iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3h

We are all shocked by a white man who says he doesn't care for politics.

Edith says to Sherlock "Politics doesn't interest you. Why? Because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well."

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3h

40 years ago (October 7, 1986), Congress designated the rose as the floral emblem of the USA. This inarguably beautiful flower has many native species (often fragrant) that are irresistible pollinator magnets & should be a feature of every garden. Make plans to plant a native rose! #nativeplants 🌱

A pink, single-petaled rose has three bees and a beetle visiting the flower.

2332

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 7h

I love the decisiveness of weasels. They can just make up their minds that you're not scary & POOF, you don't matter anymore. Watch a marten figure out I'm not a threat and come right on down. I'm not convinced I could beat this predatory gymnast in a fight in thick timber. #SpookyNature 🦊

0140

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 21h

It's spawning season for brook trout! These little shits are invasive in the western U.S. but it's not their fault and they might as well look GLAMOROUS while they do it. 🐟🌎 *I had to delete and reskeet this photo because of an autocorrect typo I wasn't willing to live with.

A few brook trout in an electrofishing net. The mature male on top has an orange belly and blue and red spots on the side. He's very pretty.

3341

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you've never experienced the existential fear of walking across the surface of a sphagnum moss swamp and wondering if you would fall through to your death and become a bog mummy, I would recommend it. #SpookyNature #nativeplants #hydrology 🌱🌿

4483

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today's #SpookyNature is an abandoned beaver pond full of the corpses of drowned trees.

A clear pond fades into a forested hill. There are dead trees emerging from the water, and a log dipping into the water in the foreground.

1170

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The days are getting shorter, so the older girls are looking quite wretched as they just bald chunk their way through molting season. I'm always entertained to see which chickens choose catastrophic molting & which ones try not to draw attention to themselves by discreetly losing a few feathers. 🪶🌱

A white and gray mottled chicken with no tail feathers and uneven plumage on her body. A balding leghorn with stained yellow feathers is in front of her.

3422

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ooh, fun photo prompt for October. Here's I found some of a squirrel on a hike through the woods. Raptor? Not sure. #SpookyNature

The tail and hind legs of a squirrel sitting on the forest floor.

071

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today I discovered some beautiful fish in beautiful creek -> riparian trees now protected from harvest. ✅ 🐟

A couple cutthroat trout in a net. The larger individual in front has beautiful colors overlaid by bold black spots.

A cascading creek flows over mossy boulders along a shady stream where the devil's club is showing its golden fall colors.

3817

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love them so much and if you don't I will be forced to fight you.

4170

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SUCCESS! It's a family of otters, one of my favorite animals ever.

A cuddle pile of otters on some mossy boulders near a creek.

1210

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I decided to set up a trail camera across the creek pointed at this rock in the hopes that I could capture a photo of the critters using this community bulletin board.

A picture of a creek with some large mossy boulders on the opposite bank.

160

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How do you identify them? I grabbed one empty shell while I was there.

My hand holding an empty mussel shell in front of Musselshell Creek.

100

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Late season perennial domestics still blooming on October 1st. 🌱

A collage with white, four-petaled Daphne on top, purple and white autumn crocus on center right, a purple aster with a bright yellow center on bottom right, and purple Cyclamen flowers on the lower left.

0441

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Late season perennial #nativeplants still blooming in the garden on October 1st. 🌱

A collage. Upper left is a large plant with hundreds of tiny white daisies. Upper right is another daisy with a dozen or so orange and red daisies. Middle right is a plant with tubular red flowers. Bottom is a blue sage.

2735

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The only time I've ever (sort of) paid for A.I. was a time I saw a book for sale on Amazon that was such a blatant and audacious ripoff of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive magnum opus that I couldn't believe it was possible. I paid $9 as an experiment to see if it was real.

A copy of Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings sits on a coffee table next to another book called The Way of Kings: a New Dawn by some made up author named Glenda Hidleston. The covers both have very similar and hilariously dramatic art of a caped guy with a big sword under a turbulent sky.

180

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One time while I was electrofishing in a tributary of the St. Joe River I captured an Idaho giant salamander that was eating a water shrew. It spit it out into my net. I was very disappointed to have not been able to photograph it while it was in the salamander's mouth, but I can't blame it. 🦊🐍

An electrofishing net that contains a large dark colored salamander with a reticulated pattern and a fuzzy little gray lumpy dead rodent whose tail is hairless and lighter colored in the underside.

2160

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The eponymous mussels (and beautiful filamentous aquatic moss) of Musselshell Creek in the Lolo/Clearwater basin of Central Idaho. #invert 🟢

35011

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also check out these cool little springtail friends living on the underside of a different king bolete cap. #invert

Some fat little bugs sitting on a foamy looking mushroom.

A closeup of the little brown springtails.

0140

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why yes, I am a fan of BBAs Big Beautiful Agaricomycetids 🍄📷 You better believe I'm taking that king bolete home, they're my absolute favorite wild mushroom. 🍽️

A large orange mushroom with white scales on its cap.

A large tan mushroom that looks like a hamburger bun.

2554

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Goodnight from the Weippe Prairie, where Lewis and Clark first met the Nez Perce after starving their way through the Bitterroots, and then ate so much salmon and camas that they made themselves violently ill.

A fiery sunset with rows and rows of red clouds and some silhouette conifers.

19512

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time some families go hiking at least one kid ends up piggybacking on Dad. 🍄📷

A group of mushrooms growing out of a pile of woody debris. There are two large mushrooms like parents, and a dozen smaller mushrooms following them. One of the little mushrooms appears to be climbing on top of one of the big mushrooms.

1553

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Accidentally stumbled within 10 yards of a black bear yesterday during my survey. Thankfully it didn't see me. No harm, no foul. Although I learned something about myself: zero sense of self preservation. I didn't even consider preparing my bear spray. I just got out my phone. This is how I die. 🦊

7575

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Top-notch scenery in the streams where I was surveying bull trout today. 🐟

A waterfall viewed through a gap under some mossy logs.

A stream cascades over a boulder in a shady riparian forest.

A mossy log forms a natural bridge over a stream.

0604

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I got a kick out of the way this dipper was chucking leaves off this rock like it just hates holiday decorations. They are such fun birds with boundlessly entertaining feeding behavior. 🪶

2353

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The apparition that is welcome to haunt fall: Virginia creeper 🌱 #nativeplants ? Feels like a "neonative" to the western U.S. similar to Alaskan mule deer or PNW barred owls. It's native to the continent & we've facilitated its spread, but it's not like...cheatgrass. Sometimes a problem.

Palmately compound Virginia creeper leaves begin to turn red along with the bright red stems and deep purple berries of the fruit clusters.

2462

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It feels good to have a stockpile but man is it a lot of work and jar lids ain't cheap.

Canned goods in our basement. There are peppers and mushrooms and chicken on the top left, green beans on the top right, syrups and jams on the center left, the newly bottled pears in center middle, grape juice in center left, and peaces and applesauce on the bottom. A double row of pasta sauce and flat of blackberry jam are currently roaming homeless on the floor.

3231

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ever year we end up doing this with excess produce from our or someone else's garden and every year we wonder if it's worth it. 🌱

A dozen quart jars of pears bottled in apple or white grape juice.

8381

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unaltered - I'm colorblind so the only way I ever alter photos is cropping or making them black and white, haha.

The full color photo of the aforementioned plant.

1102

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I loved the symmetry of this plant in the Owyhee desert. I think it's a Phacelia but I'm not sure. #nativeplants 🌱

A black and white image of a fuzzy plant growing in a radially symmetric whorl. The leaves have pleasing patterns of dark veins.

1331

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Resurrecting a nearly extinct tradition - roasting American chestnuts over an open fire. "They're SO good. They taste like...buttery, like an almond or baked potato. It's just really good!" -my 11 year old I think they taste like humongous starchy pine nuts. 10/10. 🌱 #nativeplants

A few dozen chestnuts sitting on a shovel over a fire.

A close-up of the roasted chestnuts showing Xs where they were scored and are peeling. Some shells are lying on the surface.

4695

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love that tissue culture has allowed Philodendron spiritus-sancti, which is extinct in the wild, to go from being worth as much as a car during the pandemic to being cheap enough for me to leave in the front yard. It loves growing outside during the summer. 🌱🪴

A Philodendron with very long lanceolate leaves grows from a pot under a tree.

0301

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay, so as a family we've been occasionally doing the after dinner "fart walk" as suggested by the @scifri.bsky.social guest Trisha Pasricha and my kids think it's the funniest thing ever.

Childrenb of various ages walking and driving rc cars and a scooter along a curb near a stop sign.

1182

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have to sample fish in the Owyhees outside Boise annually. I could come at any time, but I always plan my trip for when the O'Henry peaches are ripe in late September because they are a screaming deal and inexpressibly delicious. Hauling boxes north for my homies. 🌱🍑

A selfie of me in the cab of a truck with several boxes of peaches visible on the seats.

5770

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was admiring the tenacity of this rainbow today, who managed to survive heron predation (you can see a pair of linear bruises on each side of its caudal peduncle), but then the tenacious little bugger wriggled out of my grip, flew through the air, and landed in the release bucket. Well played. 🐟🪶🌎

0440

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nom nom It took her 90 seconds to swallow. Hopefully that helps her get through the winter until spring green up.

1201

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spiny lizards are so chill, I love them. This one has almost certainly never seen a human & will never see one again, but it does not care. I felt bad for it trying to survive in the middle of a half million acre wildfire so I brought it a grasshopper I caught in a small unburned patch. 🐍 #invert

2763

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I suppose this shadowy habitat selects for darkly colored fish, I loved the twilight mode color scheme of these beauties. 🐟

A beautifully colored rainbow trout in my hand in front of the slot canyon pool where I sampled it.

A small, very darkly colored rainbow trout in my hand with dramatic parr marks along its side.

Another fish whose dark colors almost hide the iridescent purple along its lateral line.

1270

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today I was investigating how many fish survived the Big Grass wildfire in a beautiful stream out in the Owyhee wilderness. This gorgeous slot canyon made me reminisce about so many of my favorite childhood fishing trips in Arizona. Except the rainbow trout are actually native here!

2520

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's spawning season for early kokanee on Trestle Creek. My gorgeous homies have festering war wounds and macerated fins like all "sex 'till you die" species should. 🐟🌎

2758

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I suspect the primary reason that we haven't already seen a trucker strike is because the vast majority of them voted for him. They're ashamed & just taking their medicine. Hopefully they'll take their chance to reverse course & join in politically emasculating these incompetent blowhards this Nov.

A graphic from the trucker magazine Overdrive showing that 76% of their readers voted red in 2024.

000

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I liked how there were three different layers of moss and lichen on this fallen log, like a fancy cake! 🟢 🌱 #nativeplants

A close-up of a log in which you can see some longer pointy leafed moss on top, some shorter round leafed moss in the middle, and a blend of tiny mosses and lichen at the bottom.

1686

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

P.S. funny side note: the squirrels are invasive Eastern gray squirrels, which are from the chestnuts' original native range. I'm amused to see them harvesting and chomping American chestnuts like they have for thousands of years, but thousands of miles away from where they both evolved. 🦊🌎

Two squirrels sitting at the base of three huge trees next to piles of empty chestnut husks.

0170