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A mysterious 4-legged lizard-like creature, I'm guessing about 8 inches long, in the shadows on a wooden deck. Looks black, but hard to tell. It's probably a skink, but uncertainty surrounds us
Bluesky screenshot of Crab Man posting that he's now watching the Kevin Sorbo movie Lightning Strikes
Que from a CBS News article: "The Office of Legal Counsel opinion said states are not actually required by law to integrate mentally disabled patients with their peers by providing community or home-based care, a finding experts say runs counter to long-standing legal precedent and would lead to greater rates of institutionalizing people with disabilities."
A tub of Lidl vanilla ice cream. A picture of two scoops in cones on the container.
Flowers of rattlesnake master, Eryngium yuccifolium. The flowers look more like spiky, pale green balls. They are badass.
Photo of part of an online school worksheet on the screen of our tablet. There are two blanks, which are filled in below. "c. Night occurs when the _moon_ and _clouds_ covers the sun." Underneath the two blanks, there are cartoon drawings of the moon and a cloud, meant as hints to the answers.
On left, the top of a small, mint-green cardboard box, labeled: "HORRIBLE HERMAN THE ASIATIC INSECT". On the right, the bottom of the box. It contains a piece of brown tissue paper and a fake insect. It's indistinct, but the insect is most black. The body nmight be shiny, with some hairy fringe around it, a textured head with two red dots for eyes(?), and I think some antennae.
A still from The Wizard of Oz with Dorothy and the Scarecrow looking at the Tin Man, except I've superimposed Rowlf the dog from the Muppets over the Tin Man. One of the figures in the quoted post looks like Rowlf with a funnel on his head.
My beautiful new copy of Dan Sheehan's game "Who's A Good Boy? The game where dogs can sin". It's a pale yellow box with a drawing of 3 cartoon dogs. One elderly dog, maybe a greyhound, is walking with a walker. On one side of it is an angelic pug, with wings and halo. On the other side is a devilish dog with horns and pitchfork, stealing money from the middle dog's bag.
A flower of Callirhoe involucrata, a.k.a. wine cups / purple poppy mallow, from my garden. Bright magenta, poppy-like petals surrounding a center of white flower sex bits.
Photo of a yard sign stuck in a patch of ground on a city sidewalk. The sign says: VO Vincent Orange for Mayor The "VO" is in a serif font, in gold, made to look like the letters are 3D and made of metal. All on a blue background.
Greg (Tim Robinson) from the Calico Cut Pants sketch from I Think You Should Leave. He's in an office, bug-eyed.
Coreopsis lanceolata bud. The bud itself is a shiny green, flattened ball on a veined stem. 8 green leaf-like sepals surround out, rising up vertically. The sepals are triangular, green with a bit of maroon at their tips, and have fine hairs along their edges. A tiny, cute fly (possibily a fruit fly?) sits on the outer edge.
Screenshot of text from the catalog that the above image comes from, describing the various games pictured. It's too long to transcribe all of it, but here's the relevant part: #9 GHOST TOWN - You must explore a once thriving mining town in search of the 13 hidden treasures. With everything from rattlesnakes to runaway horses, it sure ain't going to be easy! And - they don't call them ghost teens for nothing, pardner! Includes a special bonus scoring system too! Difficulty Level: Hard
A patch of violets in my yard. There's probably 50 flowers in a 1 square foot area. Lovely purple flowers, low to the ground, with deep green leaves underneath.
My pinky finger, with a green hair-tie-type rubber band on the first knuckle, shielding me from pinches today. Tomorrow, I must rely on my wits.
Teddy Roosevelt giving a speech and pointing
Madame Web on one knee, with a wine red leather spider suit on and huge sunglasses
A person walking down a walkway carrying a sign saying "SUD AFRICA". They are wearing a huge, silver, floor-length puffy coat with the hood up, and gigantic sunglasses.
Screenshot of the Merlin app, which can identify what bird you're hearing. Barred owl, babyyy
Cover art for Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Beauty & the Beast, starting Klaus Kinski and Susan Sarandon. A crystal ball in the middle showing the faces of a young, radiant Susan Sarandon and a beast with goofy protruding fangs. In the background, whimsical fairy tale imagery (rainbow, mermaid, fairy sitting on mushroom.
An excerpt from the People magazine article quoted below, quoting a neighbor of ICE agent Jonathan Ross: "[He said he] enjoyed border control... but loved plants," she says.
B&W photo of the Hell Gate bridge. Taken from ground level, looking diagonally upward. One of the thicc, rectangular, castle-like brick supports fills the left foreground, the other one in the distance in the right corner. A curving metal arch connects them.
Screenshot of a post from me: "Let me be the last to wish you a Merry Christmas" 7:51 PM Jan 3, 2026
Cover of an old vinyl record. "BALD" BILL HAGAN Music to Strip By Party Fun Songs from the Golden Age of Burlesque Red background, with an image of a half-naked woman walking to the left, halfway out of frame, with only her back, one leg, and one arm visible. She's holding a black bra in her fingertips, as if about to drop it, and a small pile of black clothes sits on the floor behind her.
A small potato with a large, antler-like eye sprouting out of the top. Held by my daughter.
Screenshot on my Bluesky timeline showing the post I'm replying to, followed by a post by Duncan Mackay showing a drawing of 2 Roman soldiers standing guard on a fort in the snow. They're both wearing cloaks over short tunics that come down to their knees and they look cold.
Tweet screenshot: brent @murrman5 15 Oct 17 my neighbour ryan: I was at a zombie walk we all dressup and walk around downtown me holding an axe: I wanna believe you ryan I really do
A yellow cherry tomato. (Eagle Smiley variety.) At its top are two horn-like protuberances. It is a demon I guess. Later, I ate it.
Model of Quetzalcoatlus. A guy is standing next to it looking up at it.
3 bumblebees on a buttonbush flower. It's shaped like a spiky cream-white ball.
Pink foam puzzle piece from a kid's puzzle of the United States. It is supposed to be shaped like Texas (it says "TEXAS" on it) but it's unrecognizable. I can't even describe the irregular shape, except it's the opposite of Texas.
Three bumblebees on a single buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) flower head. It's a spherical flower head, about 1.5 inch diameter, consisting of hundreds of tiny, creamy white flowers packed into a ball. Each mini-flower has a long white style with a pair green tip sticking out of it, making the flower head look like a pin cushion. Large, straight-edged, bright green leaves are on the stem below it.
"United States Epilepsy Drugs Market is expected to reach US$ 3.45 billion by 2033 from US$ 2.36 billion in 2024, with a CAGR of 4.31% from 2025 to 2033. In order to satisfy shifting customer needs, firms are being prompted by this transition to innovate and diversify their product lines. All things considered, the market for French-flavored milk is expected to grow further due to innovation, custom, and customer preferences."
A soaking wet bee napping, curled around the center of a cutleaf coneflower. Golden yellow petals covered with drops of rain.
Zoom in on the 4th image in my previous post. Portion of a vertical bar of web decoration. A (cool but) messy, overlapping zigzag.
Each of these 4 photos shows a spider sitting on a mostly invisible web. Woven into each web is a white pattern called a web decoration or stabilimentum. In this first photo, the web decoration looks like roughly circular, concentric rings of zigzags.
A monarch on pink swamp milkweed flowers in my garden. Small pink and magenta zinnias in the background.
Detail from Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony. A guy with a human body and skin but the snout of a boar, with an owl perched on his head and a lute (?) under one arm. He's wearing a dark, brown-green outfit (sorry that's the best I can manage) with I think a cape on and a knife in his belt. He's next to a table and in this wild pose, his left arm raised out to his side like he's getting or talking and his feet not really underneath him, almost like he's running except he's not. There's so much else happening I'm sorry that's all I've got
Photo of 2 side by side boxes of men's undershirt-style tee shirt 3-packs on a store shelf. Black shirts on the left, white on the right. The box covers have photos of the same male model (caucasian, dark brown hair) in different poses. In the black shirt photo, he is looking at the camera with a quiet satisfaction, pleased with his life decisions. In the white shirt photo, he is gazing off slightly down and to his left, haunted by the specters of his past. He remembers an autumn hillside, how she loved him and how he took her for granted
Close-up photo of a cluster of about 11 lacewing eggs hanging from the underside of a leaf of swamp milkweed. The leaf is narrow (about 1/2 to 1 inch across) and long, medium green, speckled with morning dew. The lacewing eggs are tiny (smaller than a poppy seed), oval, pale green, and hang down on thin, hair-like stalks maybe 1/4" long from the underside of the leaf. They kick ass.
Some sort of bee asleep on a flower of false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides). Long, golden yellow petals surrounding a similarly colored center.
A single stalk of sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) going horizontally across my palm. The stalk is green, and every half inch or so a cluster of green grain-like seeds hangs down off of it, all on the same side of the stalk (hence the name). At the tip of many of the seeds is a teensy tiny flower, tubular and not much thicker than a hair, maybe 1/8" long, saffron-orange at the tip and fading to yellow at the base. There are also some tiny white feathery things mixed in there, not sure what those are. Oh, and a blurry ant.
Photo of a cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) plant. In the foreground is a single stem with two flowers at the tip, each coming off the stem at an angle. The petals (technically, ray flowers) are 2"-3" long, oval, and golden yellow, speckled with drops of rain. The central part of each flower (actually a cluster of 100s of tiny flowers, disc florets) is yellow-green and protrudes a bit, like a tightly closed little pinecone. On the one on the right, some of the disc florets at the base of the pinecone shape are starting to open, showing brown styles and yellow, curly, Y-shaped stigmas emerging. A fly is checking one of them out. Other (single-headed) flowers and large, deep green leaves are in the background.
My hand holding a Blazing Beauty tomato I grew. It's about 2.5" across. I've sliced it in half, and I'm holding it to show the cross section, showing golden-yellow flesh. (The outside, not visible, is more orange-yellow.) Greenish seeds are embedded inside. It tasted phenomenal. I'm very proud.
The words "Liked By" (at the top of a list of people who liked one of my tweets)
Photo of the top of a cyclical bin with two semi-circular openings: one marked trash, one marked mixed recyclables. But they both go into the same bag, as evidenced by me poking my hand down into the trash half but my fingers being visible through the recycling hole.
Screenshot of a portion of the description of a wire fence. "2 inch x 4 inch Mesh: Keeps out LARGE GROUND ARACHNIDS [emphasis mine] with a flexible tight design"
A Halloween pennant dragonfly sitting on some green plants. Its body and eyes are a dark, rusty red. Its wings are yellow, with several stripes (running parallel to the dragonfly's body) in the same rusty red.
A harvestman / daddy long legs on the trunk of a tree. It has a rusty orange buddy with dark gray legs. Sitting on rough, gray-brown bark with patches of light gray-green lichen. These guys were on every tree trunk I looked at.
Tim Robinson in the Corncob TV sketch. Pointing two thumbs at his chest saying "They said that to me at a dinner."
Screenshot from the Merlin app. Based on the sounds around me, it identifies Cedar Waxwing, Pine Warbler, Mourning Dove, Wood Thrush, Warbling Vireo, Black-capped Chickadee, Chipping Sparrow, and (didn't fit on the screenshot) American Robin.
Photo of a small, mom-and-pop donut shop, "Donut Dip". Very 1950s-font red neon signs with the name, one over the storefront, one elevated to be visible from the street. Place fuckin rocks
Simple black pencil drawing on white paper. The paper is divided by into 2 rows and 2 columns. On the top left, it says "Santa's Little Helper"; under that is a drawing of the dog with that name from The Simpsons. On the top right, it says "Satan's Little Helper"; underneath that is a drawing of a pentagram.
Close-up on a bloom of Liatris spicata 'Kobold'. A tall, slender, bright green stalk with thin, grass-like leaves radiating outward along its length. At the top, a vertical spike of flower buds. The buds at the bottom are still closed, with a bit of magenta peeking through a dark purple exterior. The buds at the top are opening, creating a dense mass of feathery, light purple tufts. Brown wood chip mulch in the background.
Tupperware of partly-devoured donuts. Half of a coconut, while Brown Oblong One, half of a powdered sugar. Delicious
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A lil bitty brown and white bunny scampering across the walkway in my back yard. It is wee.
Brown bag that says "SEAFOOD MEETS ASIA"
The guy whispering into George Bush's ear on 9/11 but Bush is replaced with Dana Carvey in the turtle costume from Master of Disguise