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Multiple angles of a ceramic sculpture of a fox like canine reclining on all fours on the ground with its head tilted upward, its eyes large, soulful, and inquisitive. Its pelt is full of reds, browns, greys, and black. Flora creeps all over its neck and onto its shoulders. On its back is an intersection of a rainbow flag, trans, and nonbinary flag, all three joined together by a full moon. Under the moon reads "SURVIVAL" Below is a panel of white canine forms tenderly embracing; snout touching snout and resting on eachother. Under them a flower almost resembles a heart, and by the sprawl of its roots are two canid skulls facing eachother.

"Survival"

Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire

A piece about caring and bonding deeply intertwined with survival, and death as a legacy to the building of love and community.

Post 1/2 #ceramics

Here's some art. Abolish ICE.

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) Black-crowned Night Heron from Berryessa, San Jose, CA, USA on January 19, 2026 at 03:17 PM by Tser. tongue-bone

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This was absolutely for a very specific frame I had 8)

I'm here for these ears

Um pássaro de plumagem predominantemente branca, com cabeça cinza-claro e bico vermelho-vivo, está em pleno voo. Suas asas abertas revelam detalhes em preto e branco nas pontas, enquanto suas patas vermelhas estão estendidas para baixo, como se preparando para pousar sobre a água de tom acinzentado que preenche o fundo da imagem. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Gaivota-de-cabeça-cinza
🌎Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

A gaivota-de-cabeça-cinza é uma ave charadriiforme da família Laridae

📷 Paulo Fenalti

A photograph of a Black-crowned Night Heron. It is perched in a tree and the tree is in better focus than the bird because I am not a great photographer. The photograph is a portrait of the heron, from the chest up. It is a grey heron with enormous red eyes with yellow eyelids, a black cap, and a long, pointed black and grey beak. The heron's beak is wide open with its tongue extended. The tongue is bright pink and sharply pointed, with a backwards facing point near the base, looking a bit like a spear or something. I really don't know how to describe heron tongues. They are bony and weird and I think they're neat.

tongue-bones, tongue-bones, sharply pointly tongue-bones

mood

A glowing purple scorpion wearing a Santa hat jumping out of a present box. The text reads: Surprise! The enchanted scorpion of your dreams! It's the perfect gift for you - a normal person who understands the ramifications and complexities of owning an enchanted scorpion. Adults can make informed decisions about the things they own. Kids need help. Only buy safe gifts for kids this holiday season.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Green anole, head and part of its tail poking out of a large oblong moth cocoon dangling under an oak twig

It's Dec. 1st, which means I begin my recap of the year's favorites by posting a creature per day for the duration. They may be something rare, something pretty, something silly, something I just love for Reasons, or something all of the above.
Here's an anole cuddled in a moth cocoon, for Day 1. 💚

Most likely. I was on my way to wetlands nearby, walking through a suburb when I first saw it. It ran down a private road, so I walked in the opposite direction it was going. It wasn't long before it ran back past me into the wetlands, so it must have found the chicken close by.

tser's 2025 iNaturalist Year in Review Tser's highlights and stats from 2025 on iNaturalist

www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/t...

You can tell I was busy with almost-dying in January.

- A little bird told me...

- Wait. A little bird? What size?

- I... what I meant is...

- Please, select the size of the bird that told you something:

Running away from death 𓃘

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Repost with a tweet you still think about

raven child looking exactly like an adult except for the BRIGHT PINK MOUTH its gaping at its parent in the hope she'll stuff some food in there

raven baby continuing to beg extravagantly from dubious parent bird

the parent has flown away but the baby continues to flutter its wings and gape after it hopefully

I need to clean my windows but look how baby this baby is

three raven kids loitering in my bird bath, looking for crimes to do

in better news the raven I fed when she broke her wing last summer has THREE unbelievably stupid babies this year and they are SUCH brainless feathery assholes I love them

You echoed my taste in shelter cat window shopping with every single one of these.

I almost walked off the pier in Chicago when the Piping Plover flew by. "That was him!" I exclaimed. "Yeah, I saw you almost die," said @zlatohrbitek.bsky.social.

Look, if you want to work birding into a murder mystery the way to do it is to have the murderer get caught because they found a county bird at the site where they dumped the body and created an eBird checklist for it.

I sent you
the war plans
that were in
the group chat

and which
you were probably
saving
for select eyes

Forgive me
they were juicy
and and I was
shitfaced

HUGE IN FLIGHT BIRD FOOTAGE VICTORY: Belted kingfisher in close proximity(under 50 feet!), in flight, AND video of it sticking the landing.

You don't get much better than this!

#birds

Year or the Snake paper art of a snake in a plum tree, shedding a dragon skin.

Year or the Snake paper art of a snake in a plum tree, shedding a dragon skin.

Year or the Snake paper art of a snake in a plum tree, shedding a dragon skin.

Detail of laser cut artwork with wood and shell veneer with gold leaf and painted flowers.

‘Time For a Change’ is now available through Valkarie Gallery! The snake is shedding the skin of last year, the year of the dragon. This was a very technical piece, definitely a challenge!

Link below.

#art #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake

I mean "T-rex holotype" is an OKAY "dinosaur fossil" I guess but we have MANY more holotypes in the section of Invertebrate Zoology thank you very much

Um pássaro de tamanho médio com a parte superior do corpo preta e branca e a parte inferior branca está sentado em um galho de árvore contra um céu azul claro e uma lua crescente. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Gavião-branco
🌎Pseudastur albicollis
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O gavião-branco é uma ave accipitriforme da família Accipitridae.


📷 Thiago Silveira

This Fungus Grows on Horns and Hooves! - Observation of the Week, 2/11/25 Our Observation of the Week is this Horn Stalkball fungus (Onygena equina), seen in Ireland by @paddythecurious! I think most of us are used to seeing fungi growing on soil, or decomposing logs, but i...

Onygena equina is, no surprise, up there among my favorite fungi (I could never choose just one). Patrick Kiely's photos on iNat nicely combine dead thing and fungus aesthetically and science-ically, and give me @tkingfisher.com's "What Moves the Dead" vibes.

Painting some west coast misty magic…

Beautiful red roses on a pink background with flowing script saying "Roses are red," Violets budding and blooming. "Violets are blue," Hydnora plants opening up looking like terrifying red mouths bursting from the hard sandy soil. "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyll," A splash of cute red and pink hearts. "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day."

Botany valentine. Another from years past. New one on Monday!

Whether "it would make the cat(s) sad" determines 90% of my choices.