Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

I've waited 3 years to make this post

I know what you're thinking: "But the magic of my enemies is weak, and their gods are hollow idols!" But what if I told you... that your enemies are thinking the same thing... about YOUR magic, and YOUR gods? And here's what's gonna make the difference: your enemies aren't in this seminar right now.

y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?

meanwhile, just a few blocks away, Samantha had her sights set on a rich CEO as well

Please welcome the new pterosaur Skiphosoura bavarica from the Late Jurassic of Europe

This amazing darwinopteran is known from an incredibly complete fossil, largely preserved in 3D! Needless to say I was SUPER excited when @davehone.bsky.social commissioned me to reconstruct this amazing animal!

Today, in insects that don't look real, but are, we have a small leafhopper nymph found on a night hike in the rainforest.

Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador

Good morning, don’t let the bastards grind you down. Here is one of my axolotls failing to find the food pellet right in front of it.

The Powerful Owls were about 10m behind the Possum. I don't like to anthropomorphise, but I couldn't help but think it's face was saying, "Shhhh. They don't know I'm here."
#brisbane #possum

dog cigarettes. it’s cigarettes for dogs.

A sensational Tiger Moth found in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The coloring of this moth reminds me of playing cards.
(Amaxia sp.) Tandayapa, Ecuador

It's been a year since I saw my first burrowing owl. This one!!!! LOOK AT IT THIS FACE OMFG #birds

I love this fossil of Alligator prenasalis, a ~35 million-year-old relative of today’s alligators that lived in what’s now South Dakota. You can track how climates changed in the Cenozoic by where crocodylians lived, from the high latitudes of the Arctic down to their current range. 🧪

It's been a hot a minute since I've had to make a first post on social media - uhhh everyone likes cats, let's all enjoy some cats. Figaro/Piglet/Sully are hereby appointed as my bluesky ambassadors.