I went from "huh, I've never considered who birds are named after" to IMMEDIATE beef with the American Ornithological society. I'm also a big fan of Mrs Chippy the boy cat, justice for Mrs Chippy! Thank you to @terrorcamp.bsky.social for a wonderful first Terror Camp! #terrorcamp2025

v i t r i o l@vitriol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Things I learned at @terrorcamp.bsky.social this year: -the word “scurbotic” -the American Ornithological Society is my enemy -I would take a bullet for a Norwegian museum curator named Anders whom I’ve never met -you absolutely do not want to know how they figure out the age of a Greenland shark

1. Where lies the strangling fruit 2. that came from the hand of the sinner 3. I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead 4. to share with the worms that gather in the darkness 5. and surround the world with the power of their lives

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · last yr.

1. This is the water 2. And this is the well. 3. Drink full, and descend. 4. The horse is the white of the eyes 5. and dark within.

What if Arrietty was a video game? A game mockup from 2022 ✨ #pixelart

Drake will become the Ea-Nasir of rappers

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

mods are asleep, post plovers

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2y ago

🚨UNRELEASED BABY SNOWY PLOVER VIDEO!! I didn't even know I had this! Don't scroll away, Plover A runs into Plover B. DOUBLE THE PLOVER!!! 🪶

WHAT IF the food dish of a CAT was TAKEN AWAY so that it could be cleaned but that meant the dish was GONE for whole MINUTES

a never ending month

Why do people who seem otherwise intelligent and competent keep suggesting GenerativeAI as a solution to problems that require accurate information when the one thing it can’t deliver is…accurate information?

Congratulations to anyone who got literally anything done in the last week.

*dark souls you died font*

But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

oldie but goldie: well if the shoe fish (I should really try redrawing more silly animals again) #PixelArt #Art #Fish #Redraw #Meme

we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience

Fantasy crime novel idea: An Unmurder mystery. The most unpopular person in the manor house has just been brought back to life and the detective needs to work out who the secret necromancer is before they strike again...

I wrote this instead of doing my grief workbook

Do I love video games? Yes. Am I a terrible video game player? Also yes.

PLEAAAASEEE GIVE ME DA MILKYS

conscience 🎉 ✷

COMFYS

"the problem with traditional publishing is that they just let writers write whatever they want, and they don’t even think about what the TikTok hashtag is going to be." 🙃😵‍💫💀 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?

Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.

newyorker.com

just saw a post where someone can’t believe an ancient vampire would be obsessed with contract law and I’m like girl,,,they won’t even enter your house without a signoff from you??

Neil banging out the tunes ~

Gromit and Feathers Mcgraw in Heat (1995) #WallaceAndGromit

a lot is going on and none of it is healthy

Share a shot from your last birding of 2024

tessa@tesskou.bsky.social · 2y ago

Share a shot from your last birding of 2024 🪶 #WildOz

come closer i gotta tell u a sekret... yeah.. closer.. oh yeah well *whispors* i freakimg loaf u amd yam simply sew proud of u fren. happey new yeare. may it be a grate one 🩷 maney treets, amd moneys, amd kimdness amd such