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Midwestern nerd, weird animal person, dad, things of that nature. he/him

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18h

PUBLIC AWARENESS IS GROWING AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE TADPOLLING

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 21h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 21h

Me: “It’s cool and inspiring to see people standing up to authoritarianism with joy and mockery.”
Also me: “Inflatable raccoon costumes exist and can be purchased, you say?”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 21h

Poison dart frogs get their poison from ants, centipedes and other venomous insects they eat, so it all depends on whether this guy has been chowing down on the right kind of inflatable bugs.

Count_Floyd @count-floyd.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe they are staying back because it's one of those frogs that secretes poison on its skin?

Big frog = lots of poison.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Poor guy, I hope everything goes well. Sending good thoughts to you both.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Putting aside the question of how he’ll ever find out if Godot shows up, if I somehow spent $1400 on theatre tickets nothing short of explosive diarrhea would keep me from sticking around until the end.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

I mean if you’re working at Duncan Hines or whatever you’re not curing cancer so you need to find ways to make a little excitement wherever you can, I guess.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

Wicked cereal. I guess it counts as a movie tie-in, which isn’t uncommon, though when I saw it I first thought “how many Broadway musicals get their own cereal?”
Available in Glinda Good Berry and Elphaba Caramel Apple. Waiting for Dillamond Goat Cheese and Pear.

Boxes of Wicked cereal from General Mills on a store display, one in pink with a silhouette of Glinda, one in green with a silhouette of Elphaba.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

Funeral director: “Would you guys be willing to be pallbearers?”
Deer: “Um… We weren’t exactly close.”
Funeral director: “Yeah, I know, but you four are the only ones who are the right size to carry the casket.”

Gorgeous piece!

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

If you ever decide to sell merch, I’d get in line for a Fork Fight tee. Seems like it would make a good pajama top. :)

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

So many compelling ways to read this sentence depending on which word you put emphasis on.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

For the most part something bare bones would be fine, but when I try to see what I’d need if I suddenly found myself with free time and wanted to play a game that doesn’t involve crushing candy or w/ever, the internet starts acting like performance car reviewers with strong opinions on BMW vs Lexus.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

I want to get a Windows laptop for general personal business use. I’m willing to spend a bit more for something that can do some light gaming (WoW? Various things on Steam? HoI4?) but I never actually find time to do these, so it’s not worth getting something ridiculously powerful. Recommendations?

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 2d

The Skin Deep crew rolls deep, I’m always grateful to get to spend more time with the many cool supporting characters. :)

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 3d

Are there any of my fellow map nerds in the Chicago area who’d like to get together and check this out sometime between tomorrow and 2/14/2026?

Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 3d

Can't contain how much you LOVE Maps?

We're getting a real treat ready for you at #NewberryLibrary! "Mapping Outside the Lines" opens tomorrow!

It's curated by Dave Weimer, more info here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/map...
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Exhibition door with geode looking diagram vinyl of white wiggly lines going up on the left side.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 3d

Sammy Davis Jr., exulting in the Las Vegasness of the mural he is a part of, on the side of a motel or something that looks like it’s about to be torn down.

A mural on the side of a building that looks like a motel or apartment building along a busy road with two stories of external doors, depicting a smiling Sammy Davis Jr, his arms spread wide, along with some palm trees and flamboyantly dressed showgirls. There is temporary chain link fencing blocking off access to the building’s parking lot.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 3d

What’s the point of even having a bird mascot if they don’t have skinny yellow or orange legs?

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 3d

Kid gets nosebleeds from time to time, and we’ve had luck with a product made of absorbent fiber with a clotting agent. They work pretty well, but are unfortunately called “Nampons”. I’m not squeamish about menstrual stuff, but it feels weird to call something I’m sticking in a 9 year old’s nose.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, right!

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 4d

Among some papers from a trip to Washington DC back in the early ‘80s, I found an empty freeze dried ice cream package. Note the aggressively non-metric package info, the inexplicable quotes around “Do not open in the museum”, and “SPACESNAK” in that retrofuturistic Westminster typeface.

A flat empty foil bag that contained freeze dried astronaut ice cream from the National Air and Space Museum. It’s over 40 years old. Net weight is listed as 5/8 Oz. It has art of a Project Mercury space capsule.

The reverse of the foil bag, with the text:

ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM
A delicious ready-to-eat assortment of freeze-dried strawberry, chocolate and vanilla ice cream that melts in your mouth.
Freeze-dried ice cream similar to this was enjoyed by U.S. Astronauts on the Apollo mis-sions. It is real ice cream frozen to -40°F (-40°C), vacuum-dried and sealed in a mylar foil pouch.
Artificially Flavored Vanilla, Chocolate & Strawberry
Packed For
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Innovative Foods, Inc.
So. San Francisco, CA. 94080

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 4d

Some quick scratch paper math indicates that a Walmart Supercenter & parking lot, at about 700k sq ft, would still take up 40” by 40” at T scale. So I guess you’d have to have a really big basement and really love Walmarts.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 5d

Model railroading is inherently urbanist because who has the space at HO (1:87) or even N (1:220) scale to include big box stores with giant parking lots in their setups. But I wonder if anyone is using T (1:450) scale to replicate the retail sprawl of the US suburbs?

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 5d

We’ve established through her past two appointments that Giant Dog is very nervous at the veterinarian and will pee all over the floor and herself while being examined. So a stop at the self service dog wash on the way home is just part of the routine now I guess.

A blue Great Dane in a shower stall in the midst of getting a bath. She is looking directly at the camera, panting. She’s had kind of a rough hour or so, but will be receiving treats soon.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 9d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 5d

Okay sure, Halloween werewolf packaging. But they’re gummy *worms* so it should be a really scary looking thing that eats worms. Maybe a wererobin or a weremole. Some of those star-nosed moles look pretty terrifying.

A package of gummy worms with a cartoon werewolf holding fistfuls of gummy worms and looking hungrily at them.

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 6d

I first heard about it Thursday from a coworker with middle school age school aged kids, she said “I’m so sick of 6-7”. I asked the Kid if he’d heard of 6-7 & he said “Ugh, I’m so sick of that”. I guess it’s a random memey reference to a Skrilla song called “Doot Doot (6 7)” w/out any real meaning