Andrew
@autoquixotic.bsky.social
Microbiology, Evolution & Ecology, Birding, Liverpool FC
- art, lit, music, gardening and film -
As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron
- art, lit, music, gardening and film -
As age slows my pace, I will become more like the heron
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Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat
December 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat
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Charles Burchfield, "The Glow of Christmas", 1952, Watercolor on paper, 20 1/2" x 26 1/4"
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Charles Burchfield, "The Glow of Christmas", 1952, Watercolor on paper, 20 1/2" x 26 1/4"
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You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist!
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist!
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
📷 cajqld on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
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Squirrel on a mushroom eating a nut. I think it's a hickory nut. This wasn't on my birding bingo card today, but hey, why not. Beargrass Creek Nature Preserve in Louisville, KY.
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Squirrel on a mushroom eating a nut. I think it's a hickory nut. This wasn't on my birding bingo card today, but hey, why not. Beargrass Creek Nature Preserve in Louisville, KY.
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Christmas Tree Decorated with Lights, Rudolf Bernhard Willmann, 1868-1919.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Christmas Tree Decorated with Lights, Rudolf Bernhard Willmann, 1868-1919.
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'Coastal scene' (c. 1892) by Belgian artist Théo van Rysselberghe - one of my favourite paintings from the 'Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists' #exhibition on until 8th Feb @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
'Coastal scene' (c. 1892) by Belgian artist Théo van Rysselberghe - one of my favourite paintings from the 'Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists' #exhibition on until 8th Feb @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social
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imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
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the English Graduate Studies board is getting a little too real
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the English Graduate Studies board is getting a little too real
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Handbasket's independent journalism holiday gift guide is LIVE!
If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:
If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:
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i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets
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A very quick #SundayFishSketch of the dwarf topminnow (much better name than "least killifish")
December 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A very quick #SundayFishSketch of the dwarf topminnow (much better name than "least killifish")
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
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In the year of our Lord two-thousand-twenty-five, there are still shockingly diagnosable, legit never-before-seen-by-scientists new bird species out there to be discovered
New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In the year of our Lord two-thousand-twenty-five, there are still shockingly diagnosable, legit never-before-seen-by-scientists new bird species out there to be discovered
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It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing
Brilliant article that wonderfully articulates the "rotten-apple" of AI. Please take the time to read this!
Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Brilliant article that wonderfully articulates the "rotten-apple" of AI. Please take the time to read this!
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Brutal line "paint by numbers approach to thought."
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Brutal line "paint by numbers approach to thought."
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.
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This is the ideal body shape. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like for an emperor penguin chick
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is the ideal body shape. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like for an emperor penguin chick