Mike M

@mikeeye.bsky.social

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Contains multitudes. An entropic mess. Realist & idealist - so basically jobless and almost broke. Peace & freedom aren't free. Also loves animals, nature, and photography.

Photo of the Golden Gate Bridge just above and to the right of center along with the western most end of the San Francisco Bay in the middle foreground. (Just below centerline, near the left edge of the photo, a solitary sailboat is cruising along.) In the right-middle foreground is greenery of Belvedere's Peninsula Point. In the near foreground is greenery and a few houses at some of the lower elevations of where the photo was taken - near the high point of Tiburon, California. Just above the very top of the bridge towers, the marine layer (fog) is coming in for the evening. Photo taken July 7, 2026 @ 7:03p

Photo of two deer, faces turned towards the camera, laying down off the side of a hilly road. The deer in the foreground is laying down on the gravel road shoulder; facing the left edge of the photo and its body centered about 1/3rd from the right edge and in the lower 1/4th of the frame. The deer in the background is in the upper left corner of the photo, behind a row of bushes, and laying down on the up sloping ground cover - but only its head, from nose to ear tips, is visible just above the tops of the bushes.

Blurry photo of a recently-born, spotted fawn, in mid-leap, while running (right to left) through a field of tall-ish, green grass.

Mike's mostly black rabbit with white/grey "socks", named Terry, seen after flopping out on the cool bricks and pavers he likes on hotter days. Besides, Terry just turned nine, so he flops out and lounges almost all of the time anyway. No rabbit conusmed any carrot-infused alcoholic beverages for this photo!

Female Great Horned Owl on her nest in the crook of a eucalyptus tree. She is laying on one or more eggs; the main part of her body is horizontal to the ground facing the right side of the photo. Her head is crooked up to almost 90 degrees with eyes almost completely squinted shut. Photo from April 4, 2026 in Sonoma County, California.

The bubbling waters of Austin Creek, near Cazadero, California. With the surrounding forest barely noticable since absent-minded videographer didn't pan up. From early March, 2026.

Screengrab from the scene in Casablanca with the quote from the police captain(?) in added captions below reading "I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here."

Mike's little, black rabbit sitting on top of the round, beige ottoman, while Mike is being soothed by gently petting the compassionate bunny.

Photo of a female Great Horned Owl after reestablishing her nest this year, about 40 feet high in the crook of a eucalyptus tree - the same tree they used for five previous years (with last year being their only nest fail so far). There is a sheet of peeled eucalyptus bark positioned in front of her so that most of what is seen is the top half of her head. (Photo enlarged and cropped to show details.)

A photo showing a honey bee
foraging on a California Wild Rose, with its typical deep pink petals and yellow center.

The Flagellant monks from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Photo of a Great Horned Owl owlet while landing high up on a broken branch stump of a fir tree close to its former nest that it had left only a few days earlier. While landing on the stump, it flapped its wings numerous times - apparently in order to balance itself. This photo was snapped when it's wings were fully extended and slightly arched up. While the wings are definitely out of focus, the body and head are slightly closer to being in focus. And while still showing most of its white, downy, recent hatchling feathers, its browner and darker feathers, more typical of the Great Horned Owl, are just starting to show.

On the local trail nearby my house, this Great Horned Owl (if that's in fact the correct name!) is one of a pair that have nested the previous five years in a eucalyptus tree on the opposite side of the trail from where it is shown perched here. We only see the rear of the owl in the phot as the tall fir tree it is in faces several private fields off-trail with lots of yummy prey for them. (Apologies for the blurriness and lighting: It was a very bright, overcast, and windy day after many days of rain)

Screenshot from a moment in the Last Week Tonight video in the quoted post, with the caption beneath John Oliver stating "Christy Gnome, which is, if I may quote her own dog's dying words, rough"

Screenshot of the top of my "10,000" game with the score reading out "8,675,309". (For those unaware, the song "867-5309/Jenny", released by Tommy Tutone, was at its peak in 1982 - but is forever stuck in millions of ears)

Two Great Horned Owl owlets, with their floofy, white and brown hatchling feathers, about a month after hatching, looking out from their nest in the crook of a eucalyptus tree. The owlet in the foreground, standing and slightly left of center, with its head tilted slightly down and beak wide open, is not actually vocalizing but about to expel an owl pellet. (If you don't know, look it up - owls are fascinating!) The one sitting low and to the right of center, is only half seen with its other side obscured by the eucalyptus trunk, and looks like they're unimpressed or bored. These two (and the third of that 2023 brood hiding elsewhere in the nest) were already eating whole rats brought back to the nest by their parents at that point in late April: https://youtu.be/Tdern-FfQso

Photo of a Townsend's Warbler, with its yellow and black coloring, perched on a broken twig which is laying on top of brown, fallen leaves, and which is just next to the trailside puddle where it just took a bath. Most of the water has been shaken off, but some of the bird's feathers still appear as wet.

Photo of a squirrel standing on its hind legs on top of the backrest of a weathered, wooden park bench, while it's eating something. Because of how it stood, the genetalia underneath is clearly showing and looks very much like a male squirrel.

Merriam-Webster bestows upon me my 2026 Word: Bed rotting. (Like I haven't been doing it already for years!)

Speaker johnson's face (poorly) placed on the body of the Hogan's Heroes character Sergeant Schultz. The added text on the photo repeats that character's famous line "I know nothing!" - because johnson doesn't seem to know anything about anything, especially about his job.

Not a photo but video frame of when the Great Horned Owl I was watching flashed their nictitating membrane (sometimes referred to as the third eyelid). The upper half of the bird and all of its head is shown with eucalyptus branches in the background, part of the same tree it was perched on.

Photo of my 80 cent s'mores donut I bought yesterday, as it sits on a dish on my kitchen counter waiting to be eaten. The base is a regular, chocolate frosted donut. It is topped with graham cracker cereal pieces sticking to the frosting. The hole in the middle is covered with one huge marshmallow. On top of everything is more chocolate drizzed in lines across the top. (Unseen bonus: Under the huge marshmallow, the hole was filled with a light chocolate mousse!)

A branched, slightly unimproved path on the Laguna de Santa Rosa Trail. An undulating grassland bordering the marshy area of the watershed of the same name. On the right side of the photo is the brightly lit grassland areas; on the left, as it begins to transition to the marshy area, some 10-15 foot trees grow out of a small bank on the lower left corner area. Growing at an angle they also droop over near the center of the photo to meet some taller grasses and scrubland bushes. The effect of this is a very dark part of the trail that looks like an ominous tunnel. A speck of the bright daylight is shown at the far end of this "tunnel".

Screenshot of the character of Janet from "The Good Place" series. The caption at the bottom reads, "I live in a boundless void."

Three month-old Great Horned Owl owlets peeking out from their nest in the crook of a eucalyptus tree.

Photo of a yellow "See and Say - The Farner Says" toy that I remember having from way back when I was about four years old. Yes, I'm that old. 😆

GIF from the series "The Good Place". This is a clip of the Eleanor character captioned saying "This is the bad place!"

Red-tailed Hawk at the very top of a very tall tree scanning the area for its next meal. (This tree up the street from me seems to be a hunting vantage point for many Red-tailed and Red-shouldered Hawks)

Squirrel eating an acorn on my deck railing until it gets spooked by something at the end and jumps back into the oak tree. (It wasn't me that freaked it out: Recorded this through the window)

A Turkey Vulture perched atop a speed limit sign reading: Speed limit 25.

A Northern Mockingbird walking/hopping over dried grasses, stopping every few seconds to spread its wings in a display that almost looks like stop-motion with the way it unfolds and then refolds its wings. It flies away in the end towards the upper right of the screen.

Photo of Terry, a small, black rabbit, with only the front of his head seen poking out of a blue tartan throw with fleece lining. Even his rabbit ears are hidden under the throw.

Screenshot of Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes - except with Mike Johnson's face substituted in. Along with Schultz's famous quote on the left "I know nothing!"

Immature Cooper's Hawk perched on a partially visible, moss-covered oak tree branch. It is facing almost directly at the camera like it was looking down its beak at us for something we did wrong.

(Which is somewhat true, given how bad humans collectively have f***ed, and keep f***ing, up the environs where they live.)

Screenshot of the title graphic on my music app for the song "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones from their album Road to Ruin - Deluxe Edition. Since I can't be sedated all the time, I have hit this song a lot this year in between the hazy, more numb times.

Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCrosky in the 1980 movie "Airplane!". This shot is of him looking drugged out - face red, eyes squinting,hair standing on end - soon after his character utters the line "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

A sad little cookie my friend made a while ago that was iced to look like a "whiny baby trump". Orangey in color, with an icing diaper, awkward tie, fake head of golden hair - it's all there.

Screenshot of the character Roy Kent from the show Ted Lasso, with the caption at the bottom reads, "And I hope he dies of the incurable condition of being a little bitch."

Paragraphs from the BBC article on Bolsonaro's conviction quoting one of the justices on the case. It reads:
Justice Lucia compared the attempted coup to a "virus", which, if left to fester, can kill the society in which it has taken hold in.

She added: "I hope that this trial will prove a cure so that it doesn't come back. Relapses aren't good".

The Penguin Army on the march over a field of white snow and ice. They will be victorious!

A small, black house rabbit is laying prone on his red chair. His (Terry's) left side is facing the camera and his left eye is half closed as he is in the midst of falling asleep.

Video of a green Anna's Hummingbird flying in from the right side of the frame and then landing on a thin tree branch just a bit above the center point. After landing facing away from the camera, in preparation for its night of torpor the hummingbird begins by turning its head side to side a few times before the short video ends. The hummingbird is primarily green but also with a long,thin black beak and face area, along with several grey/white/black accents coloring under the wings and on edges of the tail feathers.

Scene screenshot from Ted Lasso (S2, E1) where the Dani Rojas character is standing under the running shower, fully-dressed in his team uniform. The original closed caption was [quickly and poorly] edited to reflect an accurate graphical reply to the OP. Updated caption text reads: (in yellow) "[Hey, Amy whatcha doing?]" (in white) "Washing the sins off of me."

*The original caption had "Dani" instead of "Amy", and "death" instead of "sins"

Grainy, poor quality photo of an Anna's Hummingbird in green with black/grey accents, facing away from the camera, as it perches on a small branch and prepares to roost there for the night's torpor. Its head is turned slightly to the right so as to show its long beak and the black coloring on its head. Photo presented with artificially increased exposure as original was too dark after being taken a few minutes after official sunset.

Three Great Horned Owl owlets, about a month after hatching, standing in their nest in the center crook of a eucalyptus tree. All are still showing their mostly white, fluffy owlet plumage; the oldest is the one closest to the camera, with about 2/3rds of their upper body showing along with the head - including their two yellow eyes staring almost directly at the camera. The two younger owlets are in the background to our right of the oldest, with the color of their eyes almost all in shade and not showing; the left sides of the bodies of the younger two are obscured by their other young sibling and the tree trunk, respectively. Photo taken April 26, 2023 in Sonoma County, California

The black rabbit, Terry (with his small white/grey fur socks showing), sits on his red chair, body facing slightly to the left side of the photo. His face is turned a bit to his left towards center and facing straight at the camera. His two ears are facing different directions as he seems to always be alert to abnormal sounds no matter what else he's doing.

Photo of the wrapper for a Lucky Charms "breakfast" bar. Only 100 chalky, stale marshmallow calories! 🙄

Photo of two carrots intertwined starting about halfway down from their tops. They are set on a white bag that came along with all the other produce from the CSA subscription that week, many years ago. (But I'll never forget them! 🥕🧡)

A Lorquin's Admiral butterfly perched on a blackberry bush leaf with its wings folded up and facing the right edge of the photo. The underside of the right wing shown displays its typical coloring of varying shades of reddish-brown interspersed with white markings. Photo from August 11, 2025; Sonoma County, California.

Photo behind my TV showing a tangled web of wires topped by numerous spiderwebs - one of which looks like a dome spiderweb spanning from the TV to the wall.

Photo of a deer fawn, its mother in the background, and green tree foliage behind them both. Only the fawn is in focus and seen above its knees while looking straight at the camera; some of its spots from when it was younger are faded but still visible along its left flank. The mom deer, directly behind the fawn, is slightly out of focus with only the right side of its face and right front leg showing to the fawn's right, while also looking at the camera in a slightly squinty (menacing?) way. A small bit of the mom's left ear can be seen emerging from behind the left side of the fawn's neck.

Extreme close-up of the head and neck area of a male California Quail, coming up from the lower right corner of the frame. The visible parts of the quail account for about 40% of the photo area; the remaining 60% or so is the blurred, tall, golden grass in the background. The quail's beak is open as it calls to its flock beneath the tall grasses. July 17, 2025 in Sonoma County, California.

Photo of three Violet-green Swallow chicks looking out from their nest opening about two weeks after hatching. Their heads and some of their chest feathers are showing as all three are wedged, straining in the circular opening while waiting for their parents to return with food. The white on their chests extends up the front of the neck area and front of the face, up to the wide, developing beak, with a streak of white then wrapping behind and then above their black eyes. The tops of their heads (and unseen wings) are currently more of a grey-green color that will change as they mature into the more typical violet-green swallow colors.