nonaraptor

[sraithpics]

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

[virgo-disaster]

The bird app has a lot of garbage but this thread really tickled me this morning:

Bonus:

[nickygalitzine]

he-man & teela

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[hodgepodge-collage]

He’s so large!!! Here’s an NYT article about him

[wizardarchetypes]

a few years ago my friend was giving me boating lessons and then we got a call that one of our favorite killer whales (we'd never seen in-person) was nearby and then 2 minutes later we got a call from another friend that they were camping on an island nearby and one of my fav singers was randomly there having beers and we should boat over there and be really nonchalant and normal and have some beers. so my friends looked at me and was like, 'well, it's your call. the singer or the whale.' and for me it was a nothing-choice because obviously i was gonna choose the whale over beers with a stranger. like yes i'm deeply obsessed with their music but i don't know them at all as a person. i'm not missing this whale.

i guess everyone thought it was a risky choice bc we might not find the whale but i was still like, okay, once again, a beautiful evening at sea with my friends, or beers with a stranger?

anyway we did find the whale but i've stopped telling this story IRL mostly because every single person i've told gets absolutely outraged that i didn't choose beers with the singer bc they're also obsessed with them and i'm like. okay? you're not happy for me and the whale? you don't care about my beautiful whale evening???

[wizardarchetypes]

oh let me clarify: i was actually working with orcas as a marine biologist LOL but i'd never seen THIS whale before and i really wanted to see him : )

[eclecticbibliophile]

May I ask why this one was your favorite?

[wizardarchetypes]

The whale is T087—Harbeson! He was born in (approx.) 1962, making him likely the oldest male killer whale of his subspecies, Bigg's Killer Whales (mammal eaters, also sometimes still called Transient Orcas)!

Female orcas live far longer than males (J2 'Granny' of the Resident subspecies is thought to have lived to be over 100!); it's exciting to actually see such an old man still kicking around, hunting in the Salish Sea. We were lucky enough to observe him actively hunting.

I was also just plain having a blast learning to drive at-sea, and I didn't really feel like making land—no matter who was there :^)

[mndvx]

STAR WARS MAUL — SHADOW LORD Chapter 5: Inquisition (S01E05)

[expressions-of-nature]

Dusk at Ulster Heights Wetlands by Gerald Berliner

[memories-of-ancients]

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

[localxenospores]

i was compelled

[beastoftheblackhole]

I was also compelled

[beltsquid]

Every morning I pray for a crab rave and every day the empty throne of God disappoints me

[waywardsestras]

[mocca-latte-in-my-veins]

Oh Fuck off, what's next, The David? La Pieta??

[maureen2musings]

Frog's Duvet Day

indiarosecrawford

[porkymcsly]

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate.

[possumcollege]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Tatyana Biryukova

[studentofetherium]

columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

[studentofetherium]

these are equal parts underwater city and underwater forest

[heatherwitch]

My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.

[one-bite-is-undercover]

I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.

[heatherwitch]

That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)

[petaltexturedskies]

May your weekend be full of warm autumn sun and many berries!

Illustration from Autumn Story by Jill Barklem, originally published in 1980