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Perfect dumb [complimentary] blog post for this Friday morning.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

Right in the perfect middle of the baseball / photography Venn diagram

We teamed up with Society of Behavioral Medicine to share how all of us—scientists, health professionals, and the public—can help combat misinformation 🧠.

This post highlights their toolkit with 10 practical tips to help identify and prevent the spread of misinformation.

OMG LF #GOMS

Not to my knowledge, but I plan to send her info through your -ologist suggestion form soon. She's amazing! 🧪🐟🛞

One of my colleagues was just telling me how excited she'd be to be on Ologies (and I was agreeing how awesome that would be) so... yes.

(She's an ecotoxicologist by the way, just saying...)

Disney bluebird lookin' varied thrushes. Embarrassing.

This is SO. COOL. I would buy a book of these. I would give them as gifts. I would award them as prizes. I would Kickstart the heck out of this!

From the Seattle community on Reddit: Corpse flower is blooming! Explore this post and more from the Seattle community

#Seattle

Corpse flower is apparently in bloom in the Amazon balls

www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

I used to work on documentaries. I am very into #birds. This doc is so, so good and it's just right there on YouTube for anybody to watch! You don't even have to care about birds to enjoy it (but if you don't already, you might after watching.)

Anyone missing a beloved #birds field guide?

Same! Mentally preparing for a weeeird weekend...

“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?”

🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.

NPO life is rough! Do you get to/have to dress up? And more importantly, will they be streaming the game?

The way my face went 😳😳😳 as a former nonprofit fundraiser......

Map that shows the city of Seattle and the locations of all the city's school crossing guards. Only about a third of the positions are filled (grey dots), while the rest are unfilled (red dots).

Hey safe streets nerds! Do you work flexible hours? Have a cool retired parent looking to stay active? Become a school crossing guard! Look at all those unfilled positions! Make it easier for your neighborhood kids to walk and bike to school! www.seattleschools.org/news/crossin...

Evergreen (a day later)

Why is this happening again I'm so tired

Did this broadcast look notably yellow to you? Everyone's skin appeared downright cirrhotic on my screen.

"Amen to that"

(PS thank you Thriftway for pulling my name out of a box and giving me these sweet tickets, I've never won a drawing before in my life and this is awesome)

A stadium full of people with their cell phone flashlights on

Salmon plushies looking shocked in a bucket

The Mariners create a truly superior fan experience #goms

Havarti party of one!

Just saw this thread... bsky.app/profile/chri...

A woman stands smiling menacingly at an open backpack full of school supplies. Text reads "Toxic school supplies?" The camera zooms in on her uncanny expression. Text reads "Not in this backpack."

All of the glitter and scented markers are fun, buuut did you know many school supply essentials can contain toxic chemicals?

How can you make sure you are choosing a safer option?
🎨 Choose water-based art supplies.
💧 Go PFAS-free and avoid stain-resistant products
🪡 Pick fabrics over vinyl.

The best salal berries I've ever had were at Deception Pass! And I lived to tell the tale 🫐

Is this like the rabbit or duck optical illusion? All I can see is pteranodon

Which song is your favorite

A mailer on support of Dionne Foster

So many the past week and they go straight to the bin! Here's one that came yesterday (I think) and somehow escaped Trash Day.