Velvet Sparrow

A pink domed jelly houses halved eggs in a round. The lid is lifted to reveal a blue ashtray beneath

A green jelly, like 1970s aspic, has stuffed olives dotted around the dome. Silver lighter built into the top

A fruity orange jelly, On a link base, has raspberries in it. Has a silver lighter built into the top

Nothing says Friday like a jelly tabletop lighter with built in ashtray edie-parker.com/products/oli...

From 1960s France, an alphabet of blotters created to promote the encyclopaedia publisher Larousse www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/b...

House numbers designed by Reinoud Oudshoorn, Amsterdam.
reinoudoudshoorn.nl/assignment/

www.kaderdesign.com/available/p/...

Image source instagram.com/p/BHiKap1gGy-/

*checks calendar*
Welp, day's a-wastin', better get to it.

Peregrine falcons thrive in Wisconsin thanks one man's brilliant idea 40 years ago YouTube video by WISN 12 News

Go birds!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vInJ...

Joins, in 1969 Plymouth Fury.

The owner doubling down and saying that people in a town with a high concentration of artists are too stupid to recognize #AI Slop when they see it. 😱
She *really* doesn't want that place to succeed.
Amy's Baking Company vibes.

Growing up, we had Woodstock on 8-track in our VW bus. I can't even estimate how many times I listened to it during our many road trips and family vacations, camping in Big Sur, bike rallies in Yosemite, beach-hopping down the CA coast as far as our $ would take us...

RIP Country Joe. ❤️

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

How about the sun. Can we make it the sun? Can they all just...enjoy reverse gravity for a moment of two and fly off this planet and into the sun?
Please...?

And miss me with the 'odd or even' BS.

And you KNOW it'll end the same way--the 'gas shortage' just miraculously evaporating one day.
But prices never going back down. 😒

@kjhealy.co
@effinbirds.com
When the stars on BlueSky align to nag you. 😆

Dear WSJ:
FUCKING CATCH UP.

Sincerely,
Everyone

Just feels a bit unfair that the only life events that society deems acceptable to celebrate and acknowledge for women are engagements and matrimony, having babies, and leading an army to wage war on the men of Ulster in order to steal a bull and one-up your own husband

I don't know, but apparently they both liked it. 😆

How have they changed the pricing display?

I'd never get through that without laughing loud enough to offend the deer.

Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.

A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50

How about Nicobar pigeons?
No, this isn't AI.
Yes, it looks like a rainbow threw up on a bird. 😁

Hi Bsky, sorry for the radio silence. I had a job offer fall through in January and have spent the year so far scrabbling to pay bills + feed myself + my cats whilst I try and get a new job. Accepting bird doodle commissions where I'll draw you any bird you want for a $10 KoFi

ko-fi.com/tytonidaeus

Better because the buns were steamed, which made the sandwich warm & soft-- something McD's didn't do for any of the burgers.

Me too! 😁

If you ever wanted to know why AI companies are trying to sell you so badly on the idea of funding their tech, there's actually an answer for that.

They're not Tech Companies. They're Multi-Level Marketing firms.

The computer equivalent of Neutralife.

I'll be opening for black & white sketchy comms ($60) and full color retro cartoon comms ($85) MONDAY Feb 9th :)

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

TWENTY-THREE YEARS OF INSTANCES.
THEIR ENTIRE MARRIAGE.
The only surprise is how she stood it for so long, that woman should be cannonized.