Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

i can't believe i'm only now finding out there's a nationwide 3d imax screening of werner herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams happening tomorrow. that's a beg, borrow or steal level of movie ticket

if sperm whales had gills they'd be hunting godzilla

April 16th is Bull Kelp Day and you know what that means #BullKelpDay

When you build a big fat solar farm in the Chinese desert, you might as well have some fun with the layout of the panels. This is real! Check it out on GoogleMaps: www.google.com/maps/@39.250...

if you don't like the social issues conversations in star trek then you just don't like star trek

when it happens i will join my people in raising our voices to sing the Yub Nub song

The only downside(?) to indoor cats is that the squirrels get BRASSY.

Spring is here in the northern hemisphere! Here's a graphic from the #PeriodicGraphic archives in @cenmag.bsky.social looking at the pigments that give daffodils their golden glow: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #PeriodicGraphic#ChemSky 🧪

Oh dang, the Alfie finale (Alfienale) posted. IYKYK.

sometimes I feel inadequate but actually I'm really good at eating, sleeping, and mating not my fault I got born into the one species where that isn't considered a complete skillset

i want someone to write a hot take essay about which animals technically count as equine so someone else can write a meta-take on the debate and we can have A Horse Is A Horse Discourse Discourse

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Love a Big Wife/Compact Husband combo.

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

Sometimes it seems very silly to me that people are surprised that a country founded by slave owners who did a whole genocide has "suddenly" turned fascist.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

Back into the light we go!

Peepers

She's been snugged up for the last hour.

Orca Moose Sea otter Bottlenose Dolphin Wēta

Rusted Root Little Feat Weird Al Hell's Belles, a face-melting female AC/DC cover band Stick Figure w Sublime

boy I’m glad I saved this to my Paprika app since the page seems to have been taken down and replaced by a video 💀 we also found that premixing the milk and syrup makes it easier for a crowd, then you just pour in the seltzer before you serve

My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot

Chimney Rock Dam: When the Klan took over Longmont one hundred years ago 🧐

@tkingfisher.com @kbspangler.com Hi, some years back (maybe on the other site) y'all went through the various seed companies and pointed out which ones were fashy and which were worth supporting. Who are the trustworthy suppliers, please?

My little treat for sanity this week

Happy #WorldOctopusDay! To celebrate: a stunning Day Octopus (Octopus cyanea) doing its thing. 📷 maractwin on iNaturalist 📍 Fiji 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

happy international Good Buddy day to those who celebrate

The time of crickets has passed, the time of flocking geese is here. Hello, October.

Tarantula Trek - La Junta CO

*gestures to everything*

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!