Christine Ridgway [Commissions Temp Closed]

‘Cause he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. He’s my home-boy, my rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, my good-time boyeh

Thou shalt arrest the damn president.

A shallow creek running through a pine forest with several colourful foliage

A Creek in the Woods

I heard a Pileated Woodpecker hammering away but wasn't able to locate him at first. I spotted him when he leaned to the side; he was directly on the other side of the tree.

Graphic with old parchment background and the following text: YE OLDE FOLK NAMES FOR NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS PART 2 The answers: 1. Baldpate= American Wigeon 2. Bog-pumper=American Bittern 3. Cherry-bird= Cedar Waxwing 4. Chewink= Eastern/Spotted Towhee 5. Red-eyed Greenlet= Red-eyed Vireo 6. Ground-Robin=Eastern/Spotted Towhee 7. Hairbird= Chipping Sparrow 8. Hell-diver= Horned Grebe 9. Shite-poke= Green Heron 10. Log-cock= Pileated Woodpecker

The answers to yesterday's Ye Olde Bird Names quiz 🪶

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

behold a guy that doesn't understand the situation is so dire that even a *one time* cash infusion of $3000 could be lifechanging for people

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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If this cold crud would go away and leave me alone forever that would be nice 🤧

Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”

#californiacondor

A woman with a thin face wearing blue nightclothes and a crown of blue flowers pears out of a window.

Day 4, Mayweather Praisegod. Patience's mother, recently deceased after a long illness. A woman who's kindness marked her out from much of the community. #marchhares #art

#chiikawa

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

A cotton swab dwarves a small jumping spider on a green wall. The spider is drinking from the wet cotton.

Every time I see a spider, I grab a cotton swab, dampen it, and slowly approach the arachnid.

I get as close as I can and, sometimes, they’ll reach out an exploratory leggy, and then shove their face in for a big drink.

Anna’s hummingbird with willow fluffs in beak mid flight

I absolutely love nesting season. All the birds get so colorful and busy!

Anna’s Hummingbird 📷🌿🪶

OUR TIBERIUS AND FAEL ARE FINALLE COLORED, YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! 🥳
I reeeeeeeeeeeeally hope you like them: it was a real challenge to find a way to keep the golden parts shiny, but I'm very happy how they turned out! 🥺💖
#art #kiss #2Danimation #oc #cartoon #elf #fantasy #couple

🙌🙌

a grizzled, frumpy looking fish being reclusive inside of large barnacle shell, pacific spiny lumpsuckers in the fore and background. Padilla Bay Aquarium

So many cool art mutuals going to ECCC

I wish I was a con person to at least go say hi/get some fun art swag.

alas I am this human version of this:

Meme photo of brown bears on a hill with the forest and mountains behind them. Text reads: the forest told me that we should start a revolution

Posting this again for reasons 🌲

a gouache painting of a pacific wren perched on a mossy branch and its vibrant radiating song all around int in abstract shapes. painting wreathed by shells, crystals and small pebbles (nfs)

I've heard the Pacific Wrens singing again! 🥰
I think that means its time to find this piece a new home!

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Doctor: Over the last month, how often have you felt nervous, anxious, or on edge, or afraid as if something awful might happen?

Me: Right? Solidarity, man. I feel ya.

Doctor: No, I need you to tell me an actual number of days.

Me: Oh sorry, I thought you were doing small talk.

Yeah I like our city flag :D maybe I'll do that

Same, I've contemplated putting my state or city flag up instead since that's a better measure but if there's ever stars and stripes up by my name you can safely assume my account's been compromised.

The Disappearance of Young Adult Books and Services in Public Libraries: Book Censorship News, February 20, 2026 Teen collections in public libraries are disappearing. So, too, are professionals dedicated to serving this demographic.

Book banners are trying to create a world in which no one is able to imagine living lives different from their own

Getting my Birdle in one go feels pretty awesome 💪

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

An old woman with cataracts in a bonnet, white frilled blouse, red skirt and shawl.

Day 3, Lydia Praisegod. Oswald's mother and Patience's grandmother. A aggrieved woman bitter about the direction of her life, anxious to see her family's lot improve.

Miniature yellow daffodil flowers

New place has some early spring mini daffodils!
💛 #bloomscrolling

Illustration of a male lion solemnly looking at his lioness partner in the foreground. The male lion's head and mane take up the entire sky, with the left side covered in night, and the right side covered in sunshine and light.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...

Let’s see, a new pinned post maybe.

I am an illustrator and I also make pictures with my own hands for animation and games sometimes.