oh no

nessy seems to be unusually frantic for food so i took pity & let her lick the leftover egg yolk off my plate ok NOW i'm gonna go to bed, g'nite!

they cannot win because they have already lost

no i'm not in bed yet, i forgot to eat. so i'm having some eggs

i'm gonna take Nessy's Extremely Silly Behaviour right now as her trying to tell me to go to bed. i need to go to bed

Some loser in sooz kempers old twitter mentions tried to do the "thatcher loves rent free in your head". And it's like...well yeah because we're still living in a world where the policies and politics she enacted and fostered are governing our lives

look at this fraggle-ass fish

in a development that will surprise no one, i guess if i want to enjoy some wine with my trout dinner tomorrow (today, ugh) i will have to get some more wine. aaawwwrr

21 families and a lot of texts about not eating once a day, if that. I can't get support for any funds anymore. I'm nerfed to shit on all apps. We got another wave of canceled pledges this week. Food, shelter, medicine, & more. Click "weekly" if you can: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Reminded of the day where I was telling a close friend that with everything going on? Yes she deserves a puppy. And one of the moms at the reptile thing? Fuck yeah, drape the python around your neck, you deserve happiness. Like, I just want the people around me to be happy and thrive, that's all 💜

pls, my baby mourning gecko. so tiny, such a lil lesbian clone* (there's two of them, both girls, need names eventually) *mourning geckos are all females. they're parthenogenic, meaning they lay eggs containing little clones of themselves, and it continues on forever, in a comforting soft way 🦎🐍🌿

haven't kept up with all the border & tarriff bullshit but back when i was farming salmon, over 85% of my company's product was sold to the central US & honestly if you live in the middle of the continent, that's the absolute freshest salmon you're gonna get

i believe in sustainable aquaculture, & i think it's essential if we want a future with fish in it -- but i also believe that what the salmon-farming industry calls "sustainable" is actually not. if you choose to farm *predators* sustainably, you gotta make some much more difficult choices.

I think it's fine - kosher fish eat invertebrates, and chickens eat invertebrates or other small creatures, none of which are kosher. Salmon is kosher, farmed or otherwise.

Can any of my Jewish mutuals weigh in on this odd little question? Because i'm still wondering about it. Is a technically-kosher animal (salmon) still kosher if you *know* it was fed on pork byproducts? Where does farmed salmon fit in the kosher food rules, generally?

for the uninitiated, "gross" in this case just means "stuff you don't need to look at under a microscope"

the video for "Red Future" runs Vancouver through a Blade Runner filter with a side of Boston's first album cover (cities become spaceships). The red-lipped being is Dzunuḵ̓wa. you can look her up. Electric Fields are a queer Aboriginal Australian duo

"Snotty Nose Rez Kids? Huh? Who??" They're Haisla, from Kitamaat & they fuckin' rock

it's not the bowling alley, either! I think that's where SNRK played last time they were here

this is how out of touch i am in this small town where everyone uses *facebook* to announce things. i don't use facebook except for marketplace. it gives me hives every time i log on. anyway TIL there's this whole ass *concert venue* in my part of town & Snotty Nose Rez Kids are playing there soon

90km round trip is "around the block" kinda, in my neck of the woods. 90 km is nothing. Shitty if it was a daily commute, but otherwise it qualifies as a "short day trip"

i should've taken another shot with a better view, because that snow will be all gone soon. It's already mostly gone off the west/south face. This is the backside of my home mountain ("backyard" lake view of the frontside, last week, at right)

there's a much bigger lake really close to today's lake & *gasp* i've never actually fished it? so i will have to address that soon. i really did want to put a bunch of new lakes into the books this year, but the gas prices might fuck with that somewhat

oh yeah, $2/L gas is one thing (like ho hum it's just making me more mindful of my driving), but i had to pay TWO DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS TO PUT AIR IN MY TIRES AIR!! ROBBERY! there is only one (1) free air machine in town that i know of, but it was not on the route i took this morning.

*psst* i bought a cheap bottle of bubbly (Yellow Tail) on the way home because it was just such a good day. i was gonna save it for the trout — i *will* save most of it for the trout — but i just had to have a glass. i still need a "Do Not Open Until It Happens" bottle tho. may it happen soon.

back when i was *in* practice. this was one of my livestock waybackwhen. the two back pieces are for sashimi. the midsection & tail are for baking or grilling. The front section (matched thick-to-thin with its opposite side) is for gravlax

this is an incredibly beautiful poem which really sums up all the feelings about going fishing in these awful times. Thanks, Eb 💕💕

Please enjoy a brief moment of respite from The Horrors to admire Max in his spiffy new vest

Trout meat :) I'm out of practice. i had one fish done before the muscle memory kicked in & reminded me i was doing it upside down this is nature's way of telling me to catch more fillet-size fish this year so i don't forget it's almost 8, so i think i'll cook these tomorrow

bluesky's still acting kinda borky, isn't it?

Just in case anyone's wondering, yes - the "Crimson Tide" soundtrack is still *the* driving music 😹 i dunno it just *suits* the activity really well, what can i say?

I can be trusted with a redbull and snacks

incoming lake thread 🧵 stay tuned while i finish unpacking

*shoo's myself* Git! Git! Out the door!

Is that what they call it when ... you sell your bussy

update: it's near Van Horn now if you've got that airport. I am really skycards-poor right now lol. no catch anywheres, very few coins

i can't catch the Super Guppy this morning, i am off to (hopefully) catch some medium-size trout

SUPER GUPPY

Threatening to destroy an entire civilization is not a fucking distraction

i can't wait to see the photos they're taking

What this also means: We should be grateful for our atmosphere 👀

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Wow! Solar eclipse and corona. This view is kinda like holding your phone up to the sky -- can't wait to see the real photos from the astronauts.

help cedar out please 💖

stuff like pharmaceutical packing plants and industrial greenhouses use tons of water/electricity too, ofc, but they produce shit we actually need. we need food. we need medicine. we don't need a dozen kinds of genAI/ LLM slop in everyone's pocket, and that's what's driving the proposed rapid growth

And, as predicted, they have just blocked me! Anyway it's a slow pan across the Moon, and I don't know what it's from but it's not from Artemis II.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

A playful river otter rolls around in the glittering snow (the pin will have glitter!), holding a spruce twig that it can use as a toy. Around it are tracks from another inquisitive and resourceful animal, a magpie! Follow the campaign on Backerkit here! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

This goes so fucking hard.