A Yellow-crowned Woodpecker clings vertically to the deeply fissured grey-brown bark of a tree in Tal Chhapar, Rajasthan. Its brilliant red and golden-yellow crown contrasts with a pale face marked by dark streaks and a bold black-and-white checkered pattern across its wings and back. The background fades into soft earth tones and green leaves, emphasizing the bird’s vivid crest and the rugged texture of the trunk.

Flame on timber.

Yellow-crowned Woodpecker.

📍Tal Chhapar, Rajasthan.

#lensonwildlife #ThePhotoHour #nature #photography #woodpeckerwednesday 🪶

Reminder!

I'm going to need to catch up on so much news...
>~<

Crash-preventing features should be standard, not pricey upgrades Tell automakers to make proven safety features standard in all vehicles they produce

Tell automakers to make proven safety features standard in all vehicles they produce action.consumerreports.org/nb-20260120-...

I think they noticed that bsky has the juice.

"One time," my neighbour said, "my dog escaped and chased a car down the road."

"Did he catch it?"

"No, he didn't." My neighbour scratched his chin. "What are you gonna do?"

We looked from my proud dog to the chicken-legged hut he'd somehow corralled into the yard.

"Dunno. Leave the country?"

Internet broke. Still broken. I will be offline for a time yet.

A small, fluffy Shima-enaga (Long-tailed Tit) sitting directly on fresh snow. Its round white body stands out against the bright surface, and part of its long tail feathers is visible behind it. The background is softly blurred. 新雪の上に直接座る、丸くてふわふわしたシマエナガ。白い体が明るい雪面に映え、後方には長い尾羽の一部が見えている。背景は柔らかくぼけている。

A Shima-enaga (Long-tailed Tit), unusually sitting on the snow. And yes — the tail is in the frame 😏 🪶
ちょっと生成AI🤖で作ったみたいに見えるかも💦
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Long-tailedTit #シマエナガ #birds #野鳥

nothing wrong with their energy levels!

Intense northern hawk owl flying by.

Happy #SubperbOwl Sunday! 🪶

Photo of a little over a dozen tiny orchid flowers. Each flower is shaped like a tiny person with a white body and a pink head and hood. The body is covered in pink polka dots. The background of the photo is green.

One-leaf orchid. Such a beautiful little wildflower. NWT, Canada.
#orchid #flower #wildflower #botany
Each flower is about 1.5cm high.

My 2026 Japanese general election thread starts here. We're now less than a half hour to polls closing.

Photo of Minimus and Silvius, the Latin mice, dressed as Britons and holding a mouse-sized carnyx (based on the amazing specimen recently excavated in Norfolk). Minimus is wearing a tartan kilt and a gold torc, while Silvius has a green and white checked cloak. Minimus' arms are too short to hold the instrument at the proper angle, so Silvius is helping him to support it.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 488
investigatores antiquitatis nuper carnycem in Icenis effoderunt (Archaeologists recently dug up a war trumpet in Iceni territory). Minimus carnycem suum inflat; Silvius eum iuvat (Minimus blows his own war trumpet; Silvius helps him).
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social

SideQuested Book 1 Let me be absolutely clear: SideQuested wouldn’t exist except for Ale Presser. We were working on our first comic for the better part of two years before she told me she had this idea for a f…

So SIDEQUESTED book 1 is getting some amazing reviews and I'm over the moon, but due to how publishing works they always put the author's name before the illustrator's, and I need to emphasize all of this is because of @alepresser.com

#book #books #BookSky #art #artist #author #writer

photo of a pencil sketch of godzilla's face. The sadness in his eyes betrays the smile he is attempting

Godzilla doodle 😈✏️

They will never be sorry for what they did. They think it's their RIGHT to do this shit.

But please, PLEASE let's fix the system & get to the point where we at LEAST make them sorry they got caught.

Really super extra, publicly, humiliatingly, life-without-paroley, hard bench bed forever sorry

The cryptid, mothman stands on a derelict and abandoned car, nature has began to reclaim it, and the road.

Mothman! I added a bunch of prints to my inprnt shop if you feel like added some new art to your walls: www.inprnt.com/gallery/time...

Side Quested Book 1 - Side Quested Webcomic About the Book The course of true love never did run straight…For fans of The Owl House and Critical Role comes the first volume in the lighthearted and epic adventure…

We've got a book coming out next month! YAY!

Everything is on fire and I have no idea how to promote a book in these conditions! BOO!

You can read the comic for free here! YAY!!
sidequested.com

Or you can preorder a copy here for under $20 USD! YAY!!!
sidequested.com/book/

#book #books #BookSky

A digital illustration of Skeletor as depicted in the 80s He-Man cartoon. For those unfamiliar he is a a blue man with a fantasy bodybuilder physique. He wears a cross-body harness with some little bones at the center and a matching purple hood that frames hood face which is somehow just a yellow skull. Here he is seen yelling up to the sky and shaking his little blue fists at the heavens. Cutting him off at mid-abs is some gleaming 3D lettering in the style of the Masters of the Universe logo that reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

@stewartwaine.bsky.social

YOU MUST TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Have some happy:

Lore Olympus volume 11 cover. Which is the Lore Olympus volume 1 but reversed.

concept art for the cover

Lore Olympus volume 11 cover final verses concept.

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%.

This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

Neat blog post, terrible when out of context photos.

That's fun! He commits!!

Johnny Bravo on Ice. Let's see it.

A sleepy grey and white tabby in shrimp pose, pulling part of a purple woolen shawl up to his face

This is Popsicle Boing Boing Tum Tum Beenie Weenie Shackleton but we usually call him Pops

Black and white dog, licking his own nose while wrapped in multicolored blankets.

Ben in his blanket nest ❤️

Bullfrog face emerged from pond full of different ways of being green

Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

"Hey I'm going back to the dildo box, I just had the idea to juggle them"

Cameraman who would later be arrested after singing "FASCIST DILDO CLEANUP CREW DOO DAH DOO DAH": @ckinferno.bsky.social

But don't ask him questions, he won't say shit ✊

(posted with permission)