Increasingly exhausted by how even the simplest online search results in nothing but a list of things to purchase as though the only purpose of the internet is to buy more stuff.

When artists are quitting the industry in droves because they can't afford to feed themselves, thus ensuring eradication by corporations embracing AI further, no I don't think stealing art in any guise is okay.

Not even then.
Nope.
Not then either.

What if a show was a completely different show?

That's a stunning photo.

Frankly … If your political party needs to cheat to win elections by gerrymandering boundaries, and you are OK with that, then you need to take a long hard look in the mirror and question your own ethics and values.

If you need a hill on which to die, “election integrity” is one!

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

well these are cute 🥲
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Economics was the only course I had to repeat in university because I couldn’t get past the fact that it was clearly entirely made up.

Sigh. Yeah.

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A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

*sigh*
If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it.
If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it.
If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you.
I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

I bought a Panasonic Lumix ZS99 camera for myself this winter because I wanted a better zoom than I could get with my phone and I've been so impressed with it. It was less than $1000 and it fits in my pocket!

American robin in a tree

Beaver eating a branch

Muskrat swimming

Four white pelicans perched on a rock in the middle of a river.

Wildlife critters on my morning walk. American robin, beaver, muskrat, American white pelicans.

First inning of this Jays-Dodgers rematch is right back to the World Series vibes. LA is hitting homers and the Jays are driving runs in one base at a time.

Just because a TV show’s episodes are less than 30 minutes long does not mean it’s a comedy.

Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam turned on its side with God at the bottom and Adam at the top. Adam has been labeled “Tree” and God and his little angels have been labeled “Bunch of underground mushrooms”

Made a visual aid about mycorrhizal networks I call it Michelangelorrhizal Network, sorry

It's still going on! This is from yesterday:

As an entire genre: plums. Always plums.

A small white flower growing very close to the ground.

A yellow flower at ground level

Found the first spring wildflowers yesterday. Spiny phlox (Phlox hoodii) on the left and Leafy Wildparsley (Musineon divaricatum) on the right. It's supposed to snow again tomorrow, so you can understand why they don't want to stick their heads too far above the ground.

I think this about magpies all this time.

The biodiversity crisis is as urgent as the climate crisis.

Same. I was here first. I get to do what I want to.

This is basically what I realized in the first and only economics course I ever took.

move slow and repair things

The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/12/w...

I hate how stupid everything is.

Yet another small yellow daisy: Hairy False Goldenaster (Heterotheca villosa)

Once again, a small yellow daisy: Curlycup Gumweed - Grindelia squarrosa

One last time, a small yellow daisy: Curlycup Gumweed-Grindelia squarrosa

Clockwise from top left:
Hairy False Goldenaster- Heterotheca villosa
Curlycup Gumweed-Grindelia squarrosa
Common Sneezeweed-Helenium autumnale
2/2

A small yellow daisy: Colorado Rubberweed-Hymenoxys richardsonii

A different small yellow daisy: Woolly Groundsel-Packera cana

I promise this is a different small yellow daisy from the first two: Butte Marigold-Tetraneuris acaulis

And a different small yellow daisy: Spiny Goldenweed-Xanthisma spinulosum

Looking through last year's photos and thinking about how many of our wildflowers are basically small yellow daisies.
Clockwise from top left:
Colorado Rubberweed-Hymenoxys richardsonii
Woolly Groundsel-Packera cana
Butte Marigold-Tetraneuris acaulis
Spiny Goldenweed-Xanthisma spinulosum

1/2

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed.

Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

An embroidered design featuring a flower and leaf design that includes a little owl and mouse.

Dabbling in some Jacobean crewel work embroidery. Generally pleased with it, especially my little owl.