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ellison hyde
@ellisonhyde.bsky.social
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she/her. full of bones. also contains meat and various liquids, some of which are in tubes. the tubes have ADHD
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forced myself to go outside and fucking look at the nature because it is really quite nice if I can just cut through my own shit long enough to enjoy it
cedar waxwing sitting in a crusty autumn-form tulip poplar tree a robin sits amongst the gnarled branches of a dead pine tree which in this view forms a consummate v blue jay with a big fat fuckin acorn in its mouth and goddamn its feathers are electric blue in the sun it doesn't even seem real black vulture flying directly above you, deciding you are not yet dead enough to be of interest
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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cop slide team story
conversation under cop slide video person a: do we know why it's like that person b: According to the wiki page someone actually sent scientists to try and figure out why person c: And?! person d: They never made it out... person e: Some say they're still sliding
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ellisonhyde.bsky.social
sometimes I have tabs open so long I don't know what the hell I was doing
header text that says "What should I do if I encounter fish disease?"
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ellisonhyde.bsky.social
I am woefully bug ignorant and today I saw a woolly bear caterpillar like ive seen a thousand times and realized I knew nothing about it. Looked it up on Wikipedia and oh my god did everyone else know this??
The Isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold and temperate regions. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, by allowing most of its mass to freeze solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body. It survives being frozen by producing a cryoprotectant in its tissues. 5] This freezing occurs outside of body cells, but not within. In the spring, it thaws.
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Sorry for being awkward
A room with a small tv, a table lamp, and what appears to be heavy blood spatter and dripping and handprints and bloody blood everywhere except, curiously, the TV and lamp. The TV appears to be showing a film about buttocks
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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if you let people know about stuff that's happening then they might say things about the stuff that's happening and that would be awful
screenshot from quoted article that says: In court documents, UC lawyers argued that releasing the settlement proposal would create an untenable "fishbowl" inviting "every member of the entire public to express each one's views on every settlement," creating an "uncontrollable public fray" impeding negotiations.
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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thank you for that clarification, footnote
screenshot of a footnote from a paper I'm reading that says "3. The fart does not appear to have been mentioned in the Bible."
October 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
ellisonhyde.bsky.social
I've crawled off to browse through search results in The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology and I thought I'd just let people know this important fact about stabbing fruit
Abstract from an article comparing the force needed to stab a human chest vs various types of fruit, which ends with "Results show that force needed to penetrate the skin and allow for an 8-cm blade penetration into the chest is similar to the force required to insert a steak knife for a 6-cm distance into a cantaloupe. In addition, the force needed to penetrate the cartilage is most similar to stabbing a watermelon to 6 cm with a butcher knife. However, the forces required to penetrate the bone are greater than those required to penetrate any fruit with any type of blade."
August 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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(whispers in a low, lusty voice)
excerpt from the encyclopedia of meat sciences that reads "The major constraints to the use of hot boning have been the slippage of one muscle relative to another within a primal cut, which is considered visually less appealing, and the extra shortening of excised muscles subjected to rapid chilling. Aging is effective when muscle shortens by less than 20% (but reduces if shortening is greater), so hot boning and aging is feasible if temperatures are controlled.
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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what will the new obscenity laws do with the encyclopedia on meat sciences
a subsection from a chapter in a meat science work entitled "Electrical Stimulation and Hot Boning" which has really specific meat science connotations that are not at all what you would imagine out of context
August 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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"Fine day isn't it"
"I don't know. Rather overcast. Bit muggy. I suppose it depends on how one defines 'fine day,' though, doesn't it; after all, one person's awful is another person's--"
"Jesus Christ Meredith I was just being polite"
a rather large turtle and a cormorant sit on the same rock, looking, I think somewhat awkwardly, in one another's direction
August 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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here we have some uhh members of the family Anatinae seated in a umm somewhat linear arrangement
three common mergansers on a rock with their heads tucked, one sort of after the other, in a bit of a vertical fashion, as the rock goes upwards picturesquely out of the river three common mergansers now with their heads raised in exactly the same directions, showing off their nice joker-style lipsticks, arranged again in the same sort of sequential way, one just above the other as the rock inclines
August 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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...and yet, somehow, before I realized that I had accidentally screwed up my camera settings, I happened to take these, proving once again that pure dumb luck is really the greatest factor in the quality of any picture I take
osprey taking off from maple tree branch. the photographic quality is far, far better than it should be osprey looking directly at the camera, sitting on maple tree branch same osprey on maple tree branch from side view, looking extremely handsome, very probably its Good Side
August 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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the river is not just great for birds. It's also great if you're into damselfly orgies. just beach your kayak on some rocks for a while to laboriously delete a bunch of photos cos your memory card is unexpectedly full and then look up and you will see more damselfly sex than you ever wanted to see
damselflies forming a heard shape with their long abdomen bits as they...couple, you know, fornicationly
August 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Since outside has been less awful lately I decided to try going outside again. The river is harder to get to but it does not disappoint #birds #wildlife #nature
two green herons having a kinetic disagreement a bald eagle not yet old enough to be "bald" (speckled brown rather than white head and tail) flying, head-on, staring at my/your face a whole pile of beautiful lovely cormorants in the middle of the river looking distinguished as fuck an osprey flying overhead with an entire fish. I think the fish is something in the Lepomis family ("sunfish" which is wildly different from an ocean sunfish) but I really don't know, I'm not that good at fish identification. Still it has its entire head which is unusual for something in an osprey's talons
August 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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GLBRGH
Series of screenshots from film series of The Hogfather in which Death (a fellow in a dapper skull mask and robe, etc) is saying "Justice, mercy, duty..." "You need to believe..." "in things that aren't true." "How else can they become?"
July 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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this one is an artificial hand attachment patent from 1921 specifically for the purpose of keeping a piece of paper from slipping while you write on it with the other hand
diagram of proposed artificial hand attachment sort of like the bottom of a tiny tray-roller stand or something that has one back foot with a rubber thing on the end to put pressure on to keep something in place and two front foot bits with tiny wheels
July 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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y'all ever just scroll through images of patents and desperately wish you knew if someone ever actually made the thing and what it looked like and how it would work in real life
a patent illustration filed by D.P. Christmann in 1918 for an artificial hand, which is a diagram of what I want to describe as a Swiss Army hook, or what would probably today be advertised as a "tactical hand" with a pinchy bit, a small graspy bit with a back-facing hook on the end for holding pens and pencils, and a larger half-round graspy bit on the other side, intended to be attached to a body-powered prosthesis for those missing a hand
July 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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sometimes I do think I should put more effort into trying to take better photographs but regardless... it's delightful when I find I've managed to catch a thing in motion at the right time #birds
a great blue heron about to land from flight with its long spindly legs outstretched at roughly a 120-degree angle and its wings in a foldy "slow-down" flappy position and its neck curved in that classic heron bumpy S
July 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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hawk caught blinking
a hawk sitting on a branch with nictitating membrane over eye (a translucent third eyelid birds and several other animals have they used to "blink" without actually closing the eye) which makes the eye look all foggy. (I have instantly given up on identifying the hawk, but based on location and size it's most likely to be some morph/life stage of a red-shouldered or broad-winged hawk)
July 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I didn't get to the river today but I did get in a kayak nevertheless. Here is an editorial photo of a heron that is a metaphor for how birds sometimes have leaves in their face
a heron partially obscured by leaves and branches
July 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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having a rough time with drafting an appropriate cover for this novel. also really fucking sick of the title. workshopping new approaches
an angry "book cover" that features a public domain image of a skeleton with a spear thing and an hourglass, and an illustration of a white heron, and between them the words "dead fuckin bird book and dead guys also" and "a novel by my ass"
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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manuscript revisions continue to go well
chapter heading that reads "CHAPTER 7,234,232: YET ANOTHER GODDAMNED CHAPTER IN THIS INTERMINABLE GODDAMNED BOOK, WHY, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY"
June 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Here is a fun fact about the movie Jaws: the actor had a small googly eye stuck to his lip in this scene and director decided not to tell him and keep it rolling. Now enshrined forever in film history
screenshot of Jaws where actor has a small googly eye stuck to his lip. (okay it's a cigarette seen from the front)
June 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"getting outside is essential for your mental health"
screenshot from weather report that says "flood watch alert" and "air quality: poor: the air has reached a high level of pollution and is unhealthy for sensitive groups"
June 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM