The youngest #kakapo alive: Awarua-A3, 17 days old today. Despite appearances, she’s doing well. She won’t be leaving the nest until mid-June. It’s a long breeding season! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds.
happy 17776 day everyone
An abstract doodle in brush pen and pencil, made using the rules in this thread. It consists of irregular loops of grey ink and lines in red and blue pencil. Some of the loops are clumped together, some are nested. Some are singletons, but that's ok. Nothing wrong with being introverted.
Warm-up dice doodle:
1. Roll a D6. If odd, draw that many loops nested one inside the other. If even, draw loops next to each other in a clump. Repeat to fill page.
2. Connect loops in clumps together using short lines. Connect nested loops together by drawing a cross that touches all loops...
speculative dragon behavior
I also took some pics
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
need more calm?
Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy
ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.
I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime:
Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart!
Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm
Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).
Model of sacabambaspis helsinki
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream
The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"
I'd unscrew the side panel
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
for comparison purposes
screenshot of my quiz results: “Congratulations! You are a Quiz Destroyer. You answered 20 questions and didn’t break a sweat.” badges say: “Hydrated…?”, “Breakfast Appreciator”, “Behaves Unprofessionally”, “Burger Supplier”, “No Mayo”, “Fun Guy”, “Inbox Zero”
Do you like taking unscientific personality tests? I have developed one that will definitely tell you something about yourself. Guaranteed free of malware! Extremely shareable results!! It’s free and online!!!!
wuffs.org/quiz/
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
people don't want an agentic os they want to do this
thank you c:
upper right! upper right idk why I said left
@ehrenenglish.bsky.social hiiiii, beautiful work on the eel facts calendar 🥰 I've been admiring it for months waiting to hang it up. what are the grey guys in the upper left, congers? I was writing an image description for some friends on discord and realised idk who they are.
"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
thankies <333
oh that would be so nice of you 🥺 it can sit in finland until next con!
it's not letting me, weirdly, there's only the option to message the seller - maybe doesn't ship internationally? ah well, it's ok! I'll find something similar
aww thank you but I wouldn't take your last skein <3 it's not that critical to me to have reflective neon yarn I'm just being a magpie
