I made it two days of near-normal functioning after getting home from Texas before crashing out and sleeping nearly 16 hours consecutively

why would a loving God create the entire awful subfamily Erirhinae with dense, adpressed scales and then throw just ONE nude genus in there, more like "inordinate fondness" for tormenting me specifically

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

I gently lifted up one of the bird houses to see if there was anything inside and a bird flew directly into my face. I guess I deserved that

what if I just start telling people I have narcolepsy instead of ADHD, I think more people already think the former is a real thing

all of my Rimworld colonies eventually turn into this

Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem. trib.al/4pZCCRs

why are some of my darrow blueberry plants doing fine for a while and then suddenly totally dying. I got you sand and everything

does he have no nipples because he's supposed to be a supernatural being or does someone at disney have a problem with them

The Holy Grail of Florida native plants is finally joining my yard, legally (no, not the orchid)

As USA stumbles headfirst into a combined energy crisis + record-breaking heat wave: am I allowed to call out the specific people trying to slyly integrate genAI sloppery into biodiversity science yet, or is being slightly mean to Dr. Blight from Captain Planet still professionally illegal

little peach fuzz oaf

drive-in restaurants make me feel weird. I just like malts, I don't also want someone in a little outfit to deliver it to me on a plate while I sit in my car like a medieval lord

I can't take identifying photos of my front yard for Living In A Trump Area reasons, but I got a big wrought iron trellis and used it to hang up all of my "bug garden" and "no pesticide" signs. The "firefly habitat" one is on the top because I feel like it's the most niche so I want ppl to see it

If you are in the southeastern USA and your yard is hot and dry and you want bees in it, look no further than Conradina canescens / False Rosemary, because I'm pretty sure every bee in the neighborhood is here now

watching all these young people with "have you hugged a tree today" type shirts buying invasive garbage at the garden center and shaking my smh (I was there for more bricks)

I need to go out and get my medication but I need medication for that kind of thing

I can never find the one bagged snack I like. What country do I have to emigrate to in order to have consistent access to palitos

no!!! I can't get sad!!! I have to keep living my weird life until I find more freaks to live it with

Shy little guy who loves oak leaves 🤎 Piazorhinus pictus, tiny weevil

there's a bee truck in this traffic jam so now in addition to enraged drivers there are also loose bees

when you get to critical percentage of everyone having big offroad trucks, then whenever there is a significant traffic jam, eventually patience breaks down and people start just driving off of the road towards wherever

lesser known waifu

I got distracted talking about peanuts and missed the hotel breakfast time again

I'm gonna cry, I already bought the "Texas Size" peanut pattie but what do you mean there's an even bigger and even more Texan version

don't tell my brother but I'm bringing back a bunch of Cursed Gas Station Foods for him including this

I found these freshwater mussel shells already empty in a ditch. If I know anything about freshwater mussels, the species is called "Scrump County Fiery Rambuglian" and this is only the third time they have been recorded

oohh, #taxonomistappreciationday again. Hi, I wander around and collect crustaceans out of temporary freshwater. I'm not affiliated & I have no resources besides what I buy myself, so I don't really assess whether or not I'm finding new species, I just document everything. Found this a few days ago

I AM IN THE TOP 20! As of March 2026 I have described 186 species-based on data from Carter&Sands 2025 who summarize the top 20 echinoderm taxonomists (by total species) that puts me in the TOP 20! All these others are dead, white guys. I am the first who is not. #taxonomistappreciationday

My big monograph is finally out in @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social right on #taxonomistappreciationday! 169 new species of flat wasps from Australia, many of them with remarkable head modifications for seeking their hosts. So excited to see this published after 8 years, available free and open access. 🧪

*pointing* NiGHTS

A "MEDIUM" CUP IS SO HUGE HERE

shout out to bluesky's lead programmer who dipped his mobile phone in his pool to 'cool it off' and then didn't understand why it broke

Oh cool, I haven't found anything all day and was thinking about heading home, but I guess I was just passing in and out of another Shrimp Corridor

I went to Bay City for the funny music reference but there's a big anti-vaccine billboard right at the edge of town so nevermind, funnies canceled.

doing normal american stuff like downloading a map of internal border patrol checkpoints so I don't get detained for collecting shrimp

hello

not a single pond with large branchiopods today...where are the shimps

I literally drove all the way to this random German town in central Texas to have a laugh at the polka museum and it's CLOSED. shaking my smh

why are there no triops in here, this is bs

AHH AHH, ANATA WO OTTE

A change of mood: cloud forest in Boquete, Panama.

uhhh holy shit, my friend sent me a news article with video of the guards at the exact border patrol checkpoint I went though (Falfurrias in Brooks County) beating one of the police dogs: www.kristv.com/news/local-n...

Let's play a game called "Shrimp or Barely Even Mites". Guess which one of these ponds had shrimp and which one barely even had mites

The shrimp are so cold, I just picked them up out of the water with my hands. They're laying on the bottom of the vial not because they are hurt but because they are cold

hey, it was in the 90s yesterday and now it's in the low 50s? please explain

Streptocephalus from a roadside ditch in San Patricio County. creature of the utmost politeness

A few days ago I bought some local cajun snacks in Wet Texas but now I've been in Dry Texas for so long that my lips are chapped and it hurts to eat them

do the trumpers somehow not get annoyed when some chucklehead in body armor asks to see inside their car every time they want to go to the beach or something