Minty Frosting

@mintyfrosting.bsky.social

writes unpublishable things & consumes great quantities of scripted media / bakes bread & drinks tea / professional collector of hobbies former editor, cat mom, ancient millennial 📚: house of day, house of night 🎮: stardew 📺: schitt's creek, again

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.

Hundreds of tiny pink 'pygmy' seahorses in family Syngnathidae will cling to gorgonian corals (order Acanthogorgiidae), almost completely hidden, for most of their lives. That's right: these corals are Pink Pony Clubs. You're welcome for the ear worm. (📷: Jacobguy Media)

i think the vast majority of us non-lobbying regular people just want there to be one time and we don't really care much which time it is, just pick a time and let's not go back and forth forever in what my husband has termed chronowhiplash