Jason Jong

@plesiomorphy

📍Somerville, MA, Ward 7 bikes and bugs and snakes and salamanders and also a rescue pibble Wildlife photography | traditional art | environmental field audio

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Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· 14d

A beautiful longhorn beetle from Guyana #bugshot

Large longhorn beetle on the side of a tree. It is moss or bark colored with pleasing symmetric patterns.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 30

Calumma sp., pimple-nosed chameleon from Madagascar #herp #photo

A tiny yellowish orange chameleon perched on the end of a leaf. It has a bump at the tip of its snout like a funny protruding nose which is characteristic of its genus

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 30

“You will not see me again as I am now”

Delenn from Babylon 5 with her crystal transmogrification machine

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 26

Reminds me of this cartoon by Mads Horwath

cartoon by mads horwath:
Child at the zoo: “Dad, why are the animals in jail?”
Adult: “Honey, this is a zoo”
Panel on the outside of an enclosure: “Seltzer, orangutan, serving 20 years for tax fraud”

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 22

Read his name as John Ferengi at first

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 21

Is this one of the California Raisins?

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jun 3

My pitty certainly has more brain cells than the current occupant

Brown pitbull dog sitting on a couch with a silly smile

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· May 16

I love experimental fashion so much. Somerville Open Studios Artwear 2026 #fashion #somervillema

A model on a runway wearing an improbably large hooded fur coat that looks about 12 feet long. It is light blue fur with random dark blue circle.

A model with blue hair and pink leggings and matching pink heels wearing a giant cowl made of thousands of loops of VHS tapes. The interior of the cowl is decorated with the paper jacketing from blank VHS tapes of various brands.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· May 8

Far better to see them alive in a tank than for sale in a seafood market 😬

Giant isopods arranged belly up in a cooler full of ice in a seafood restaurant in Vietnam

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Apr 26

Reminds me of this one from her

Meghan McCain: “My neighborhood in Manhattan is eviscerated and looks like a war zone.

DeBlasio and Cuomo are an utter disgrace. This is not America.

Our leaders have abandoned us and continue to let great American cities burn to the ground and be destroyed. I never could have fathomed this.”

Kristen Bartlett: “Meghan, we live in the same building, and I just walked outside. It’s fine.”

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Apr 11

Reminds me of Jar Jar Binks’ feet

Jar Jar Binks with his feet on the table in front of the child Anakin. His feet are disturbingly puffy and swollen

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Mar 22

For some reason, the text reminds me of a Garfield book cover.

Garfield: This guy fucks Italians! Any gender, anywhere--big time

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Mar 19

I can too but my bike always wants a bite

Holding a lobster roll up to the dragon decoration on the front of a bicycle parked next to the ocean

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Mar 16

You can play a 1980s Hormuz scenario in the video game Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age. It’s very stressful. I salvoed missiles at every single radar blip and nearly emptied my magazines to get through.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Mar 10

The 1x10 Journeyer has been a champ for winter commuting. Road salt always gums up my front derailleur, it’s great to not have to worry about it

Green gravel bicycle leaning against a brick wall during a snowfall

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Feb 26

These so-called visionaries. They didn't even consider this fourth possible path.

Graph of AI growth trendlines extended into a drawing of Fred Flintstones. This is an equally plausible future.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Feb 19

My only mental connection with Softbank is the WeWork debacle. Went down the wikipedia rabbit hole to figure out what happened, and came across this tidbit about Adam Neumann. These clowns are all the same.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2019 that Neumann had aspirations to live forever, become the world's first trillionaire, expand WeWork to the planet Mars, become Israel's prime minister, and become "president of the world"

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Feb 18

Mirrorless cameras with machine learning algorithms for autofocus that let me lock onto fast moving wildlife while I’m exploring a rainforest, plus fast computing and affordable storage to handle my processing workflow. Modern photography is amazing, I was able to pull off this shot handheld.

Photo of a bat in flight in the Amazon rainforest at night. It is a lesser bulldog bat with black wings, a furry orange body, forward-pointy sharp ears, and a blunt face.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Feb 14

I got a Canon 100-500 just before my trip to Brazil in 2024, I was delighted by how fun it was to use. Here are a couple of my favorite shots, being a fish seems like a tough life. #wildlife #photography

Cormorant on the surface of a river with a pleco fish speared in its beak. The fish has squiggly dazzle camouflage patterns.

River otter in the water holding onto a catfish with its paws and happily chomping on the fish's face.

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Feb 4

Mine is definitely a 3, he has this intense punkish energy sometimes

Brown pitbull dog trotting through the snow in a green jacket. He has an intense glare in his eyes, he is ready to demand his kibble breakfast

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jan 29

I had to adopt a pitty because there are so many looking for homes

A brown pitbull dog looking at a waterfall in a green New England forest

Jason Jong@plesiomorphy· Jan 26

I did not get close enough to pet one, but it's amazing how much wild jaguars behave like 200lb house cats. Lots of time grooming and snoozing. Photos taken in the Pantanal of Brazil