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A woman wearing a cardigan with oversized wing-like sleeves, it is patterned to look like a monarch butterfly

A woman wearing a cardigan with oversized wing-like sleeves, it is patterned to look like a luna moth

I have acquired the best sweaters ever

Mid-festival update: I have tried 6 hot chocolates. I forgot to take pics of the cordyceps spirulina chaga but it was actually pretty good. The strawberry confit is VERY good. The butterscotch caramel orange toffee changed my life and the words to describe how good it was haven't been invented yet

It's like the opening scene of 101 Dalmatians where everyone looks like their dogs except it's me and my cat's microbiome

I generally am tickled that my cat and I are on the same type of medications daily (for allergies) but now I have strep throat three days after she started antibiotics for a UTI and so I'm also on antibiotics and it's starting to feel like maybe this is actually a weird and specific curse

A zoomed-out spreadsheet that shows listed hot chocolates at different locations, with addresses, dietary restrictions that can be accommodated, and descriptions. There are also columns for if Sophie and a blocked out name want them or have already tried them

It's the first (annual?) St. John's Hot Chocolate Festival and the only logical thing to do when faced with 18 specialty hot chocolates that you and your friend want to try at various locations around the city is to make a spreadsheet about it

Every time the garage man tells me he would buy my 17yo honda if I was selling it, I mentally take note that he has just confirmed that I do not need to get a newer car yet

three Phyllorhiza punctata jellyfish. they are mostly transparent with a slight brown tint to their tentacles and many tiny white spots on the bell

as much as I complain about some scientific names, some of them are very nice. the species name of this jellyfish is "punctata" meaning spotted. that is a good name that soothes me.

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."

How to get into nature.

fingers crossed please, they said if i can demonstrate a proficient level of foraging over the next few months they will release me back into the wild

Helping your biologist friends pack for moving always involves the hard questions, like "can you throw out 1m ill-preserved corals in the regular trash" and "but the city requires only clear trash bags, they're definitely going to see it, what do I do with this rotting coral I need to throw out"

Yeah I slept like a log, my slowly decaying body provided shelter and sustenance to a wide variety of small invertebrates

I bet they could do it if I had an exoskeleton. I hate being internally skeleted

In an ideal world, I walk into the exam room, a doctor pops open the frontal bone of my skull like a car hood and then just really gets in there with like a bottle brush or algae scraper or something

At the walk-in clinic today to ask a medical professional to please disassemble my skeleton into its component parts, it would definitely fix my problems, I swear

(ALT: Wind loudly blowing snow completely sideways down a city street at night)

When two of your friends are both moving off of the island in a few days but there's an orange wind warning during the going away dinner

photo of an Acromegaloma worm by Randall Spangler. The worm's eyestalks are peeking out of its feathering white gills, like two little sticks in the center of a donut

I'm going to cry over Acromegaloma marine worms. peeky

I forgot the LINKS
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It's all really good is the main problem!!!

A long-sleeved tshirt that says "Consider MILLIPEDES" with lots of millipede drawings. It also says "Crawly by birth, creepy by the grace of god" on each arm, and "I feel the need, the need for 'pede".

A long-sleeved tshirt that says "Consider CENTIPEDES" with lots of centipede drawings. It also says "Too wiggly to live, to squiggly to die" on each arm, and "I feel the need, the need for 'pede".

Paging @derekhennen.bsky.social

A tshirt that says "They would never dream of doing capitalism" and a bunch of misnamed isopod diagrams, with names like Big Calculus.

A tshirt that says "Warning! DO NOT fuck with me when I'm wearing my SHRINP SHIRT thank you." There are a lot of cartoony shrimp drawings.

I can tell that this website is going to be a problem for me and my bank account arcanebullshit.com/products/shr...

fanciful illustration of a tardigrade, a small animal with eight legs and a rounded body. this one is green and yellow, with armor plates on its back, and colored in a checkered pattern like a quilt

don't cry ok... tardigrade

I kept this bookmarked since you replied and I am coming back days and days later to say you are right, this is the best website

I saw it at the Canadian bookstore Indigo so I'm not sure if that helps

Je n'ai pas de place pour le cloporte roulant télécommandé!!!!

A toy isopod RC car thing, it says RACE, CURL, & ROLL!

A top view of the box, text reading RC Rolling Pill Bug.

I don't have space for the RC rolling pill bug I don't have space for the RC rolling pill bug I DON'T HAVE SPACE FOR THE RC ROLLING PILL BUG

Some days you just have to buy a jar of sliced peaches and then devour the entire thing like you just ran away from Camp Green Lake to absolve your no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather you know

fanciful drawing of a branching green algae covered in several ostracods

D is for Dichotomosiphon (it's the algae)