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Gremel
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I love art like this. Someone sat down to carefully render a bunch of sea bugs as gorgeously as possible. Beautiful.
October 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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List of the new ones that are groyper-posting. Does not include ones like CPSC or NOAA that have been here for awhile and haven't really posted unhinged things (if you can call CPSC "not unhinged").

If any of them start acting like the others, I'll add them. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Block all of them. Do not post actionable threats, do not interact at all.

Fascism on the Internet isn't validated by agreement, it's validated by interaction. Singal has no reach here because we collectively quarantined him en masse. Same approach is needed for the regime.
October 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
@alorelei.com just spent 10 minutes trying to retrieve a chopstick that I dropped in the crevice between the stove and kitchen counter using the coiled wire retrieved from an old laundry hamper. And that’s why we’ve been together for - as of this week - 21 years. Go us. ♥️
October 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The gremel has learned the cube bed is for relaxing:
October 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Another way I explain it is that I am "she" in the same way a boat is.

My gender is boat.
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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There is a term for people who tell you to abandon your morally & logically sound principles in exchange for mass appeal; enemies.
September 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This beautiful gremlin who still lives under the chair except for mealtimes
September 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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celebrities channeling betty white: thread
September 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Leetle feesh, chillin een his leaf
August 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good to know!
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Films that feel small, claustrophobic, isolated; thinking MOON (2009), THE LIGHTHOUSE (2019). What else we got?
August 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Beeeeans 🫘
August 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Gremel emerges from beneath his chair haven for meal times:
August 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Shout to the cashier who gave me my produce for free because the weight scale was broken and he didn’t feel like the effort of moving my purchase to a different register.
August 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Haven’t posted the little gremlin in a while. Here he is:
August 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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goo goo g'joob
And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I’m a crow
August 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Belated announcement: This cute little creature lives under my chair. His name is Ash.
August 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I added alt text to this but can’t see it. Am I missing it? Has this happened to others?
Here, enjoy a bee
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here, enjoy a bee
July 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My partner convinced me to participate in Terrible Comic Day. Here’s my terrible comic about terrible bugs I have made peace with (with a shout-out to MBMBaM):
June 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Have you ever seen a gull eat something weird?

A new citizen science project, Gulls Eating Stuff, is tracking what gulls gobble, and anyone can participate! Submit your photos, explore the observations of other gullers, and help document the changing diets of gulls for science.
A New Citizen Science Project Tracks Gull Diets - American Birding Association
A new citizen science project called Gulls Eating Stuff invites public submissions of gulls eating anything to help researchers study urbanization’s effects on gull diets and behavior.
www.aba.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A PSA and a brag -

PSA: COVID is still out there! I know! I because I have it! Grrrrargh

Brag: I’m now sequestered to my corner of our home to keep @alorelei.com from getting it, and she very thoughtfully came home today with a bouquet of roses to spruce it up special. Such a sweetheart.
June 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Can confirm:
The gochujang - peanut butter brownies turned out deliciously.

Ate way too many of them today.
Wonder why.

(spoiler: it’s the stress)
June 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM