Bog Witch

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Evening Landscape with Rising Moon - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14560

Juan-les-Pins - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10314

"The biggest offender…was Carnival Corporation…the corporation who owns subsidiary companies Princess Cruise Lines, Holland America Cruise Lines, and Carnival Cruise Lines.
In total, their ships were responsible for every single one of the 334 violation days in 2024 and 423 violation days in 2023."

Flooding in Giverny - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110145

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

DOOM LOOP: "Negative Creep"
Reevaluating Seattle's aging rockers: soseaem.org/4rHdNvW
#Seattle #Comics #DoomLoop

An illustration of early dawn overlooking a cityscape of apartments and highrises, with telephone poles in the foreground. In the sky above, a formline design of a mourning dive is perched, coloured dark blue to resemble the clouds floating in the sky.

🌇🕊️ MO(U)RNING DOVE

#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

A red winged black bird perched on a cattail

Red-Winged Blackbird

A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)

A sphinx moth came to slurp at a desert lily as we were watching the sunset over the Anza Borrego badlands.

a pixelart drawing of waterlilies in dark water, stylised with various patterns, shapes and highlights.

tell me how you're feeling
#pixelart

A bunch of deep sea fishes including a gulper eel and some angler fish.

Creatures from the deepest sea

Illustration of a sunfish (also known as a Mola Mola) floating above an aerial view of some farm lands. A plane flies next to the fish, really putting into perspective of just how large the sunfish really is.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️
#art

Bird Person: I'm gonna name this jay after it's colour.

Not Bird Person: So Blue Jay?

Bird Person: Bingo.

Not Bird Person: So this is a red jay

Bird Person: don't be ridiculous that's a cardinal obv

there is a reason patronism led to some of the greatest creative output in human history

“you don’t have to spend your time and energy working on anything except your art” means more art

Flowers in an Olive Jar

Flowers in an Olive Jar, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12215

if you want to see a wild event check out dual moguls, which is a two person single elimination race that also for some reason involves backflips and also the person who wins the race isn't necessarily the one who wins

Whether you're the moss covered forest horror, or the townsfolk running from the moss covered forest horror, I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.
Carry on.

Landscape

Landscape, 1867
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11403

A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

making a list of american institutions that are meeting this moment, and so far I've got burning man and paleontology down here... guess we're rebuilding society around the study of dinosaur bones and doing drugs in the desert

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

Photo by Sandy/Chuck Harris on Flickr of a female Hooded Oriole with orange pollen on her face.

🪶 Enjoy your snacks and have a great weekend!

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

A miniature posy I made from flowers in my garden in a tiny Victorian burst lip bottle

Yesterday was the midway point between the winter solstice & the vernal equinox & today is Imbolc, the pagan celebration of the return of the light. We’re climbing out of winter & the whole botanical calendar (save snowdrops & aconites) is ahead. A very good thought in case you need it today 🌿:

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

This Seattle baker is using his passion for pastries to help immigrants Since immigrating to Seattle from Mexico 14 years ago, Carlos Leon says he's built a community from scratch — built on a shared love of baking.

The day after Alex Pretti was killed, bakers in Seattle launched an effort to raise money for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. | @kuow.org's Noel Gasca

www.kuow.org/stories/this...