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@amuleto.bsky.social

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dude, thing coyote :: variously proficient in english, spanish, german, nawatl, & yips :: anthropology & envi sci major :: san antonio texas my beloved :: i make music sometimes &θΔ Animal People, Texas, & Mesoamerica are special interests so ymmv 18+⚠️

a photo of a coyote drinking math. its like a wavetable. its a graph idk. at the bottom is a string of text that continues down out the bottom of the image reading "schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop schlop"
A screenshot of a Bluesky post, one I wrote but which was too long to post in one go. It reads: I traveled an antique land, deserted in nature I saw, in a distant visage, a vast and crumpled statue, scrawled at its feet were the words "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings, look upon my words ye mighty and despair" Painted over those stone etchings was chicken scratch, proclaiming "I am coyot; look upon my disruption ye mighty and despair"
A screenshot on an excerpt from an article about the construction of new two-way bike lanes in downtown San Antonio. The excerpt reads: "This is a push by the anti-car crowd to make it miserable for you to drive, to make you have to stop at all the lights, to make you have less road space, and to snarl up traffic," Hall said.
This portion of the mural is believed to depict a Moon Goddess, who is depicted here as decapitated. The white figure stands next to a black figure; I believe the black figure is one of the primordial ancestors, and the white figure is the Moon Goddess she became.
A photo of the totality of the White Shaman Mural. It's much taller than you may suspect, with the mural going as high as 13 feet. The totality of it is believed to depict the birth of time. The tall and elaborate people-like figures here have also been interpreted as the primordial ancestors during the sacred journey at the beginning of time, and the Divinities they became.
A screenshot of a presentation, where they are mapping features of the White Shaman Mural to physical landmarks in Texas
A map of the Helotes Creek watershed. The red star denotes the location of Guajolote Ranch and the planned subdivision to be built on it. There's a big light blue colored zone that runs along the bottom part of the map; that's the recharge zone for the Edwards Aquifer; Guajolote Ranch isn't far from it, but because the Edwards Aquifer Authority has much less regulations in place for the Drainage Zone (or as it's called in this map, the Contributing Zone), where water runs off into the Recharge Zone, there's little that agency can do.
A photo of the room where the primary desalination process happens. Water is pumped in from the outside through underground pipes. The floor actually has markers telling you where a pipe is running under you.
The carpet cleaning machine from downtown SA Sunbelt Rentals cut grooves into the wooden door of our equipment trailer because the suction mechanism was broken and dragging (because of them)
A painted depiction of a spring at San Pedro Springs. It was made in 2014 by Susan Dunis as a series of paintings about a Native American family from the Lower Pecos on a sacred journey along the springs of the Edwards Aquifer. The actual painting depicts the family swimming in the water, fishing, and gathering chert for tools and wild grapes for eating. It's beautiful, it's lush and the spring is full.
A screenshot of one of the tours being offered by GSA this month. It's titled "Building San Antonio: Geology, water and building resources in the historic 'Valley of the Missions'". Above the title is a day-time photo of Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (usually just called Mission San Jose)
A photo of a wonderful looking Parisa in a nice bowl stituated next to a row of saltine crackers, and a nice spreading knife.
A drawing of a stickman crying, bawling his eyes out and with a anguished expression on his face. He holds a pair of headphones to his head with both hands on either speaker cup thing
A screenshot of an excerpt from a Texas Public Radio article about the Fox Tech High School walkout protest. The excerpt reads: Nora with Right to Rebel [a student group that supported the walkout] also said she thought SAISD sent the letter to intimidate students and keep them from protesting. "They did not provide any real evidence, because there was none, and ultimately, we understand it as a purely malicious chess move that the school did to lie about kids. There is nothing more shameful than adults getting together to lie about kids," she said, adding that the district saying there would be guns was dangerous because it could have inspired counter protesters.
An illustration of Siddhartha Gautama meditating under a bodhi tree.
An illustration of Siddhartha Gautama meditating under a bodhi tree.
A photo of a grimy trash chute room. It is horribly dirty, as there are no drainage grates for grime to leave the room when it is cleaned with a pressure washer. The actual room itself is made of concrete, and the grime has piled up much that the floor is covered in visible layers of black goop. For comparison, you can also see spots of unstained concrete, which is a neutral gray. Random little bits of litter also are scattered across the ground.
A screenshot from the San Antonio Express-News article I linked in the post that this post is replying to. The screenshot excerpt reads: The Fox Students League, which describes itself as "an independent revolutionary student organization," wrote on social media that SAISD's letter was untrue and full of "scare tactics to intimidate students out of walking out." According to its Instagram page, students created the organization in September to "serve the working-class struggle by politically educating, organizing and empowering students to take action."
A photo of what's being called a "Grue Jay", a combination of the words blue and green due to it being a hybrid of a blue jay and a green jay. It has black feathers all around its face, except for the area under the beak until it runs into the black chest crest. It has dark blue feathers running down the top of its head, and a lighter blue feathered back with touches of white feathers sprinkled in. Its eyes are also brown, hazel I think, with a dark pupil in the center.
A photo of a doodle of a bulky geometrical... being. He looks like an animal, but of an unknown kind, with a long snout-face and two wide-long ears. He's looking off to the side with two eyes, and has his maw ajar. The head could be described as fox-like as a lithe fox was originally what I had in mind, but I never drew the body, so I reinvented him (so think of the head as anything). He has a rhomboid torso, and square-ish legs with a short extention at one of the bottom corners for walking on. He has a long thick tail, which is literally sectioned off into different geometrical pieces, but somehow all still coordinate with each other when moving as if they were all connected by an unseen force. His arms are made of diamonds, the shape that is, and much like the tail, they all move together like one. His left arm is made of a string of diamonds each in a horizontal position, while his right is made of a string of diamonds each in a vertical position. Perhaps the diamonds switch between vertical and horizontal depending on his mood or action(s). He's a pretty large framed guy, and bulky I imagine, though maybe he'd surprise me. In the bottom left there is a few doodles of me trying to make a fox tail in the same geometric style, but they ended up looking more like plants or quills than a tail devoid of that context; so I drew a fox guy on the back page, that's the other photo.
A screenshot of Imperator: Rome's base game map, well actually I'm kind of lying a bit, since I'm running the Invictus mod with it, but not many people play the base game without it so I'm not lying 💖 The screenshot focuses on the Near-East, I can't screenshot all of the game map at the same time due to its size, I think, maybe I could lol
A screenshot of the game Imperator: Rome, made by Paradox Interactive. This specifically is a screenshot from the Bronze Age Reborn mod, and shows my country on a 3D map. I'm playing as Knossos on the island of Crete, back when it was Minoan. The date is 2115 BCE.
A screenshot from Hollow Knight. The main character (I think??? I don't play Hollow Knight) is saying "Huge and soft, a fantastic combination"
A video from TikTok user @barkinspupperpie. It's titled "stupidass stretched out wolf shimmering beach stimboard" and is a bunch of videos and photos of wolves doing things on an aquatic blue water background, with videos and photos of blue slime, the beach, and shells mixed in between those wolves. There's also a streched out photo of a goofy wolf that pops up once every few seconds accompanied with like a light howl
A photo of the cover of the book "Quotations from Chairman LBJ". Published in 1968, this one was reprinted in 1972 I believe. It's a red book, in the style of an original "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong" book. It has a photo print of LBJ on the front under the title.
A screenshot of "Japanese crazy mascot" (their title not mine) Chiitan the lovable otter liking my post about SA city councilmember mark whyte and his obvious batting for the sports-entertainment interests that mayor gina ortiz jones is trying to hold to better accountability, particularly with the proposed project marvel downtown sports-entertainment district Chiitan says Trans Rights! ^w^ (and so do I !!!! <3 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 )
A yop wearing a red bandana Bromine. That's his name.
A MSPaint edit of a poster for the 2014 movie "God's Not Dead" but it's been edited to say "Woke's Not Dead"
this fuck ass dog picture dude A photo of a puppy laying in a baby incubator; with edited in photos of the same puppy in comedic situations floating above it, in a semi-translucent, memory like fashion. There are four, the leftmost shows the puppy hiding behind a pole, with a helmet on. The left middle one has them on a stage maybe? Singing or talking into a microphone. The middle right is the puppy standing behind a person who's screaming maybe? The rightmost one is of the puppy waving to the camera; or perhaps their resting their paw on a window, gazing wistfully.
A photo of a real life model of a nuclear waste barrel. A quarter is cut out of it to display what a random barrel may look like on the inside, with all the different types of waste.
A screenshot of a headline of a San Antonio Express-News article. It reads "People are dressing their Labubu toys in Buc-ee's merch and it's going viral"
An illustration of what prototaxites may have looked like in life, rather than from the fossils we know them from today. It depicts almost a "forest" of prototaxites, clustered around a body of water; maybe like an estuary. They are long, probably fungi, organisms that from fossils, we know can grow as large as thirty feet tall and three feet wide; and to say nothing of how massive their mycelium networks must have been under the soil.
An image AD for the Tour de las Misiones 2025, September 6th. It also reads to "Sign up: WorldHeritageFestival.org"
a depiction of an anthropomorphic coyote performing the lotus position on a mountain top, or cliffside. the depiction is a drawing in realistic style; the artist (or artists) who made this is unknown to me
A screenshot from Wikipedia. It reads: "The widemouth blindcat (Satan eurystomus) is a species of North American freshwater catfish endemic to Texas in the United States. It is the only species in the genus Satan." Below that summary, the vernacular name of the species is titled above an image of the species. The image is actually an illustration, not a photo, of a wide mouth blindcat. It has very long whiskers for feeling, and no eyes.
A photo of a wonderful coyote figurine. I was elated when I saw it 🤎
The same zoomed in map as before, but now with the general area of the town of San Saba circled, and the general area between the place of Castell and the town of Llano
The flooded zones circled on a map. A windy zone from Frio Canyon in the west to the Highland Lakes in the east is zoned in. The area around San Angelo farther northwest is also circled independently.
A screenshot from Reddit. The post's title reads: "1996, the oldest person ever documented, Jeanne Calment, celebrating her 121st birthday by releasing a rap record titled Maîtresse du Temps (Mistress of Time) [1240x744]" The attached image shows Calment, holding her album and resting it on her lap, postured so that the camera can see the cover; while two kids, one a girl on the left, and a boy on the right, give her a kiss at the same time. Calment looks happy, to me anyways
A photo of a trash strewn stretch of ground at a landfill. It's got a little bit of everything mixed in, I'm sure, but there's a lot of exposed wood, cloth, cardboard, and metal primarily. The photo was taken during daytime, during the slightly overcast afternoon.
A photo of the back of a box truck, inside the box. Its full of styrofoam and cardboard boxes, and also tree limbs and trunks. Stuff I organized all to fit in there. Its incredible what you can get to fit into a finite space when you're squeezing everything into it.
A photo of a t-shirt. It's all black, with a image on the front. It's in a punkish style, and says in scribbled shaky words "GET IN LOSER -- WE'RE GOING DUMPSTER DIVING", but the V is crossed out with a big red X, and replaced with a N, thus turning it into "Dumpster Dining". Crucially, there's also a cool ass anthro opossum in the center of the shirt, wedged between the words (specifically loser and dumpster diving). They've got a triple pierced ear with a chunk of it missing; and they're wearing a grey hoodie with a red long-sleeve t-shirt underneath. They've also got a red beanie with a button that says "TRASH"
A photo of a Golden-cheeked Warbler. It, presumably, is perching on a cedar tree (Juniperus ashei; cedar tree is colloquial). The bird is distinctive for the sides of it's head being golden yellow, with a black streak heading out behind the eyes, and a black streak running down the middle of the face meeting the beak. The rest of it is white and black, with the underside being generally white and its back being generally black. The wings are striped with both colors. Credit to the American Bird Conservatory for the photo
A photo of me! Well, me depicted on a badge anyways :3 It's a mock PSX esque game cover, with the words "GameStation" alone the side, and with big words "AMULETO!" filled in with yellow and outlined with purple. Taking up most of the color is me, generally ochre and tan yote with big ember red flourishes along my back and ears. I'm wearing a red, white, faded red, and black sarape, and holding a Greenbelt Juniper & Tonic Kombucha; my favorite drink :3 . I'm also smiling a big toothy grin, silly like :3
An illustration of the Texas coastline, with specific annotations around the lower half of the coast. The Laguna Madre is located down there and is a hypersaline bay. It's separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Padre Islands (neat fact, North Padre Island is the largest barrier island in the world, and the second largest island in the continental United States). Padre is Spanish for Father, and Madre is Spanish for Mother. I just realized it's a cute pairing :)
A photo of what I was delighted to call a "sandy meadow" in the transitory zone between the middle of the island, the dunes, and the beach. This photo was specifically taken at Mustang Island State Park. The photo shows it sunny outside, with spotty clouds. The bottom of the photo is grass and flowers, with spots of exposed sand, stretching into the distance with the ocean just visible in the center of the background.
A screenshot of Google Maps showing my location on Mustang Island, which is right across the bay from the city of Corpus Christi, and right next to the much larger Padre Islands. The only town on Mustang Island is Port Aransas, and much of the isle is under conservation or public trust.
A screenshot of the movie "Independence Day"; specifically of where the White House is getting blown up by the alien mothership.
A screenshot NOT from the San Antonio Express News article, but rather from a KSAT 12 article about the same topic. It reads: He added that it was frustrating that GOP leaders, who have long claymores in support of state's rights, didn't even try to defend their own state's law. "It's extremely disappointing the state laid down on this and accepted an edict from on high when our history has been fighting for local control over these many years," said Hammond, who served in the state House from 1984 to 1991.
An edit of, I mean totally real graph showing that there are NO limits to growth (1972); none! :) all the good lines ho up past 2000!! We just need to keep exploiting more forever
A photograph of a coyote, presumably blinded by the flash of the camera as it seems to be taken at night, shunning their head away from the camera but in such a way that it looks like the coyote is side-eying the viewer; and to the left of their head I drew a theta-delta with a question mark; the coyote is questioning if you're a Therian
A questioning yote looking up at someone off camera. To the left of their head is a pansexual flag I drew and pansexual flag colored question marks floating around their head
A screenshot of a donation pop-up on the Texas Observer website. The journalistic outlet is free-to-read and encourages readers to donate. The text reads from top to bottom: "TEXAS NEEDS AN OBSERVER" "Want to keep this kind of journalism alive?" "Sustain our work by becoming a member or making a one-time donation today." with a large faded out peach like colored button with "GIVE NOW" on it
A photo of an original PS3 box, with Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception shown as the box cover art. It's specifically art of that one section where he's riding the cargo plane and it crashes in the desert. The game was also included bundled with this console.
A photo of the ceiling in my family's house (which we rent) showing clear and indissmissable signs of water damage and questionable structural integrity. The particle board or whatever it is is peeling and falling off the ceiling, exposing the bones of the structure above it. There's also a large water stain covering the spot where it's falling off.
A photo of a compactor. On top of the tall compactor are two full trash bags. It's night and I'm working collecting trash; did the people who tossed them up there really expect me to climb up and get them
A photo from the Japanese period drama "Jin". It shows the characters Jin Minakata (guy on the left) and Saki Tachibana (gal on the right). Saki is looking focused and holding a big spear, while Jin looks cautious and holds out a candle with his right hand and defensively holds a sweet potato with his left hand. They heard rummaging after hours and are searching for a possible intruder.
A photo of a landfill, from close to the bottom of it. Naturally it's very dusty and is lined with clay dirt and chunks of broken limestone litter the bottom. It's a new pile, they're planning to fill this one to the top and then some. It was about midday, and I was there to dump today's load of rotten furniture and freshly pissed on rugs we got from out clients.
A photo I took today of some Coca-Cola cans sitting in ice water. On the sides of the can is the word "Bruh" in bold black font with a thick white outline It also comes in Diet Coke I think :3