My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

libraries could open a new revenue stream by allowing members to pay $1 to send an anonymous crying emoji to the person who still has the book they want out on loan after 21 days

What they doin out there

A trio of fuzzy purple false turkey tail mushrooms grow off the side of a mossy log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

New leather pouch pattern. Smol one is super cute

A porcelain cup (pre-kiln firing) with painted Goliath beetle in red colors with hearts.

A love bug, if you will 💘

#GoliathBeetle #Beetles #Bugs #Entomology #Ceramics #Pottery #Underglaze

Surprisingly, vinyl is back in terms of physical media.. otherwise I use YouTube premium for streaming music/ podcasts. Plus sometimes the music videos add extra context to a song that I never would have.

Banning ‘The Girl on the Train’ isn’t just about censorship, it’s an attack on the voices of women who are navigating the layers of motherhood, marriage, & societal pressures. Author Paula Hawkins’ explorations on the dark realities of womanhood deserve to be read. She joins me at 11a on #Velshi.

U.S. House members want answers on Texas’ decision to not review maternal deaths after near-total abortion ban U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas led a letter calling for a briefing on why the state won’t review 2022 and 2023 deaths.

Texas is blocking the review of the deaths of pregnant women post-Dobbs to hide the consequences of their deadly law.

Rep. Raskin, Rep. SummerLee, Rep. Pressley and I are calling on Texas HHS to explain why they're hiding the deaths of Texas women.

www.texastribune.org/2024/12/19/t...

Not feeling very festive this year... too many stressors.

Here is a picture of our smol faketree. Real trees are too expensive.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357. image credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

one of the best hubble images ever

Anyone else?

Fox all cured up on a rock

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

Hey, should we be, like, downloading the Library of Congress or something?

Large sulcata tortoise lays stretched out on an orange industrial heating pad in a corner next to a brick fire place. Squinty-eyed and happy.

Wish I could be a tortoise on an industrial heating pad rn.

Happy Rock.

3 player magic the gathering card game in progress! Text reads, "these nights are best nights"

These nights are best nights.

I've been trying to think of an intro since I joined earlier in the week, but we're just gonna jump into stream of thought posting.