Slightest Complication

Oregon import, worst kind of dilettante; she/her, old  |  icon is courtesy of sugarandie

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Cedar Waxwing Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 Turtle Pond

[jkottke]

Illustrator John Rooney has teamed up with the Middle East Children’s Alliance to produce and sell this Birds of Palestine print. (All profits go to helping families & children in Palestine.)

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Indigo Bunting Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2 uplands

[sndwave]

the mythbusters once tested "herding cats" and at one point they brought in a proper trained herding dog and the poor dogs face when the first cat responds to his herding with swipes and aggression is to look at her human and go 😰 the sheep is broken?? what do i do boss??

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[birdstudies]

May 15, 2026 - Yap Monarch (Monarcha godeffroyi) Found on the islands of Yap in Micronesia, these monarchs live in lowland forests, including mangroves, and shrublands. Their diet is not known but other monarchs primarily feed on insects. While their breeding behavior is unknown, most monarchs build open cup-shaped nests and in most species both parents construct the nests and care for the chicks. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN as their tiny range leaves them vulnerable to the accidental introduction of invasive species such as the brown tree snake.

[lestatfag]

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

[qin-shi-huang-di]

blocked blocked blocked blocked!

none of you possesses the mandate of heaven!

[king-sejong-the-great]

Blocks. . . as in BRONZE blocks!?

As in BLOCKS of moveable type!?

Brilliant! Such a technology would allow books to be reproduced en masse, without the need for laboriously reproducing books by hand! This would greatly increase the number of copies of books that we could create, as well as greatly reduce the incidence of copying errors!

OH! And if my new alphabetic syllabary takes off, then instead of hundreds of blocks for different ideograms, a case of printing blocks could include dozens of copies of each letter, thus allowing for more rapid deployment and a much more efficient storage of the printing blocks!

This could lead to a literacy revolution! We could mass produce texts for the common people! Everyone, not just the elite scholars, could study the works of the great Confucianist masters, thus increasing loyalty, filial piety, and virtuous behavior!

Brilliant!

[qin-shi-huang-di]

DELETE YOUR BLOG

[king-sejong-the-great]

Of course! Anything for the illustrious First Emperor of the Middle Kingdoms!

[king-sejong-the-great]

Update: I have consulted the court historians, and they have told me that it is not possible for me to delete official government records, and that my request to do so will be added to the sillok.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

ABDICATE!!!!

[qin-shi-huang-di]

FIRST KILL ALL THE COURT HISTORIANS AND THEN FUCKING ABDICATE

[hoot-alex]

[salmon-n-hazel]

Poppy

✿ Print shop: INPRNT

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[passionpeachy]

koi pond turtle 🪷

[birdstudies]

May 13, 2026 - Chinchipe Spinetail (Synallaxis chinchipensis) Found in northwestern Peru, these birds in the ovenbird family live in scrub and woodlands. Usually foraging in pairs and often joining mixed-species flocks, they eat arthropods and their larvae, picking prey from moss, dry leaves, and branches. Nothing has been recorded about their breeding behavior but closely related species build ball-shaped stick nests with side entrances.

[nollimet]

scurvy (the cat)

[andhumanslovedstories]

everyone shut up and look at this portrait of my beautiful horrible bitch of a cat

[scottpartridge]

Days 29 and 30 of #migratorymay2026 are Black-Chinned Hummingbird and Scott's Oriole. Also reposting Toco Toucan and Indian Peafowl for Day 26 and Day 31.

Thanks to Jen Goodhue @migratorymay for hosting this challenge again this year :)

[starridge]

having a pet kinda awesome wdym i got a little scoundrel running around named after the guy in dracula who eats bugs

[starridge]

my scoundrel eats bugs too. nominative determinism

[starridge]

the people have asked to see the scoundrel and who am i to deny you

mr renfield, ladies and gentlemen

[majomeowjo]

your thang looked easy to draw. he wasn't