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They look like the underside of mushrooms 🍄❤️🤍

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

This interview is wild 😆

@charamath.bsky.social hiiiiii! I wish I had more funds and could buy your vaquita print but I'm glad someone with more money will be able to get it and send $$$ to help the world's cutest porpoise

3 more days!

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This is so cool!

@marlenacannon.bsky.social 🥲

This made my day

Nothing will beat the Gandalf / balrog version, but... Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Science educator: My approach rejects the education deficit model and focuses on meeting life-long learners wherever they are, and scaffolding understanding using empathy

@mothmonarch.bsky.social and this is my Halloween crew 🖤🧡🖤🧡 (part of it anyway)

Ooh, as proof, here's the first chapter: nerdycute.com/product/fate...

Just heard about Disney's "Coven Academy" and I swear to the ancient ones that me n' @marlenacannon.bsky.social named our book "Fate Academy" first 😭 #authorproblems #indieauthor (yes I live under a rock, the moss is nice, join me - but also, it was kindof a working a title, should we change it?)

@marlenacannon.bsky.social check out this pure 1998 geocities energy: sos-pigeons.forumactif.org

Commonly* known as the long-legged land shrimpie! *by me, just now

I agonized over picking my favorite only to feel personally attacked by my results 😅

@marlenacannon.bsky.social interesting and sad to see how it's changed over the years fansplaining.com/the-death-of...

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

cat tax #cats (not my cat, she's feral, but likes me for some reason - ie snacks - despite the fact I had her fixed and had to lock her in the bathroom for a week while she recovered)

Also, this li'l friend was ready to FIGHT me for my patio chair #spiders #entomology

Much-needed day of reading under a tree with a sleepy cat on my lap and wind-bathing. Three chapters in so far and very much enjoying it #books #reading #BookSky

TIL that MapQuest still exists. @mapquest.com someone in your marketing department deserves a giant bonus and/or a raise

@hugbox.bsky.social hey plantfriend, what are you working on these days?

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chaos sketching with whatever I found lying around just to try to MAKE something #opossumposting because my sis and I are working on a book that features an #opossum (kinda)

@charamath.bsky.social this made me think of you 🤎

I can't even post a "this is fine" joke about this. This is not fine.

Calvin and Hobbes strip that says it quite well;

@marlenacannon.bsky.social

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Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.

15-20 years ago, i would've told myself, "im not working hard enough." Now im saying, "why do we have to work that much just to live?" Do you even get to "live?" To allow yourself to be exploited for labor, and tell yourself it's all worth it?

I just learned that there's a hashtag to share my weird hobby of oogling old floor tiles 🤩 #TilesonTuesday Not a great photo but the first one I found in my camera roll, from the 12th c. église Saint-Géraud fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89g...

@marlenacannon.bsky.social it has to be option 2 or 3, otherwise it's a surface piercing 😆 also now I need a Miffy with Pearl Earring

Reminder to myself

Also, today I learned that bat droppings will crush into a fine powder if you squish 'em, whereas mouse droppings won't. (At least, our local bat varieties - apparently it's the remains of moths they've eaten)

Found this poor bat in the barnyard, probably looking for water. It's incredibly hot and dry. The local bat rescue came and took it for some TLC 🥺 (and then nerded out about all the bat droppings in the barn)

A chilly friend #insects #butterflies

See also: existentialcomics.com/comic/655

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

@drewavery.bsky.social hey, I was promised medieval fishing discussions?

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A robot I approve of! This is the kind of tech innovation that's actually useful (and saves lives! grain silos are dangerous!)

Tiliqua rugosa is a species of blue-tongued skink native to Australia that has many names: Shingleback Bobtail 'Sleepy Lizard' & my favorite: Pinecone Lizard. Let's talk about the time a zookeeper's burnt lunch led to a discovery about how the sleepy lizard survives Australian wildfires.