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A squirrel holding a berry amidst a lot of snow.

And we all remember last years squirrel..✨

A white raku pottery polar bear sculpture with distinctive and unique cracks in the glaze, in full, right side.

A white raku pottery polar bear sculpture with distinctive and unique cracks in the glaze, closeup of face

A white raku pottery polar bear sculpture with distinctive and unique cracks in the glaze, in full, left side.

A raku pottery polar bear sculpture being pulled from the heat of reduction.

Polaris the Bear combines the magic of raku with the feeling of first snow on a starry night: crisp air, soft light, and that moment winter asks you to slow down.

A small reminder to breathe, wander, and let the season settle in, for soon spring will come.

#art #pottery #gaybear #furryart

Floor level close up of a woodlouse spider, brown body, lightly stripped light shining through his legs. Large pedipalps and even larger black fang covers.

Here he is, my woodlouse spider from my old house many years ago. See those two huge black bits in the middle, those are the fang covers.

Smallest child is now old enough for private Covid vaccinations in the UK! Huzzah!

He was very brave. And has been jabbed.

Dartmoor pony nestled among the gorse, by bare winter trees, Dartmoor, Devon

Pony among the gorse #Dartmoor #Devon

Dartmoor ponies are able to eat gorse, bracken & brambles & trample paths through thorny scrub, creating the open areas needed by fritillary butterflies & orchids. Their grazing helps maintain moorland habitat.

The @bsbibotany.bsky.social has developed its events' calendar of webinars, workshops, meetings and training.

Richard Bate will look at the Orchids of Ireland on 24 February at 7pm.

The Irish Spring Conference is on 25 April in National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Where to study degrees focusing on plants in UK and Ireland? Teams in #BUC2026 made single image of BSc/Masters/PhD opportunities at their 32 institutions. Great to get so much information about plant degrees together. (Also plants at some other places without a team this year!)

Reminder that the deadline to apply for this great role as BSBI Wales Officer is midnight on Monday 23 February.
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A cat who once had a big suburban house and a hugely stressful prestigious job and now lives on a cliff instead, free of the trappings of modern life, to the admiration of its friends, who, as they idealise its life, never imagine the terrible loneliness it feels during cold winters, six miles from the nearest shop, cinema and pub.

THREAD.

A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.

You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

So having managed to avoid the Olympics until in a waiting room today…

Is the skier who fell in the half pipe ok?

🤎

If I do put any reviews on there, I can see more wisdom in this approach than any other. All but a couple of the media reviews of the book, while positive, suggested it had been skim-read. Meanwhile the ones by people on here who've read it all tell me that people truly read and connected with it.

English Bluebells seeds and their leaf shoots

Every year we spend multiple back breaking days collecting English Bluebell seeds by hand directly from seed pods

We then sow by hand where there are gaps

This is the reward

The taproots have already anchored the seeds, so now the first leaf shoots have broken ground

I just love all the various names, because language is fun. But so is accuracy and that’s why we have scientific names too. Even if us taxonomists keep changing them as we figure out more lol

Oh! We have woodlouse spiders here too. The fangs on those things! Need em to get through the tough shells.

Also every-time someone starts banging on about insects being the next protein source, remind them that lots of folks who have crustacean allergy would be affected by that.

This

Indeed! Or interested in hogs at all. Probably just got the name because they tolerate low oxygen nutrient rich environments…

So found near pig wallows.

*slater…

My phone does not believe me…

And there are chitons, molluscs that roll up like a slater and hog lice, that are freshwater skater looking things that only roll up a bit too.

Yes, the ones that can roll up completely are pill bugs.

Which are not true bugs…

N. Ireland missing from the map, we call them woodlice or slaters. Which with our accent sounds like Slad-ers

No, this is brilliant.

Using your synesthesia powers for good.

I haven’t noticed that myself, but I certainly notice AI images, get immediate uncanny valley ick effect even ones with no people in them.

He suddenly remembered he had indeed been at the vets when they turned up with a photo of him driving the car and explaining the concept of being charged with leaving the scene of an accident.

Police, photos, let them handle it. Had to do that a while back when a guy dinged my car with his door in a car park while I was sitting in it. And just drove off, but not before I got photos of him and his licence plate…

He told his insurance it wasn’t him, then we had to involve the police.

This show, they only gave us one series :(

There was this cave, towards the end…

They heavily implied things about crinoids that will haunt you. (And probably aren’t true)

Unless they were brittle stars… but I’m pretty sure they said crinoids.

Nautilus (TV Series 2024– ) ⭐ 6.8 | Action, Adventure, Drama 50m

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This is one of my favorite creatures of all time (after the squids and cuttlefishes of course)

This is the second most terrifying image of crinoids I’ve ever seen. First was the scene in nautilus when they dragged away and presumably ate some guy in an underwater cavern.

The Good Boy Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band published a post on Ko-fi

Missed this morning's #Storytime? Here it is: a little tale about how we see ourselves, and the distorting mirrors we use to keep our sense of self in shape... ko-fi.com/post/The-Goo...