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Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

From what I remember from several visits years ago, I saw all of the Podarcis lizards at the NY botanical gardens specifically around the patches of brush and boulders by the children’s educational area in particular, so if you ever go there during the warmer parts of the year that’s where to look.

I’ve seen that species running around part of the NY botanical gardens before!

For context, the teabag-covered bicycle in question was just something that sat in this one spot along the sidewalk in downtown Toronto for, as far as I’m aware, the entirety of the time I lived there, and none of the teabags ever looked recent, either.

Just a deeply strange persistent fixture.

A rough depiction of an angry face etched into a sidewalk, presumably drawn with a twig while the cement was still wet.

Way back when I lived in Toronto for a couple years, it tended to be an exercise in occasional absurdism, like discovering that someone had doodled a face in the wet sidewalk cement so it would dry that way. Or that antique bicycle covered in used teabags, which I unfortunately never photographed.

As someone who reads a bunch and writes occasionally, the head of a scammy, cultish AI company being named ‘Altman’ just reads as lazy or deeply unserious writing.

As I’ve been saying jokingly for more than a year now, the brain-eating worms died of starvation. 😂

@kathryncramer.bsky.social

I saw a video on that, and if I could find some available in my area I’d definitely try it.

The explorations into treated Mycelium as a construction material are fascinating too!

Mycelium bricks exposed to high heat apparently become extremely durable.

I’m less excited about that than I am the technology surrounding both mycelium meat-substitutes, and novel uses for mycelium as a material for things like packaging and construction materials.

A fluffy black cat perched on a bookshelf staring directly into the camera

Lafayette

While on vacation roughly a decade ago in Europe there was a pay-to-enter restroom, which we encountered while I was desperately in need of a restroom, that required you to pay digitally via an app.

The app in question was in a language we couldn’t read.

Before reading the text I genuinely thought this was a macro photograph of a rough opal, really fascinating painting.

I’m drawing a blank but I *think* I get the vibe

Glad you like it!😁🥳

Digi holding up a peace sign hand gesture whilst wearing little sunglasses and an odd lampshade with a curly straw and cocktail umbrella sticking out of the top

Digi holding up a peace sign hand gesture whilst wearing little sunglasses and an odd lampshade with a curly straw and cocktail umbrella sticking out of the top, but shown under blacklight for extra party mode vibes.

The lampshade in question used as a reference

Did a silly blacklight doodle of @digitalvagrant.bsky.social inspired by a Tiki lamp lampshade
#Vtuber #doodle #fanart #blacklight #art

Love the crazy large ears 😂

One of my cats back when he was younger used to look like his fluffy tail was almost bigger than the entire rest of his body, unfortunately he was also very skittish back then so I don’t have any photos that show it.

While I am not very much not religious myself, millennia-old burial sites still being utilized up to modern day with the proper respect maintained is fascinating. Too much of the mental framework of life in current times is focused on the now and the short-term future with barely a nod to the past.

I’m lucky enough to live somewhere rural myself with some degree of strict environmental protections, but it’s still been noticeable here, even if I’m admittedly the sort of person to already be primed to notice to begin with.

What worries me the most is how many insects that most people *don’t* casually stop to watch like that have likely disappeared just as much or even more drastically without anyone to notice.

I grew up in the late 90s/early 2000s with Monarch butterflies as THE ubiquitous butterfly that schools would use to teach young kids about butterfly life cycles in North America because of just how common they were, even if I don’t think I ever saw a mass migration myself.

Within my own lifetime it’s gone from being able to see vast numbers of butterflies annually in whatever random empty field to ‘I hope I see a couple that aren’t already dead this year’, and fireflies that used to make the backyard look like it was twinkling are now barely present most years 2/2

I look at something like this and I realize a lot of people can barely conceptualize what they’re seeing. Insect species are disappearing or having huge population declines and people are kind of noticing, but the response is disturbingly muted. 1/2

This is the kind of thing that more people need to see. Think about this, all those insects and arachnids of so many different species, found on one *single* tree.

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

A doodle of the character Yarnaby from the game Poppy Playtime, including a smaller alternate view with his vertical false-head mouth splitting open.

A doodle of the character Yarnaby from the game Poppy Playtime shown under blacklight to showcase the fluorescent detailing, including a smaller alternate view with his vertical false-head mouth splitting open.

A closeup of the ‘open mouth’ version.

A closeup of the ‘open mouth’ version, shown under blacklight.

Doodled Yarnaby from the game ‘Poppy Playtime’ again. Still haven’t played the game myself, but he’s such a charming little horror. #blacklight #doodle #art #fanart #Yarnaby #MonsterArt

If a clown is actually a bunch of tiny aliens in a human-sized clown mech, does that make it a clown car?