Elizabeth Eileen

@lizeileen.bsky.social

Date: I thought you said you worked in Finance? What's up with your 15 year old beater car?! Entomologist: Finance? Date: Entomologist: Oh, I see what's happened here.

Fine ants, six of them, the very best Crematogaster, in dorsal view feeding from a bright orange tropical flower.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

A display of diseased potatoes mounted in the wall, each in a little coffin A diseased potato in its coffin.

What fresh hell is this? TuneUp in Avondale wanted to scan my face to go inside? No thanks, 4EG. Easybar, Getaway, Remedy, aliveOne, Central Park, Owl, Estelles all owned by this group. Plenty of wonderful taverns in Chicago, no way in hell am I serving up my biometrics to buy a $10 beer.

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

I am seeing posts about where to donate to help trans people. Kindly: your donation to an NGO means jack shit to us. We need access to resources without institutions in the way. If you REALLY want to help trans people, send your cash directly to the Venmo/cashapp/etc lots of us have in our bios.