possible hot take: I really did not like the mode 7 style animated sprites in gen 5 pokemon.

It's weird, because I love the stadium / colosseum 3D models, and I see how the animated sprites were trying to add some of that personality, but they just look like a mess to me. Loose pixels everywhere

this is the final stage!

pixel art of a fantasy creature in the style of the original pokemon. the creature is a black snake with a large leaf on its head and a vine going down its body

Florida never really bothered with making actual whole oranges, they did the ones for juicing. Something something WWII something something juice concentrate

photos of adult male and female Pleotomodes needhami ant-loving fireflies. The male is fairly standard looking for a firefly and mostly black with some dull red on its pronotum, while the female is wingless and cream-colored. photos by Jay Keller and Richard Joyce

we don't know what they do in there

the Ant Fireflies live in the Florida scrub, the weird dry part that got mostly destroyed for oranges and Disney World

There is so much cool stuff in Florida. People don't even know about the Ant Fireflies, the fireflies that live in anthills with the ants

I try not to be bitter, but I don't like to see my home state get more weak and sick every year. The whole history of Florida has been finding new ways to squeeze the blood out of the land, and now it's so busted they can't even make it grow oranges.

pixel art of a fantast creature in the style of the original pokemon. it is a light green snake monster with large eyes and a dark green leaf on its forehead. four large sprites represent the front and back views of the creature, and then eight smaller sprites represent its icon on the overworld

sssss

Deeply inhale the smoke while you look upon the new state of Florizona

I just hope all the UF and iDigBio people pushing for more genAI are enjoying the unprecedented 200 year drought and ongoing wildfires all over the state. Their owners said they can't talk about the environmental impacts of their toy, but at least now they can see them

illustration of the horses in the game Rimworld, which are cartoon-like and depicted as limbless. three brown horses are in a green field. in the foreground, a foal sniffs its parent. in the background, another horse looks at a gravship flying by in the distance

rimworld horses

not to beat a dead horse but after Crema Games has made a pokemon-like, a vampire-survivors-like, and now an Ark-Survival-like, I can't wait to see their take on fortnite

if only we had invested in more data centers

Watch duty online map showing lots of fires in the southeast

chat is this good

the other day I found some dog or cat kibble in there, which makes some sense, but now the hair is throwing me off

there's a severe drought and now you're going and spoiling the water for everyone else by putting hair in it. must you

Crow standing over bird bath with a big wad of grey hair in it

can someone explain why this crow put a big wad of animal hair into the birdbath

and they were like, almost certainly sitting there and yelling "help"

more like they hurt the whale's gfs right in front of him

we may never understand the true intentions of this huge animal that lives in herds and lives for 70 years

part of the wikipedia article concerning the whale ship Essex, which was sunk by a bull sperm whale while the smaller boats were hunting other whales

stock photo documenting that sperm whales have very large brains

did Herman Melville write this article

LMAO

I don't know the names of any of those anime gacha phone games, so I call them all "big tiddy anime gun girl adventure ___" with a number or some other game title suffix at the end

Yeah I don't regularly contribute to iNat but I use it to gauge where to look for certain things

Cotton quilt in mostly blue and purple squares arranged in various gradients

Close up image of the hand quilting in white thread

I finished my first quilt! It's all cotton. I made the top with a machine, but the rest is all hand-quilted. I was especially inspired by the art of Jessica Poundstone. The specific colors are just based on the options I had at the store (they didn't have anything nice-looking that was orange).

Lake Okeechobee

Have not seen a zebra longwing (most common butterfly here) in a few months, so I went on iNaturalist to see if maybe it's just this street or whatever. No one has reported one in the entire county since February.

USA drought monitor for the state of Florida. Most of the state is in "extreme" drought, but a large portion of the northern border is in "exceptional" drought.

It's really bad

It's so dry. The high level drought-tolerant scrub freaks are wilting. I have not seen a single zebra butterfly this year. Even my hügelkultur are failing