Ben Perkins

and wildlife is now documented with unprecedented intimacy that paradoxically makes is more mysterious as well as disarming and strangely relatable

do they notice shock troopers kidnapping people from their homes? do they make frowny faces and scrunch their widdle noses??

big, bright fog bank on a sunny day made St Joseph Peninsula feel like the literal end of the earth
#florida #nature #gulfofmexico
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headquarters pond!
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female comedy has not become right wing. so why have male comedians shrank and made so much room for these laughing misogynists?

sackler fam is a wmd

everything bagel caterpillar
#photography #nature #florida
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every generation has always liked retro. its such a silly question to ask

i never do selfies, heres a selfie in Naples which is a community i feel deeply ambivalent about except for those who give all their $ to local wildlife. more golf courses per capita than anywhere, it is, like so much of FL, two places at once: also the gateway to Corkscrew, big cypress, 10k islands

we all love it! we get to pretend we're the victims of industrial extraction while wearing "recyclable" 3D glasses most people throw in the trash

if your lasting thought about your child's school picture is "this is kitsch," you might have bigger problems than even The Atlantic can solve

i feel that way about shoebills after seeing that D. Attenborough doc about Africa

snail kite!
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otherwise theyll just be metaphors for own narcissistic injuries...

best parts of florida are the little known natural gems 🙂‍↕️

i feel vulgar for asking, but do you want to read a chapter of my memoir? the first page is pinned to the top of my posts, but i could email the pdf

thanks i almost edited it 😂

once after a monthlong hike in wyoming, i ate 8 taco bravos in one sitting. it hurt bad. experiences like this are what i have instead of tattoos

and he'll be the first to stand when the plane touches down

Climate Activist Mikaela Loach: Name Hurricanes After Fossil Fuel Firms Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not ...

Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist

I feel like a lot of people must know this specific strangler fig in SWFL...
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These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

here I am in @chicagoqreview.bsky.social over on fb if you like spending your online time swimming in the hellmoutb of AI slop (I do sometimes, I'm not judging!)

#author #WIP #amwriting
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Antlion - Wikipedia

its this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antlion

much more benign! we used to catch them in our hands as children

didnt have to wait long to use this one

a little coastal bird sploot over here at Merritt Island NWR
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Chicago No Kings

it is SGI ☺️ on the bay side

or the forgotten coast!

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I'm pretty sure the people that illustrated "The Triassic" in my dinosaur encyclopedias from the 1980s were just drawing the nature coast of Florida...

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