Both @slotkin.senate.gov and @peters.senate.gov voice mailboxes are full. Slotkins' has been full all week.

Shocking nobody.

Some of their covers are AI-generated covers ripped -directly- off original art. Ask me how I know.

A friend of mine - new writer - is working to extract himself from this mess. It's been a ride, hearing about it.

"Read it all far too quickly. Now it's all read and there's none left and what am I going to do now?"

The air is spicy but it doesn't hurt my skin, so I still try to get out in it as much as I can.

Lately I've become more aware that many of the things I like were put into the world by nerds with extremely niche interests in very specific things and that's pretty cool.

Lil grey shelf mushroom.

Bright yellow fairy cup mushrooms.

White fungus on a log.

Pale pink Bobby little jelly fungus.

Some #fungus #mushrooms

Earthstars - strange looking octopus-shaped fungus.

Earthstars - odd little fungus critters. #fungus #mushrooms

In this timeline: DoD hires MechaHitler.

"MechaHitler is now your car!"

I like to call this the Human Gamble - when an animal is stuck and needs the help of opposable thumbs, and they gamble that the available human is the one that will help them rather than hurt them.

Wired seems to have a new post series: places I won't shop at.

I got a call from my mom that Grandma is having trouble with her computer and she wants me to look at it. I'm willing to put money on the issue being this.

A swamp is a viable ecosystem - these guys are the sewage someone pumped into said viable ecosystem.

Fluffy brown and white feather - presumably a great horned owl. Added bonus: peeling purple nail polish on the fingers of the hand that holds it.

App says its a great horned owl, which was my suspicion. I know one lives in the park - I heard some dueling hooters some weeks back. #naturephotos #feather #bird #owl

Young eastern cottontail rabbit entirely too close to newly planted native plants.

Young eastern cottontail rabbit entirely too close to newly planted native plants.

Probably eyeballing the new native plants I'm trying to grow. #rabbit #cottontail #naturephotography

Big green bullfrog in the leaves and creeping charlie.

Earlier today I heard what I swear sounded like a bullfrog. I get a lot of peepers, chorus frogs and tree frogs from the park and swampy areas, but no bigger frogs, so I dismisses it. Fast forward to going out to water the plants. #frog #bullfrog #amphibian #backyardwildlife

Only thing worse is those clear plastic clamshell packages that *cut you* when you try to get in them.

What gives? Do you want me to purchase a product or not?

First world problems: Price tags. I loathe purchasing an item, getting it home, peeling the price tag off (or battling a price tag that won't come off), so that I can have a perma-sticky spot.

Sure, goo-gone, hair dryers, olive oil, you name it - either sticky, or sticky and ruined.

Or we could, say, not use Amazon.

A handful of trans people might have played sports!

Sometimes I wish Merlin Bird ID included: frogs, squirrels and screaming neighborhood children.
#birds #merlin

Eastern cottontail rabbit eyeing me over it's shoulder because I keep "chasing" it. I was already headed on that direction, dude.

Not supposed to walk after dark. What if I walk before dawn? Birds were up, so it's fine,right? A million robins and a few bunnies.

I'm no happier than the next person at my tax dollars going to rapid unscheduled disassembly of privatized spacecraft before they even lift off.

But at least it was a pretty badass explosion.

The spiders say that's okay - they can rebuild that web fairly quickly. Orb weavers even take down their webs and rebuild them every night!

When you do frog surveys, you develop that One Weird Skill - the skill to ID all frog calls in your area. And it is so rare you get to use it that you feel the need to apologize for interjecting your Frogness whenever applicable.

Ope, Michigan.

A tabby cat with very green eyes stares up from within a catio of chickenwire. Behind her lurks a weird cow-spotted little gremlin cat with a dark triangle nose and yellow eyes, out of focus.

The only thing she could like more than the catio is if her human were in there with her. #cats #catio

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

It's hard to tell how big it is from the ground. Any idea on turnout numbers?