the streets inside a transparent coffin and then walled inside a tomb with a single bowl of broth and a small candle

so I know I'm not supposed to call myself mean things like "oh you useless shit" but what if I call myself stuff that I'm rather hazy on the meaning of, or don't really remember at all; "dissipated wretch" or "bunyip-faced poltroon" or somesuch. Then it's just art right

As late as 1890, people believed that smaller birds migrated by riding on the backs of geese, swans, storks, and cranes. This wasn't just urban legend, this was the esteemed outdoors publication Forest and Stream going out of its way to make this point. #historysky

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

😁😁😁Suuuuuuper excited to place 1st in the ADEX Voice Of The Ocean photo competition with my long-exposure shot of a larval-stage #wonderpus #octopus (the same species featured in the print “Alien 18”).

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

if I were rich and lived with other people in a house with many rooms I would fill my house with pneumatic tubes. I don't care that phones and yelling and dinner triangle bells exist. You want to communicate with me from a different room you pen a delightful note and put it in the tube