Erin KB

Be careful what you wish for. Because it might not happen and then you'll be Sad.

Trashline orb weaver - a small spider sitting in the centre of its web with web decoration (also called stabilimentum) woven into the sections below it.

Trashline orb weaver with stabilimentum. It’s less than the size of my pinky fingernail. Fun fact: if you speak at volume toward these, they’ll drop suddenly and play dead. So be polite and speak gently to them.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Close up of large grey spider with spiny legs hanging from a thread of silk.

Araneus saevus or fierce orb weaver. This one was having some difficulty and I think was at the end of her lifespan, so I moved her to somewhere she could rest. Quite a large orb weaver for around here at approx 20mm. Photo marked graphic so the spider-averse don’t get a jump scare.

Approximately 100 Canada geese flying against a blue sky. Also known as the Royal Canadian Airforce Anseriforme Squadron.

Look up. Look way up.

AI is the new motion smoothing: it’s become default on everything even though no one wants it, yet 80% of the population aren’t aware what they’re looking at is awful.

Jane Goodall was one of the people who made me interested in science as a kid, biology in particular. My career hasn’t been at all linear, but my interest in science has never wavered.

Ummmm, yes, hello! Happy Spooky Lakes Month to those who celebrate! vt.tiktok.com/ZSDThHTKt/

Mike Myers

Michael Myers

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Is it decoration or part of a complex seasonal ritual? I like to keep that a mystery 😂

Sunbeam hitting a table with three glass pumpkins - two purple and one orange - scattering their colours across the surface. A large green bottle in the back also catches the light. A wooden windmill and ceramic houses dot the background and a friendly yet still spooky ceramic scarecrow stands gourd.

Sunbeam hitting the autumn clutter just right. 🎃

'Long history of blaming mothers': Trump's Tylenol warning echoes past misconceptions Medical scholars say, efforts to find a singular cause for autism has historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma about autism

The first thing I thought about when the whole Tylenol thing exploded was the “cold mothers” theory from back when. Just a modern day way to blame mothers for autism. Working moms, vaccines and Tylenol do all have something in common - it’s that they DON’T cause autism.

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

Night time shot of cedars in a rock garden with a reddening maple tree and fall asters. Trees are lit from the porch lights so the colour pops against the darkness of the (probably not haunted, no not haunted at all) woods beyond.

How it’s going.

Two cedars in a rock garden with some fall asters and a small understory maple tree with reddening leaves. A still bushy fuchsia from spring hangs from a hook attached to one of the cedar trees. A little fairy door in the trunk of the tree adds additional whimsy.

Outside reading time views. The maples are turning out really nice this autumn.

The Nation is Lost America is not teetering. It has fallen over the edge.

New by me: The nation is lost.
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Your alt text on third picture is very poetic ☀️

There were 5 mergansers zooming around in the river behind my house this afternoon. Guessing this year’s juveniles. Looked like they were having fun.

Please stop casting evil spells on me. It’s mean and it hurts my feelings

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

"There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question."

- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

@tychobrahe.bsky.social I think about this thread between you and Trystan a lot

As a Little Girl I Always Dreamed of Collaborating in Google Docs Sorry if I've been acting weird the last few decades It's just that I was born to dilly-dally but I've been forced to hurry-scurry I was made to trade seashells for blueberries poppies for pine cones stories for songs while everyone I love sits round the same fire But instead, here I am with the entire world in my pocket— waiting for more news to break us hoping your email never finds me Lyndsay Rush

Poem by Lyndsay Rush. She’s not on Bluesky but is on Insta as maryoliversdrunkcousin.

when life hands you lemons, you have been chosen. it is time. there is no turning back now. you are the Lemon Keeper.

I stepped outside today and Ohio smelled like dust and smoke.
A thin, ill-looking fox marched through my front yard in broad daylight.
The world feels like a skinned-knee right now, but I remind myself that skinned-knees hurt and hurt and itch and itch and heal.

Night sky with faint aurora borealis in green and pink with stars and the silhouette of trees.

Can’t quite see them with the naked eye from my place, but they show up a bit on the camera phone.

Black background of a smartphone screenshot from a website that calculates a user’s alt text use percentage. Under the box showing @drsurekhadavies’s handle are two boxes “Analyze” and “share results”. Then follow the results: 1728 posts analyzed. 55 contain images. 33 are replies. 53 posts have alt text. Score: 100.00 % [followed by a blushing face]. Below is a semicircular dial with coloured segments: left to right they are red, orange, yellow, and green.

In non-apocalyptic news, this happened.

You can set your Bluesky preferences so that you have to add alt text before it will let you post a picture.

Turn on that feature, and you can’t forget alt text - and your posts will be more accessible.
Check out your own score below...
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I’m very much looking forward to this book.

Shhh, don’t tell him 👀

I have long maintained that wild turkeys are very large birds that think they are much smaller birds, and that we should never relieve them of that misapprehension.

A blue jay on a gnarly branch with its tummy feathers fluffed out.

Fluffy blue jay.