17 birds in a trench-coat operating a blog

lover of toads, palaeolithic art, birds, and rain <3

[nightcord-at-25]

przewalski's horses are so crazy because like holy shit those are the guys from the cave paintings. theyre still here just hanging out

[draconym]

As someone who goes outside a lot at work, I am often ensorcelled by fancy gear. I love insulated metal bottles and backpacks with five hundred pockets and a sternum strap. I snatch them up when I find them in thrift stores and on freecycle.

However: mad respect to my coworker who has been using these as his backpack and water bottle for years:

[deathstars]

HELLO ! have you thought about Van Gogh’s First Steps today ?

[deathstars]

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

[pumpking64]

i am so frustrated right now. tried to put it into words but it’s too many different things all colliding currently. TL;DR is i fucking hate this illness. the healthy me from a few years back would’ve handled everything with ease, and would’ve gained so much from it too. but nooOoOOoo i need to be sick i guess. fucking ridiculous

[7pleiades7]

Flaming June (1895) by Sir Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (English, 1830-1896), oil on canvas, 120 × 120 cm, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce

[is-this-taken-too-questionmark]

i think i need to pay more attention to consciously cutting out the the negative self talk again because i somehow began narrating all my actions in my head with "the worst person ever is [doing a completely normal thing]"

[valtsv]

really a good tool for any aspiring critic or creator to develop is the ability to ask yourself - and answer honestly! - whether your disdain for something comes from a place of (perceived) wasted potential or bitter anger that anyone else dared to create something less than perfect while you were too paralysed by dissatisfaction to even attempt to do so yourself. because if it's the latter, then you'll save yourself a lot of time and stress in the long run if you start to recognise just how much of what's holding you back is your own insecurity.

[herpsandbirds]

Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus), family Viperidae, WE TX, USA

Venomous.

photograph by Francisco Portillo

[pumpking64]

omg i know we have free healthcare (except dentist) already BUT but in a few years we will have free healthcare. period. no “except dentist”. the dentist will become free as well

[asexualbookbird]

why is sending emails and texts so hard lmao

[asexualbookbird]

in a shocking turn of events no one could have predicted! everything was Fine.

[pumpking64]

i'm a bit cooked and a lot time-pressed so i'm currently writing formulations such as "sex clusters" and "teeth are very common around the head, yet less common further down the body" and "dating human bones" - which all make sense in context! but outside of context they are a bit funny

[capybaralovers]

[sea-slug-daily]

Carronella pellucida

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102498933

[lifespan-deactivated20260401]

the carabiner, the modern woman's chatelaine

[thememedaddy]

[grippysockgang-deactivated20230]

You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

[mushroominawaterbottle]

there is the line between bisexual and aroace and i am using it as a jump rope