Here's To Being Happy

Swing that spiky stick, white boy!*

Did you know I have a Patreon? It’s pretty cool, you should check it out!

See kids, this is why we don’t do our video editing in a rush while travelling 🤦 although it tickles me that my phone thought that was a more likely thing to say than “pratting”

it’s hugo’s gotcha day 🥳 here’s a vintage photodump to celebrate 11 years since he came home

Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (January 13, 2019).

The stubby legs of a sanderling may not look like much at first, but boy can these babies skedaddle when they need to

Sanderling (Calidris alba)

Meet baby Tylenol. She's only five pounds old, and is the root cause of autism.

Little baby Tylenol is stupendously sleepy after a hard, successful day of fighting the war on autism on the side of autism

i don't know if i can have this reminder repeat in a meaningfully effective way on this blog, but

are you partway through doing something and you forgot? perhaps the laundry or some other timed event?

if not, that's fine, sorry to bother

if so, you may wanna go do that

Chicken Nugget in bunny jail because she wouldn’t stop jumping from my bed onto my desk and eating my physics homework.

P.S. The “run” goes into the living room where she has like 40 sq ft, this is just so she can run into my room and visit me while still not eating every cord, paper, box or book in sight.

some of y’all never close your eyes in the sun and allow it to envelop you in feelings of peace and contentment and it shows

Jesse Dayan (b. 1982), Gerberas at Monbulk.

I’ll never forget the time my parents said they were going out for a few hours, and left my siblings and me at home by ourselves (ages 9-14), and instead of going nuts or just sitting around, we all rushed and did our hair and makeup and got dressed as fancy as we could; sister pulled out the wine glasses and grape juice and made an hors d'oeuvres platter, another googled how to play poker, pulled out chips from a different game, dimmed the lights, and we set up a fancy 4-person gambling den at the kitchen table and played until my parents said they were on their way back with dinner. Then we quickly picked everything up, washed our faces, changed back into our casual clothes, and pretended nothing ever happened. They never found out.

"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

i dont make comics often but this was too cute.

It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.

I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about

"Save the bees" isn't misguided, it's just the version of the truth you would tell a 5 year old. If a small kid asks about the colors of the rainbow you don't start explaining that visible light has wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers

A lot of people don't even know that there are different types of bees. things like planting native flowers, stopping using insecticides, etc, benefit all bees and all insects generally

ALSO

it's actually a GOOD thing to have lots of conservation efforts focusing on "Charismatic megafauna," especially apex predators

Because big animals like tigers need a LOT of space

So creating a preserve to save tigers...saves thousands of other species, because the tigers need miles and miles of habitat to live on, and that habitat needs to be healthy to support the tigers

They're called "umbrella species" and they're a great thing.

I think it's so helpful to tell friends you're about to do something scary, and then to come back and tell them you did it, because your anxiety thinks you are going to die, but how can you die if you know the instant you're done you're going to pop back into the group chat and go "I survived ✌️😭"

I made her a lil hat.

I thought that she would be annoyed with it eventually and paw it off her head. I did not expect her to wear it all day long and CRY the next morning until I put it on her again.

I've created a monster.

Now they have matching pjs 🥰

(At least style wise)