John Gerrath

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

One of my favorite buildings here in Cleveland. The Hart Building is only 9 feet wide!

Originally the HQ of a furniture maker, built in 1868. Its facade is cast iron. Later the HQ of a biz that made scales, engines, pumps, and windmills. It's now apartments! Noisy club district though.

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

The way Ookwemin Minising is bouncing back as soon as the colonizing dirt is scraped off feels like the kind of metaphor that gets so big it becomes reality. I hope it does.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Stained glass

Stained glass

Stained glass

This is the 1993 World Series champion Blue Jays team in stained glass as seen at the Old Spaghetti Factory tonight. Heads on sheep & saints.

a comic that looks like a retro back of a magazine ad that says "do you have one piece of trivia that you love to whip out in conversations?" A floating young man's head says "Did you know Roger Ebert wrote Beyond The Valley of The Dolls?" A floating young woman's head responds "the drummer from Fall Out Boy is an 'anarcho-primativist'" Big text says "EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS! It's not interesting! Gain real knowledge today!" Even bigger text says "Descend into your city's sewers!" Slightly smaller text says "enter a world of esoteric truths while you wind your way through a labyrinth of forgotten catacombs!" A second young man, sticking out of a manhole, covered in gloop and smoking a pipe gives testimony: "I've seen things down here you people wouldn't believe! Beneath our feet, a world beyond your comprehension. The secrets shared with me by the mole people are worth more than 100 years of schooling!" Finally, text at the bottom says "Impress your friends! Terrify your neighbors! You'll be the life of every party!"

One Piece of Trivia

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210" It reads: "Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country. I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities. Sincerely yours, Charles M. Schulz" At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Flat, graphic poster of a Whooping Crane standing in the negative space of many Sandhill Cranes. The poster reads "The Great Midwest Crane Fest - Nov. 15-16, 2025 Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

Toronto's Imperial Pub Is Closing After 81 Years One of Toronto's longest-running and most beloved bars is shutting down, as the Imperial Pub is closing after 81 years. A brief message on

Toronto's Imperial Pub Is Closing After 81 Years

An alien looking flower with whorls and purple petals, next to the fruit growing on an adjacent vine

I want to get maypops growing next year but I don’t think I have the sun for it. Maybe I can convince my dad to grow them for me but I fear they’re hard to get started. Hmmm.

It’s just so cool to have a passionflower native to PA, and I *love* eating passion fruit.

Anybody have luck with these?

Have I mentioned how much I love Trilobites? Let me know which of these cutie crawlers are your favorite!

Art from my new book: DINOSAURS exploring prehistoric life and geological time

buy book here: a.co/d/0BJZbR4

#prehistoric #evolution #dinosaurs #fossiladdict #sciart #paleoart #fossil

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

A short clip from my Hornet Robberfly fact file video, where I where I tell the story of how I ended up obsessed enough to spend every free sunny day walking around a field near my house looking at horse poo trying to film them!
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social #bugsky #ukwildlife

What neonatal Tylenol does to a motherfucker

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

With most of the storm systems moved far enough out of the current major flyways, I feel like tonight or tomorrow night may give us one of our billion bird nights. A major help that anyone can do is simply turning off or blacking out lights at night!
#birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Find a classroom to support | DonorsChoose DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on our site, and you can give any amount to the p...

These teachers at historically underfunded schools have insect related projects -- Donations at @donorschoose.bsky.social are DOUBLED today! 🍎❗🧪🪲🐛 www.donorschoose.org/donors/searc...

Remembering Dr. Quintard Taylor, a Historian Who Made Black History Accessible Lola E. Peters reflects on the life and legacy of Dr. Quintard Taylor, a scholar, mentor, and visionary behind BlackPast.org who made Black history accessible for all.

Dr. Quintard Taylor, historian and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. From "The Forging of a Black Community" to building a global archive, he made Black history accessible to all.

Read Lola E. Peters' reflection here: soseaem.org/4mEIrTv #Seattle

Rare bird normally found in South and Central America spotted in northern Ontario | CBC News Birdwatchers from across northern Ontario and as far south as Toronto have flocked to the rural community of Foleyet to catch a glimpse of a rare bird usually found much farther south.

weird bird alert

The Artpocalypse is nigh!

@hvon.bsky.social showed us around the Artpocalypse Now! Art Market this morning. We’ll be here at Starbolt in Philly until 5!

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Great seeing R.A. Washington, Cleveland-based artist, poet & performer, sitting on West 29th in Ohio City with a vintage typewriter writing poems for passersby. Founder of the wonderful band, Mourning [A] BLKstar. Read more in my column, “Skrtic’s Pics” in clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/p...

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Digital art of four warblers represented by circles with colors blocked out for the markings. Artist mark is in the middle. The species represented are from top to bottom and left to right: Ovenbird. Worm-eating Warbler. Louisiana Waterthrush. Northern Waterthrush.

Digital art of four warblers represented by circles with colors blocked out for the markings. Artist mark is in the middle. The species represented are from top to bottom and left to right: Golden-winged Warbler. Blue-winged Warbler. Black-throated Green. Prothonotary Warbler.

Digital art of four warblers represented by circles with colors blocked out for the markings. Artist mark is in the middle. The species represented are from top to bottom and left to right: Tennessee Warbler. Nashville Warbler. Mourning Warbler. Connecticut Warbler.

Early spring, while Dad was in his final stages of cancer, I went back to my block bird art & gave my mind the task to reduce the birds more, using circles this time. I ended up doing 36 warblers, making these WORBS as a result. Realized I never shared them here, so short thread. IDs in alt. 1/3

there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely
1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma)
2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar
3. Proceed to grow as usual
4. Repeat step 2