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They/them, antiracist Heathen, AuDHD, weird nerd into plants, bugs, string, and human systems. And too many podcasts. Chaparral / Muwekma Ohlone land.
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she helped
A jigsaw puzzle in progress on a coffee table. A cat is sitting in the middle of the puzzle and looking like "why are you paying attention to this and not to me"
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Pingu grumpy "well now I am not doing it"
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
A lovely decorated cake with white and purple flowers. It also says "Congratulations on the Autism!"
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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ok I admit the Diatom Sculptures are pretty cool
Glass case containing several spiky, biological-looking things. Close up. The art is made of various beads, wires, and feathery plastic pieces assembled into cell-like forms.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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that and Jesus's Holy Bussy
A medieval Book of Hours with a stylized illustration of the sacred side wound of Christ, where the spear stabbed him. It's, uh, extremely yonic
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Dr. Brian Fisher, California Academy of Sciences, standing in some wilderness, being interviewed for a documentary. He has a giant snail crawling up his face. Tumblr comment: "DOCTOR FISHER GET OFF THAT MANS FACE YOU'RE A SCIENTIST NOW ACT LIKE ONE"
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Small white dog on a leash in a park, next to a playground. There is a sign for the playground that says "Notice: No Digging" and a picture of a dog digging with the 🚫
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A comic where a guy with a gun is threatening two other guys. Gun guy is labeled "whatever sad thing is going to happen in the end of TMA" and the two other guys are Jon and Martin. Martin is about to get shot. Jon leaps in front of him going "Noooo". Martin bends over so he's in front of Jon, yelling "Nooo". Jon folds in half so he's in front of Martin again, yelling "Nooo". Gun guy looks exasperated.
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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And if I try to push them away from English in my head, they suddenly go all the way to thick Bostonian.

This is because, for @tkingfisher.com's John Ingold, I practiced imagining him with the voice of my ex coworker, the thickly Boston accented construction site super
Denton rubbed his face. “It’s a mess,” he said. “Dark doings,” Ingold added. The way he pronounced dark as dahhhk was so pure that I had an involuntary urge to snatch up the teapot and find a harbor to dump it in.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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(insects)

re-housed my mealworm culture into this clear container because Hamid seems to enjoy watching them crawl around

*jurassic park voice* his vision is based on movement
Critter keeper full of shredded wood and oats, with a piece of egg carton and some chunks of carrot on top. Small black beetles about half an inch long are climbing all over the carrots, getting hydrated.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Yeah, honestly, I would expect more like
The Longaburger basket building. It is several stories tall but shaped like a classic rectangular picnic basket, complete with handles that stick up several stories higher.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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in case you didn't know:

dogs evolved specific eye muscles for doing 🥺 puppy dog eyes 🥺 in order to elicit more care from humans

www.newscientist.com/article/2206...
Diagram of canine face muscles. One half of the diagram is a wolf, showing muscles circling the eye and running straight down the muzzle. The other half is a dog, highlighting two additional small muscles. The levator anguli oculi medialis muscle (LAOM) pulls upward on the inner corner of the eye. The retractor anguli oculi lateralis muscle (RAOL) pulls outward on the outer corner of the eye.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social right after you found an extremely tiny jumper, I too was blessed to find a minuscule spood on my wall! I think it even looks like a salticid!
Tiny black spider about 1mm long on a wall, with my finger for scale.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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yesssss time for more
Great Basin rattlesnake. I know it's not a chime-adder but hey it's a cool ass looking snake. It has dramatic diamond patterns of light and dark brown, edged with black and white as if for maximum Graphic Design points. Narcan nasal spray.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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"If you think about it, Lebanese shepherds would have made great cowboys at that time."
Most Arab American immigrants before 1965 were Christians, whom the courts recognized as white (some lawsuits had to be filed), but about 10% were Muslim. I once met an elderly Shiite Muslim in Dearborn whose grandfather came from Lebanon in the late 19th century and made his way out to Kansas as a cowboy. If you think about it, Lebanese shepherds would have made great cowboys at that time. Somehow you never hear much about the Shiite cowboys.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I just saw these two photos in a row and holy shit what a contrast. Mamdani smiles like a happy social organism. Newsom smiles like the entire top half of his face is dead.
NBC News: Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race. Photo of Mamdani in a suit, sitting at a table in front of a US flag, with a huge grin on his face. His eyes are all crinkled up and he looks genuinely, sincerely delighted. PBS News: California approves new Democratic-led congressional map. Photo of Gavin Newsom in a suit standing in front of a US flag. He is curving his mouth up and exposing his teeth in an attempt to display the emotion of "happiness", but the smile utterly fails to reach his cold, dead eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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life goals
Elderly Bellsprout with a long gray beard, walking with a cane
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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at least someone's happy. Hamid likes to watch me work at my desk because he loves watching things move
Leopard gecko head and right hand poking out of a faux rock hide.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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What does that look like? I don't have the book but I'm curious about Yellow Signs people have made.

relatedly, I'm convinced the Pseudopod logo is a Yellow Sign
Logo with a bunch of green-tinted octopus tentacles embracing some kind of dark tablet or tome with a glowing yellow glyph on it. The glyph is like a letter S with a slash through it, plus a bunch more short strokes and dots that make it look like no actual language.
November 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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#Alt4You
Black and white portrait photo of a Black man, from the chest up. He has short gray hair and no beard. He is wearing a shirt and tie with a coat over it. Black and white portrait photo of a white man, from the chest up. He has dark hair and kind of a chin-strap beard. He is wearing a shirt, tie, and coat. Two black and white photos of Black people seated for formal portraits. On the left is a woman wearing a full 1800's style gown, in a conservative style, with lace collar and cuffs. On the right is a man wearing a nice suit and coat, with a velvet waistcoat showing the chain of a pocket watch. Below his photo it says "ALLEN" and "13 WINTER ST."
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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#Alt4You
Screenshot from The Economist. economist.com United States Scary stuff Headline: Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America's third-largest city. Subtitle: Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago is out of hand. Photo: A cloudy/smoky scene. (Tesr gas?) A soldier in a military uniform is aiming a gun at three people. Two of them are facing the soldier. The third is turning away and holding the front of her sweatshirt over her nose and mouth. Photo caption: It's Chi-town. PHOTOGRAPH: GETTY IMAGES Oct 29th 2025 | CHICAGO | 5 min read Screenshot of an article. Under what circumstances can federal agents use chemical irritants on children preparing for a Halloween parade? On October 28th Sara Ellis, a judge for the federal district of northern Illinois, called in Greg Bovino, a senior official at the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, to outline when his officers can deploy tear gas while remaining compliant with a restraining order she previously issued on October 9th. The answer, she made clear, is essentially never. Judge Ellis summoned Mr Bovino to court after an incident in which federal agents, confronted with the threat of middle-aged dads shouting at them, lobbed tear-gas grenades just as a crowd of children in costumes were gathering on the street. "These kids were tear-gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in a local school parking lot," Judge Ellis said. "I can only imagine how terrified they were." At the hearing neither Mr Bovino nor the lawyers representing the government disputed the specific facts, though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that the use of force was justified because agents were "boxed in".
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Selfie where I'm holding one side of my mouth open, imitating the gape clam in the previous post.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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qntm, on test-driven development
(Opinions differ on whether this a universally sound approach for creating good software. But opinions also differ on whether good software is theoretically achievable by humans, whether there is such a thing as good software at all, and even on whether an empirical definition of "good software" can ever be reached. Be that as it may, unquestionably TDD is a real thing which real software developers practice.)
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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it chilly out
A small fluffy white dog wearing a little gray fleece sweater. She is lying on a couch, resting her chin on my legs, which are covered by a blanket. She looks resigned to the cold gray weather outside, yet alert to the possibility of treats.
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Dramatic close up of pressing an Enter key, but the key is totally covered with "AAAAAA".
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM