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Best single-poet collection I've read in years. Here Neal Bowers reflects on his roots as a white dude in the American South, and what it's like to return home after a long absence.

New Release: The Old Village Road by Hao C. Tran We got to know Hao through his original memoir, Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat, and now it's time to go deeper into his return to Vietnam. It's about heart, community, and how we show up for each other. autpress.com

Inside the car wash

We are delighted to share that Hao has published a new memoir through Autonomous Press, The Old Village Road. It's available for paperback and e-book, and you can read about his creative process on the press blog. autpress.com autpress.com/2026/03/old-... @autonomouspress.bsky.social

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Guarding the table

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

Lackluster sunset, solid pelican sundog. 🪶

"It's all right, little brother: there are more!"

Crustose lichen mix: Candelariella (yellow), Rhizocarpon (dark grey) Dimelaena (off white) and Acarospora (brown). Photo covers about 6cm, left to right. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

So for about seven years now I've been painting these abstracted watercolour maps:

Looking for originality? "Mathematically formulated to satisfy your craving for weird fiction, poetry, and memoir, featuring stories from 34 human writers." @autonomouspress.bsky.social I'm honoured to be called human 😁 #Anthology #Bookstoburn books2read.com/u/b5NLBw

Slime mold on a stick. Diderma species. Slime mold is about 1.5cm high. NWT, Canada. #slimemold #fungifriends

A Hoatzin taking a break from munching leaves. Hoatzins branched off from the rest of the avian tree about 65 million years ago the are the only living bird in the family Opisthocomidae. #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots Waita Lodge, Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2024

Love Like Mortal Wound #fantasyart

Ein Taubenschwänzchen an der Blüte einer Kirschpflaume.

Chlorociboria aeruginascens aka green or blue-green elf cup #fungus. NWT, Canada. About 2cm high. #fungi #fungifriends

Good, I see the council is assembled. We have mews from the outer rim to discuss.

Pina, 2011 by Wim Wenders

Finally a Florida Man story that is wholesome

We are better together. 🥰🙏 #nature #love #trees #lichen

A witch is a forest trapped inside a person 🍃 🍂

She’s ready to catch more spring leaves 🍃 #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #handmadewithlove #cozy

I wrote this in late October of 2023.

Slime mold patterns on paper. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends #natureart

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Agent Sojac is a very serious character, and a trio of more comedic characters––Smiley, Charles, & Arok––have just entered her life. The recent shift to a more cartoony art style in Weird Luck is intended to show the impact of these 3 on her reality. #comics #oc #comedy #art #toons weirdluck.net

LOOKIT THE LITTLE SEA BUNNY

It was probably the machine that kept everything from turning to shit.

Guys being Dudes

#WorldPangolinDay #2026sketches Day 8 #art #illustration

Todays moth: Pellucid Hawkmoth (Cephonodes hylas) Occasionally known as the Coffee Bee Moth, this wonderful bug is widely distributed, found in Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Near East, Middle East, Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia. Wingspan ranges between 4.5-7.3cm #moths #mothposting

Meetings wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the people

Kaiju chillout. (Get the print here: gricklemart.com/countryside-... ) #grickledoodle #kaiju #godzilla #cows #chill #calm #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Wyvern #art

Peek A Boo

No, YOU knock on the door

My Albuquerque

Foreshadowing

My hobby is blackout poetry

Eichhörnchen hat was Leckeres in der Wiese gefunden. #squirrel

"Most of us want to be more graceful and less awkward. But I don’t think the awkwardness of being human can ever be fully transcended. It might look that way when we see certain bodies on stages or movie screens, but there’s a lot of illusion involved in that." neuroqueer.com/the-awkwardn...

A Normal Magic User

Bunferatu #creepycute #charcoal #horror #darkart

Self portrait #art

Besties 🥹 Squirrel(s) of the Day for February 9, 2026 #sqrlpix