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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 29/09/2026

Back on my alien plant hunt bullshit o7 #elitedangerous

A screenshot from elite dangerous showing some red things growing on a moon. In the distance there's a chromed asp explorer on the horizon. In the sky there's a streak of light from the galactic plane

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 29/08/2026

I made some grasshopper friends in the garden this evening

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 01/08/2026

9 mile long run with the dads. Little bit of a struggle but got it done. Started off greeted by this perfect zinnia #seenonmyrun #runsky #bloomscrolling

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 29/07/2026

Listening to Dorothy Ashby. Remembering my grandfather who loved her music #nowplaying #jazzsky

Cover art for Dorothy Ashby's album "Django/Misty"
A drawing of an orange room with a yellow circular rug. On the left is a person riding some kind of llama? There are shapes that look like vases on the rug along with a plant or bouquet of flowers. A tiny person riding a giraffe and a white tub full of water.

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 07/07/2026

Hell ya. I won at Pokemon Monopoly

A tabletop with Pokemon Monopoly set up for play. In the foreground is my completed Pokedex mat

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 05/07/2026

Fucking love this album. 'Hang Up Your Hang Ups" is the best #nowplaying #jazzsky

Cover art for herbie Hancock's album Man-child. An orange and yellow martian looking landscape with some bubbles, a sliver of a moon, and a giant Buddha-esque bust

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 24/06/2026

Calm down Yorba Linda. Jesus

A gigantic DO NOT ENTER WRONG WAY sign behind a white sedan

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 20/06/2026

Dad's showing off his Star Trek comic book collection

Star Trek comic book #4 with a CGC rating of 9.6

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 09/06/2026

We did alright, fam. The chicken was a hit.

Homemade Persian food on a table with many hands serving themselves. Zaresh polo, joojeh kabob, khoresh gheymeh, fesenjan, tahdig, polo, mast musir, and ghormeh sabzi

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 02/06/2026

I almost forgot that it's New Running Shoes Day!!

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 30/05/2026

Guys I grew this cabbage!!

Three pound head of cabbage and three cherry tomatoes sit on the ugliest granite countertop

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 28/05/2026

I forgot I stumbled upon these stunners #seenonmyrun #bloomscrolling

Pink and white flower. I think it's a columbine but idk which

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 10/05/2026

Scored a brand new one of these yesterday!

One of those garden tower grow system thingies. This is a product promo photo and it is full of beautiful flowers and herbs

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 09/05/2026

🎶🎵 it's the most wonderful time of yearrrrrr 🎶🎵

A little green wire basket held up in front of the tree that was harvested

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 07/05/2026

I know the wonderful company is awful but these pistachios are so good. Every flavor better than the last

A bag of dill pickle flavored pistachios

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 03/05/2026

Wow I found columbines growing at the mortuary on my street!!!

A pretty fuzzy pic of white and yellow columbine flowers

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 02/05/2026

Long(er) run today. Had company for the first 5k which was nice

Red poppy blossoms overlaid with run data
439 ft ascent 9.00 mi distance 1:40'14 duration

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 28/04/2026

Today it was either this or a mini menty b

Picture of a dirt trail through a thicket
Across the bottom:
434 ft ascent, 1:11'17 duration, 6.25 mi distance

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 28/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

The only way to thug it out is to thug it through
Cholo standing facing into a wormhole?

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 21/04/2026

10k w/ some hill repeats. Ded.

Photo of a steep residential road going downhill. There are rich peoples' houses on either side. in the distance, across the santa ana river valley, the base of the San Bernardino mountains is visible under a layer of darkening clouds

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 19/04/2026

got out there for some trail miles with the dads today. nearly a half marathon. had to take two naps though heh

me running down a mountain trail with grass and a few golden flowers. there are a few dead trees nearby and lives ones in the distance

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 16/04/2026

Never gets old watching these guys emerge from the egg

A hand holds a leopard tortoise hatchling completely tucked into his carapace aside from the very tip of his nose. The tortoise is approximately 3" long

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 30/03/2026

One benefit to feeding the birds is these just show up in your yard #bloomscrolling

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 28/03/2026

Check out this cool beehive #seenonmyrun #runsky 🏃🏽

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 24/03/2026

Caterpillar season 🐛🦋

A monarch caterpillar climbing up a dead stem with milkweed leaves in the background

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 22/03/2026

Guys I made a very important friend on a hike today

The cutest California newt straight chillin in some cool clear water

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 21/03/2026

Quick and dirty trail run before the heat comes

Early morning photo of a trail in Oakmont Park in Redlands. The dirt trail leads forward through grass from the center and bends to the right. Rolling hills ascend on either side. Laid over the photo is the text "Suunto 49'32.7 duration, 4.09 mi distance, 515 ft ascent

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 03/03/2026

Heyyyyyy not too shabby for my second carrot harvest - ever! #gardensky

A top down view of approx 30 freshly picked carrots, dirt and all, sitting on a wooden table with a AA battery for scale.

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 02/03/2026

Piglet has awoken from his hibernation! 🐢

A CA desert tortoise sits on concrete near a tray of water and a freshly pulled weed. A small child is sitting near him off frame

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 26/02/2026

The white sage in the front yard is pretty happy about the recent weather

Photo of new growth on a white sage plant

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 23/02/2026

Dig these recycled tire pots I saw at the nursery yesterday! Pretty creative

Old tires and pieces of tires assembled to make a pot for a plant. They're painted a weird copper color and stacked up on display for sale.

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 23/02/2026

I bought a parfianka pomegranate tree!

A 2.5' tall baby pomegranate tree sits in a 5gal planting bag

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 14/02/2026

Not a bad day for it. I am fuckin wiped out though.

photo of a trail coming from the bottom left corner up to the middle. Steep slopes descend on the right. In the distance are mountains and hills of Yucaipa and beyond

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 06/02/2026

This is directed at someone I actually know IRL and it's been rough watching them go all-in on crypto and lose. He's still holding out hope, I'm afraid. Anyway, I wish I could see the full context!

screenshot of jason scott @textfiles checking in with someone who was pissed about crypto being a scam

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 06/02/2026

Here is a California Scrub Jay I saw in my front yard

A scrub jay stands on gray leaf litter with a few ivy runners poking through

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 31/01/2026

Redlands, u alright sometimes ❤️ P.s. fuck jack dangermond

Looking north-northwest across the intersection orange and Redlands Blvd. Protesters are on every corner holding signs, wearing traffic vests, making their presence known

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 31/01/2026

Sooooo pumped I finally got a desert mallow growing from seed!

Soft orange/apricot colored blossoms on a plant with fuzzy wrinkly leaves. It's a desert mallow native to southern California

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josh 🐢 @tortoise.dad · 29/01/2026

My 8yo got a butterfly hatching kit for Christmas and they are all hatching today, one by one. It's pretty incredible to see

A newly emerged butterfly with limp and soggy wings climbing inside a netted enclosure

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