Feeling a bit tired today. A bit slow, a touch methodical.

Chilled dew lit up the spiderwebs though, and I spotted both a birds nest fungi and an actual bird's nest! Nourishing discoveries, both.

Cheers friends.

#fungi #birdsnestfungi #mushrooms #mosstodon #moss #birdsnest #awalkaday #nature #pnw #spiderwebs #cobwebs

I recognize in the daylight what a house that I drove past yesterday in the dark has done to its hedge. It's fake #cobwebs for #AllHallowsEve .

Some of us have real cobwebs in our houses.

#Halloween

Halloween horror and entangled wildlife

"There’s been carnage in the suburbs, as Australians once again embrace a tradition of hanging plastic spider webs to celebrate Halloween.... A distressed kookaburra “gave up” on life after becoming entangled, while a world away in an outback town, a honeyeater was discovered hanging from a tree by a string of fluorescent orange web."
Ban dangerous Halloween decorations
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/tragic-discovery-in-suburban-yard-as-aussies-embrace-controversial-tradition-061400051.html

Halloween trick-or-treating - a drive-through neighbourhood:
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115460273826423305
#Halloween #plastic #cobwebs #entanglement #birds #wildlife #suburbia #traps

"The Tucson Police Department has deployed a controversial AI-powered surveillance tool that is also being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to scour social media, track locations and much more, according to documents obtained by the Arizona Mirror.

In August 2023, the Tucson Police Department signed a 28-month contract with Cobwebs Technologies for its “Tangles Open-Source Intelligence” software. The police department then sent a request to the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to get reimbursed from the state’s Border Security Fund.

In the reimbursement document, which the Electronic Frontier Foundation received in response to a public records request and provided to the Mirror, TPD requested the state reimburse it $277,500.23 for the purchase and installation of the software."

https://azmirror.com/2025/10/29/tpd-used-border-security-money-for-controversial-surveillance-software/

#USA #Arizona #Tucson #AI #Surveillance #Cobwebs #OSINT #BorderPatrol #Immigration #ICE #PoliceState

Inktober 2025 Day 30: Vacant

#art #artist #illustration #illustrator #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #creative #inktober #penandink #linework #artchallenge #ink #inktober2025 #prompts #traditionalart #pen #dailydrawing #vacant #empty #room #abandoned #cobwebs #devoid #vacancy #bare #deserted

Dilophosaurus gets cracking on those cobwebs.

#DailyDilophosaurus #Dilophosaurus #Lights #Bathroom #Cobwebs #Dinosaurs

Dew-covered cobwebs on a misty morning in Oxfordshire, Dunsden, UK

Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

#photography
#cobwebs
#dew

Easily Swept Aside

I thought about making an analogy between spider webs and something fragile like human plans, or political ambitions, or romantic fixations, but they all seemed too obvious. You all know already that our best laid plans often go awry. You also know that you would not hesitate to swat away a cobweb that touches your face. So, I decided instead just to show some lovely, clever, temporary, webs on my patio this evening. They may not be there tomorrow.

#analogies #beauty #cobwebs #engineering #fragility #nature #Photography #spiderWebs #temporary