Caspers-ghost-4ever - 😎

germaine arnaktauyok, “keeper of all animals,” n.d., etching

What are your pet's favourite places?

one if my favorite gifs right now the blankest eyes ive ever seen the lights are on but no ones home. and the other thing like grooming its snout but i don't think its even aware of what its doing. i dont think either of them know anything or know that theyre alive

punch needle coat by haley wood

all of my clay figures so far!

Aspicilia filiformis

God I love that the description I found for this lichen as “creeping.” Creeping suggests movement–and considering how sloowwwly lichens grow, it might just be the slowest creep ever. A. filiformis grows in terete, filiform lobes in tangled mats on detritus, soil, and old grass mounds. The surface is brown, gray-green or olivaceous, turning black toward the forked lobe tips (described as looking like little snake tongues which is so precious). Apothecia are rare and small, with a flat or slightly sunken dark reddish-brown or black disc. So far, this creepy, snakey pal has only been found in shrub-steppe and grassland habitats in the western U.S. One of my favorite ecosystems! Unassuming but teaming with a wealth of highly adapted life forms! Like A. filiformis, who I have probably seen before and just assumed they were a dead tumbleweed or something. Oops, sorry pal. 

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Jocelyn Khosla

Experiencing a moment of happiness, the grad student is immediately consumed with guilt.

Wall of Hearts Volunteers have been hand painting 150,000 hearts on Memorial Wall to represent each life lost to COVID in the UK. Matt Fowler lost his father, last year after he fell ill in March. As tribute Fowler began the memorial wall last Monday morning, painting the first of 15,000 hearts drawn that day.