Doug Palmer

This Osprey is so majestic…. 🥰
And in the bird world this is considered a sick move….

Ducklings in a watermelon pool. #AGoodPlace

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Enormously proud to announce that Atsushi Kaneko's SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL 1 (based on Dororo by Osamu Tezuka) has been nominated for an Eisner Award in the manga category. We're proud to have worked with @fantagraphics.bsky.social to bring this title to North American fans.

Started writing chapter 1 of book 2 of my new series. Will be alternating with final polish of book 1 but feels so fabulous!

Beautiful!

Small, perky snail with head poking out between its two shells. The snail has a pair of long, tubular tentacles. The shells are like clam shells, except they are vivid green. The hinge is at the top. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/166680082

In this photo, the snail is lying on its side with the hinge of the two shells pointing towards the camera. The shell and snail are both very bright green. The snail has white blotches on its back. Julia exquisita: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. © uwkwaj CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/263219540

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole.

In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9)

Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

Wow 🤩 One of the reasons that I love microscopy is that we don't really need to tell people why it's cool and how cool it is exactly - just take a look and be amazed and no words needed. 🧪🔬

Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions

‘“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. “But, it wasn’t.””

Junji Ito Nominated for Eisner Hall of Fame Late manga creator Shigeru Mizuki pre-selected to enter Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame this year

Horror manga creator Junji Ito has been nominated for the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame this year!

Now with the complete thread about this wild illustration from an even wilder 16th century fanfic!

This is a beautiful. I love lucky imaging in astronomy. It's the kind of approach that seems so simple and effective (in principle) that when you hear about it for the first time, you wonder why you hadn't already thought of it or already heard about it.

Oracle. Then you can use the movements of the fish for divination.

A tall white stalk in the distance.

Close up of the top of the tall white spot where there is a little pink cone shaped thing with tentacles growing out of the top.

The top of a solitary hydroid that has a large top. It's in the shape of a flower, but pink tentacles in place of petals & a deeper pink center part.

Questions: this is a solitary hydroid stalk; is the little guy at top a new top part that will become like last pic? If so, these things lose their tops & grow news ones?! Where does the one that falls of go? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 788 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife

A long slender three-tined fork made of silver lies in a museum case. There is a separate piece shaped like the bowl of a spoon that slides on and off of the fork tines using little metal grippy brackets, so it can transform from a spoon to a fork. The handle is shaped like a Roman soldier. it is labeled with a card that says '"German, seventeenth-century, silver. Item number 914C."

It’s time for the RENAISSANCE SPORK!
And the fascinating problems museums face when dealing with objects no one expects. 1/?

Sharing for my countdown to the release “Inventing the Renaissance” coming Feb UK/Mar US https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS #HistoryPix

Hello #PortfolioDay #artists I'm looking for someone to do some B&W old fashioned 19th-century style storybook/myth illustrations for a book project. If you do anything in these styles, please send me samples!

A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background.

A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using.

Happy Winter Solstice!

These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.

Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.

The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

A quick thread on making a coke or beer can pinhole camera.

You'll need black and white photographic paper, I use Ilford paper - see photo.

Needle, scissors, tape, waterproof tape, cardboard (for lid), can opener, tripod or something to stick the camera to at an angle.

Surely this image is from The Inferno?

Now I wish I’d said “Clooneyesque.”

Derek Jacobi in I Claudius

Derek Jacobi as The Master in Doctor Who

Morning all

Before coffee. After coffee

(BOTD 1938)

#BCAC

Nuts! It’s too late to be one of the first 100 followers of @sirderekjacobi.bsky.social !

Bought syllabub, or home-made? Asking for myself.

I for one am happy to welcome our new neckless overlord and his totally real Canadian girlfriend.

A Hubble Telescope image of the Ant Nebula, which looks like an ant. It includes three blobs like the ant’s segmented body, a protuberance in the end blob resembling mandibles, and streaks somewhat like an ant’s legs.

The Ant Nebula looks more like an ant than Italy looks like a boot.

For my first video post, here is my cover of the Samsung washing machine “cycle completed” song

All the major Aesir gods are disabled so one 100% can’t do Norse fantasy without it! (Odin missing an eye, Tyr a hand, Thor chronic pain from whetstone head injury, Loki maimed mouth, Heimdall prosthetic teeth, Hodr blind, Mimir is a severed head, etc.)

Yes, where?

The bacteria in a cycled aquarium are mostly on surfaces, like the surface of the gravel. You can try putting lots of gravel from the 20 into a new 10, and putting your fish in.