Today’s frog is the controversial Amazon milk frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix), released in 2007 as the result of a collaboration between Amazon and Apple. Customers appreciated the familiar aesthetic, but had complaints about racial hygiene and usability.

i’m in a target store that has a CVS pharmacy inside it. this is like a strangler fig tree i saw in the everglades that had wrapped itself fully around a neighboring victim tree and choked the life out of it, leaving behind only a few elements of its dense core

Alien spacecraft from a world without frogs, come to Earth after hearing stories of our amphibians

The distress of a man who has lost his frog

gonna wrap up the religious cultural jokes thing here with a personal favorite. not exactly a joke but a lot of zen stuff is joke-esque. there’s a buddhist master teaching his students. he starts a new line of questioning: every day, he sits them in a circle, and asks each one, “what is the essence of buddha nature?”. one student says: “spontaneous liberation”. “just words”, says the master. “awareness knowing itself”. no, says the master. every day, each student gives a new answer, and the master dismisses them all. one student has been watching all this. he wants to impress the master with his insight. so he goes down to the lake, gets a frog, and hides the frog in his sleeve. then, he goes to sit in the circle for questioning. the master comes to him, and asks “what is the essence of buddha nature?”. the student produces the frog from his sleeve, and presents it in his hand. “no,” says the master: “too intellectual”.

Weekend's over have to go back to work

There could be frogs here, part IV

Gm. A green frog making use of the camouflaging vegetation at a muddy pond’s edge.

The pile of beasts is on the move

I am hearing news of Great Portent

Ectothermic mindset

Never get used to the erosion of beauty. I will not contribute to the slop world, I will fight it tooth and nail. Life will be beautiful again.

North Wales today.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Helaman’s Deep

“We have discovered happiness,”—say the last men, and blink.

“Formerly all the world was insane,”—say the subtlest of them, and blink.

No shepherd, and one herd! Everyone wanteth the same; everyone is equal: he who hath other sentiments goeth voluntarily into the madhouse.

He casts a spell to ward off evil

They have the power of the state at their backs, all we have is the truth We have to actually use what we have and not burn goodwill with dumb lies

As good a time as any to post this again.