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@not-excitable.bsky.social
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This account is strictly unprofessional and reflects the opinions of my unemployers. He pretends to be a chicken, a cat, a fairy, and a wise man. Him crazy.

I ain't no followback girl
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Bidens laevis found growing in soil that is flooded by the Mississippi River for part of the year. #BloomScrolling
A cluster of green Bidens laevis plants growing out of a mat of grass and sedge plants. he flowers of the plant are yellow and daisy-like. The photographer's shadow is cast over a third of the picture, making the details of one flower much easier to see than the rest of the flowers, which are in the harsh light of an autumnal afternoon.
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The cure for burnout is a vacation, not pretending to take a vacation and preparing a presentation about it for clout. Also —
A two panel comic by Dan Savage (www.savagechickens.com) The first panel introduces Häagen•Bot! The robot that eats ice cream so you don't have to! Häagen•bot is a refrigerator shaped robot with a single antenna on top, two dots for eyes, a mouth, a tongue, and a single arm and hand holding a scoop of ice cream in a waffle cone. In the second panel, the Häagen•Bot is surrounded on both sides by talking chickens. The chicken in front of the robot complains, "But I like ice cream..." The chicken behind the robot wears a lab coat and chides, "Stop trying to stifle progress!"
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Washita County Courthouse in New Cordell, OK. Neat looking building and the east-west highway into town splits open to turn into one way streets on either side of it. It makes quite a statement coming into town.
A picture of Main Street in New Cordell, Oklahoma looking towards the Washita County Courthouse which is in the center of the picture. There are slant parking spots on both sides of the road as well as two story brick commercial buildings. The view of the courthouse is completely unobstructed from the street. The courthouse in a reddish-brown brick neo-classical construction, with white columns and window frames, a flight of red brick stairs leading to the front entrance, an a green domed clock tower held aloft above the roof by more white columns.
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Oooh. I may have found a baby cottonmouth near my apartment. Seemed more interested in staying camouflaged against the nice warm concrete than defending itself with its teeth so why not take a picture of it? #snake #herp
A small brown snake pretending to be a tree branch lying on a very pebble concrete slab. The snake has dark brown rosettes and stripes decorating its skin, making it difficult to discern its shape against the pebbles for creatures without sharp vision. Maybe it was just enjoying the latent heat in the slab as the evening cooled, but maybe it might have been waiting for a frog or lizard to come by, themselves on the hunt for insects attracted by the building lights. Maybe a northern cottonmouth.
October 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I found a bunch of Red Spider Lilies/Hurricane Lilies
growing near a sidewalk. A lot of stems looked cut and I found this bunch on the ground. Maybe a rodent was eating them until it started feeling ill. Like a lot of lilies, this one is toxic. #BloomScrolling
The flowers and very straight stems of a bunch of Red Spider Lilies. The petals are a vibrant red, long, thin, narrow, and delicate looking, and as typical for lilies, the petals curl backward when on full bloom revealing bright yellow anthers on very long filaments. There are several immature flowers in the picture and one in full bloom. The ovaries of the flowers are a bright yellow. The stems vary in color from light green to light orange. These lilies are also called Hurricane Lilies because they bloom during hurricane season after a heavy rainfall.
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I have been smelling something in the air, like licorice, but thought that it was too late in the year for elderberry/sambuca to be blooming. Followed my nose right into the patch of blue mistflowers I found last year. Last year their scent lured me to them too. Very pleasant!

#bloomscrolling
The top of the stem of the blue mistflower plant, growing alomgside some blackberry brambles. The blue mistflower has a strong, sweet licorice scent that attracts bees and curious humans. Mistflower typically grows to about 3 feet tall, often shorter but can reach 6 feet in height. Its leaves are opposite on the stem, somewhat triangular in shape, and bluntly toothed. At the top of the plant the branches, with their short-stemmed clusters of flowers, form an almost flat top. Disc flowers are bright blue or violet and fuzzy looking, about 1/4 inch long. It likes growing in shaded areas at the margin between grasslands and wooded areas.
October 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Blinded sphinx moth, its antennae are tucked beneath its wings. It is fascinating how various moths will rest their wings #insect #moth #invert
A brown moth resting on a concrete tile with two of its legs spread out in front of its head. Its actual antennae are hidden under its wings. Its wings lie almost parallel to the ground but their unusual shape is such that its aft wings are not hidden under its fore wings. The fore wings have a scalloped edge on the end of the wing furthest from its attachment to the moth's rotund body. The wings are colored in alternating bands of dark brown and light brown
September 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Maypop, or North American Passionfruit/flower/vine growing wild near my home. In the eight years I lived here, it has spread out quite a bit #BloomScrolling
Passiflora incarnata vines spread out and dominating the sunny boundary of a lawn full of grass that is kept short and a wooded area beyond the grass lawn. There are numerous light purple passionflowers showing up above the tangle of vines and leaves, along with some green egg-shaped fruits here and there. A closeup picture showing the trifolate leaves, the light purple flowers, and the green, egg shaped fruits of the maypop.
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A big, chonky Callosomia moth of some type, I think it is probably a Tulip Tree Silkmoth. Those wings are quite big. And check out those big plumose antennae!

#moth #insect #invert #invertfest
A large brown moth perched on a balcony railing on one of the vertical bars, which is painted blue. The paint is beginning to peel away. The bars of the rail all have square cross sections. The moth's wings are large, brown, and have a dark false eye spot near the top corner of its upper wings. Its wings stick straight out of its back rather than being folded flat on its back. Its body is like a short, thick, and fuzzy cigar. Its six legs are also fuzzy, an it sports two plumose antennae on its head above its two round, black compound eyes
August 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I looked for blackberries maturing in the blackberry brambles but found none. I did find a green lynx spider though #spider #invert
A leggy green spider in a waiting stance on three green leaves of a blackberry bramble. The spider bound together the leaves with its silk strings to make a platform for itself. The spiders eight legs are white with black spots and spikes. The branches of the blackberry bramble have backwards pointing thorns and the leaves look corrugated.
August 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Get stick bugged lol!

A stick insect I found near my front door this morning
#invert #insect
A long thin brown insect with long thin legs and knobby joints doing its best to mimic a dried tree branch stuck to the side of my house
August 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I went back to see if I could catch the Swamp Rose Mallow blooming again but no luck. I did catch this distinguished looking grasshopper posing on one of the flower buds though. It is an Obscure Bird Grasshopper I think. #Invert #invertebrate #insect Schistocerca obscura
An Obscure Bird Grasshopper perched on an unopened flower bud of a Swamp Rose Mallow. The grasshopper is mostly green but has distinctive yellow antennae, a yellow stripe down its back, and small rectangles of black and yellow decorating the sides of its head below its eyes, and another pair of yellow rectangles on the sides of its thorax below its folded wings. Its strong hind legs, built for springing long distances, have knobbly knees which are also decorated yellow, as are the first segment of the front legs closest to the body. The unopened flower bud is green and bulbous, and shows now sign of haven been gnawed on by the grasshopper.
August 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Sad that people are forgetting the classics
Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Classic tweet of Weird Twitter by @pisscop, dated 9 May 2011: (In a obviously non-human voice) Hello fellow human teens I heard the coolest place for us teens to hang out is (In an ominous non-human voice) The Collosal Pillar of Wasp Eggs (Back in a non-ominous non-human voice) Let's go do not bring weapons
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Bonus flower! There were also wild potato vine blooms here and there. I took a picture of some that hadn't rolled themselves shut yet #BloomScrolling
A wild potato vine sporting flowers in various stages of maturity. Some are just twisted cones made of white or off-white petals, but the mature flowers are shaped like trumpets and their petals are the brightest white. The center (or throat) of each mature flower is colored a an eye-catching dark pinkish purple, which contrast with the bright yellow anthers and pisti also in the throat. The petals of some of the mature flowers have begun curling inward for the night. The leaves of the mallow and of the other plants are shiny and slick because of the rain. Some of the leaves have a bunch of small holes in them, as if a small insect was eating the tenderest parts of the leaves.
July 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I went back to a spot that I saw the seed head of swamp rose mallows last year to see if I could catch it blooming and...
Well, they are blooming but the day was cloudy and rainy so the mature blooms were shut. But walking around in the rain was still pleasant. #BloomScrolling
A swamp rose mallow plant with broad green spearhead-shaped leaves and a cluster of immature flower buds at the top of the main stem. There is one flower that is mature and partially open, and it has white petals. Another matured flower is in front of it but it's flower petals are closed into a droopy pinkish brown tube shape. Maybe this is was a fertilized or old bloom looks like. There are many other green plants growing besides below and above the swamp rose mallow. All the leaves have a wet sheen to them because of the rain. A cluster of swamp rose mallow plants growing out of a shaded are and into a sunny clearing. The leaves of the mallow and the other plants are green and have a wet sheen because of the rain. At the top of each mallow plants main stem is a cluster of flower buds at various stages of maturation. There is one full mature flower but its white petals are rolled into a loose cylinder. A swamp rose mallow plant with broad green spearhead-shaped leaves growing out of its main stem and a cluster of flower buds at the top of the stem. One fully mature flower is present, but it's white petals are rolled up into a loose cylinder shape.
July 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A dried up water scorpion (or water mantis or water stick-insect) that I found on my car's windshield, far from any water. Wonder how it got there.
A long brown and spindly insect laid on its side on a bit of concrete. Its folded wings nearly cover its abdomen, out of which extends a thin stiff long tube that it uses to breathe underwater, apparently. Kinda like a snorkel. It has four long and spindly back legs and two raptorial fore legs that it uses to catch its prey. On its tiny head are two black beadlike eyes and a short sharp beak. The pictured water scorpion was already dead and very stiff.
July 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM