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Dayspring
@transgemsbok.bsky.social
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Trans queer guy, will always have dogs 🐕, investing in, gambling on, and following horse racing 🐎, archaeologist, loves birds 🦤 and bovids 🦬, and rocks 🪨
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I told him I was going to eat his tail
A black, long-haired dog pictured from the shoulders up as he's sitting up over the photographer. He is staring straight at the camera and looks shocked.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The culprit in question
A medium sized long-haired black dog looks sweetly up at the camera like he didn't just cost me $300 for being an ass
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The culprit in question
A medium sized long-haired black dog looks sweetly up at the camera like he didn't just cost me $300 for being an ass
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Can you see the wagon road? How about the second angle (not the bright green one)? These are hundreds of years old. How many do you think are out there, passed by every day?
Medium yellow grass. There is a knoll on the left with a juniper tree next to it. The barest of wheel tracks can be seen leading away from the camera perspective. A different angle. Here the road is running perpendicular and can be seen to have worn a depression below the surrounding land surface. A separate, bright green road branches off from it.
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Felt like I was bomb-proofing a horse there. Franck the Archaeology Dog is so chill. Geo the archaeology dog in training was less bored about it. (We use paper bags for artifacts, desensitizing is useful)
September 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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*sad archaeology noises*
A vehicle tire impaled with some sort of thick metal item
September 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sightings today
A female mule deer, light brown without antlers, head turned facing the camera while her body is sideways. She stands in mountain scrub bush with more coating a steep slope behind her. A beaver dam, an intricate wall of sticks and logs blocking a creek creating a pond behind it. A chipmunk, brown and black striped, on a piece of erosion control (a bunch of grass in a net set across a slope)
September 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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This was my office today
A view of a mountain stream surrounded by green scrub brush in a mountain pass. A mountain slope rises closely on the left, one farther off on the right, and more rise through the pass at the center, getting higher and dimmer; the farthest are covered by mist. The sky is cloudy. A close up of aspen trees, slender trees with bright green leaves and bright white bark, smooth except for numerous openings that look like eyes. They grow close together. Aspen trees are clones, one huge organism connected underground.
September 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Lovely (though 13.5 hr) drive today for fieldwork. Saw deer, a bighorn sheep, and several birds of prey. I love driving, even this long, and I try to take smaller roads so I can see this stuff.
A view off a highway of a mountain pass valley of green scrub bush and a jagged line of mountains beyond. Rain is falling on part of the peaks while sun shines on others. A view straight ahead of a road with a sheer red cliff on the left side and a drop to a river surrounded by greenery on the right side. Ahead, jagged mountain peaks. The sky is cloudy.
September 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Take a break and look at this little one
A caterpillar on a leaf in gloved hands above a forest floor. The caterpillar is red with a purple stripe and bright yellow spines.
August 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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My average field day documenting sites ends up with 15 pages of notes and 70+ photos. Today included that and hundreds of seed ticks. Yay! At least it was a good view.
View off a cliff edge of a forested valley and more mountains beyond. Low clouds hang just above the trees, some lower than the camera.
August 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Back at it, though I think they fired Forest road maintenance as well
View through a vehicle windshield of a gravel road so overgrown it is barely visible, surrounded by dense forest. The sky is cloudy and streaks of moisture line the windshield.
August 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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My favorite shirt currently. Really soft fabric. Did a few jobs there and visited again for my birthday back in July.
A gray shirt. The text "Valles Caldera National Preserve, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service" with a NPS bison logo sits under a stylized image of the Caldera valley, with grasses and a stream and mountains in the background. An elk is in the center of the image.
August 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Franck melted in the lab
A black dog lying flat asleep in a doorway; the floor is cement, a box sits to the side and a conference poster is attached to the wall behind the dog
August 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I love this hat
Black ball cap with a bald eagle design. The eagle is wearing makeup and their feathers are the colors of the inclusive Pride flag. Below the eagle is the phrase, "These colors don't run".
August 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Help it is 108 F
Tall plant. Many green. Nothing else. Become plant
August 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I own one share in REPUTATION, who just won a $100k stakes. Love her pedigree and she's really developed this year. I'll win like, $4 but the real reason I invested was broodmare value later....
A dark bay horse in full flight with all four legs off the ground.
August 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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That is my Franckie, my heart dog. Full name M. Franck Siriani, DA, from the French TV series Zone Blanche. He is so wonderful and good, you almost can't tell his red highlights because his black fur is so healthy it shines blue. I do everything for him.
A large black long-haired dog on a couch. He is very alert.
July 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Would not have it any other way
Two dogs entirely taking up a human bed; a black dog across the pillows and a red dog at the end.
July 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I present Geo
He is a Rhodesian ridgeback/hound of a sort, my roommate's
My roomie is out of town so I have full care of Franck the archaeology dog and Geo archaeology dog in training
Because of his heritage, he can bend time and space to be extremely long and flat.
He also talks.
A lot.
A red hound puppy lying facing diagonally at the viewer. From this perspective he seems extremely flat and very long.
July 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Daily Harold: Roan, the only other living member of the same genus as the sable. One of the four largest antelope species, they live in rather small groups, up to 15 individuals. I took this photo at Sisibala in South Africa during my 2019 research season. The Kuruman hills are in the background.
Two large brownish antelope standing on sand with bushes in front of them and a view of plains to distant mountains behind them. They are staring at the camera.
July 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This weekend SCYLLA ran 3rd in a G2. I saw her mother CLOSE HATCHES during her championship season in 2014 win the G1 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn. She is also the dam of TACITUS, multi G2 winner and BATTEN DOWN, G3 winner.

#horseracing
A dark bay horse being ponied in a post parade before racing. She wears a pink saddle cloth with the #1 and her name, Close Hatches, and her jockey wears teal and pink silks. A grassy infield is visible behind her.
July 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Daily Harold (starting these here; daily facts about bovids): the most magnificent sable I've seen was a taxidermied specimen in the Chicago Field Museum. Native to Africa, they chew bones for minerals and can live for 17 years in the wild.
A large antelope, brown-black with white markings on the face and huge backward-curving horns. He stands taxidermied in a glass case.
July 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

Can a dog be void? Yes.
Large black long-haired dog curled in a ball on a blanket. He looks like those black cat void photos.
July 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM