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They/them, antiracist Heathen, AuDHD, weird nerd into plants, bugs, string, and human systems. And too many podcasts. Chaparral / Muwekma Ohlone land.
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@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social right after you found an extremely tiny jumper, I too was blessed to find a minuscule spood on my wall! I think it even looks like a salticid!
Tiny black spider about 1mm long on a wall, with my finger for scale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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yesssss time for more
Great Basin rattlesnake. I know it's not a chime-adder but hey it's a cool ass looking snake. It has dramatic diamond patterns of light and dark brown, edged with black and white as if for maximum Graphic Design points. Narcan nasal spray.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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"If you think about it, Lebanese shepherds would have made great cowboys at that time."
Most Arab American immigrants before 1965 were Christians, whom the courts recognized as white (some lawsuits had to be filed), but about 10% were Muslim. I once met an elderly Shiite Muslim in Dearborn whose grandfather came from Lebanon in the late 19th century and made his way out to Kansas as a cowboy. If you think about it, Lebanese shepherds would have made great cowboys at that time. Somehow you never hear much about the Shiite cowboys.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I just saw these two photos in a row and holy shit what a contrast. Mamdani smiles like a happy social organism. Newsom smiles like the entire top half of his face is dead.
NBC News: Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race. Photo of Mamdani in a suit, sitting at a table in front of a US flag, with a huge grin on his face. His eyes are all crinkled up and he looks genuinely, sincerely delighted. PBS News: California approves new Democratic-led congressional map. Photo of Gavin Newsom in a suit standing in front of a US flag. He is curving his mouth up and exposing his teeth in an attempt to display the emotion of "happiness", but the smile utterly fails to reach his cold, dead eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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life goals
Elderly Bellsprout with a long gray beard, walking with a cane
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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at least someone's happy. Hamid likes to watch me work at my desk because he loves watching things move
Leopard gecko head and right hand poking out of a faux rock hide.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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What does that look like? I don't have the book but I'm curious about Yellow Signs people have made.

relatedly, I'm convinced the Pseudopod logo is a Yellow Sign
Logo with a bunch of green-tinted octopus tentacles embracing some kind of dark tablet or tome with a glowing yellow glyph on it. The glyph is like a letter S with a slash through it, plus a bunch more short strokes and dots that make it look like no actual language.
November 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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#Alt4You
Black and white portrait photo of a Black man, from the chest up. He has short gray hair and no beard. He is wearing a shirt and tie with a coat over it. Black and white portrait photo of a white man, from the chest up. He has dark hair and kind of a chin-strap beard. He is wearing a shirt, tie, and coat. Two black and white photos of Black people seated for formal portraits. On the left is a woman wearing a full 1800's style gown, in a conservative style, with lace collar and cuffs. On the right is a man wearing a nice suit and coat, with a velvet waistcoat showing the chain of a pocket watch. Below his photo it says "ALLEN" and "13 WINTER ST."
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#Alt4You
Screenshot from The Economist. economist.com United States Scary stuff Headline: Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America's third-largest city. Subtitle: Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago is out of hand. Photo: A cloudy/smoky scene. (Tesr gas?) A soldier in a military uniform is aiming a gun at three people. Two of them are facing the soldier. The third is turning away and holding the front of her sweatshirt over her nose and mouth. Photo caption: It's Chi-town. PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES Oct 29th 2025 | CHICAGO | 5 min read Screenshot of an article. Under what circumstances can federal agents use chemical irritants on children preparing for a Halloween parade? On October 28th Sara Ellis, a judge for the federal district of northern Illinois, called in Greg Bovino, a senior official at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, to outline when his officers can deploy tear gas while remaining compliant with a restraining order she previously issued on October 9th. The answer, she made clear, is essentially never. Judge Ellis summoned Mr Bovino to court after an incident in which federal agents, confronted with the threat of middle-aged dads shouting at them, lobbed tear-gas grenades just as a crowd of children in costumes were gathering on the street. "These kids were tear-gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in a local school parking lot," Judge Ellis said. "I can only imagine how terrified they were." At the hearing neither Mr Bovino nor the lawyers representing the government disputed the specific facts, though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that the use of force was justified because agents were "boxed in".
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Selfie where I'm holding one side of my mouth open, imitating the gape clam in the previous post.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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qntm, on test-driven development
(Opinions differ on whether this a universally sound approach for creating good software. But opinions also differ on whether good software is theoretically achievable by humans, whether there is such a thing as good software at all, and even on whether an empirical definition of "good software" can ever be reached. Be that as it may, unquestionably TDD is a real thing which real software developers practice.)
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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it chilly out
A small fluffy white dog wearing a little gray fleece sweater. She is lying on a couch, resting her chin on my legs, which are covered by a blanket. She looks resigned to the cold gray weather outside, yet alert to the possibility of treats.
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Dramatic close up of pressing an Enter key, but the key is totally covered with "AAAAAA".
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Big Leaf Maple: no lie detected
An enormous maple leaf laid out on some grass, with a pen for scale. The leaf is well over a foot long. Same picture but with a dog investigating the leaf
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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1st year of depression: guy steps on a rake and hits himself. 10th year of depression: guy does a bunch of cool skateboard tricks on a rake, but at the end he steps on it and hits himself.
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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*bomp* *clap*

omigod

let's walk some dogs
Two small dogs, one black and one white, excited to be on a walk.
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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@chaseprairie.bsky.social here's An Art from Olympic NP that reminded me of stuff you were saying about photorealistic vs. illustrative size of organisms in your drawings
A National Park Service map, unfolded and showing the art on the back. It's a single huge painting of several different landscapes and biomes found on the Olympic peninsula, each with its characteristic plants and wildlife. Instead of being purely realistic, a lot of sizes and views are changed or exaggerated to show the widest variety of species. For example, the starfish in the ocean cut-away is larger than the bear in the alpine meadow. The overall impression is of a rich tapestry, I know that's a cliché, but genuinely. It's teeming and stuffed with life.
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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A scruffy white terrier mix, lying on a bed, looking soulfully at you.
October 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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"i was married, but i'm not married anymore. women don't like the vehicle"
A pair of Heelys, those sneakers with a wheel built in to the heel. This particular design is black, white, hot pink, and sky blue, with the word "Heelys" written on the side in a funky script font.
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Here is a town with a sense of humor
Wikipedia article showing a coat of arms: on a red field, a white hen wearing a gold pair of pants. Human size pants, with the hen's entire body sitting in the butt area. Caption: The coat of arms of the village of Hensbroek in North Holland interprets the toponym as "hen-breeches" (the toponym is unrelated to either "hen" or "breeches", deriving from the personal name Hein and the Dutch cognate of "brook", i.e. "Henry's brook".)
October 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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these are two dogs I was sitting recently. idk what they found here but it was Good so they both Tactically Fell Over
Two French bulldogs on a Y-shaped leash, rolling around on some artificial grass.
October 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A paper sign that says "The door bell is missing, please shake bottle of rocks", and then a plastic water bottle with some pebbles in it.
October 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I WANT TO GROW THESE LITTLE GUYS 🥺🥺🥺
A detail from the preceding comic panel. Two little tree saplings with spooky/sad faces are growing in a pot.
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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what you post about trying and failing and trying again differently is all intensely inspirational to me who also needs to keep fucking getting up again on this bitch of an earth

also here is a good dog

also I saw this weird orange fuzz on trees?? iNat says it's terrestrial algae????? nature wut
A small scruffy terrier mix going full caterpillar mode on some blankets so all you can see is her face and her Extreme Ears iNaturalist observation of some orange fuzz growing on tree bark, identified as Orange Rock Hair (Trentepohlia aurea).
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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hello liz i heard you still have bones today good for you

hamid the draconic bloodline sorcerer says hi
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM