Avon Loves Blake

Smiling sibling gang gang cockatoos 😍

Whodunnit? - Final Drive (21st July 1975). Steven Pacey and Simon Williams are amongst the suspects whilst the lovely Aimi MacDonald, Alfred Marks, Anouska Hempel and Patrick Mower play detective.

People with disabilities/chronic illness need accommodations to work that are almost never offered by employers to the full, including working under 50%, they have often dynamic health issues that can come out of nowhere, and need jobs with a lot of flexibility in terms of output and hours worked.

If you're hosting an event and there's no one in attendance wearing a mask, your first thought shouldn't be "no one's masking anymore." The reality is you've decided not to make the space safe enough. Many people still want to avoid infection and your event isn't worth the risk.

I'm nearly done with the cave lion and ngl this might by my best work yet

front panel of a knit sweater, the sweater is currently half orange and half white with black lettering. It says "Frankenstein Mary Shelley"

I needed very little encouragement for this, I'm very excited about it:
The colorwork is from the Penguin Classics chart by Catherine Waterfield (mostly)
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Since I’ve already finished the reconstructions of the thyreophorans from the Iberian Peninsula, I’m sharing here a couple of poster-style visualizations showing the different genera and the sites where they can be found

Let’s start with the different genera, arranged by clade and size

#Paleoart

An archer with a bow confronting an unarmed man. The archer is saying "Hast thou betrayed us? Hast thou betrayed me?". The unarmed man responds "Avon, I was waiting for thee".

Your reminder that you can create your own Bayeux Tapestry at home, using:

htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

So last year I found out I had a pretty bad iron deficiency and like I thought how bad could it be. So the normal amount should be like minimum 50 to 150 mcg.

Mine was 12 😭 no wonder I was tired and weak for so much of my life lol

A lot of dinosaur tracks are technically undertracks, from layers beneath where the foot met the sediment and smushed it. When we get the preserved track surface, or close to it, we get stuff like delicate little foot scales. How pretty is this?

New review of the revised Emily Books:

these, however, do not hold a candle to the time a family friend, EXTREMELY hung over when the Jehovah's Witnesses knocked on the door early on a weekend morning, opened the door naked, saw who it was, moaned, "No...no...oh, *fuck*, no..." & closed the door again.

The JWs never came back. Ever. :))

Writer Gremlin Bingo, nine squares: 1. Never stretch 2. Refuse to leave writing cave 3. Things growing in uncleaned house 4. No screen breaks 5. Sittin like a scrimp 6. Only eat snaccs 7. Forget how to talk to humans 8. Lost in research hole 9. No sleep till deadline

Taking a break on the to-do list today as I descend into the mossy, odiferous depths of gremlinhood

One thing I'll say about being so tired that I have no fucks left to give: door to door solicitors don't know how to deal with someone who could not give less of a fuck about the social contract and will just keep saying "nope, not interested, go away" before closing the door mid-sentence.

Four views of a ceramic mug decorated with a fossil of a rutiodon

Ceramic planter carved with designs of skeletal fish

Four views of a ceramic mug decorated with a fossil of a mosasaur

Ceramic planter carved with designs of seaweed and small fish

Thursday at noon Pacific, I’ll have these five pieces in the shop. Two carved planters, two fossil mugs, and one more piece that I have to put in the next post because they only let you do four pics....

Today I reviewed a paper for an academic journal. Please stop using “health literacy” as an excuse for why people don’t take up an intervention. It isn’t that they “don’t know better”, it’s that they have their reasons that are valid and it’s your job to figure out what those reasons are…

Yes! Side effects like crushing fatigue from medications like Metformin are a major reason for stopping a medication - it doesn't matter how good for you a medication is in the long term if it leaves you unable to function in your day to day life.

A Xena trading card. Xena and Gabrielle kiss romantically. The text says "eternal friends"

sometimes I think about the "eternal friends" xena trading card. just gals being pals

Some people think that the cat food bowl is half full.

Some, that it is half empty.

And some, that the current halfway status is a MAJOR EMERGENCY THAT HAS TO BE DEALT WITH RIGHT NOW CATS CANNOT LIVE LIKE THIS WHAT WERE WE ALL THINKING also where are the cat treats clearly not in the bowl.

Preparing to do a copy edit and the publisher's notes say:

"Do not leave extraneous notes or explanations within the body of the text, as they may end up being typeset as part of the book text."

Ah yes. The publishing equivalent of safety regulations being written in blood.

Pianos, silk looms, secret labor unions, and a heist! THE HELLION’S WALTZ is an 1824-set sapphic romance with hate makeouts, bisexuals up to no good, and found family taking down exploitive capitalists:

Photo of a Nanboku Line 乗り換え 出口案内 (transfer and exit guide) on a station platform.

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

Lesser Nighthawk- heavy crop

Lesser Nighthawk perched at sunrise 🪶☀️🌵

Hemlock & Silve by T. Kingfisher DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring bright green sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers illustrated by the author. From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimagining of “Snow White” steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind

A fancy edition of the beloved @tkingfisher.com's Hemlock & Silver is on the way! Out on August 19th!

A kiwi-shaped bird with dark blue feathers, light blue beak and legs, and white starry markings. It's holding a flower in its beak. The background is dark blue, full of stars.

A kiwi-shaped bird with dark blue feathers, light blue beak and legs, and white starry markings. It's running very fast. The background is dark blue, full of stars.

Birb. 💙✨ #art #oc #ocsky

We are delighted to unveil our special editions of Hemlock & Silver and Swordheart by @tkingfisher.com 🎉

Food allergy: begin at the skin, end at the mast cell? | Nature Reviews Immunology Food allergy is an acute IgE-mediated reaction that occurs in response to food components and affects 1–10% of the global population. It is often thought to be a disease of the gastrointestinal tract, in which oral exposure to a food allergen induces an IgE-sensitizing response that primes the host immune system to react to the eliciting allergen following subsequent oral exposure. However, emerging evidence from clinical and basic research studies suggests that maladaptive immune responses in the skin also contribute to the development of food allergy. These responses can promote the development of food-specific IgE and reshape the gut immune microenvironment in a manner that predisposes to IgE-mediated activation of mast cells and clinical manifestations of allergic disease following subsequent food exposures. In this Review, we discuss how different routes of exposure to food antigens can contribute to allergic sensitization and describe how mast cells ultimately drive the allergic

Food allergies, affecting 1-10% globally, may start at the skin, not gut. Skin exposure could lead to IgE sensitization. Mast cells play a key role. PMID:40571771, Nat Rev Immunol 2025, @NatRevImmunol https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-025-01185-y #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

A stamp of a pterodactyloid pterosaur

Got my hands on a pterosaur stamp from DDR

'Murderbot's Co-Creators Break Down the Heartbreaking Season 1 Finale and Making Changes From the Book: "You Can Actually Make a Good Show While Having These Extreme Things" Murderbot co-creators Chris & Paul Weitz break down the behind-the-scenes secrets of the Season 1 finale and tease what's next.

New Murderbot interview! collider.com/murderbot-fi...

Title: Papers Released by the Influential Research Group A graph with a Y axis labelled 'Citations' and X as 'Time'. Hit Debut Paper (high up) Difficult Second Paper (a bit lower) Break-up Paper (lower still) Unsuccessful Solo Papers (bobbing along the bottom) Greatest Hits Paper (climbing back up) Reunion Paper (high up, but still not as high as the debut)

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com