I commissioned this piece by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for personal reasons. As some of you may know, before I transitioned I had extensive contact with the psychiatric system.

These experiences, which started when I was a child, were profounding negative and traumatizing.

small gray squirrel in closeup

Hewwo. Squirrel of the Day for April 23, 2026 #sqrlpix

Four ovoid robots with banded arms and legs, spelling out the letters YMCA with their arms. They're dressed as some of the Village People, left-to-right: the cowboy with hat and neckerchief; leather-daddy/biker with peaked cap, chest harness and handlebar moustache; motorcycle cop with crash helmet, and construction worker with hard hat and aviator shades. They're all smiling, because wouldn't you be?

498) Villagebots. Inform young men that there's a place they can go when they're in a new town. Somewhere that has everything for them to enjoy and where they can hang out with all the boys. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Fascinating research on how Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled pond critter, manages to not only learn & forget, but pass along learned conditions to progeny after cell division.

Memory without brains!

Also, they look like a bag of Bugle chips gained sentience, so there's that.

A black and white photo of him in his graduation uniform.

Two panels from Pogo showing Pogo and Deacon Mushrat. Mushrat is lecturing pogo and dialogue is an example of Shikuma's wonderful lettering.

Characters from Pogo are signing a Carol and the words are shown as part of sheet music at the top of the panel.

Today is the birthday of artist & letterer Henry Shikuma (April 23, 1922-Nov. 25, 1985). A veteran of WWII, he became an assistant to Walt Kelly on the Pogo comic strip in 1958 and soon took over lettering, beautifully inking over Kelly's blue-pencilled layouts.

“Spoiled” autistic child would rather not be in constant sensory hell An “overly pampered” autistic child would prefer to not feel like everything is perpetually flashing, screeching and smacking her directly in the brain, sources have confirmed.  Six-year-old Mary…

Six-year-old Mary Walker, who flies into inexplicable rages when everything in her immediate environment goes bleepy bloopy bleep blorp, has reportedly been called “a spoiled brat” by helpful well-wishers.

Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a nonpartisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

patreon reward for KadenSmells 🦨 (2025)

Puppet WIP 🚧 🦊

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!

If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Just Call Her Venus of the Morning, Croc — Riley Black In 1948, paleontologists collected big fossil blocks from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. The better part of a century later, an unexpected, short-snouted croc has emerged from one of the blocks.

Yeah, sure, "dawn of the dinosaurs," but crocs were evolving in some surprising ways in the Triassic. An unexpected skull from New Mexico reveals one new form that was hiding in plain sight.

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He can lasso anyone. Jake is the boss here ☀️🐭🐍
#jake_irwin #the_rescuers_down_under #kangaroo_rat #furrymale #hotguy #snake

Orange black dragon perching on cathedral spires. His wings are underlit

Second commission for @taldren.bsky.social

#Acrylic on canvas board, 60x40 cm

#dragon #scalie #art #traditionalarr #painting #furryart

CMSN for @ finesseful_j thanks a lot for your support

Stay WEIRD!
The world needs more weirdos who love and celebrate their life!

#furry #cartoonist #furryart #fursona #originalcharacter

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

Trump and RFK, Jr., continue to suppress information showing that COVID shots work. wapo.st/41JhAhb

Warm-up doodle💗

paws on the desk 🥴🥴🥴

First trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, starring John Cena, Lana Condor, and Will Forte.

The Looney Tunes movie is in theaters on August 28.

An update to a now-classic meme from the early days of Bluesky's admitting new accounts without needing an invite code. The scene is a roller coaster car full of people (denoted by text "Bluesky's thin-skinned AI-simping admin team"), utterly-horrified at the sight of what's to their right as they pass by--a gaggle of furry icons (denoted by the text "Invite-only Bluesky users")

A little edit to this classic had to be done for the occasion

i do feel like we're headed for a realm of bigger counterculture driven by internet weirdo furries and queer/trans people that many of the establishment, even the more normie left-wing flanks, won't know what to do with. if you're uncomfortable with that stuff, now's the time to work through that.

we've seen the first flickers of backlash over the last ~5 years, with big name (self-described) leftist influencers reacting with grudging bemusement to news like a furry researcher becoming the frontline pandemic science communicator while working on a shelf-stable version of the vaccine

Commission for Evianart
Evian the stoat tending her garden.

Black orange dragon flying towards castles in the sky

"Castles in the sky"

One of my 2 commissions I made for @taldren.bsky.social

Acrylic on 60x40 canvas board

#dragon #art #traditionalart #acrylics #scalie

baby gray squirrel nibbling evergreen branch

The cuteness! 🥹 Squirrel of the Day for April 22, 2026 tastes a tree #sqrlpix

Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM

Its finally dropped!!!!!

Dundee Courier: DRUNKEN POLICE CHASE TEEN IN COURT.

Grammar is important.

Socks!

Two purple water lilies blooming above large green lily pads on a pond with reflections of a structure.

Good morning.

Gorgeous #purple water lilies, beside large lily pads, at Kew Gardens.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPurple
#ECK
#WaterWednesday
#FlowerReport #nature
#photogtaphy 📷🌳

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.

This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.

The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.