The egg has hatched into the tiniest caterpillar! I don't think I've ever seen a first instar monarch caterpillar before.

Rachel@raythewren.bsky.social · 3d ago

Monarch egg!

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Here's a new thing Pepper did, completely unprompted, today. (The face shield is bc I was working on a stained glass project right before this)

Well it's all here now. Unfortunately the fit is too tight so I have to do further grinding on basically every piece lmao

Monarch egg!

I am so proud, Matt has decided he's sufficiently into birding now that he wanted his own pair of bins for his birthday. So we are now a two binocular household 🥹

He is so good at this

Made the mistake of going looking for saltmarsh sparrows and now my knee looks like this

Considering signing up for a pelagic on the morning of my wedding.....someone talk me out of this please

Peppy gets significantly less cuddly when it's super hot out, but we're having a spate of more reasonable temps this week so here he is.

Walked all over the house looking for something that was in my pocket

Coming along good but man I'm getting tired of standing at the grinder lol

Adorable robin fledgling that I just found in the yard this morning.

Some garden pics from today. The milkweed is so off-kilter this year - normally it would bloom in June and be done by now, but it didn't even emerge from the ground until mid-June this year. The joe pye is just starting to bloom and the bumblebees are very happy about it.

Beautiful spicebush swallowtail that visited the garden today.

First monarch of the year in my garden! Saw her specifically landing on the milkweed, so hopefully she's laying eggs!

The final boss of data engineering is "rebuild the same dataset twice, a year apart, and get the exact same results each time"

At work this week I sunk an enormous amount of time into investigating and trying to solve a very hard problem Reader At the end of the day today I found a 1 year old PR, authored by me, targeted at fixing this exact problem, which was opened, reviewed, approved, and never merged 🤦‍♀️

If I got the diarrhea parasite it would be very very bad because not only would it synergize terribly with my Crohn's but also I am allergic to the only treatment for it (sulfa antibiotics). Also, immunocompromised. Guess I will just not eat produce for awhile????

Got my lifer red-headed woodpeckers yesterday 🥳 they are uncommon here in MA. There's a weird melancholy though in knowing that I'll never get a lifer woodpecker again without traveling!

I actually respected Lindsey Graham at one point but it seems like most of his soul died with John McCain.

Worked on my stained glass piece for a bit today and gave myself a cut on the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger 😖 (Not a bad cut! I am fine. It's just gross.)

Look how much healthier and hotter I am now in my mid 30s than I was in my late 20s

Garden visitor! Painted lady on threadleaf coreopsis.

The first of my monarda plants has started blooming and the tiny native bees are enjoying it. I've taken down the hummingbird feeder as an experiment to see if they'll switch to the flowers. We shall see.

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Native blooms in the garden today

Sawe some sick-ass birds yesterday

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