Globular springtails 4ever. (This one is possibly in the Genus Ptenothrix!) 📷 sparkn on iNaturalist 📍 China 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Just one more sleep until the first night of the all new Uncanny: Fear of the Dark tour! 😱😱😱 6 brand new cases live on stage for us to investigate, with the help of @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow (not on BlueSky yet!) I cannot wait to get started!! 👻

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Nothing is ever really lost or deleted on the internet so I'm just gonna collate a thought I had here

Hey @writerpaula.bsky.social! I gather you'll recognise this one? Trying to see if I can put a name to the artist behind the illustrations, and you seem to be the one name I can actually get a hold of looking online. Any tips or contact info to start off the paper trail? :)

Random art tip #3, don't vote in tangerines with questionable fiscal records, order is on hold due to some more crap with de minimis being scrapped

Random art tip #2, commemorative stamps from the late 20th century can go for super cheap (especially in big lots). I probably won't be art-ing too much with them, too attached and I haven't even collected these yet.

Bet this card reaches you in September.

Random art tip #001, fancy wine and drink can labels can be digitised pretty accurately by just rolling the container along the scanning unit of a flatbed printer as it moves

Surely it's now time for the commisioning of a domestic aerial firefighting fleet? Holt Heath 2 weeks ago, Langdale right now, ground fire services being thrown into once rare wildfires without sufficient PPE or training per Fire Brigade Union claims... Not that my idea would be safe either, but.

can't play the NYT Mini Crossword for free anymore????????? shame! shame!!!

it’s very cool Masayoshi Takanaka is bringing back his surfboard guitar for his 2026 tour just for me

@britishspiders.bsky.social And who might be the culprit here? Yellow Iris, folded by pondside in Lancashire. A thin layer of silk covered both ends of the fold, with almost no silk, excrement, or indeed spider in the middle.

Death Row Inmate Exonerated Mere Hours After Execution

My latest purchase, print dated 1884. 🪲🧪 12. Entomobrya nivalis 13. Entomobrya intermedia 14. Entomobrya intermedia 15. Entomobrya intermedia juvenile 16. Entomobrya muscorum (Listed at the time E. intermedia var. elongata) 17. Entomobrya albocincta

100% . . . . But also it's 100% suncream

Anyone have tips for getting the Great Bustards around the Salisbury Plains? Surely they can't be hard to miss, the size of them

I got really good at finding neelids by the end

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

📍Toronto Loving wplace.live

💧🧪 The #GreatUKWaterBlitz is back this September! Will you join the fight for healthy fresh water? Water testing kits are limited, so sign up today. 🔗 https://earthwatch.pulse.ly/bmmu9p7pfl

I'm doing an online talk on 16/09 about my MSc thesis, which was all about iNaturalist data for invertebrates in the UK, and the alarmingly high proportion of it which 'falls through the cracks' due to data quality concerns. Please join if interested! Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/falling-th...

These new images of the total obliteration of whole areas in Gaza are beyond words. You can see why Israel has prevented international journalists entering Gaza to report on these indefensible scenes. www.itv.com/news/2025-08...

Tips For Watching A Meteor Shower theonion.com/tips-fo...

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

sorry i didn’t show up to work today boss. but if i did i would have done such a good job 👍

NOTICE TO AIRMEN Cessna November-Four-Three-Zero-One-Romeo is currently active at KBIS via ADSB tracking info. All flights are instructed to avoid North Dakotan airspace. Arrivals beyond 100nm should divert where possible to the nearest available airfield.

The gorgeous Eyed Ladybird (Anatis ocellata). Such a beautiful beetle.

Right-wing columnist Charles Gasparino complains that Zohran Mamdani wants to hand out "free bees"

I'm so excited to share that this springtail, one that seems to have rapidly appeared in graveyards and gardens across the UK, now has a proper name: Entomobrya petri! I hope this will be the first of many new species descriptions, allowing us to track our rapidly changing springtail fauna. 🧵⬇️

Do I do another artfight attack or do I draw the yellow fly of the dismal swamp

berries: 10 square feet chickens: 12 square feet pigs: 18 square feet vegetables: 40 square feet entirely useless decorative lawn: 400 square feet someone who is good at farming please help me, my family is dying

taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest

Labour's answer to poverty

The BBC taking a dangerous man too seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #r4today

meanwhile, on twitter

イシハラクロチョウバエ 汚いトイレなどで発生することでお馴染みなチョウバエ界でかなりの美麗種 もふもふさによる可愛らしさと青い斑点の美しさを併せ持つ

The surveillance state is really getting out of control.

this feels like a fact that would be repeated 100x a day in a kindergarten with giggles. please teach this fact to the kids before they turn into another generation of butterfly piss deniers. it's not too late to save your family.

Today is a good day because I saw a tiny rove beetle wearing a tiny mite as a hat #entomology #bugsky #coleoptera 🧪🪲

At times, he transforms into Jabba the Hutt

Big favour time! Calling all you #UncannyCommunity members! Will you please vote for #Uncanny in the #BritishPodcastAwards Listener's choice awards! Just use the link below. Thank you!!! it would be lovely to win!! 👻 www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting

The Democrats are going to spend $500 million dollars trying to reach this person specifically

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

Word on the street is yer bird runs 3 candidates in a 2 councillor election

Research assistant

And there it is... the greatest header in modern history.