that's awesome! I hope your kids end up getting as much out of 4H as I did if you end up enrolling them

same open hole as in previous pics, but now with an orange and white folding sign placed over it that says "portland water bureau"

hell yeah pwb came in with this folding sign, it's less likely to stay up well during high winds than the pge cone but this is a sign that the jurisdiction in charge of this hole finally noticed it and might do something about it

my entire feed is sexy watto and pleas for the immediate death of the potus. classic internet vibes

a bacterium's primary goal is to be two bacteria

I am expecting it to happen right after christmas

I see that the opossum furries have found the opossum picture. hello all you permanent fingerless glove folks, I am not a furry but I sure do know a lot of furries at this point, I hope you enjoy my posts

it seems like everyone can smell it in the air, I hope they're right

an opossum curled up on a lap

here is she

yes, and I told her she was perfect

I got to pet an opossum today

a side view of the tank. the water is green and a bit murky, and there are multiple shrimp visible among the aquatic bamboo and dead tree branches

here is a side view of the tank, I think it is developing into a really lovely little ecosystem

a large striped aquatic snail eating duckweed

I keep forgetting to update this but the tank is still doing great, here is one of the mystery snails going ham on some greenery

pricedown when i released pricedown on april 17th, 2000, i had no idea the journey this font would take. it all started as my modern interpretation of pinto flare, a display typeface from the early 1970s. i was aiming for that boxy, retro de- sign that captured the essence of "the price is right" logotype. little did i know, pricedown would become associated with something entirely different-- the grand theft auto video game series. it's funny because it wasn't even the first time this typeface was used in a game. back in the 1980s, it appeared in a wrestling game on the nes. now, here's where it gets interesting. when rockstar games used pricedown for grand theft auto, i was actually working for them--but in a different branch! i was an art director at rockstar to- ronto, while the main office in new york handled the graphic design. they used my free version of the font, not realizing i was an employee. talk about a small world, right? i had my own history with the gta series, working on grand theft auto london and testing grand theft auto 2. but i never worked on the game that made pricedown famous. looking back, i'm amazed at how popular pricedown has become. but i'll be honest--i don't really feel like it's truly mine. it's essentially a copy of the font from "the price is right". there's not much of my own personality in it. oh, and the name? it's a mashup of "price is right" and "showcase showdown".

grand theft auto III title font in white with thick black outline

the history of the pricedown font (used for grand theft auto III and onwards) by ray larabie, former art director for rockstar's toronto studio (font released april 17th, 2000) mastodon.social/@jplebreton/... web.archive.org/web/20240811... gta.fandom.com/wiki/Fonts

fuuuuck

sometimes I repost something specifically for @itzu.bsky.social . this is one of them

One easy way to tell seals apart from sealions is that the latter have a different number of electrons

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

in a bus I feel way less likely to die because if someone hits a bus with their car, the bus is more likely to win

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

he's just jealous

If you were at the My Chemical Romance show in Toronto, you got the new CHICKEN/FISH audience signs. I have added a new section to the Language of the Black Parade article about the designs, including color swatches! (Scroll to the bottom) blambot.com/pages/the-la...

The Trolley Opportunity

alright so this is why I kept not being able to see people's spider pictures

"Based on the iDigBio API results, there was an attempt to count unique bear species in Florida, but the response contained a maximum of 5000 unique values"

scratch that last one, apparently there is an incalculable number of kinds of bears in Florida, exponentially rising at all times

I hope you get a passing grade this time

this is another way to say guinea pig

tallbaby

cats please

understood, sometimes you just gotta take in cursed knowledge