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Color charts of undifferentiated (top) and specialized (bottom) plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893).

Full text here.

stupidestasshole

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

joy-haver

My article about local queer history just got published, including a comparison of our local queer ecology to that of the local long leaf pine ecosystem. I even got to do an art piece comparing the two!

I’m really happy to have done this project. Speaking to queer elders about their experiences made me feel so much more confident in my own. I got to learn how they survived hard times, and what community and mutual aid looked like to them. I feel so much more rooted in the context of my people now, and for this I am greatful.

There is a link at the bottom of you want to read the rest of the articles in this months issue of the Mobile Bay Labor Journal!

July 2025 Issue

alanrobertmassey

"Drunk on a Sunday Afternoon" from my debut poetry collection Clean Afternoon Love

Much Love,

Alan

matagonia

The Windy Summit, woodblock print by William Setzer Rice (1873-1963) ca. 1925.

taylornprice

somewhere in angeles national forest

taylornprice

some california wildflowers!

kldpxl

As the Years Melt Away Like Honey

Stella and the deer

bedupolker

Collection of paintings created on Steck's Tapeats/Kanab Creek Route at Grand Canyon, simultaneously one of the most rugged and rewarding routes I've done. Shoutout to my buddy for patiently waiting for me to finish between the chossy death scrambles, raft hitchhiking, rock hopping, and slot canyon climbing.

lucybellwood

a) I love these SO much, utterly gorgeous, full of life and energy

b) I extra love seeing paintings of places and going "Oh my god I've BEEN THERE" because I've also painted them. This is a janky scan from 2013, but Deer Creek!