Samantha

A macro photo looking down into a multi-petaled, yellow flower with a moth in the flower's dark yellow center. The moth has a fuzzy gray thorax and cream-colored wings with pink edging. There is also a very small green plant bug in the upper left, peeking from behind a petal.

Photobombing is a constant problem in macrophotography

(Heliolonche pictipennis moth in the Mojave Desert last weekend; green mirid plant bug going "Oh heyyy" in the upper left.) #BugSky 🌿🐙📷

"problem" or "bonus?"

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME

Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.

Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

Screenshot of my profile page with the ellipses on the top right and a blue dot on the top right corner of that

Ok if you want to make this fucking dot go away you have to enter this menu and then physically click Go Live even if you don’t currently intend to and never fucking intend to Go Live

I think of anti-vax messaging as a scam, and the thing is, no one is too smart, moral, or educated to be immune to scams.
Now, what scam you fall for depends on your anxieties, hopes, and ignorance. Sometimes what those things are can be telling.
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I'll be in my office

eastern bluebird in a bare tree on a sunny day, face obscured by a stick

eastern bluebird perched on the side of a tree, face obscured by the tree and shadows.

blurry eastern bluebird flying away from a tree in the winter woods.

close up of an eastern bluebird in a shaded tree, turned to face the other direction.

the bluebirds at the park wanted to make sure I had plenty of material for #PhotoFailFriday #birds

downy woodpecker clinging to the side of a tree in winter woods in a strip of sunlight.

just a flash of woodpecker in the sunlight and then POOF! gone again
#birds #WoodpeckerWednesday

❤️

yellow rumped warbler in a tree in the snow.

butterbutt & I were surprised by snow today
#birds #CouchBirding

"what the heck"
#birds #CouchBirding

a crow perched on a tree in the snow.

snow doesn't bother crow
#birds #Couchbirding

Wake up, there's doom to be scrolled. 🐣 🪶

showrunners: "ok imagine a vicar, solving crimes in the country..."
ITV: "it's been done-"
showrunners: "...BUT, he's HOT"
ITV: "YES."
showrunners: "and-"
ITV: "shh sh, that's enough"

wow grantchester really is a *terrible* show. I tried to watch it once and gave up, but now I'm out of things to watch so I'm giving it a real try and it's worse than I imagined! so bad! starting season 2 with a false metoo? omg. lol sorry if anyone who likes this, reads this.

Today is Sex Worker's Rights Day. Sex worker rights are human rights not just because we're humans just like you, but also any rights taken from us will be taken from you too.

Surveillance, police violence, debanking, censorship, we faced all of those for years before it turned on everyone else.

a crow perched on a tree in the snow.

snow doesn't bother crow
#birds #Couchbirding

"what the heck"
#birds #CouchBirding

A western toad, rescued from a pit trap,.

I don’t have anything to say that can help right now. But this toad believes in you. Stay strong. #herps

A hand touching a large tan mushroom cap growing in grass

Reach out and touch #fungifriends

yellow rumped warbler in a tree in the snow.

butterbutt & I were surprised by snow today
#birds #CouchBirding

I know, it just gets golden goodness at the end, but they stopped going in the same direction. this would be really great footage if you spent time tracking it and refining, but i wont.

Photo of a medium sized Virginia Opossum on a tree branch with all its cute pink paws together. It’s a little round and hunched, hoping we don’t see it.

Photo of a male Red-winged Blackbird perched up on a tree branch. The park was devoid of these birds yesterday, but the first small flocks dropped in today, likely having taken advantage of last night’s south winds to migrate into the area.

Photo of an adult Red-tailed Hawk in flight, banking into a turn overhead.

Photo of a male Downy Woodpecker on a branch with his tail and wings fluffed out slightly in aggression.

Things I saw on this morning’s bird walk.

Sweet little opossum in a tree.

First Red-winged Blackbirds of spring!

Red-tailed Hawk did a flyby.

Two male Downy Woodpeckers squabbling over territory.

#birds #mammals #migration

help me pick one from my DVR for #8000:
1) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
2) Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
3) Broken Lullaby (1932)
4) The Three Musketeers (1935)
#TCMParty

the next film I watch will be my 8,000th film (according to the spreadsheet I have been keeping since about '17). I was going to ask #TCMParty what I should watch, but realized I've already seen every film showing on TCM for the next week and I'm not going to wait that long to watch a new film!

As always, I don't repost, even to bring zen to your timeline, if you don't have alt text in your post 🥰

A macro photo of an adorable fluffy tan moth from the front. the moth's body, head, and legs are covered in fur-like tan scales, it has small dark eyes above which are 2 large feathery antennae.

Y'all might need some #cute today if the news is any indication...😑

Forest Tent Caterpillar #Moth, Malacosoma disstria

A #FocusStack

#fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro

#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Nature
#NatureIsAmazing
#Invertebrates
#insects

I don't want you dead! she says, calm as the sun.

I want all the people like you to be gone.
I don't want you there in the places I go;
I don't understand, and I don't want to know.

That's worse than you wanting me dead, I replied.

You're overreacting, she cheerfully lied.

the washing machine, it is apparently armed & dangerous

went outside 🥳😴