Colors and shapes

Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)

Ever seen a black-bellied whistling duck whistling? 🎶 #BirdOfTheDay #Cutie #MallardMonday #BlueSkyMonday #Photography #Birds #Ducks

Sometimes my #art is just colors and shapes I find soothing

We all desire sboo

This just killed me and I’m not exactly sure why 🤣

Don't be fooled by the cute, this cat is the devil

Ruined palindromes: A man, a plan, a canal: Suez. Mice live on no evil star. Able was he before he saw Elba. Racing car. Did I see a cat?

Who needs fireworks? #bloomscrolling #wildflowers 🌿 (Plains Prickly Pear, Saskatchewan)

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Coral slime. Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

I keep watering this cat grass--but not a single kitten. What am I doing wrong?

One, two, three, four, I declare a penis war

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In the deep forest There is a troll His fur is like a nest His back is like a knoll Rest your feet if they hurt He is the troll bus and his name is Burt.

He's a nervous guy.

Washington DC wildlife: Common hentz jumping spider this afternoon on Maine Avenue. 🐞 🕷️

My Albuquerque

#AlphabetTech #ICM #ECK #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Nikon #Photography Seabus arriving at night in Vancouver.

Chocolate tubes in their “pink tubes on sticks” phase. Stemonitis sp. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Gotta love a good animated map data visualization

In the Weird Luck comic there are major economic disparities between neighborhoods in the city of Tal Sharnis. The rich grab the areas where reality is more stable; the poor get pushed into higher-chaos areas where kids are more likely to be born with chaos mutations. #worldbuilding weirdluck.net

A wonderfully useless clock. Find many more useless clocks on Luke's website, an excellent place to lose track of time.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Was watching Deep Space 9 but died of old age during the opening credits

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

Dried Ghost pipe - Indian Pipe This fascinating plant (Monotropa uniflora) is definitely one of nature’s weird wonders. Because it has no chlorophyll and doesn’t depend on photosynthesis, this ghostly white plant is able to grow in the darkest of forests.

Proud to have been part of Autonomous Press from the beginning! Worker-owned indie publishing FTW! autpress.com

'Vögel im Garten' #FotoVorschlag

A snake with wings

Brown-crested Flycatcher outside its Saguaro cavity. I’m hoping for more from this spot in the coming weeks…

dandelion seed head.

You guys…just now…sound on 😱 #invertebrate #bugsky

Fish are gay

Old: Half-elven D&D characters. Bold: Half-halfling D&D characters.

Dirk Schulte Die unergründbare Einsamkeit des Reisenden 2025

here's a flying sheep

An excellent tree

Eleven years ago today we officially launched @autonomouspress.bsky.social Looking forward to another eleven years (or more) of weird books for weird people. Y’all are the best little weirdos ever (complementary).

Famous authors asking you out

I found this amazing video from "North Florida Wildlife Center" (via FB) of their sarus crane "chick" named 'Tara', already 5 foot tall at only a few months old. I love how video cameras capture the natural curiosity of birds, even if the only question being investigated is "Can I eat it?"

Here are some nice mushrooms

In the process of gathering their webs with a bamboo pole, an unbreakable ring of black widow spider silk was forged, which is now the most faerie coded object in my possession.

An excellent duck

Here is a nice mushroom

"too big to fail" is a conspiracy by big big to sell more fail

Captured this Grey Heron taking flight at Brentford Ait this afternoon.