Dendritic pattern in frozen pond

A red-tailed hawk's first order of business to eat his gull brunch is to get rid of all those feathers.

Backlog of birds for Birbfest2026!

Official Birds:

• Day 13: White-eared Pheasant
• Day 14: Silver-eared Mesia
• Day 15: Short-eared Owl

Unofficial Birds:

• House Sparrow
• House Finch
• Cedar Waxwing

Assignment for school.

I'm always happy when I get an excuse to draw birds. This is inspired by hornbills we drew at a local ZOO, and a video which talked about a mating ritual where they test each other's beaks. :)

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I feel like I'm the last person alive writing in Word, but wanted to share this because it might save someone some heartache.

I am used to Word autosaving relentlessly; for the last few years it didn't really even have a "File>Save" command that I could see--it just autosaved like every five seconds or something. It took me a long time to get used not clicking File>Save at the end of every writing session, and I never really trusted it--with good reason, it turns out.

Apparently, when you turn off Word's new ai features, AutoSave is disabled and cannot be turned back on. There is toggle button in the upper left for it, but when I try to toggle it on, it says "Autosave is not available because of your privacy settings." I worked in my document yesterday, put my computer to sleep with the doc still open on the taskbar (my usual habit), and when I opened it today, the new work I did yesterday was gone.

This time I only lost about 300 words, which I had typed into my document from my longhand-writing in a notebook (so I guess I kind of autosaved them that way!), but if I'd really been on a roll, this could have been a disaster.

Be careful out there. Everything is terrible!

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DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are now closed but you can still get a print of Dorian here!

one thing visitors comment on is how much Belphie groans in his sleep. like we'll all be sitting in the living room, and they'll say "what in the world is that loud ominous groaning," and then they'll follow the noise to a heating vent where Belphie is upside down on a sheepskin rug, groaning like a christmas ghoul

something is very very wrong

at any given point this week i am thinking about that one short where the person is doing beautiful chinese brush calligraphy but the voiceover is some fuckass guy going, in mandarin "EMPEROR, HE'S GAYYY YOUR SON IS GAY HE LIKES MEN BOTH YOUR SONS ARE GAY"

and whenever he says gay in english rather than tongxing or whatever the pinyin is, the brush just awkwardly scribbles "gay" in english rather than run the phonetics

i have the link to this but the account has no other calligraphy content so it's probably a douyin repost and i can't find the original for the life of me

Brooch

early 19th century

gold coloured metal, copper, silvering, mirror glass

England

Glasgow Museums

Taxidermy of springboks of different colours X