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we just got your results back from the lab, you're kitty. meow meow

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DEMAND A BAN TO PROTECT THE MAHOMET AQUIFER

Central Illinois is seeing an onslaught of proposed carbon capture and sequestration projects.

Backed by federal money, these projects would store carbon underground at unprecedented scales — more than 100 times the current volumes stored by a few pilot projects at Archer Daniels Midland in Decatur.

The risks of this experimental technology, which has been heralded by some as a key solution to the climate crisis, are real and significant, putting the future viability of the Mahomet Aquifer at risk.

CO2 that leaks into the Mahomet Aquifer would form carbonic acid, changing the water chemistry. This could mobilize unknown contaminants that are present but currently non-reactive in the aquifer, including heavy metals like arsenic. These heavy metals risk acute and chronic toxicity, liver, kidney, and intestinal damage, anemia, and cancer.

Please consider signing the linked petition to demand a ban on carbon capture and sequestration in the Mahomet Aquifer and its recharge areas.

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I'm not sure if people outside of Illinois really help but I figured I should ask for whatever signatures can be garnered.

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What's the Bird?

Location: Massachusetts

Date: February

We ask that discussion under questions be limited to how you came to your conclusion, not what your conclusion was.

Happy Birding!

Keep the game alive! Submit a bird HERE

Bird-461 graciously submitted by @goddamnshinyrock

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Posted a big pile of art board drawings for Patrons and Channel Members recently. Here's a few of them from the bunch. Of course Rocky can juggle (for .4 seconds).

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Lackadaisy is on Patreon - there's extra stuff!

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we should talk about the idea of body swapping except your brains’ chemistry stayed in your original body, so now you have to deal with thinking the way the other person did. You’re still YOU in the other person’s body, but your train of thought is different. Emotional intelligence is screwed, etc. if the other person had a temper issue, now you have it. Your social battery is different. Food tastes different, smell different, feel wrong. things of this nature. You aren’t quite the same person you were before, in this other person’s body. Idk I feel like body swapping AU’s and stories should explore this more

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Ive hired 2,000 finches to eat your freshly sown lawn seed

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Ive hired 2,000 finches to eat your freshly sown lawn seed

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it/its as in a concept so abstract you couldn't begin to personify it

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Affirmations:

- I am strange

- I am offputting

- I move as though floating a few inches off the ground

- My eyes burn with the celestial fires of creation

- My voice carries with an ancient, primal echo

- Reality trembles with awe in my presence

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Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae), family Gekkonidae, Madagascar

Photographs by Jean Elisée Christian Rakotondrajoa

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Coffee And Cake And Bread

#271009 | #3a190f | #f1ab86 | #c57b57 | #f8dccd

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Research alert! In the past decade, Museum researchers have illuminated biofluorescence in more than 500 species across the tree of life, with a particular focus on fishes and other marine animals. Now, a new study reveals that birds-of-paradise—known for their dramatic plumage and elaborate courtship displays—can be added to that list. The study, published in The Royal Society Open Science, was led by Rene Martin, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who conducted this work when she was a Gerstner postdoctoral scholar at the Museum. The project began about a decade ago, when Curator John Sparks, an ichthyologist, conducted a rapid survey of the Museum’s vast Ornithology collection for biofluorescence in birds, which revealed bright green-yellow fluorescence in birds-of-paradise. Sparks’ initial work was continued recently by Martin and Emily Carr, a Ph.D. student in the Richard Gilder Graduate School. Using a specialized photography setup with ultraviolet and blue lights and emission filters, the team returned to the collection and found that biofluorescence is especially prominent in male birds-of-paradise. The researchers note that despite there being more than 10,000 described species, very few scientists have investigated the presence and use of biofluorescence broadly across birds. Read more about the findings in our latest blog post.

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˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ loons on a date ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

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2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This plush bird was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

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can we see eat a tasty berry?

YOU LIKE A TASTY BERRY?!?!

Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), male, EAT A TASTY BERRY!!!, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Poland

photograph by Zver a Príroda

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Prompt 16 of #feathruary2025 is Backyard, and I selected the #BlueJay

@feathruary is a #BirdArtChallenge hosted by @projectparlor and @mischievousredfox

@todaysbird

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Hi fellow bird friends! Not my usual art postings - I'm temporarily offering digital art commissions:

(This is for specific personal commissions - if you'd just like to sponsor one of my bird-of-the-day posts for 15USD please let me know, though those will take a bit more time <3)

I wont draw humans/humanoids, but otherwise happy to try anything! Send a message here on Tumblr, email to zyzbirds@gmail.com or add me on Discord @ zyzzylva. Payment will be via a Stripe link, which is what is easiest for me since I can't use PayPal.

These will help me get a proper working stylus, and it'll assist my school's fundraising efforts so a portion of your money is going towards charity too!