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almost-elly.bsky.social
Photographer, minipainter, gardener, motorsports enthusiast, gamer, birdwatcher, ttrpg player, GM, monster movie and noir afficionado. All photos posted are mine unless otherwise credited.
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Shockingly good bluebird sex photography. #birds

Breaking news: we have a suspect in the string of local dandelion disappearances.

Woooo! Roses! This bush is as tall as I am, and since it's a spray rose it produces many, many, many flowers to enjoy indoors and out. #bloomscrolling 🌱

Just a turkey and her butterfly. #birds #butterflies #nature #photography

Up. Down. Eastern chipmunks ... #Sqrlpix

PSA for all my #TTRPG designers out there. Please make sure you are including a blank character sheet in your core rulebook. It seems to be an increasing trend for core books to not include blank sheets and I think it's a big mistake. 1/🧵

MODOC (Mental Organism Designed Only for Clobberin’)

Rosebuds feat. some tiny fly that I didn't see there until zooming in to take the pic #bloomscrolling 🌱

Beep says every angle is his best angle 🐥✨

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Something fun: La Jolla CA yesterday. Only a few min to look at #nature (other people not so interested) but SO lucky to see #BABY #SEAGULLS Herring Gulls 1st time I've seen this I don't think they have their outside voices yet @glengrambo.bsky.social @saskajanet.bsky.social 😄 #marine #wildlife

Can any #insects #inverts folks help me with a bug ID? Is this a transverse lady beetle? Because that would be a REALLY cool backyard visitor as they're endangered in Canada. 🐛🐞🐝

Boosting for my #ttrpg crowd! Wobble is good people.

One of my peonies that didn't bloom last year just bloomed and EXCUSE ME WHAT??? 😮 😱 😍 🌱 Yet another "I've never seen one like this before"!

On today's #ttrpg lessons from pop media, let's talk about how TIN MAN (2007) solves the problem of how to keep fights and stakes flowing when players (and IME, often GMs as well) don't want PC death on the table. The answer is remarkably simple: the BBEG wants the party captured alive. 🧵

HIGH LINE PIGEON FEST??? I got to see the pigeon statue in person back in October before US travel became, uh, inadvisable. It was glorious. NYC is truly a great city for pigeon lovers.

Finding a surprise beetle in the colander in my sink be like:

Tommy Prince was one of the most decorated soldiers in Canadian history through two different wars. But after his war service finished, he was forgotten by the country he had served. This is the story of Tommy Prince. 🧵 1/20

The White- breasted Nuthatch was distraught because a squirrel had been by the feeder on the tree all afternoon. He talked it over with a kind House Finch, felt better and both went on their way. 🪶

Willow flycatcher and a dumb stick in the way

A polite bigot is a bigot nonetheless. A true warrior knows that courteous words do not dilute the poison, but only serve to conceal it until it has spread. Civility in the service of hate deserves no polite response.

Updated stream schedule! ▶ Wednesday: Diamonds & Dragons #Minecraft, 7 p.m. EST, ▶ Thursday: #FinalFantasy 6: T-edition, 7 p.m. EST, ▶ Friday: JAWS 50th anniversary special, 7 p.m. EST, ▶ Sunday: Sunday Night #NES, 7 p.m. EST All streams at: youtube.com/@wobblerocket

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology