Bryan Wright

I'm the IT manager for the UVa Physics Department. I have a PhD in physics, and used to do research in nuclear physics. I teach introductory programming to undergrads. Also, flies are underrated.

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2026-06-01 11:33:57 UTC

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@nprofile…k3a7
My impression is that it was a Tolkienesque high fantasy setting (Medieval-ish). I recall many aerial scenes (probably shot from a helicopter) showing the group hiking across mountainous terrain with heroic background music. I recall one of the characters having a long brown cape that flapped in the wind. As the series went on, more characters joined the group. I have the impression that the final episode was in a cave, with lots of sparkly magic.

2026-06-01 00:19:30 UTC

For a while now I've been trying to track down an obscure late-1970s TV show that I vaguely remember. I don't recall the title, but I think the show was syndicated and shown by local stations in empty weekend afternoon slots.
The story was Tolkienesque (or D&Desque), about an ever-growing fellowship of odd characters who come together during the course of a Quest. Costumes and SFX were cheap and cheesy. Aerial shots of the group marching across the landscape. Does that ring a bell with anybody?

2026-04-28 11:06:53 UTC

I love the fact that these sweet little bundles of fuzz are called "pussytoes" (Antennaria).
#plants #flowers #Photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/481/960/573/607/059/original/bda41fcb3a01d65f.jpg

2026-04-11 23:56:45 UTC

I've been re-reading _Love and Rockets_ and I'm surprised at what a sympathetic character Vivian Solis is when she's first introduced. Vivian is a beautiful, loud, self-centered, annoying, impatient person. She has no idea why people do the things they do. Their reactions are a mystery to her, and this frustrates and bewilders her, but she's become numb to it much of the time. Sometimes it's too much, and she seems to want to grab people, shake them, and shout "Explain it to me!"
#comics

2026-03-28 22:39:15 UTC

We went to a #NoKings rally today in the small town of Orange, in rural Virginia. My guess is that there were a couple of hundred people there. This is a red town in a red county, but the vast majority of the cars passing by were supportive.
These public displays are important in places like that. They show the protesters and the sympathetic people driving by that we're not alone.
When a driver showed disapproval I thought "There's only one of you. Look at all of us."

2026-03-23 22:44:05 UTC

I've been rearranging our audio files, putting them all onto a Jellyfin server, and I came across a recording of this, captured from a scratchy LP. Back during the 80s I loved this album and played it constantly. Sometime in the 90s I heard them live here at UVa. Apparently, this album still gives me goosebumps.
Darol Anger, Barbara Higby, Mike Marshall, Todf Phillips, and Andy Narell
Live at Montreux
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1XqDzrUg1kR9iDHY-ZDXBYmc968VhnIg
#music

2026-03-23 16:18:50 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
I hope Falkor sweeps you up soon.

2026-03-22 13:00:57 UTC

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@nprofile…78td
I read it through Hoopla too! I hope you enjoy it.

2026-03-22 12:09:33 UTC

Another comic:
_All the Living_ is a beautiful comic drawn and written by Roman Muradov. Each panel could be framed and hung on a gallery wall.
The story opens with the soul of a woman drifting down, like a fallen leaf, into the underworld. "Is this Hell?" she asks. "It's nice." Her attempt at suicide fails, though, and she returns to life, but now she's haunted by her own ghost.
A witty, ambivalent book about life, death, and coping.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9798875002427
#comics #books

2026-03-22 00:45:55 UTC

Another recently-read comic:
_Prodigy_ by Mark Millar is about Edison Crane, the smartest man in the world. There's an obvious comparison to DC's Mr. Terrific, but these stories remind me more of Doc Savage (without the gang of sidekicks). They're pure Adventure with a capital A. I lost track of how many lost civilizations he encounters.
One variant cover shows him riding a flaming motorcycle over a chasm while typing on a laptop. That sums him up well.
https://www.mrmarkmillar.com/comics/prodigy
#comics #books

2026-03-21 11:15:37 UTC

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@nprofile…mzx8
The floor is clearly lava

2026-03-21 10:29:41 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
A gubernatorial election made Schwarzenegger the Gubernator

2026-03-19 13:23:57 UTC

Arrgh. I use Canvas for teaching, and it's broken. My students upload the programs they write (.cpp files) to Canvas. Normally, they can then preview the file to confirm that it uploaded successfully. This week, instead of a preview they get the cryptic message "JWT rejected: JTI has already been used". Instructure (the company that makes Canvas) agrees there's a problem but doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix it. Any Instructure people out there?

2026-03-08 23:34:58 UTC

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@nprofile…8g36
I'm glad to hear it.

2026-03-08 20:14:25 UTC

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@nprofile…8g36
Ouch! Does the knee still work?

2026-03-08 20:06:47 UTC

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@nprofile…ck2t
Gojira!

2026-03-07 22:14:41 UTC

From _Run_ by Ann Patchett:
"God could have been the masses in which he told people how best to prepare for the glorious life everlasting, the one they couldn't see as opposed to the one they were living at that exact moment in the pews of the church hall, washed over in the stained glass light. How wrongheaded it seemed now to think that the thrill of heartbeat and breath were just a stepping stone to something greater. What could be greater than the armchair, the window, the snow?"
#books

2026-03-06 19:01:08 UTC

This is a little gothic chapel on UVa's otherwise neoclassical red brick / white columns grounds. A few nights ago I dreamed that the area around this building was covered with shoulder-high cattails. Brick-paved paths wound through them, for the benefit of people allergic to cattails (dream logic!)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/183/625/020/376/983/original/d3848c3f0f12f7a8.jpg

2026-03-05 17:39:36 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
I love the texture of the river vs. the texture of the birds

2026-03-05 17:36:28 UTC

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@nprofile…f6wj
(empty) Da boids ate da woims

2026-03-04 17:45:11 UTC

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@nprofile…d4c6 @nprofile…pfuj
https://youtu.be/UhCoAltn12A

2026-03-02 21:04:20 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
Bar the castle gates!

2026-03-02 20:01:59 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
Birds with torches inside imply other birds with pitchforks inside.

2026-03-02 19:12:58 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
Do they actually contain fire? Why else would their eyes look like that?

2026-03-02 11:17:33 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
"How would you like to pay for those blueberries?"
"Put them on my bill."

2026-03-01 13:51:59 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj
You are a menace.

2026-03-01 11:23:10 UTC

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@nprofile…cxs6
Looking in the opposite direction, you might be interested in _After Man: A Zoology of the Future_ by Dougal Dixon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Man

2026-03-01 02:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ef5q
Some guy walks out of his hut one morning and says "What the heck is this?", and that becomes the name for it.

2026-03-01 02:26:39 UTC

As a kid, I read a lot of Gold Key comics, including Magnus, Robot Fighter. Lately I've been enjoying Dynamite's 2017 re-imagining of Magnus as a woman who's a psychologist for troubled artificial intelligences.
It's a fun twist to turn the Crash! Pow! of the original Magnus into the examination of robots' troubled minds by a sympathetic human.
#comics

2026-03-01 02:15:11 UTC

Earlier, my son unexpectedly tossed me a snack bar, prompting a whole discussion about "manna from heaven" and leading to this fascinating Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna
Among other tidbits, people have interpreted the word "manna" as meaning "What is it?", and suggested it was hemp seeds, or honeydew from aphids!
My vote for most poetic passage says that manna was "ensured to be clean, before it arrives, by the sweeping of the ground by a northern wind and subsequent rains"

2026-02-28 17:54:46 UTC

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@nprofile…vx93
This sounds like a Gavagan's bar story, but I can't think of a specific story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Gavagan%27s_Bar

2026-02-28 15:47:31 UTC

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@nprofile…7eat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oyl

2026-02-22 12:09:43 UTC

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@nprofile…lhzn
"Ask your Lord of Chaos if Stormbringer is right for you.
Side effects may include ennui and loss of loved ones."

2026-02-21 12:33:25 UTC

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@nprofile…qxqf
I love hydrangeas. Sadly, after many beautiful years, ours died a mysterious death.

2026-02-21 12:31:09 UTC

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@nprofile…qxqf
I read this as "pickled apples and pelicans"!

2026-02-19 23:12:14 UTC

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@nprofile…emut
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric AWP over the roofs of the world."

2026-02-19 03:06:30 UTC

Birthday books!
_Automatic Noodle_ by Annalee Newitz (I asked for this one and I'm looking forward to reading it!)
_The Black Angels_ by Maria Smilios, a history of the black nurses who worked in tuberculosis hospitals
Three books by Abraham Verghese, two novels and a history. I hadn't heard of this author before, but my wife thinks I'll like him. He's one of those inconceivably accomplished people: a physician, an academic, and a best-selling author of fiction.
#books
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2026-02-09 23:51:45 UTC

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@nprofile…pkq9
A department at Unseen University? Or maybe Miskatonic U?

2026-02-09 14:20:09 UTC

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@nprofile…5uqu @nprofile…9pr4
I feel like the books that I most treasure are the ones that slotted perfectly into voids within me. They didn't change my shape so much as they gave me substance.

2026-02-09 01:10:32 UTC

I recently finished reading volume 10 of _Monstress_ by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. I've been saving it as a treat, and it was.
Monstress mixes influences from epic fantasy, manga, and the Chthulhu mythos, and has beautiful artwork. It's set in a world where mortals once fought a war with the elder gods and won. The gods aren't dead, though, and one of them lives uneasily inside a young woman.
If that sounds appealing, you should read it.
https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/monstress
#comics

2026-01-27 02:34:15 UTC

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@nprofile…texd
there is a quack, a quack in everything
because the ducks got in.

2026-01-24 23:11:40 UTC

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@nprofile…xtr4
Not an answer to your question, but have you seen Alex Dainis's ongoing series of youtube shorts where she's taste-testing every amino acid?
https://m.youtube.com/@AlexDainisPhD/shorts

2026-01-23 14:39:57 UTC

This article raises questions:
* Are the little people really there, and the mushrooms just let us see them?
* Do two people see the same little people?
* Do the mice see little mice?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

2026-01-19 20:00:44 UTC

The problem with sunny winter days is that the lumps of ladybugs, previously solidified in the corners of the cieling, begin to melt and then evaporate. There's a cloud of warm ladybugs zipping around the bathroom.

2026-01-16 00:47:11 UTC

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@nprofile…2mmh
I love the little black soul patch on his chin. Very beatnik.

2026-01-11 14:26:26 UTC

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@nprofile…nger
These are a twok, a threek, and a fourk.

2026-01-05 17:11:17 UTC

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@nprofile…qxqf
That's a safe in which you keep vouchers.

2026-01-04 14:22:13 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/837/237/600/164/595/original/a9e6c3471c4e97d9.jpg

2026-01-03 12:43:54 UTC

Geese, rock, river, driftwood, sunlight, all badly framed.
#photography
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2026-01-02 23:24:26 UTC

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@nprofile…qxqf
No possum, no sop, no taters
https://ronnowpoetry.com/contents/stevens/NoPossum.html

2025-12-31 16:44:21 UTC

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@nprofile…dknm
Appropriate, for the end of the colander year

2025-12-25 14:42:15 UTC

Any historians out there? Every year I re-read _A Christmas Carol_ and this year when I read the following sentence I wondered "what KIND of pen?" Would someone in 1843 London have an early fountain pen? Would he have used Scrooge's pen and inkwell (surely not!)
'At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time.'

2025-12-20 12:32:37 UTC

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These tea infusers:
https://arborteas.com/collections/tea-infusers/products/stainless-steel-tea-filter-html
My wife gave me two of them, one for work and one for home. They're just the right size for mugs and they have plenty of room for the leaves to expand. The lid is made flip upside down to make a drip-catching stand for the infuser when you take it out of the mug.

2025-12-01 11:25:00 UTC

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@nprofile…fzsy
A goose zoetrope!

2025-11-30 16:42:43 UTC

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@nprofile…fzsy
Poor first goose in line! It wouldn't get an extra shadow!
Poor last goose in line! Its shadow would be wasted!
There must be some scheme involving circular sunlight or rotating geese that would eliminate this inefficiency.

2025-11-28 22:34:15 UTC

This morning I realized that making up the bed with a cat's help requires many of the skills of a matador. You have to repeatedly whip the cloth (cape or bedsheet, as the case may be) out of the way of a charging creature. After the battle you deliver a kiss on the cat's head as the coup de grace.

2025-11-23 23:53:36 UTC

One of our cats, Juniper, was found to have cancer a few months ago. Last week he started on his third type of chemotherapy, after the first two proved ineffective. So far, he's tolerating it well, and has a better appetite and better spirits.
Going into Thanksgiving, I'm glad this little kitten showed up beside our garage 6 years ago, loudly mewing for attention. He's our biggest cat but I think he still sees himself as a little kitten. He's sweet and good-natured and we love him.
#caturday
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/601/627/963/961/864/original/95f37eb593a182ef.jpg

2025-11-23 00:37:30 UTC

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I can report that it is tasty.

2025-11-22 23:43:54 UTC

I'm making "beanherd's pie" for dinner (like shepherd's pie, but with crumbled plant-based burgers instead of ground meat). We'll see how that works out. So far, it smells good!
♫ All we, like beans
Have gone astray ♫

2025-11-20 20:45:04 UTC

"Figure 4-1 shows a particle at time t moving along a curved path in this plane."
- Halliday & Resnick, _Fundamentals of Physics_, 2nd ed. (Great textbook, but not stirring prose.)
#Page42
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

2025-11-04 13:54:01 UTC

It's Election Day here in the US. My wife volunteered to help at the polls. She left at 5am and she'll be working there until after 7pm.
I have the day off, so I'm on Cat Duty. Mostly, my wife takes care of the outdoor cats (9) and I take care of the indoor cats (5).
One of the main parts of outdoor cat duty is Buzzard Patrol. Black vultures hang around the back yard to steal catfood. Someone has to open the back door occasionally and say "shoo!"
Between times I'm having coffee & biscuits.

2025-11-03 21:08:37 UTC

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Still no all-clear, but the alerts now say they found no evidence of a gunman. Maybe it was a hoax?

2025-11-03 20:35:31 UTC

Yet another "run/hide/fight" alert here because of an active shooter in the vicinity of the main library. I'm sitting in my office with the door locked until they give the all-clear. The first indication that something was wrong was a seemingly endless stream of unmarked police cars screaming past our building.

2025-11-03 11:37:10 UTC

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@nprofile…9qke
Enjoy your holiday!

2025-10-28 22:44:52 UTC

A dryad-ninja's shuriken.
#plants #autumn #seeds #photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/115/454/159/420/726/819/original/714596842a481878.jpg

2025-10-19 11:06:56 UTC

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@nprofile…4gvd
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
-- Charles Darwin, in _The Descent of Man_

2025-10-18 19:00:30 UTC

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@nprofile…08j2
I am not worthy.

2025-10-18 18:59:37 UTC

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@nprofile…tang
Nice! I should have mentioned that the original is in Spanish snd the edition I read was translated into English by Andrea Rosenberg. You might also like _Mothballs_, by the same author.

2025-10-18 18:49:20 UTC

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@nprofile…08j2
A storm-tossed ocean of fluff!

2025-10-18 13:29:51 UTC

Another #comic I've enjoyed lately is _Witchcraft_ by Sole Otero. It's the story of three women with "powers" who migrate to Argentina in the late 1700s, accompanied by an evil-looking goat. Their subsequent history is told obliquely through a time-disjointed series of tales about the people around them.
The artwork is delightful. It dances around the page. Even the first full-page panel, showing nothing but fog, teases with its happy whirling lines and makes me smile.
https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/witchcraft

2025-10-13 16:20:52 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
*picturing starling with corncob pipe*

2025-10-13 10:21:28 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
General Starling reviews a flight of bombers preparing for the invasion.

2025-10-13 10:15:50 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
It looked like a photo of ants, but then I zoomed in and saw that they were really pelicants.

2025-10-11 19:09:57 UTC

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@nprofile…uv5t
Mine too! Although I dread the slide into cold weather.

2025-10-11 16:37:36 UTC

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@nprofile…uv5t
That sounds awful. I hope you're better soon.

2025-10-06 22:43:03 UTC

Recently the US Secretary of Education sent our university a letter asking us to sign a "compact" wherein #UVa is promised some vaguely delineated special treatment in exchange for giving up pesky academic freedom, getting rid of non-gender-specific restrooms (to protect the women, it says), and making our school "a marketplace of ideas" (where, presumably, you can purchase facts to fit your ideology).
The A&S faculty voted overwhelmingly today to recommend that this offer be ignored.

2025-09-08 10:18:52 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
They just look so sweet. If one were designing a friendly insect for a children's book, this is what it would look like. Maybe the fact that I've never met an owlfly proves that I'm not living in a children's book.

2025-09-08 00:22:40 UTC

This is just amazing. I especially like the images of the dobsonfly and the owlfly (which I long to meet in person some day):
https://youtu.be/lD8sKzA_FZU

2025-09-05 16:18:02 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
I love this photo! I can imagine it being the wraparound cover of a 1970s paperback SF novel.

2025-08-19 22:33:52 UTC

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@nprofile…uv5t
Excellent news!

2025-08-17 20:04:31 UTC

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@nprofile…uv5t
That looks like fun! I hadn't heard of that series.

2025-08-06 22:20:52 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
I can hear the pulling-sword-out-of-scabbard "shing!" sound effect as the orb unfurls into leg blades.

2025-07-28 20:53:31 UTC

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@nprofile…uv5t
Mulleins have velvety, floppy leaves like bunny ears, so it's appropriate that they're grouped together.

2025-07-17 16:32:37 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
Guess whut?
Hummingbutt!

2025-07-12 11:34:20 UTC

A few weeks ago we visited the Blue Ridge Tunnel. Last week we continued our exploration of Virginia's underside by visiting Luray Caverns. It's a designated National Natural Landmark and has been a popular tourist attraction since the 1800s. A 1.5 mile trail winds through the caverns.
Here we see a group of souls descending into the underworld, presided over by a towering elder god.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luray_Caverns
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/840/027/573/533/600/original/cf67f5ccec1d4d41.jpg

2025-07-10 23:13:43 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
This is wonderful.

2025-06-20 16:24:34 UTC

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@nprofile…6hfp
This is a wonderful compendium of information. Is there any chance of providing a more mobile-friendly version of it? I'd like to share it with my colleagues, but I'm afraid many of them will balk at navigating the PDF on a small screen.

2025-06-15 00:07:35 UTC

I forgot to mention that the most brilliant sign at the No Kings protest was simply the flag of the state of Virginia, which depicts a bare-breasted Amazon warrior standing with one foot triumphantly on the chest of a defeated king, whose crown has rolled to the side.
#NoKings #NoKingsDay
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Virginia.svg

2025-06-07 22:56:01 UTC

Some more pictures from the Blue Ridge Tunnel. The interior is a constant 55 degrees F, and when we were there there was a steady, brisk breeze blowing from west to east. Water drips from walls and ceiling, occasionally as waterfalls emerging from fissures. We saw a few small creatures who had wandered in to see the sights: a lacewing and a tiny, very flappy moth. There were also quite a few humans walking and biking through the tunnel, some of the bikes pulling baby-toting trailers.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/644/482/254/850/960/original/d5684aeacda931cf.jpg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/644/482/167/610/183/original/1af3ff6093984a19.jpg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/644/482/172/350/974/original/c1416af2615a7b6a.jpg
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2025-05-29 10:17:34 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0
Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the groundhogs of war!

2025-05-22 00:18:11 UTC

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@nprofile…kvnh
Healthy: Blueberries
Not healthy: Fried livermush sandwich! (I'm from Western NC.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermush

2025-05-21 10:24:31 UTC

A golden-eyed lacewing. Many years ago, these were the first insects that really caught my attention. They seem so perfect and exotic that it's hard to believe they're real.
#Lacewings #Neuroptera #insects #Photography
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2025-05-19 11:18:27 UTC

This ant is sipping from an "extrafloral nectary" on a common vetch (Vicia sativa). The vetch feeds the ants, and the ants protect the vetch from pests.
#plants #ants #hymenoptera #insects #arthropods #Photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/534/170/277/871/639/original/f2b06a7925d2d3fb.jpg

2025-05-02 19:12:21 UTC

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@nprofile…9374
That's a beautiful photo! They spend so little time sitting still!

2025-05-02 11:12:38 UTC

A sweet, cuddly bee fly (Bombylius major) on a daisy. I love these fuzzy little needle-nosed cartoons.
#fly #flies #diptera #insects #photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/437/902/593/763/380/original/fe518a241fc9822a.jpg

2025-04-30 11:21:19 UTC

A microscopic fungus gnat posing patiently on my fingernail.
#fly #flies #diptera #insects #photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/426/590/383/267/735/original/5c899a993238527d.jpg

2025-04-29 21:54:11 UTC

Last day of classes, last lecture of the semester, beautiful sunny day, students celebrating outdoors on the grass, music playing. Some good things.

2025-04-28 11:13:59 UTC

I would never have seen this fellow if he hadn't moved. He's tiny and the color of the sand in this creekside sandbar.
#beetles #coleoptera #insects #InverteFest #Photography
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/415/258/603/186/283/original/9b0877b16ff3cafd.jpg

2025-04-27 13:11:29 UTC

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@nprofile…lqe6
Double feature. Show Hitchcock's "The Birds" first, to get them warmed up for "Crowzilla". (Could we get Tippi Hedren to star in it?)

2025-04-27 12:55:15 UTC

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@nprofile…lqe6
Are there any movies about bird-kaiju? If not, filmmakers are missing an opportunity. Imagine a radioactive fire-breathing crow!