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Sometime artist, smalltown westcoast fish & boat nerd, tired old gendervague dirtbag (they/them) ALT text is kindness to your fellow humans. Banner: mountain lake bathed in golden light. PFP: Head of a ratfish


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Ethan β€œFink-Nottle” Kocak's avatar Ethan β€œFink-Nottle” Kocak @blackmudpuppy.bsky.social
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Writing the intro to the Backerkit page and some of you might find it uh...relevant.

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Like a month and a half ago @bbolander.bsky.social admonished me for having never read Perdido Street Station. Holy fuck????? I’m only like a third of the way through it and holy fuck??????

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China MiΓ©ville is so mindbendingly good

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jesus if i didn't know this was real i'd have thought it was a bit from LiartownUSA

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at least the cats enjoy it 😹

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the sheer suffering on that poor face 😹

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This is really quite excellent & darkly funny. a radio play about one of the first and most existentially chilling duties of a newly elected UK Prime Minister

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Nessy does that when I sleep upstairs. There's no door to the stairway. She does the Sad Lonely Song until I reply "Are sad and lonely? Sad kitty sad!" & then she'll come up. Most times. Sometimes she likes to sleep by herself on the comfy armchair in the living room

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My favourite local example is Cathedral Grove, world famous, always clogged with cars and tourists. I know a few other places that put that place to absolute shame & maybe I'll run into 3 or 4 other people if I go on a weekend.

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Nearly every time I'm at my absolute favorite place in Florida, I watch someone pull into the lot, pause for a minute, then drive off like they were underwhelmed by what they see. And I smile a little.

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I like to share a lot of beautiful places on here but I have location data turned off for a reason & I rarely give names of spots unless they're established parks. I'm very lucky to live somewhere it's still easy to find myself alone even in a popular, non-remote park like this

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I won't be too surprised if that happens to me too. Worst toe stub in a long time. I agree about the force field shields 😹

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Doc Wolverine, A weasel with a threatening aura, MD's avatar Doc Wolverine, A weasel with a threatening aura, MD @doctorwolverine.bsky.social
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It's also important to remember that for the first 3-6 months the effects are reversible if you find HRT to not actually be helping you mental state. If it -is- for you, you'll know well within this window

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36C in the attic lol

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I swear it hurts more now than it did when I stubbed it this morning 😭

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Mmm I love super fragrant old roses. The wild nutkana were just incredible this spring

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Sometimes it's fun to call your cat a "creature" while you're talking to them. For instance, "ah, the creature likes being brushed, this is fascinating data"

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Oh, abSolutely! Yum!

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Same lol

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Awwww, so sweet 😻

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It's foolishness to try to pick favorite bugs but in the realm of Bees these have a most pleasing shape and size

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a red and black bee??? 😻😻😻

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Too tired for a proper fossil Friday so here is a throwback to this day in 2016 when I was poking this Allosaurus in the dickhole in Amsterdam

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my last skeet was about the big pigeons, but the nighthawks are spectacular & if tree swallows are still working the lake with them, they look a lot bigger than expected, too 😻

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And Big! And usually really shy. I've never gotten that close to them before, nor seen that many at once

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Pervert 😹

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Heat pump's working, but it's definitely noisier than it should be. I'm going to try to use it as little as possible til I can get it looked at. Of course I was nagging myself since March about getting it serviced before the hot weather set in πŸ˜‘

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Birding-while-swimming lol. Last year I was also able to sneakily swim up to the base of a tree full of hilariously clumsy band-tailed pigeons, & enjoyed watching them clamber and bumble around trying to eat whatever fruit was on the tree (chokecherries maybe)

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It's not popular as a swimming lake either ... The shore is all either rocky, mucky, weedy, or all 3. I usually have the water all to myself

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That lake is so cool for evening swimming... I've had nighthawks swoop down within a foot or two of my face, bats too!

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I'm not even sure it qualifies as cheap with liquor prices being how they are these days 😹😩

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Yeah, I'm never 100% comfortable with them. Mind you, this campground has an attendant and they're right by the gate, so I should probably just talk to them when I drive in & let them know I might lose track of time a little bit :) (also staying in the water til dusk is really cool)

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I'll get to the lake, I'll get back into evening swims, I remember it took me a while to overcome my inertia about it last year too Fuck, my toe hurts. It's not swollen or discoloured tho so I'm gonna assume I didn't break anything

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Whomst among us would not like a fried cheese crown

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I guess we won

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He has such soft looking paws 😻

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Neptune seems more interested in cooling himself whereas Nessy fully embraces the self-roasting lifestyle. I should look into getting him one of those dog cooling floor mats (or a big flat slab of marble, heh) I could maybe make one out of ceramic tile.

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Part of my hesitation about driving to the lake - besides giving my sore toe a break from pressing on the gas pedal tonight - is that the campground added a gate that closes at 10 pm & that's giving me deadline anxiety

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I went into the basement and my stubbed toe did NOT like going down stairs AT ALL so now I'm icing it and sulking. I caved and turned on the heat pump just to get it down a few degrees in here. In lieu of swimming I'll take a cool bath later

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Let's see a cybertruck try THAT

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Did you both like and subscribe to the labeler?

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Gonna grill some brats tomorrow. They better have the answers to my questions or they're getting spanked.

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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈMartin β€œDoomsday” PfeifferπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ's avatar πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈMartin β€œDoomsday” PfeifferπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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Tired:
AI will turn the world into Gray Goo making paperclips.

Wired:
Greedy, rich humans will turn the world uninhabitable trying to make AI a thing (like "fetch" in Mean Girls).

www.theguardian.com/business/art...

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oh no poor babeee

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we're still in it?? lol

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