Jon Phillips

@jowiph.bsky.social

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Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.

A brightly backlit angel standing at the mouth of a cave, with a veiled woman in the foreground facing it
Family Guy meme with Peter standing in front of someone holding a color chart shading from white at the top to black at the bottom, with a dividing line across the middle. Above the line, next to the pale colors is says "OKAY". Next to the darker colors it says "NOT OKAY".
A looong gray and white tuxedo kitten laying on her back on a blanket. She's laying in such a way as to have toe beans on all four paws visible. They are bright pink.
Screenshot of the MLB app showing todays game between the Orioles and Astros, with a popup that reads "Betting odds now available"
! 5 Severe Weather Alerts Flood Watch ＞ Severe Thunderstorm Warning Heat Advisory Air Quality Alert Tornado Watch ＞
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A view from a car on a bridge overlooking a river with forested hills on either side and the sun low in the sky over them. The air is extremely hazy, giving the scene an extremely uncanny appearance
A white hand over a bathroom sink with a long, bleeding scratch down the back
A shot of a forest floor with tall plants growing, in the center two large skunk cabbages that look eerily like nirnroot from the Elder Scrolls games
Troy McClure with a speech bubble
A gray and white tuxedo kitten washing the face of a sleeping gray cat
Screencap of Groundskeeper Willie reading the New York Review of Mops
RFK Jr with his mouth open, looking like his face is made of wet cardboard. There's a slightly out-of-focus woman of Asian descent to his right looking past him.
A white couple decked out in Orioles gear
Camden Yards jumbotron reading: SONG OF THE GAME Vote for the Turnstile Song You Want to Hear in the 5th Inning SONG 1: "TAKE ME HOME. COUNTRY ROADS® BY JOHN DENVER SONG 2: "FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES" BY GARTH BROOKS SONG 3: "FIREWORK" BY KATY PERRY
A short haired gray cat trying to look nonchalant while laying in a window-mounted cat bed
Sign for Ill Eagle Fireworks with the name of the store and a picture of an eagle in a hat that's coughing
Michael B. Jordan in Sinners looking at the camera and saying "Y'all Klan?"
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing. The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find. He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team." TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES - 'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
A freshly shorn, sad-looking bug-eyed cocker spaniel laying on a lap
A freshly shorn cocker spaniel laying on a pile of blankets on a couch
A short haired gray and white tuxedo kitten napping stretched out on a blanket, twitching in a way that makes it look like she's dancing
Dr Naomi Wolf • @naomirwolf No! No!!
Homer Simpson leaning down to comfort a dejected-looking Bart, with a hand on his shoulder
seen; at 60 frames per second, six. And if the launches were spaced perfectly evenly, the firing rate would no longer be in the realm of countable rhythm; it would be in the realm of pitch. The F above middle C vibrates at about 349 cycles per second. The show averages 354 events per second. Nobody on the Mall will experience this as fireworks going off one after another in any ordinary human sense.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Druid • Baltimore Orioles Seattle Mariners Bluesky Elder There are gonna be fatalities on the National Mall tomorrow, I'm dead serious 11:35 AM • Jul 2, 2026
The dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park with its neck frill flared, about to spit venom at Denis Nedry
What I see is people happy to dump on the Jewish Democrat and the Black Democrat because things aren't perfect.
A Raketa Kopernik watch with a black face, a silver open ring minute hand, and solid gold disc hour hand
Title card for American Vandal
An exhausted and clearly unwell Captain Picard squints incredulously while a blurry Cardassian looms behind him. From the famous "THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS" scene
A flying robot of the sort that the Enclave faction of the Fallout franchise used to broadcast its propaganda. It's a sphere with a grill-covered front section and a bunch of antennae sticking off pointing backwards
A bearded, bespectacled white man in a gray t-shirt and Orioles city connect baseball cap with a short haired tuxedo cat perched on/clinging desperately to his shoulder
Julia Louis-Dreyfus what the fuck meme
A short haired tuxedo cat hiding in the back of the folding table at the vet
A short haired black and white tuxedo cat behind a mesh panel meowing pitiously
A short haired gray and white tuxedo kitten standing on a green cushion at the vet. She's very smol, and slightly crouched in a way that makes it look like she has stubby little corgi legs
Oh my god, he admit it meme
A short haired gray cat in a window seat holding down a gray and white short haired tuxedo kitten. I suppose you could say they're "wrestling" but the gray cat is three times the size of the kitten, so it's mostly just him holding her like a little kick toy
The still of Homer Simpson yelling "NERRRRRRD" out of the passenger window of their station wagon, except the text has been changed to "HERETIIIIIIIC"
A short haired gray cat having his cheek scritched and staring with the wildest, craziest eyes ever
Still from The Wicker Man (1973) showing a man in a houndstooth blazer and yellow turtleneck holding his hands up in the air while behind him looms an enormous wicker man with a woman in a long white dress caged inside its chest
Hermann Gottlieb from Pacific Rim standing in front of a huge chalkboard with a ladder, pointing at scribbles. It's the scene where he's explaining how the kaiju appearances are becoming more and more frequent and they'll soon see a "double event"
A bottle of mountain blackberry Cleary Canadain
Title card from Unsolved Mysteries showing the main anchor guy whose name I forget in a tan trenchcoat that reminds me of the blazer the lady in the quoted post is wearing for some reason
Hat showing the alternate logo from when the Bowie Baysox briefly played as the Oystercatchers. The image on the front of the hat is a baseball glove holding an oyster halfshell, with a baseball nested inthe top of the oyster. It looks vaguely pronographic
A bearded, bespectacled white man in front of a brick wall, looking down to show off a baseball cap that features an upright salmon leaning on a baseball bat, and itself wearing a Tacoma Raniers baseball cap
Homer kneeling with a hand on a dejected looking Bart's shoulder, saying "The Orioles have scored in 6 different innings so far"
Bart Simpson saying "Now a baby's scoring off me. Oh, that is it!"
Image of the front page of The Onion from August 3, 1914. Headline and subhed read: "WAR DECLARED BY ALL AUSTRIA DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA DECLARES WAR ON BRITAIN OTTOMAN EMPIRE ALMOST DECLARES WAR ON ITSELF NATIONS STRUGGLE TO REMEMBER ALLIES"
Tom Di Mino, a self-taught Al engineer and an amateur linguist, claims to have accomplished a feat that has eluded linguistics experts for over a century: deciphering a Bronze-age Minoan writing system known as Linear A.
A sealed container of Nickelodeon Gak, with a cardboard back and plastic bubble over a vaguely-5-pointed-star shaped blob of green goo
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Druid • Baltimore Orioles Seattle Mariners Bluesky Elder 1. My father founded and ran the only tea party organization to be labeled a white nationalist hate group by the SPLC, which is how I got in with them profile scientific racists 7:08 PM • Nov 26, 2024
Screenshot from fallout 4 depicting some dirty water and showing that the player character is being rapidly irradiated by standing in it
A cocker spaniel and a short haired gray and white tuxedo kitten napping together on a couch
A short haired gray and white tuxedo kitten on top of a shelf reaching down to put her paw directly over the eye of a much larger short haired gray cat who is laying on a shelf immediately below, flanked by boxes on either side
A short haired gray and white tuxedo kitten napping on her back like a human, nestled in a geometric-patterned blanket
Screencap of a tiktok or something with text that says "A secret cocktail door at Seattle Mariner's Games" and a woman in a green hoodie and blue Mariners hat knocking on a closed wooden door/window that's shaped like an upside-down home plate
Ed Milliband gurning a bacon sandwich