in a parallel reality, Ciccone and Gee-West would have actually worked together and ridden off as a duo with Ciccone taking the stage and Gee-West moving onto the podium (or at least nearer)

Female birds with confusing names.

moss city

whole-grain walnut sourdough,

Yessss found it

It’s flycatcher season! ID tips: 1) Find elusive flycatcher lurking in the woods. 2) Consult apps, books, internet, passers-by, and/or chosen god for answers. Nope. 3) Quietly approach bird and ethically collect a DNA sample. You’re almost done. 4) Set up your field-case DNA sequencer… 🪶

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Jonas Vingegaard, estimated 6.35 watts/kg for 37 minutes Lewis (fungus), 6.35 watts/kg for 4 minutes

Mount Diablo wildflowers... unbelievably good; those /Collinsia/ (last picture) were blanketing the slopes in some areas

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes

The Seed Song

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

it was pretty devastating from an ecological perspective - at least 60 species of bird breed on the island and their habitat has been dramatically reduced, mostly pushed to the smaller offshore islands because of sheep grazing; it is inherently Good to leave some places alone, untouched by humans

Confession

🧪🌏🦑🦉 Meet the Cassin’s Auklet! These #seabirds spend most of their lives at sea but return to the #FarallonIslands to breed. We spotted the first Cassin’s eggs on 3/29, and peak lay has occurred over the last 10 days–a surprise given concerns about marine heatwaves and El Niño conditions!

😑

is.. is there a Kiki Fett?

for bassoon, some publishers will switch to tenor clef for even a single note above D4, going constantly back and forth

southeast farallon island, what a place!

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

oh my goodness oh my goodness

Who you got winning GARch Madness??? 🐟🏀😎 Credits (photos, illustrations, design): @garlab.bsky.social team & @zankurus.bsky.social

Kids need to read the signatures at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Cecil

Aoraki and Hooker Valley from Sealy Tarns

Jonas immediately wanting a pull from Lenny Martinez is so funny

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

riders older than me winning WT races >>>>>>>>

worcestershire sauce? I'll take bestershire sauce, thanks

Castilleja foliolosa and its host, Artemisia californica

SUCH a good sprint

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

To avoid all the confusion of the daylight savings changeover, we should simply arrange it so the sun sets at 9pm every day and work backward from that to what time the rest of the day is

PAUL SEIXAS

"You are on this council. But we will not certify you as a forklift operator."

giant! vegetable! sheep!

my exemption in the war on cars bsky.app/profile/lewi...

checkermallow on big rock ridge

hiked through four hours of gale force winds along Robert's Ridge to reach Angelus Hut in Aotearoa's south island, boy howdy

snowboarding commentators calling a 31 y/o "a wild veteran" 🧓

[Snowboarding TV commentary] EX-SNOWBOARDER COLOR COMMENTATOR WHO SOUNDS LIKE HE BATHES IN BONG WATER: Awwwww NO WAY, backside chicken salad off the knucklehuck IN GOOFY, that is groooady from my brochacho STAID, RESPECTABLE PLAY-BY-PLAY GUY WHO USUALLY COVERS GOLF: Indeed, what a move!

backpacking in Lassen Volcanic NP where the black bears are notorious, a huge one came up to our campsite as I was about to start making dinner (eye contact, 20 feet away) and gamboled off then it came back that night and prowled around our tent

Ferbruary #oldknees

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

Last week no living person had seen a #kakapo lay an egg. Now you can watch it on our webcam: Rakiura laid her second today (15:01 on 25/1/2025). She'll probably lay another in 3 days' time. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...

yayy :))

american car reviews love saying stuff like "this petite little number is likely to prove competitive in the compact SUV market with its svelte 141 inch wheelbase and its lilliputian seating for 9"