Staring in actual botanist. Botanists walk slow and get down on their knees to stare at every other plant, a practice that takes patience, and intelligence, and compassion for living things. This guy is literally the opposite.

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

Fun fact: Erik Von Daniken didn't write 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴 — it was actually created by a prototype Large Language Model, the existence of which was then covered up by … 🧵1/73

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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Indeed, why *wouldn’t* Trump’s affiliates take advantage of AI to manipulate Trump’s rapidly rotting mind? After all, if there’s one thing modern GenAI is good for, it’s manipulating the elderly and demented into doing what you want.

So when can you start

Taking pics of random bugs in the yard to take my mind off the crap going on

Time to re-up this one, folks. The words are Hunter S Thompson's from the Dubya administration's war-of-choice on Iraq. The sad part is: I had to do almost no editing beyond changing the dates and the main name to make it sound like it's from today. Same as it ever was. 🤬

not a fan of living in a pariah nation tbh

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

greeting the new year like

you gotta laugh at stuff or you’ll cry

"You really know your plants, for an entomologist."

Isn’t that always how it goes?

i am actually pretty interested in the psychic violence suffered by the people carrying out crimes against humanity, but not while they’re still committing the crimes! that’s something i start considering decades after their institutions are abolished and the ground salted behind them

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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms

🎶 I want a girl with a short cephalothorax and a looooooong opisthosoma (Ariamnes uwepa, Waianae mountains, Oahu)

I know one of you has to have a billionaire’s phone number, $1m to save one of the best fossil collections in the country is a bargain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Kīlauea episode 39 #kilauea

Always repost Zagrammosoma, the stripiest wasp

“That’s a fairly specialized technological skillset, I bet it pays more than the usual UK museum pos- …ope”

This is such great footage. Dryinids are amazing!

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But I’m sure it’ll be fine having it be the front end for iDigBio

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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

If you claim to be an 'academic' or a 'researcher' or similar and your position is that you should not have to read things and/or write things and you would like the plagiarism machine to do that for you then please step aside and let someone who would like to work in the field have your job.

nice try but i have already portrayed myself as the professorial crayfish and you as the guileless carp...

My unpopular opinion is that I hope legalizing marijuana will cause smoking it to become equally stigmatized, because it's also gross.

Heartbroken to learn of Bradon's passing. He just spoke in the symposium I co-organized and hosted last month, and to say I'm shocked to learn he is gone is an understatement. Bradon leaves behind a legacy of joyful insect education, please consider donating: www.lildudesinsectacademy.com/memorial

Give me your favorite unconventional Christmas movies! The Thing is on my list. #christmas #christmasmovies

DOJ attorneys say they were pushed to “get to yes” on UC antisemitism cases — pressured to ignore evidence and deliver guilt. Nine quit over the ethics. “One month to find a reason to sue UC,” former attorney Ejaz Baluch said. “We didn’t even have the facts.” They were #BlueSky #NewsSky #LawSky

this is what it feels like wearing a 32x29 and trying to buy off the rack

Customer Service Discloses Call Will Be Monitored For Sadistic Amusement https://theonion.com/customer-service-discloses-call-will-be-monitored-for-sadistic-amusement/

This implies the existence of a Hannah Wyoming, Hannah Idaho, etc.

I see @wired.com has adopted the gym model of making it easy to subscribe and impossible to unsubscribe. I'm sure this is a great way to keep journalism alive.

My work flow:

Well this is pretty wild [🎁]

So, Elon and the DOGE guys?

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

I’ve got 227, out of only 874 taxa. Easy to get a lot in a place like Hawaii!

all of a sudden every service i used this year wants to hit me with emails and push notifications like ‘this is everything you bought online in 2025’ ‘this is every restaurant reservation you made.’ can you guys all just talk to me less. the only thing i want from any of you is to talk to me less

Absolutely with Jesus Esquivel on this: Please reject the proposed changes Ent Soc members entomologytoday.org/2025/12/02/g...

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

“What’s your favorite bug?”

"As Democrats search for their MAGA..." You can literally steal the MAGA chant from 2015 or whatever, and run on Lock Him Up. That's it, that's the platform. You'll have got us. But nooooo