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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 10h

Add a photo you took of something good

angle up on a 3/4 view of a ten foot skeleton with clematis vine twining up and out of it towering over a front yard under a cloudy sky

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

when I was a curly-haired kid with no hope of achieving a pixie cut, it was this:

Julia Roberts as literal pixie Tinkerbell in the film Hook

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nandor says to tell Cooper that he has excellent form

a sleeping black cat in just the right light to see his ninja tabby stripes curled up against jean-clad legs on a pale mustard yellow duvet and holding his back legs like an olympic diver doing a pike

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

planted dahlias for the first time and I think I have a new favorite flower

a flower with a gazillion pointed white petals very thinly outlined in purple that is somehow not done blooming

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

young Zara did the same thing during lock down, it was a vibe

an adolescent cat leaning back with limbs akimbo making a micro blep and staring into middle distance

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

when you’re being mean to me, this is who you’re being mean to

Helena Bonham Carter as miss Havisham in great expectations looking haunted while wearing a tattered wedding dress and veil

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

getting out of the air conditioned car

car antennae topper that’s a white ball painted with a face that has its eyes squeezed shut and mouth open. there’s a little wig attached to it styled like its hair is blowing straight back

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

happy labor day from the mall!

A corraled grove of decorated artificial Christmas trees waiting for the Labor Day weekend to be over because then it’ll be the holiday season, I guess?

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m only down to the bump in this imperial pint, but I can’t resist the pull of a hagstone. Pre-ordered!

A flat egg-shaped grey stone with a small hole worn through it held between the thumb and forefinger of a hand. Out of focus in the background is a beach with pale sands under a mostly deep blue sky aside from a double layer of dark clouds at the horizon line

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

standing in the soup aisle and staring off into space like dr manhattan on mars

a shrink-wrapped cup of “jif stir-fry style noodles peanut butter flavored ramen” on a grocery store shelf

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A map of the streetcar system in the SF east bay before National City Lines, owned by GM, Goodyear Tires, and Phillips petroleum acquired 64% of the stock in 1946 The neighborhood stairways and paths to get to the trains are still here, the trains are long gone

An old map showing street car routes across Berkeley, oakland, and alameda and connecting to SF

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

nothing can prepare you for the first time you see a fifth instar hornworm

a bright green caterpillar with white and black chevron stripes and a l’il red horn on its tuches in a sort of s-pose trying to figure out how to escape a small white square ceramic bowl next to a quarter for scale. the little fella is about half as wide as the quarter and four inches long

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Zara, found in a backyard, at 8 weeks and 6 years

an 8-week old blue-eyed and mostly cream-colored kitten with a dark muzzle, toes, tail, and ears leaning against the lap of the person taking the picture and looking up toward the camera

the same cat, now an adult, resting on a mustard colored duvet cover, her paws stretched, out as she looks directly into camera. her entire face, ears, and most of her legs are almost black now

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I first saw the bust of Nefertiti when I was a kid, and to this day I am amazed by how specific and contemporary it feels compared to other ancient portraits of real people

The stunning painted stucco-covered limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti, the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

rules for my bluesky account number one

a piece of paper thumbtacked to a white wall that says “I’m Printcess” in large font

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

would you accept a madame alexander version

a lizzie borden doll wielding an axe made by the madame alexander company

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

undercover tabby is an eepy boi

A sleeping black cat curled up and holding his back legs like a diver in pike position. The light conditions are just right to show the faint striped pattern of his short hair

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

last night before dusk I planted some sweet alyssum around the milkweed to attract the good bugs that eat the bad bugs, and by this morning a caterpillar was using it as a hidey hole

a newly molted 4th or 5th instar monarch caterpillar nestled in a ground cover plant with small light green leaves and even smaller clusters of four-petaled purple and white flowers

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

meanwhile, production continues…

Monarch butterfly having a little nectar snack break between laying eggs on a swamp milkweed plant

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

the first time I saw a very still caterpillar off the plant, I relocated it thinking it was lost and starving now I know that they do this when they’re preparing to molt, and moving them can endanger them have to postpone planting these milkweeds until their tenants are moving around again

Showy milkweed plant in a 4 inch pot with a 3rd or 4th instar monarch caterpillar clinging horizontally to the pot rim

Showy milkweed plant in a 4-inch pot with a 3rd or 4th instar monarch caterpillar clinging vertically to the back of the little plastic flag that probably has a name that they stick in the soil with information on the plant

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Seeing her head in the shot is somehow even more insane

Lisa Salter reaching up to hold a mic up to Wemby. At the bottom of the shot you can see a tiny sliver or her forehead

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

sorry the only “real” new yorkers are Daryl Hannah in Splash and the guy who says “bocce BALLS” when he sees her walking on the Liberty island beach wearing nothing but her strategically placed long hair

liberty island park ranger from the movie splash saying “bocce BALLS”

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

did a little dragon boating today and our team won at dogs

tri-colored shiba inu looking stunning on a crowded picnic blanket

tri-colored chihuahua held on a lap so her belly is out and her little front paws are flopping down

a tawny/honey colored one-eyed short-haired terrier mix on a picnic blanket doing a yawn so huge he kinda looks like a thylacine

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Post an album you have listened to 100 times.

Fox confessor brings the flood by Neko case

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

GET OUT OF MY POLLINATOR GARDEN

the mom from gremlins wielding a chef’s knife and a sheet shield going feral and running at a gremlin in her kitchen

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

had the terrible realization that ants were eating all the caterpillars before they could pupate about to go scorched earth on the aphids that attract them to the milkweed

a cardboard flat on a red patio table holding a pint carton of ladybugs, which love to eat aphids, white and purple alyssum, which repels aphids, and two showy milkweed plants that I probably don’t have room for that already have monarch eggs under their leaves

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Sabzi Khordan and apple cranberry currant pie with two topping options: bourbon brown sugar cream and vanilla bean ice cream

thinly sliced radishes, white onions, and cucumbers, chopped walnuts and fresh herbs and arranged on a marble slab along with butter, feta cheese, and a dish of ground sumac next to a plate of labneh spread out in a fan shape

A streusel-topped pie with red juice bubbling up at the edges of the homemade crust cooling on a well-loved sheet pan

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

smilingjacknicholsond dot gif

Character.ai isn't particularly novel, but it does raise questions about whether products like these have any real future at all.

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

sunflowers are beginning to emerge, this one only reaches 6 feet but it’s about a foot taller than the ones that could grow 10 ft+ i planted these to provide a place for the caterpillars to pupate, but so far, no go

A downward view of a tiny dark purplish radiating spiny spokes at the center of a layered cluster of vibrant serrated green leaves veined in the same purplish color that get larger as they go down

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

the butterfly weed finally has its first tenant

a monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant, probably at its second instar because it is TINY and it’s filaments are still wee bumps

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

nothing in nature breaks my brain like a passiflora bloom like, what

this is the biggest alt text challenge I’ve ever faced, here goes: a 3-4 inch flower with a base of evenly spaced white petals almost obscured by an upper layer of radiating tendrils thinner than dental floss that are purple at the base then bleed to white as they go from straight to kinky at the ends. at the center is a complicated light green double decker 3-part structure dotted with tiny purple pinpoints. vivid shiny kelly-green leaves and white jasmine flowers are in the background. what I can’t describe is how weird and alien and beautiful this thing looks, it’s a star trek TOS-ass flower and anyone who lives in the appropriate growing zone can just plant it and it will go nuts putting out these martian blooms that attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, and then, if you have a fruiting variety, a huge amount of crazy sweet-tart fruits

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

he'd hang them from the ceiling in his classroom, and when they would eclose (science for 'hatch'), the lesson would stop so the kids could watch one time, a butterfly wasn't ready to be released by the end of the school day, so dad took it home, and i got to do it

a 3rd grade utter dorkus girl wearing a yellow button-down short puffy-sleeved shirt tucked into jeans held up with a sad elastic belt with a metal interlocking clasp. it's pretty obvious from her short slept-on frizzy brown curls and the wonder woman underoos peeking out from her shirt collar that she doesn't have a lot of friends, but in this moment, with a monarch butterfly just chilling on the outstretched index finger she's holding out to a yellow zinnia flower, she could not care less

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I planted a pollinator garden for the first time and things are starting to happen

a monarch caterpillar chowing down on a narrow leaf milkweed plant

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Oh are we talking about unnecessarily sexy advertising mascots? Because

An early image of smokey the bear reminding you that only you can prevent forest fires. As he gazes at you from the barren ruins of a charred forest with large brown eyes shining kindly from below the brim of his ranger hat, he bandages the arm of a normal baby bear gratefully looking back up at him. I say “normal” because the baby bear is not wearing clothes and is sitting the way an actually bear does, while Smokey is wearing belted jeans with the cuffs rolled up and kneeling before the cub on one knee. Did i mention Smokey has pecs? Because Smokey has pecs

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R.H.Slansky @rhslansky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

i am going to become the menswear guy

senator eric schmidt wearing an ill-fitting dark grey (?) suit jacket over a white button-down shirt with no tie, and very pale grey wrinkled and pegged (?) cotton pants with brown lace-up leather shoes. he’s standing behind lindsey graham (who looks basically professionally dressed) and next to katie britt, who is wearing a purple blazer over an identically colored top and a skirt of a not quite matching shade that hits not just above or just below, but exactly mid-knee. Her legs are bare, which wouldn’t be a bad thing by itself, except she’s wearing tan and white running shoes and no socks. it’s kind of like they both have zoom brain and don’t think we can see them from the waist down. wild that anyone approved these visuals for an announcement about stealing taxpayer dollars to pay for a fancy ass grand ballroom that nobody wants

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