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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Keep my phone in b&w so had to come out of that for this, but being used to b&w probably made my eyes more sensitive for this

A screenshot of results from a test for distinguishing colors. Lower results are better. The text reads:
Your delta E OK JND
0.0039
Okay this is genuinely impressive. Upper well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE (International Committee on Illumination - short for the original French) should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate.

Underneath are two buttons, one for “share result” and the other for “again. I can do better”, followed by a link to read the post about this (test).

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I know it’s an old meme format, but the way this seagull was chilling as the tides started coming up on Friday, my brain insisted on making this

A white-headed seagull (probably western or California) standing on a rocky coast. Next to them a wave is crashing, several times higher than the gull is tall and less than a meter away. White text with a black highlight reads “Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.”

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Encountered a banana slug on a waterfall hike yesterday

An olive green slug on a reddish fallen tree

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Would the birders be interested in my humble pelicans?

A brown pelican flying against a clear blue sky background

Six brown pelicans flying against a blue sky

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

May I interest y’all in what I believe to be a flame skimmer dragonfly?

A bold red dragonfly hanging out on a light brown stick against a nondescript brownish green background from different angles

See pic 1 for full alt text. This one has other sticks in the background.

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Concluding my 2 year 8 month sorry-for-abandoning-you tour (Bea was VERY specific about my time away) with some classic blathers torture

Animal crossing new horizons. A human player character is donating an evening cicada to the museum curator, Blathers the owl, who has a substantial fear of bugs, but begrudgingly accepts them for the museum’s bug collection. He optionally describes the donation and in the case of bugs it’s always a damning description. In this case the text reads “as the sun sets, it strikes up a sad song so sonorous, one can’t hear one’s own thoughts!” There is a look of sheer panic in his eyes.

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you see this, post a monster 🧛🐈‍⬛

A charcoal drawing of a tabby cat with too many sharp teeth, bat like wings and three tentacles in place of a tail. The background is solid black except for many eyes watching you

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Soldier beetle hanging out on one of our roses

A long beetle sitting between petals of a yellow rose. In the lighting it appears to have a bronze head and a dark almost greenish body. Long striped antennae that look like dashed lines

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you see this post, drop a blue character

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

If you see this post, share a pic from your device with no explanation

A photo of a couple cameroceras, an extinct genus of cephalopods from the Paleozoic era. Text reads “me and the girls on the way to tear up primordial Cincinnati”

I’m pretty sure I got the original picture from here: https://alchetron.com/Ordovician%E2%80%93Silurian-extinction-events

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’m sorry, what? Most unhinged Duolingo prompt I’ve gotten in a hot minute. I try not to kinkshame but this kinda crosses a line for me ngl

A Duolingo prompt asking to translate a sentence. The prompt is the character Eddy asking in German, “Wer ist attraktiver, Snoopy oder Yoda?” Which translates to “Who is more attractive, snoopy or yoda?”

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Please enjoy these visitors in my yard

A honey bee in some of the coconut fiber used as liner for planters

A crane fly on a deck (might be some trailer park energy but growing up we called them skeeter eaters even though they actually don’t eat mosquitos)

A garden snail in some leaves that still haven’t broken down since fall

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Entering my “postdoc losing grip of sanity and balancing the centrifuge in unhinged ways” era

A microcentrifuge with three small tubes balanced against each other in thirds. Reader, a more stable scientist would balance directly opposite each tube. However, the centrifuge doesn’t actually care about the placement as long as the weight counter balances, and at this stage of my life neither do I. I had three tubes. I didn’t want to make a fourth.

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

No cheating, post the last photo you took of your pet

A grey cat laying her head on my leg as I’m wearing red shorts

A yellow mixed breed dog standing with her ears perked. She is wearing a blanket draped over her like a cloak

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

QuotePost with a picture you took in a National Park. #NationalParkService America’s Best Idea Yellowstone NP #becurious

A partly cloudy sky and several deep green pine trees mirrored almost perfectly by a pristine lake save for a few ripples

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery. Trilium from last spring

A trillium flower blooming with leaves and a fern in the background

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Would y’all appreciate this crisp shot of a seagull flying I got a few months ago #birds

A Birds Eye view (haha) of a seagull flying over the ocean.

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one

A wave crashing on a rocky coast. The sun is almost setting and the sky is cloudy, almost obscuring the sun. Honestly it looks kind of like a cheesy inspirational photo, but there’s no text, so we’re safe from that fate.

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B @ottermoss.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Obviously there are much bigger issues, and this is a meaningless gesture in the end, but it made me feel better and took like 30 sec to report the wrong name of the Gulf of Mexico. Will they change it back? No. But did it release a couple dopamine molecules in my brain? Yes