A very round white and brown shorebird stands on the sand with blurry ocean waves behind.
The news is terrible but I’m going to continue posting birds and frogs and flowers and the sky because looking at nature can help us keep going in the face of all the awful. Please take good care of yourselves
#birds 🌿
Fun fact! If you share this starter pack around, the really cool artists in it will get more followers, and I think that’s really neat 🥰
go.bsky.app/6WQAQna
This is why the Birds Of Vermont Museum's annual art show is open to all. It's juried for theme, but not for age or experience of the artist. It's what works to make a good show together.
(Next one: birdsofvermont.org/2026/01/15/c... )
Grateful today to be at my town's Annual Town Meeting.
#Vermont #democracy #RobertsRulesOfOrder
Wow
27.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same
27.02.2026 22:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You are not wrong.
27.02.2026 22:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😍 7986!
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City birds probably know what we do during the week. I know a guy who works in an office. The same bird comes and looks in at him every day at lunch.
That bird is doing humanwatching.
I promise you if Hollywood thought there was big money in right wing agitprop we’d have a lot more of it in theaters
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Getting frustrated by the many types of data files you can download from US satellites (proposal: what if they all used the same coordinate system or file type?)
But then my sister texted me "why do chickens hate mustard?" and now I'm gleefully down a rabbithole about chicken TRAP1 receptors
Whoo 7990 to go!
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If I sell 8000 stickers at Etsy, I will have retailed enough to buy a new car (we found out yesterday that we have to replace one.)
It probably really needs to be twice that because of fees and taxes and shipping but it's a good to have a target....
A fascinating and long article with fun explorable visualizations about googling for #birds searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com
#dataviz
@jerthorp.bsky.social I hope you've seen this :)
I just want to say THANK YOU to folks who've been stopping by (and sometimes buying from!) my Etsy shop recently. I really, really appreciate and delight in this.
Most recently purchased: the Slate #Raven #sticker (in case you wondered :) )
studiometasilk.etsy.com/listing/1010...
A photo of a small ink drawing. Itbisbof a fat pig girl with glasses
A picture of an ink drawing eith an eraser next to it. It is of a nerdy goat girl with glasses flashing the Vulcan salute
Hitting my local indie coffee joint. Found a few pre-cut cardstock pieces in my satchel and decided to do a quick #artdrop
Cranked out a couple of VERY quick nerdy furries to leave around
#furryart
#anthroart
#coffeesketching
A collection of barn owl paintings, made though the years. These are done in different media, like watercolor, acrylics and pencil.
25.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 254 🔁 68 💬 6 📌 1"The only way to win is not to play."
25.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Something beautiful for your feed
25.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That is just beautiful.
25.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🧵 of course
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black and white portrait of Edward Horety in a long fur coat. He is bald, with a full white beard. Gorey wears rings on most fingers and it looking at the camera over the top of his half-moon spectacles.
A black and white, heavily cross-hatched Gorey drawing of a man hunched over a table, writing with a long pen. An ornate victrola is perched on the table in front of him.
Gorey drawing of a small crowd in formal wear at a reception or party. Several of them, some but not all clearly men, wear black tie. One bearded man has a large fut coat. A woman near the center wears a diaphanous cape that looks like something out of a Klimt painting, or a peacock.
The cover of the Gashlycrumb Tinies. Death, holding an umbrella, shades a group of unfortunate children.
Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was born #OTD in 1925. Not in a mouldering old room down the drafty halls of an Edwardian manor on a bleak and windswept moor, but right here in CHICAGO, of all places!
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Large dark oval pendant with patches of gold and blue glow, wrapped in criss-cross silver wire.
Medium purple oval pendant netted in silver wire.
Treat yourself to a little magic:
oishiny.etsy.com
Over a dozen different pendants to choose from.
#Handmade #ShopSmall
Storytelling shifting! 🧵
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Did you know that there’s a moth that only eats keratin from the shells of gopher tortoises?? The gopher tortoise shell moth — Ceratophaga vicinella.
This world is magic. What will we do to protect it?
#wildlife #animal #animals #ecology #science #stem #magic #love
I’m on a trip with my family so I wasn’t going to do a newsletter but then I saw that visualization of very grim data that I thought deserved some comment. And then I added other stuff, too. www.howtoreadthisch.art/a-visualizat...
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Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?
Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.
And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.
This I must see!
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So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...
Thank you @vitaru.bsky.social and @palehorse13.bsky.social
Spouse (it's his pen) will double check the "mouth" dimensions before buying more; we will try refilling an empty; and he will experiment with a piston converter!
Thank you all for the reposts & advice!
