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hi, how are ya? 🦎

[Geiger counter noises intensify]
Adorable Leachie!

Small milk snake in leaves after being released.

Tiny milk snake gnawing at my finger as I (reluctantly) carry him outside.

After all... why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

Resisting keeping wild snakes is so much harder when they get into your house on their own. Technically, I wouldn't be stealing it from the wild, I'd be stealing it from the hallway, which is completely different. 🐍

Tegu stealthily creeping through plant cover

Tegu climbing over a rock

Zoomed out view showing he's climbing through a tiny planted area around a tree

Wild tegu mode engaged 🦎

Tegu laying in the grass looking out over water

This was so peaceful right up to the point where he kicked me hard in the face because I wouldn't let him run over the edge of the cliff 🦎

Wild garter snakes tongue flicking

If I'm not supposed to pet wild snakes, why do they look like this? 🐍

Tegu sleeping on a pillow in front of a fire

Fairly sure the day it is cool enough to turn the fireplace on is his favorite holiday. 🦎

Exciting mail day - just picked up a Radiorem bottle, and the forbidden lapel pin (Radium anti-static device). #GlowAndTell

Tegu lizard napping in a patch of sun in front of grass and trees.

Today's reptile moment of zen 🦎

Off the rails.

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@lucyjanesantos.bsky.social - I blame you for getting me obsessed with this spinthariscope.

Brass spinthariscope and case

This has been my grail item for so long! W. Crookes Spinthariscope. Arrived this morning. #radiation

Hammertail robberfly eating a damselfly almost twice it's size

Saw a very ambitious robberfly today #entomology #insects

Pink oyster mushrooms block sitting on a table.

Grew some pink oyster mushrooms and almost didn't want to harvest. #mycology

Tegu standing to look out the windows. He has one paw up and clearly is begging to go outside.

Guilt trip champion 2025 🦎

Harvested golden oyster mushrooms

Underside of harvested mushrooms.

Golden oyster on log.

First time foraging mushrooms - I'm so upset I didn't know what these were when I saw them last year. #mushrooms #foraging

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

tl;dr Mad

I think the lizard had some trouble sleeping last night 🦎

Now I'm building out automations to let him know when we are out of the house so he doesn't think we are ignoring him. See how rational this all was?

Loki was using his buttons to wake us up at 3 in the morning to turn on his basking lights. I setup #HomeAssistant (Not entirely because of him, but partially because of him) and setup a light switch button. The system also reads his button presses out loud in our offices so we don't miss presses.

Setting up a custom voice assistant for the lizard today... Every step that led here made sense - which means this definitely isn't over-the-top unhinged lizard lady behavior. 🦎

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Awesome, I hope he likes it as much as loki loves his. He claimed it before I could even get it fully unpacked. Listing was "Bench Cushion 36 Inch - Chenille Fabric"

Head on view of a large tegu on a fluffy red pillow. He's tongue flicking, and looks happy.

I can't believe i didn't realize this was his pillow when I ordered it 🦎

Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin.

You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰

#VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍

This is super important.

A very cozy tegu napping on a red pillow in front of a fire.

Morning nap by the fireplace 🦎

Large tegu waiting by a package of treats.

Tegu with his tongue sticking straight out.

Tegu, still standing by treats - looking straight at camera.

Our daily argument about second treat - he makes some shockingly eloquent points for an animal that can only huff. 🦎