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Original Yith were so kawaii!

Autumn baby ducklings in the botanic gardens! Not as great as @banditelli.org 's videos, but I hope everyone enjoys! Alt text keeps breaking: momma duck uurging her ducklings down a very tiny waterfall. #Wellington

Beaks and eyes pointed down, a pair of roseate spoonbill chicks press their heads together while standing atop a nest in the Orlando Wetlands.

You've probably seen some photos of this roseate spoonbill nest in the Orlando Wetlands, because I've seen about 500 photos of it, and there were a couple dozen more photographers there snapping away while I was. #birds

Color photograph. A black and white mama cat is surrounded by four two-week old kittens. Two of the kittens are white, one is black and the other is a gray and black tabby. They are attempting to nurse from the mama at the popular milk bar. The mama looks up at the camera as if asking what the photographer is doing and making sure this is a good angle for the intro photo and post.

Milk Bar Tessa is currently very busy.
Today’s customers include:
- Two tiny marshmallows
- One mini void
- One itty-bitty tabby
Only been open for two weeks and already the customers refuse to leave.

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme

A single panel cartoon of Godzilla towering over skyscrapers. It holds a flat box in its forelimbs. People are fleeing, screaming. The caption reads:’”Run! It’s Godzilla, and he wants to teach us the rules to a new game!” The cartoon is signed ‘Rusty’. Artist is Rusty Epstein.

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the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”

Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

baja blast (young adult leachianus gecko) partially climbing out of a cork bark log after the front door of the enclosure opened. there is another flat of cork bark that the log is leaning against that baja is peeking over.

🦎❔

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

an svg drawing of a cityscape in front of a starry night sky with a large pastel moon hanging in the background

#citySkyline #generativeArt

Today’s Raven News: Chips didn’t come early. I was so happy after expecting not to see him in the fog, when he eventually came & sat on the fence with me! Sometimes when I am sat with him I get this tremendous sense of how lucky I am that he shares a tiny part of his life with me🥰

Crow at the front, Raven in the middle, Jackdaw at the back

Raven, Crow and Jackdaw! The Ravens are mainly tolerant of the other corvids. Maybe because they have plenty of food!

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape, the sun is quite low in the sky and there are frosty tones on the ground. The palette for this piece is subtle grey, violet and yellow tones. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil on blue pastel paper. 6 by 8 inches (15.24 by 20.32 cm).

A drawing in a very soft style of tall trees in an evening frosty landscape. This original artwork is available in my Folksy shop...
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#Landscape #Trees #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

Today seems like a good day to express my most crotchety old-woman-living-in-a-chicken-leg-hut opinion which is that I hate the term 'backlist,' why can't we just use the term 'body of work' instead because THAT'S WHAT IT IS

'Backlist' is so DISMISSIVE of everything not the new hotness, I hate it

Thumbnails of many canvas and cotton totes with fairy-tale, Gothic, and fairy-tale Gothic designs

In the unlikely event you need more tote bags, or in the LIKELY event you want to give a gift IN a tote bag and thus increase someone else's collection, here are a few of my designs:
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A top-down closeup photo of a pale yellow flower with serrated-tip petals, with the ground and leaves below out of focus. There are two little moths in the flower; the moths have a fuzzy gray thorax, and cream-colored wings with thin bands and edges of deep pink.

These pretty, day-flying moths (Heliolonche pictipennis), only about 1 cm. long, are one of my favorite desert spring insects. The only flowers they visit (desert dandelion, desert chicory, or scale bud) close up at night; the moths sleep inside them, which is scientifically adorable. #BugSky 🌿🐙🌼

Manga Monday! It has been ages, and I mean ages since I read this one, and like many of the other manga I have featured here it is still one of my all-time favorites! In a world where only a handful of people are allowed to use magic, Coco quite by accident, discovers that anyone can actually use it, they simply need to know the runes that allow one to use it.

#booksky #mangasky 📚💙 📚🪐
With the anime scheduled to release next month I believe I could not think of a better time to feature this amazing series!

Just to refine this based on responses, the focus is definitely that the character is in a fake world being laid on for their benefit, which they start off having kidded themselves its real, and then discover the truth and can't enjoy it any more. The robots (if there were even robots) are 2ndary.

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

This advertisement is for Barclay's Lager, available in both light and dark varieties, and is shown being poured into a glass. To quench your thirst The best remark Is Barclay's Lager- Light or Dark THE DRINK FOR EVERY KIND OF THIRST

Mar 1929: Lager ad from Barclay's

«To quench your thirst
The best remark
Is Barclay's Lager-
Light or Dark»

Four activities from the ‘what to make’ books including a cotton reel snake, puppet, tractor and tank

Wooden cotton reels and what to do with them. Some Ladybird suggestions.

Artists: G Robinson, Robert Ayton

‘Discovering yourself through making’

Yes. Precisely that. Whatever you are making, music, art, literature, whatever - you grow, and other people experiencing your making and what you make grow too.

Above the Mist by Christopher Harrison Brightwell Barrow, Oxfordshire, England

The long shadow by Christopher Harrison Brightwell Barrow, Oxfordshire, England

I captured these one year ago today on the 1st March 2025. One of my most memorable mornings out in nature, where the conditions and light combined into the most spectacular photographs. It still feels like yesterday.

Eine Person mit schulterlangen dunklen Haaren sitzt in einem langen schwarzen Kleidungsstück auf einer niedrigen Betonmauer am Meer, die Beine baumeln über der Kante. Links und rechts ragen bewaldete Inselberge aus dem hellblauen Wasser, der Himmel ist weit und leicht bewölkt. Auf der rechten Betonkante sitzt eine schwarze Katze und blickt zur Person hinüber, unten im Durchgang zwischen den Mauern sitzt eine weiß-grau getigerte Katze und schaut nach vorn. Die Szene wirkt ruhig und minimalistisch, mit viel freier Fläche und sanften Pastellfarben.

A very round white and brown shorebird stands on the sand with blurry ocean waves behind.

The news is terrible but I’m going to continue posting birds and frogs and flowers and the sky because looking at nature can help us keep going in the face of all the awful. Please take good care of yourselves

#birds 🌿

a fluffy black kitten sitting DIRECTLY on top of her owner, in bed

Having... trouble... seeing phone

Unexpected Egyptian Goose nesting in the Rookery! It's a fair way up. I wonder what the rooks think! 😅 #ukbirding

Goodness, that's going to be a long way down for the little goslings!

Screenshot of social media post: zanebow Folgen 16. Okt. Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

Having finished First Witches Club I was craving witchiness and I thought, you know, it’s been a while since I revisited Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies (they come as a pair, really). So I started, and this is so, so true…

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.