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Goos
@goosetuba.bsky.social
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A queer neurodivergent they/them furry weirdo, full of very unreasonable bones.

This is a personal account for my friends. I block if the vibes are even slightly bad, and I don't follow people I don't know, sorry
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some of my favorite moments in this game are when random players, instead of constant dino-murder, gather and do silly stuff, communicating only via body language. Just some randos lining up to jump dinos over each other. Roaring in triumph when they clear. Then impromptu crouch walk conga lines.
Screenshot from the game Path of Titans, of many species of dinosaurs, lined up so that others can try jumping over them. Screenshot from the game Path of Titans, of many species of dinosaurs, lined up so that others can try jumping over them. There is a Latenivenatrix leaping over them (they did so successfully). Screenshot from the game Path of Titans, of many species of dinosaurs in a long conga line, most of them crouch-walking because it's very silly to behold. Screenshot from the game Path of Titans, of many species of dinosaurs in a long conga line, most of them crouch-walking because it's very silly to behold.
December 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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pterosaurs: a whole pile of them
Screenshot from the game Path of Titans, showing a group of pterosaurs gathered atop a rock. The five tall ones are Hatzegopteryx, there's a Thalassodromeus in the foreground, and three little Rhamphorhynchus. The pterosaurs are colorful and with different markings on each. There are a few more creatures on rocks in the background.
December 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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a rock covered in soggy attack doritos which are also my friends
screenshot from the game Path of Titans, showing a group of five Thalassodromeus pterosaurs perched on an elevated rock. The pterosaurs are quite colorful with different patterns in the late evening sun. These are my friends
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
goosetuba.bsky.social
anyway here's a cute little guy sleeping on my knee
a grey male cockatiel with his head tucked back and eye fully shut as he naps. His beak is hidden in the fluff of his scapular feathers above his wing.
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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family members have me flipping between dissociative drifting and deep depression this week like... damn. people really are horrible sometimes
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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hi :>

I love my idiot pterosaurs
A screenshot from the game Path of Titans, showing a mostly green colored Hatzegopteryx flying away from the viewer, with its head tossed back and upward, staring back at the viewer weirdly. Its wings are spread over a rocky landscape. A close up of the prior image, showing the detail on the hatz's face. It's head empty expression and tiny eyes.
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"why does it take so long for you to plan your paintings??"

shut up, that's why
a chart of Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) species that are known to host on yellow birch trees, because I can't be normal about adding species to my art
December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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In good news, check out my blind little guy on my knee, he's gotten comfortable enough with us to sit on us and do a big preen (when we brought him home he'd never been handled and was terrified of it)
A lutino cockatiel doing a big preen while sitting on a person's knee. He's reaching over his back and preening his long tail feathers with a goofy expression. His eye is a bit milky looking with cataracts. A lutino cockatiel doing a big preen of the feathers around the shoulder of his wing. His eye is closed in contentment and he's sitting on a person's knee.
December 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I'm so, so grateful I have support of a partner, and that I'll be okay due to it. This isn't a complaint; I truly am okay (due to said support)

But... the art business is so rough right now. I've never had a holiday season before where I haven't sold anything, before. Bleak.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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it sure is snowin
A snowy scene with trees in the background, and lots of actively falling snow. A few bird feeders hang from a deck in the foreground, and various small birds are flying to and from them, mostly dark-eyed juncos. There's a chickadee missile near the center.
December 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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A cool observation over the years: our local red-shouldered hawks prey on on snakes, frogs, and toads, & also enjoy scavenging. I've never seen them take a bird or mammal. They are the only hawk the crows won't mob, and they seem to be very chill with one other. Here's a juvie hanging with a crow.
Photo of a snowy scene with a juvenile red-shouldered hawk on the ground, feeding, while an american crow watches from a perch on a cut log, less than a foot away. They are looking at one another, but have generally relaxed body language. There is dead foliage in the background. Photo of a snowy scene with a juvenile red-shouldered hawk on the ground, feeding, while an american crow watches from a perch on a cut log, less than a foot away. The hawk is looking at the ground and the crow is casually watching, both with relaxed body language. There is dead foliage in the background. Photo of a snowy scene with the bird positions reversed, with the american crow now on the ground feeding, while a juvenile red-shouldered hawk is perched on a cut log, about two feet away. The hawk is looking upward at more crows, but has relaxed body language and is slightly fluffed against the cold. The crow is showing a lot of trust by feeding and often not looking at the hawk. There is dead foliage in the background.
December 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Last night as I was stumbling to bed, I tugged a dead leaf off a plant that sits on a very high shelf in my bathroom, not knowing it was dry and tippy. It fell, absolutely exploding dirt all over the room and myself, including into my mouth as I was brushing my teeth. So that is how things are going
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Ladies of the Autumn Cabbage
Photo of two large Bielefelder hens. They are older at eight years old and a bit frumpy looking. Warm amber colors with black patterns cover their head and necks, while a mottled asphalt grey is worn on their backs, wings, and tails. The hen in front is in focus, while the one in back is not. They're wandering through a veggie garden with cabbage leaves overhanging, in late autumn as everything wanes.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Anyhow I prefer to share cool things instead of rage honking about healthcare, so check it out: the moon, and our first snow.
a cellphone photo of the full moon peeking out from a hole in the scaly clouds at night. It is shiny and the moon and edible looking. Bare tree top silhouettes frame the bottom right. A snowy scene from a place with snow. It's solidly winter with no living foliage on the trees or plants. The background is partially forested with trees both heathy and dead from emerald ash borer. The snow is about 6 inches deep and the scene is very overcast with white winter sky.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
goosetuba.bsky.social
Ah yes, full circle. My high risk cancer screenings are now scheduled for 2026, a full year from when I was initially supposed to have them
(if a doctor again scolds me for "delaying" I am going to go completely feral)
goosetuba.bsky.social Goos @goosetuba.bsky.social · Nov 15
...so I was sent home. I gotta try to reschedule next week. Now I have to do several co-pays as well, instead of just one! awesome!

I had to scream-honk into the void some more because it's been really bad! Such cool medical systems we have!!! honk honk fuck!
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I had 2 other appts today in conjunction with the cancelled one and was told to still come in for them. After waiting three(!!!) hours, the staff went home, and we were like ?? and asked for help from other hospital staff; they couldn't do the screening I was there for without the cancelled one
goosetuba.bsky.social Goos @goosetuba.bsky.social · Nov 14
going out of my DING DANG MIND they just called the day-of to cancel for the third time this year, I've been trying to get in since last winter

just honking into the void here, sorry
goosetuba.bsky.social Goos @goosetuba.bsky.social · Jun 18
dang it really does take many months to get an appointment for routine annual medical screenings now huh
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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going out of my DING DANG MIND they just called the day-of to cancel for the third time this year, I've been trying to get in since last winter

just honking into the void here, sorry
goosetuba.bsky.social Goos @goosetuba.bsky.social · Jun 18
dang it really does take many months to get an appointment for routine annual medical screenings now huh
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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It's hella snowing outside, and I love the change of seasons truly, but I'm also feeling personally attacked because I lost most of my summer to illness and now it's 1000% winter which simply is not fair
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Because I cannot seem to toss nice cuttings, I have been experimenting. Here's a ficus benjamina that I've been training onto a rock (that I saved from when I used to keep planted aquariums). This is still early in development and isn't styled yet, I started it in 2023. I hope it'll be really neat
A small ficus benjamina variegata tree with roots tightly clasping a grey and white rock, all in a pale green ceramic pot. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with a single trunk with dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is thick moss at the base of the tree and climbing partially up the rock, all against a black backdrop. The tree and rock are 15 inches tall. A small ficus benjamina variegata tree with roots tightly clasping a grey and white rock, all in a pale green ceramic pot. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with a single trunk with dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is thick moss at the base of the tree and climbing partially up the rock, all against a black backdrop. The tree and rock are 15 inches tall.
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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More ficus benjamina. These are all cuttings off of the "main" tree I got years ago. The one in the little pot is a new start and has no refinement yet, and the trees in the little forest are pretty new as well. I have too many of these because I struggle to discard cuttings.
A small ficus benjamina variegata tree in a seafoam green ceramic pot. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with a single trunk and mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is moss at the base of the tree, and it's sitting on a small wooden stand, all against a black backdrop. The tree alone is about 8 inches tall. A forest type planting small ficus benjamina variegata trees in a dark brown ceramic pot. The trees look somewhat miniature as they are being trained a bonsai, with five individual trees sporting dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is moss at the base of the trees, all against a black backdrop. The trees alone are about 12 inches tall.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I was cleaning the garage the other day and even though it has been years since she's been gone, one of her feathers must have been in there somehow. The breeze caught one of her blue feathers as I cleaned and it blew up and stuck to my arm, and I cried. I miss her so much
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This little twin trunk ficus benjamina was initially shoved into the same pot as the prior tree. I discovered it was two separate plants when I did the first repot in 2020, so I gave it its own house. Unfortunately the pot arrived from the potter broken in the mail, but I repaired it.
A small ficus benjamina variegata tree in a tan colored round ceramic pot. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with twin trunks and dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is moss at the base of the tree, all against a black backdrop. The tree alone is about 12 inches tall. A small ficus benjamina variegata tree in a tan colored round ceramic pot. The same tree as the prior image, but rotated 180 degrees. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with twin trunks and dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is moss at the base of the tree, all against a black backdrop. The tree alone is about 12 inches tall.
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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My journey started with this ficus benjamina, gifted to me as a houseplant ~ten years ago. I grew it as such, but then in 2020 it was struggling; root bound, so I looked up how to repot and prune it. My house is small, I wanted it to stay small, and realized I could try bonsai... (photo current)
A small ficus benjamina variegata tree in a terra cotta colored round pot. The tree looks somewhat miniature as it is being trained as a bonsai, with twin trunks and dense mottled green and cream colored leaves. There is thick moss at the base of the tree, all against a black backdrop. The tree alone is 15 inches tall.
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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For Halloween, what if you took a yucca gigantea houseplant and tortured it a bit

even more scary: this fibrous creature has broken two ceramic pots with its rooty exuberance, so it is banished to plastic pots forevermore
A yucca houseplant that has been grown in bonsai culture to keep it small. Is it a bonsai? It's a monocot with no true wood so people argue no, but I think it looks cool anyway. It has a thick trunk with rough bark and a flush of new pointy green growths at the top. It's in a plastic hexagon pot with a black backdrop. It's about 17 inches tall with the pot, and the base is 4.5 inches in diameter, ooo
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Here's a little pink pixie bouganvillia single and a forest. They didn't grow strongly this year so they're scruffy for now, and mostly post-blooming. The single plant (with & without moss) is the source for the cuttings stuck into the "forest". I enjoy how they look like tiny catalpa trees <3
A small bouganvilla pre-bonsai in a round, rusty red glazed ceramic pot with a rough texture. The tree has small heart-shaped leaves, and there is green moss and two small rocks at the base. All sitting on a simple wood stand with a black backdrop. The tree and pot are maybe 9 inches tall. The same exact tree as in the prior photo, but rotated 180 degrees, and with the moss and rocks removed so that it can overwinter indoors properly. A small bouganvilla pre-bonsai "forest" in a long rectangular rusty red glazed ceramic pot with a rough texture. The trees have small heart-shaped leaves, a few sparse hot pink flower bracts, and there is green moss at the base. All sitting on a simple wood stand with a black backdrop. The trees and pot are maybe 9 inches tall.
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM