Molly 🌱

Vietnam continues its hot streak of owning Americans

Tracking Scarborough’s Dinosaurs - Yorkshire Coast Rocks! Have you ever wondered why the Yorkshire Coast is known as the Dinosaur Coast? Take a walk with Dr Liam's blogpost to find out.

Thanks to the brilliant @fossiliam.bsky.social for giving me just enough clues that I could find the first three. Once I'd found those, I started seeing others and was pretty excited to be able to discover my own!

Read this great blog by Liam for more info yorkshirecoast.rocks/tracking-sca...

Remember to stay hydrated on hot days…even if your method of staying hydrated is hardly efficient.

*Unsolicited Advice Klaxon*

Reminder to shut every window and close every door during the day time.

We have an indoor-outdoor thermometer & we close everything down when the two temps equalise (~9am atm)

We open everything again in the evening when outside drops back to equalisation point.

Revolutionary

This is beyond horrific.
Is that what LFI means? The government has been bought?

Tell me more

Sunset at flamborough

2 puffins at flamborough on cliff

Gannet closeup

June '25 pilgrimage to the Yorkshire coast

June '25 is top tier

We just lost a pub quiz because the quiz host thought (and still thinks) a seal is a 'land mammal' 🌊 🦭

It's so good 💜

Have you seen Loving Vincent

Juvenile grass snake in hands

Juvenile grass snake in hands

Juvenile grass snake with tongue out

Grass snake this week, basking on the riverbank 🙂

A six panel comic. In panel 1, a yellow warbler says "Hey, so I'm going to go out on a limb here". For the next four panels, it hops down along a branch. In the last panel, at the end of the branch, it sings a little song. I'm sorry.

Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

Principal Gupta from Princess Diaries "Gupta mhm mhm mhm The queen is coming." Homemade card with gouache

Heh heh

I'm kind of starting to get into the carving now.

Pencil/digital painting, a walled city gateway

Burgh

Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

The mood in LA is anxious/devastated/exhausted/ braced for more.

It's NOT all rich people. Most are artists who scraped together a down payment. And the fire has leveled Altadena, a historically Black tight-knit community.

List of GoFundMes that could use love:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

graphic with 6 previews of drawing refeference photos

I put all of my free references from this year in one pack. You can download it via Ko-Fi:

ko-fi.com/s/ac47b53b1c

Also most people are up for helping you use equipment and if there's staff there then don't feel afraid to ask them for assistance with understanding which machines to use and how to use them (and the free weights too)

Impressive in this day and sedentary age! Congrats 🎉

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

A skull and neck partially embedded in the ground. Where the eye socket is, there is a large, black ball.

As we head into 2025, I'll be sharing 25 MEDICAL HISTORY OBJECTS starting with...

#1) 5,000-year-old prosthetic eye made of bitumen paste with lines radiating out from iris. Worn by a 6’ tall woman (possibly a priestess), found near the city of Zabol in Iran. The eye would have been painted gold.

2025 bringing us Yellowjackets, Wednesday, Stranger Things finale, Last of Us, and a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Films are looking awfully sequel-y and unoriginal but I will be happy to be proven wrong 🎥