A welsh corgi is sprawled on his back, asleep

“Draw me like one of your French Poodles.”

An immature Lophiomys imhausi displaying specialized hairs and warning coloration (A) and the same individual (center) with an adult male (top right), and female (top left), from the same trap location. The juvenile is being groomed by the male (B). FROM: J Mammal. 2020 Nov 17;101(6):1680–1691. "The secret social lives of African crested rats, Lophiomys imhausi"

The African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a rabbit-sized rodent with patterned coat.

They have no natural predators which puzzled scientists because they don't display obvious deterrents to large African predators.

That's when studies found they were packing enough poison to kill an elephant.

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

An oil painting of a girl riding on a box turtle

"A Greener Path" 12x16 inches, oils on copper panel. A painting about taking your time to notice the small things, staying calm, and remembering that progress takes patience. 🌼⁠

A giant cat, Jólakötturinn, watches over a small wintery village at night.

Beware the Yule Cat! In Icelandic folklore, Jólakötturinn, is a giant cat who prowls the longest winter nights, hunting those who didn’t receive new clothes before Christmas. So… here’s hoping socks are under the tree. 🧦🐈‍⬛ Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

#HappyHolidays #YuleCat #Jólakötturinn

A drawing of a fluffy cat in the snow. The caption reads, "you are good enough, you always have been"

A digital illustration of a warm wintery scene. A woman in a 1920s inspired coat stands in front of a cafe/bookstore with her corgi wearing a knitted sweater. There’s a lamp post with a sign written “tea and books.” There are twinkling lights everywhere

Tea and Books 🫖📚 #art

Top row: graphite opossum in a sketchbook, watercolor chickadee beside a blue ornament, graphite blue jay. Middle row: watercolor caiman head study, photo of the artist presenting beside a projected slide, watercolor green beetle. Bottom row: watercolor turtle with a leaf, graphite kingfisher on a branch, watercolor tortoise.

Drawing + paint snapshot of 2025: progress and rough edges. About 90 studies in graphite, watercolour, and coloured pencil. Middle photo is me speaking at a local group. Thanks for the support and questions. Newsletter Jan 2: my 2026 theme, why themes help you stay focused. Link in bio

A drawing of a penguin and bird friend sitting together on a snowy log. The caption reads, "In light of every hardship, thank you for continuing to try."

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Single panel comic in sepia tones of a Tyrannosaurus addressing a Nanotyrannus with the words 'you're adopted,' to which the Nanotyrannus replies, 'WOW.'

'You're adopted'

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(For the non-palaeo folks, this is in light of a newly published paper re-establishing that #Nanotyrannus, previously understood to be a juvenile #T.rex, is indeed its own genus after all.)

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Happy 8th birthday to Prussia the Dog.

Sounds like what people who want to enable harassment say about dating.

Same issue, too: consent.

One year there was an issue with the Chromebook licenses at our kid’s school, so the teachers had to start the school year NOT having the kids work on laptops, and—shocking, I know—the students learned a ton, said they preferred “hands on”/analog teaching, and asked for more laptop-free lessons.

I don't think the average person is going to learn much by accessing a paywalled scientific paper.

But the current system keeps out journalists, science communicators, policy researchers, and fact checkers from reading into a topic as well.

Go in: Settings > Languages> Content Languages and make it *unset* !

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English!

Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

The bees have discovered Brutalism

I'm not gonna share the AI "Walmart was cool in 2002" video, so instead as a person who worked at several Walmarts between 1998-2011 I'm gonna share stories of what it was actually like back then.

A man with a 32 oz Budweiser in his pocket tried to tickle me several times & we had to call the cops.

You're watching 12 hrs of live cell imaging compressed into a GIF.

A multi-nucleated mouse pre-adipocyte tries to undergo mitosis, triggers a checkpoint because it has too much DNA, & undergoes apoptosis.

The last stage is called "blebbing", which is wonderfully descriptive.

(🔬: NanoLive Imaging)

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Read this. If you wanted to distill the first couple of years of a stonemason's apprenticeship into a short thread, and add in a few decades of experience, here it is:

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I just got back on Tumblr and I can't believe how much fun it is. Brought to you by this post about a new fish hybrid accidentally created by scientists. www.tumblr.com/yingtai-is-r...

Guinness the black cat sits in his wooden kitchen chair with an absolutely blank expression. Not a single thought is happening in that fuzzy head, The barest tip of his tongue pokes out in a tiny blep.

WATCHING THE TUMBLEWEEDS OF ETERNITY ROLL PAST

Useful info for authors to figure out if they’re part of the class action. Plus she answers questions for authors outside the U.S. on how to see if you qualify, and how to submit your info if you don’t have a U.S. address.

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...