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One of my friends is a VERY cool writer and if you wanna read about revenge for our ravaged planet, and also the regular kind of revenge, NEVADA might be right up your alley. Check out his Booksprout campaign if you wanna give it a read!

Hello all!

For any curious about NEVADA, the chance to dive in early has come! An ARC period from May through August will be open, with a release of the book on September 1st, 2025. Feel free to check out the campaign on Booksprout, or state your interest below! At the moment, there's space for 25 review copies, but if you want to join in, I can send the file your way as well!

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Why do people keep asking me if I was in Italy on the 21st! Just because I was at the Vatican the day JPII died and in Rome the day Benedict died doesn't mean I'm responsible for Francis! That was JD Vance and we all know it!

Granted, I was in Naples, but it was the one in Florida.

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they are making this movie for @haintxblue

I don't care if it's overdone I support Dev Patel's establishment of a Righteous Vengeance Cinematic Universe. Look at him

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Lizard TV. Two channels!

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She is so done with my bullshit

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One of the really interesting aspects of invasive BW tegus in Florida is just how fast they moved. This book came out in 2009 and doesn't even mention them- the only tegus in it are the gold tegus, T. teguixin (T. nigropunctatus is now a subspecies of T. teguixin). This was before the split to Salvator in 2012, so if this book had mentioned the BWs at all, they'd be under Tupinambis.

But they aren't, they're not there at all. They'd been spotted in the Miami area a couple years prior, and were well established there around 2012. (I'd first heard about them in an invasive context in July 2008, but that was one park ranger ringing a preemptive alarm bell.) By 2017, they'd made it to the Everglades, and now, in 2025, they're in 35 counties and moving into Georgia. This map might even be out of date, it's from a 2020 paper.

Compare that to the Burmese pythons, who have been there since 1992, and have established populations in four counties:

There are lots of sightings reported outside of these areas, but they're more limited by their biology. One of the big differences between tegus and pythons is that pythons can't survive cold temperatures well, so they can't breed in north Florida.

For now.

This map shows that the pythons ARE moving north, just more slowly than the tegus. This is an effect of climate change you don't hear about so much- as it gets warmer and winters get weirder, invasive species may be less limited by the temperature and their breeding ranges may increase. BW tegus already have a leg up, since they have seasonal, reproductive based endothermy, as opposed to constant ectothermic like... every other lizard. And snake. And chelonian.

I'm not going anywhere with this, I just think it's an interesting thing to think about.

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I had my first cup of coffee at 5 years old. It was at Easter brunch, and I thought it was chocolate milk bc my grandpa always put so much cream in it. I wanted chocolate milk, but supposedly the place didn't have any, so how did my grandpa get it? The adults let me have a sip as a laugh. They stopped laughing when I drank the whole thing and asked for more. I always had trouble waking up in the mornings, even back then, so my parents just kinda... let me have a cup with breakfast from there on out.

I know caffeine doesn't actually stunt your growth but I do like to blame my kindergarten coffee habit for me being five inches shorter than my next-shortest sibling.

Hearing that people drank coffee as kids is so interesting to me. Coffee was always deemed a grown up drink to me, something the adults got the luxury of.

Same thing happened with steak 😅 though steak and ribs I get were for adults at barbeques.

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why so sad swampmaid?

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Consider: Hot Damn, It's The Loveland Frog!

He's a city mascot! He's got his own musical! He's got a completely unhinged convention! He can do it all!

Mothman and Paul Bunyan Pin-up 🍑😍

I drew Paul Bunyan last year. Which legend should I do next?

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Torture to be a fan of any exotic animal when it's like. 90% of the footage of them is gonna be from dodo videos of people illegally keeping them as housepets . Really wish I could enjoy this video of a lynx but I also kinda wish everyone involved would die

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I've tried to do the one spot thing and the problem is that my brain sometimes tells me that it's ok to put the Wrong Thing in the Right Spot.

The number of times I've found my glasses in the fridge- where the Meds Go- is... embarrassingly high.

Anyways I like Tile trackers, they're less invasive than some other bluetooth things and you can doubleclick the button on them to make your phone go off. I have them on all my keys and in my wallet.

having ADHD will have you going round your house saying aloud, "Okay, so if I were me, and me is a dumb fuck, where the hell would I put X," and you still can't find it

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The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.

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Hold on, Magnolia

April 2025

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the noise this creature makes is "nyeh he he he he"

i'm very convinced i'm correct.

Crocodile Beastman from Kamen Rider Amazon ep. 8

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was behind a truck today with a bumper sticker that said "JESUS CAN HELP YOU" and in my head i was like 🙄 ok but then i saw a second, handmade sign on the side of the truck that said "taskrabbit: call jesus torres" and his phone number

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i should figure out how to homebrew white monster actually