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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝
@fishsqueezer.bsky.social
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Biologist in Idaho, lover of nature, taking pictures, books, family, art. Politically active & outraged, but that's not why I'm on Bluesky. Views my own.

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Last night was the Spokane Orchid Society's monthly meeting, which means that today is your lucky day to tour highlights from the show-and-tell! It was a very impressive floral display for midwinter, with dozens of plants in spectacular bloom, only some of which are here.

🪴🌱 #orchid #bloomscrolling
Trichopilia suavis has many white flowers with yellow and purple lips. They smell like roses.
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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I love how large the standard deviation of quality is for the Allusionist, between episodes that are just 11/10 absolute bangers and episodes that make you go "Why did you record this?". But I absolutely worship Helen's dry British humor. Even on average, the show's quality is very good. Do indulge.
helenzaltzman.bsky.social Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social · 1d
Today is @allusionistshow.bsky.social's eleventh birthday! Happy birthday, show! My voice has returned sufficiently so there'll be a new episode this week, and there are 200+ not-new ones at theallusionist.org to catch up on if this is your first time hearing that this podcast exists
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January 14, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Uhhh...what if I'm a fish biologist working in the logging industry? Seems bad. 🐟
Me cradling a bull trout in a clear, rocky stream that is incidentally flowing through a watershed under heavy utilization by the logging industry.
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Check out these midwinter lithophytic lichens from yesterday where the sun melted the snow off a rock near Council, Idaho. I would love a rug that looked like this.

🌱🌿 #nativeplants 🍄📷
A close-up photo of some lichens of various textures and colors. There are yellow crustose lichens, black globose lichens, gray curly lichens, cream circular lichens, tan blobby lichens, and more.
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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The Little Colorado - a river lost to climate change and land abuse that occasionally rears its zombie head in an astonishing rush of erosion and debris.

#hydrology
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Laura & I went to a tea party at the library to celebrate Jane Austen, who had her 250th birthday last month. We were the only ones dressed up, and it was silly, but we still had fun. I was the only man in the entire room. Laura and I also won our game of whist against a couple old ladies. #booktok
Laura in a lavender dress and purple feathery hat stands next to me in tan pants and a black tailed coat with a ruffled white shirt and a black top hat. There is a cheesy floral backdrop behind us.
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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It's a blustery world, but it still contains beauty worth defending. I just finished contacting my government leaders (yet again). If you have the power to do so, you should exercise this right immediately before the sun sets, both figuratively and literally.
January 8, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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The web is forever red hot or dull gray
Are there other pasttimes? I said with a sigh
For now, just today, the woods asked me to play
I could see the trees in a chickadee's eye
mariannedenton.bsky.social Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 7d
Yesterday morning in the snowy forest, I could see the trees in a chickadee’s eye.

(as inspired by Patrick’s pika pic)
A four panel picture of the same picture of a woman in a snowy forest with birdseed in her hand and a chickadee perched on her fingers (largest panel) and three panels increasingly zooming in on the chickadee eye reflecting the forest.
January 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Look how fat these snowflakes are! You can see their shadows in the streetlight. #wx
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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My snowbird parents left & texted me to go over & clean the perishables out of their fridge & use them so they don't go bad while they're gone.

WHAT THE HELL MOM?!

THEY'VE BEEN GONE LESS THAN A WEEK.

I'd be impressed at this as a practical joke if they were clever enough to think of it. BLECCHHH🤮
A disgusting container of formerly vanilla yogurt that looks like gray felt climbing out of a pool of yellowish brown liquid.
January 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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My gosh it is freaking dire out there, if you have the need or guts to be online today, please enjoy this lovely orchid cactus flower from a rare sunny winter day in the Inland Northwest. 🌱🌿
A bright yellow, star-shaped flower with 15 or so pointed petals rises above succulent green cactus foliage. In the background is the sunlit but out-of-focus snowy roof of a play structure.
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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In other jewel #orchids terrarium news, the silvery jewel orchid Goodyera viridiflora is blooming waaaay in the back. The flowers are intricate and cute, but unobtrusive. Once I show it to my fellow nerds at the orchid club meeting next Wednesday, I'll probably cut it off in favor of leafy vibes. 🌱🪴
A spike of greenish orchid flowers that have a hood shielding a little white lip and two pointy lower petals with faint stripes.
January 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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I'm never backing down. I'm going to continue holding this Administration accountable because I won't let them intimidate me or any American out of speaking their mind.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Final update on the mother Ludisia discolor 'Salmon Sandstone' orchid: the moss ate her. That little suspended bridge of fronds is all that remains of her former shape. But her progeny live on and will also need evicted from this terrarium soon because they are TOO BIG. 🪴🌱

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Some green moss grows in front of a few stems of jewel orchids. The moss is arced in a vague rainbow shape, with little fruiting bodies like antennae raised above.
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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I was just introduced to Tyler Martin's clever & slightly dark humor in puddlemunch comics. I can't find them anywhere on Bluesky, & I'm not on any of the socials where he is promoting them, so please enjoy.

Is this #SciArt? How DO you know if a possum is dead? Where do you check a pulse? Haha. 🦊
A four-panel comic. The first one shows an adult bear and a cub looking at a possum lying on the ground with a grimacing mouth. The cub asks "IS HE DEAD?" and the adult responds "NO, HE'S JUST PLAYING POSSUM". In the next panel, the possum is in the same position, but the bears are gone. Some grass has grown and the possum's eye is hollowing out. The third panel show the possum starting to get lumpy and the eye socket even larger, with a couple flies buzzing overhead. In the last panel, the possum's skull and ribs have emerged from the drooping hide, and chunks of possum are scattered around on the ground with one fly overhead. The bears have returned, and the cub says "DANG, HE'S GOOD."
January 5, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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My Phalaenopsis sanderiana orchid is in glorious bloom again, exactly one year later. I guess this is a New Year's plant. 🪴🌱

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Four purple flowers with a white lip that has long dragony whiskers. A reflection of an LED light is visible in the background. A closeup of one of the flowers where you can see some yellow color and dark spots deep inside the lip.
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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Dammit! I brought the chicken eggs inside in the pouch of my bunnyhug and forgot they were there. When I took my sweater off, they all fell out and splattered all over the floor. What a waste! Fresh chicken eggs when the days are only 8 hours long are basically priceless. 😭🌱🐔
Five chicken eggs lie broken on the floor.
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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My Easter-lily cactus had so many pups and was about to break out of this pot, so it needed thinned and upgraded. I couldn't find a shallow pot, so hopefully the hygroscopic expanded clay aggregate in the bottom keeps the soil from getting that soggy rotten layer. 🤞🪴🌱
An 8-in ceramic pot with a large, ribbed, round cactus completely ringed by tightly fitting pups sits on a tabletop next to a 10-in pot. The same cactus with over half of the pups removed is now potted in the 10-in terra cotta pot. There are some tools and gloves on the table next to it.
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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In other (actual fish-related) news, we went to Wolf Lodge Bay on Lake CDA last week to check out the bald eagle feeding frenzy, which usually peaks around Christmas. Unbeknownst to us, it was early this year (294 birds on Nov 26), so they were gone (we only saw 3). We poked dead kokanee instead. 🐟🦉
A little girl with hair falling over her face uses a stick to poke the corpse of a dead kokanee (landlocked sockeye salmon) on the shore of a lake. Its corpse is white and gray mottled and kind of gross. Laura and another child are facing away in behind her, and the interstate bridge crosses the lake in the distant background.
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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OKAY, I have emerged from hibernation. I hope you enjoyed the holidays. Happy 2026! It was nice to take a break, but it's also nice to come back & feel interested in socializing again.

What was one of your favorite things from the last ~6 weeks? My cactus bloomed on Christmas! 🌱🪴 #bloomscrolling
A close-up of three huge, bright red orchid cactus flowers. The whole cactus being watered in the sink, with long green tentacled branches hanging down over the edge of the counter. It is covered in a couple dozen large red flowers and flower buds.
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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I think I'm gonna follow the example and take a miniDarth hibernation by logging off until after New Year's. Thanks to everyone who enjoys my photos and profile. Best wishes and I hope you find meaning in the real world. Hopeful about 2026!
A selfie from a pygmy rabbit survey where I'm bundled warmly in a snowy landscape, with a tracked UTV in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The brother in law whose house we're occurring for Thanksgiving has THREE trampolines buried out back.
One round and two rectangular trampolines buried at ground level in a pinyon-juniper ecosystem with three kids jumping on them.
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A sunset fades from the black horizon through layers of yellow, orange, red, people, and dark blue.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I gave the boys a haircut today so now I have a new pet.
A pile of brown and blonde hair clippings with some houseplant leaves and Cheerios on a vinyl plank floor.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The sky was doin' stuff tonight.
A tiny sliver of moon hangs low in the sky above the silhouette of some hills and in a band of color below the clouds.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM