hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

Uggi the dog down at Reykjavík harbour

Good morning

wombat sitting in a bowl on a scale showing weight with mouth open in a surprised expression

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

A manul standing in front of a bright green, leafy plant, staring at the camera with a direct, judging gaze.

Take some time to enjoy the greenery, it's Manul Monday!

Neck and head of Western Grebe looking directly at camera. Bird has black feathers on top, extending to just below the eyes; the rest of the head and neck are white. The eyes are red with small black pupils.

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #headshots. Gotta love the red eyes on a Western Grebe.

A manul standing in a rocky area of its enclosure, staring alertly but calmly at something to its left.

Happy Manul Monday!

Was this in her job description?

Two pictures of a cat taken through a glass so its face is distorted. In one it looks confused, in the other aghast

*gasp*

Brown anole from my lunch break. I don’t think he was happy about me being on his bench. Giving me my last warning

🐈 New comic: You Have Cats?🐈

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

A Pallas cat Photo by Ryan Aw Sony A1 ii, Sony 400mm f/2.& GM + 2x TC

A Pallas cat Photo by Ryan Aw Sony A1 ii, Sony 400mm f/2.& GM + 2x TC

A Pallas cat Photo by Ryan Aw Sony A1 ii, Sony 400mm f/2.& GM + 2x TC

A Pallas cat Photo by Ryan Aw Sony A1 ii, Sony 400mm f/2.& GM + 2x TC

Hi I’m Ryan and I spent a month pooping in holes at -50c just to take a picture of a cat

Here’s the cat:

#mongolia #sonyalpha #wildlifephotography #conservation #pallascat #photography #travel

'In the Ramtop Villiage they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up winds down - until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.' Terry Prachett. Author and Humanist

Thinking of Terry this week.

It's hard to believe it's been 11 years.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

He was our patron, and he is sorely missed.

A mushroom on a woodland floor. It has a double stalk and from this angle it looks very like a pair of legs, a human bottom and a hitched up skirt exposing same.

Looks like a fun guy.

LASK laskakademieooe and jakobwnkr voestalpine Stadion 冊 SAMDED estalpine GAM BALL ฿ WANKER 47 S 60K 它 2,387 160K laskakademieooe Wanker bleibt längerfristig beim LASK

Huge signing for LASK.

Jakob Wanker.

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.

#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car

The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror

The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror

“Look at that bird”

A Play In Three Acts

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

B E H O L D 🐣 🪶

photos from an excellent study by Cohen et al (2021) of a cerambycid beetle just straight up doing it with the flower of Disa forficaria, in a classic example of a ~sexual mimicry pollination system~

the humiliation of going on a hot date then finding out she wasn't even in the same PHYLUM (then someone writes a whole paper about it, with photos of your wiener)

Guys being Dudes

A young boy pets a large tabby cat, who appreciates it enormously

Vivian Maier
New York, 1954

#Caturday

Several baby boer goats playing on a goat playground

So. Many. Babies.

Captured in bright indoor lighting before a hessian pin board, a Great Horned Owl with wide-eyes and wet-plumage is cloaked in a white cloth. Spiked feathers radiate from his head in all directions, like a hairy durian, accentuating his look of shock and indignation. We may have found the true paragon of Owls in Towels.

A Moist Owlette is freshly showered at Owl Park San Vigilio, a zoological park in northern Italy 🇮🇹 via fb.com/816647270688... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

a arbor seal pup touching the side of their face to an adult

Bonus seal cuteness, featuring my previous bestie.

A brown and black tabby cat with wide green eyes. He’s being held firmly as he has stolen half a hard boiled egg which is in his mouth.

One of my favourite ever lads: egg thief

So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it,

And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done.

And then to look the other way. To let her steal it.

I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday -

Crime.