Worbs bird art with scribbled IDs on each warbler orb.

Okay, my handwriting is awful but it was faster than typing over the image, so here are all the orbs identified, hope this helps!

A field-guide style painting of a small, brown bird, possibly a sparrow, except the bird is depicted flying away from the viewer. It's labeled, "Rear-Tailed Evader".

Illustrated by John Sill:

Bless David Wiesner because I tell ya, if I'm the illustrator of a lovely wordless picture book with beautiful paintings full of whimsy and wonder and I learn that it's being used as some kind of assessment test for children, I'd be *LIVID*. 😫

in the early days of the net websites used to have messages like "welcome to my amazing webzone, i hope you enjoy the things i've collected that represent my strange mind." now they're just like "by clicking this box you agree to recieve targeted advertisements in your dreams"

Philip Hood original art from Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs and After Man, in frames.

Yup, the originals. Now to get them on the gallery wall.

Getting High as a Teenager vs. Getting High as a Middle-Aged Adult THEN: Your parents are out for the afternoon, so you page some idiot named Lunchbox. NOW: You go to your dispensary, The Grass Menagerie, and thoughtfully su...

THEN: Your parents are out for the afternoon, so you page some idiot named Lunchbox.

NOW: You go to your dispensary, The Grass Menagerie, and thoughtfully survey an embossed menu in a well-appointed waiting room.

An appropriate reaction to visiting the MOS.

I’ve only done the orbs with warblers, but I’ve done variations on the blocks with other birds.
#birds #BirdArt

Crossover of the Millennium right here.

Why is there no great online archive of scans of every Viewmaster reel? it wouldn't even be difficult

I mean this in all sincerity: if you follow me, and you're bothered by the idea that I might either push back when someone is rude to me or lock/restrict a thread I don't want to engage with anymore, unfollow in peace. Nobody's making you stay here. You will be happier elsewhere. Be free.

A screenshot of TV Tropes alleging the reason for the coconuts in Holy Grail was due to budget constraints and not just, you know, because it's funny.

LOL. LMAO.

I feel like a not-insignificant portion of this kind of overthinking is TV Tropes' fault...

Stylized and textural drawing of common goldeneye ducks in blue and green rippled water, two black and white males and two brown headed females.

Common goldeneye ducks are here! Here's a drawing from a couple years ago when I was finally able to identify them on the water nearby.
#birds #WildlifeArt #natureart #BirdArt

If you wanna inject some positivity into this world, my request to you is:

If you like a creative person (artist, musician, craftsperson, literally anything), tell them you like their stuff. Doesn't have to be me, in fact I'd prefer it if it wasn't, but you'll make their day, I promise.

A blue bird stands on a bare branch with tail fanned out to the side and head twisted around at an awkward angle to poke underneath it.

Blue Jay assembled incorrectly?

Nah, just preening that pretty plumage

#birds 🌿

Just in case you missed it the first time I shared

My Beloved Brontosaurus is going to get a new printing with my real name on it! 🦕

Reading is basically what if scrolling made a movie in your head highly recommend it

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

Second off -- err, sorry. I got distracted by some birds and I plum forgot where I was going with this. 😅

A Disney meme complaining how "every recent Disney character looks just like Rapunzel!" And it's the characters from Big Hero Six with Rapunzel's face edited on everyone, even Baymax, to make fun of "Disney Sameface" complainers

So first off, we're all WAAAY too sensitive to the dreaded Same-Face

The main characters from Hexed. They look very... boring.

Update: oof.

Friday Fragments #9 A new Triassic dinosaur is something amazingly, perplexingly old.

Friday's newsletter is out!

It's free, and you can learn a little about a very cool dinosaur named this week. The carnivore's affectionately been called a "murder muppet." 🧪

FOR THE AFTERNOON CROWD

Trish's quick watercolor painting of Keiko in place of the sad horse thinking, "Maaaan..." in that meme.

So I just finished the @yourewrongabout.bsky.social three-parter on Keiko the whale...

"You're the best girl that I ever did see / The great Larry Bird, jersey 33."

Honestly, you can take your pick from any part of "Summer Girls" by LFO.

I think of "Off the hook like my man, Mr. Limpet" at least once a day.

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

We should have never doubted this man