Spoonbills at Saltholme - can’t quite get over these birds becoming a regular sight up here - 10-year-old me would have spontaneously combusted at the thought! 🪶🐡 #birdingNortheast @teesbirds.bsky.social
John F Tollefson
@jftollefson.bsky.social
Teacher, distance coach and runner, naturalist, fish art weekly
Day 4 - Common bronzewing. Happier with this watercolor attempt compared to the thornbill. Had some patience. #AvianAugust #AvianAigust2026 #watercolor #birdart
Day 2 #AvianAugust2026 Rainbow-bearded Thornbill. My attempt doesn’t do them justice, but hey - learning!
Two fish that helped get me to “Genius” on Wednesday’s @nytimes.com Spelling Bee for this week’s #SundayFishSketch
Joining in on #AvianAugust. Colorful bird art every day. Day 1 - Northern Lapwing #watercolor #birdart Reference -https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/530705741
1% is 3.42 million people dismissed with a shrug. We did get through it. 1.2 million deaths. But you’d rather have more death?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."
Took a break from my Kansas fish drawings, but got back to it this weekend. Self-imposed project - Kansas fish number 25 Golden redhorse for #SundayFishSketch
![Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia43wl3gwyqydc47yse5gbdzybk2edtcibxdtr5jf4gqorc676ap4)
Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 21-24. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 17-20. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Not sure I’ll get these finished today, so I’ll post this now. Feel free to ID, see how well (or if) I captured the essentials. Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 17-20. We’ll see how it goes. I’ll post completed sketches soon! #sundayfishsketch
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 13-16. Added color this week. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Immediate follow up “Are you that dumb, or do you think we are?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoQ: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 9-12. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 5-8. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Self-imposed Project - draw all the species of Kansas fish. Here’s 1-4. We’ll see how it goes. #sundayfishsketch
Been thinking about mirror carp for a few weeks. Tried painting one - not super great, but I don’t hate it. #SundayFishSketch
He forgot to add “…and we’ll parse people into those two categories (savages and peaceable citizens) based on absolutely zero evidence”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoStephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."
A couple eagle pics from LoessBluffsNWR this morning.
Picked a fish that had at least part of January in its name - Lutjanus - for my first #SundayFishSketch of 2026.
Working on more scribble/less worry. A generic colorful darter loosely based on rainbow darters. Pen and marker #SundayFishSketch
The concept of a plan…a rudimentary Dolly Varden for this week’s guess. #SundayFishSketch #25DaysofFishmas
