This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

Dedicated workers at the animal shelter caring for sloths. Hibiscus flowers are one of their favorite foods.

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

Our entirely localized open source processing scripts for The mothbox now have a cool new UI! JUST SELECT YOUR FOLDERS AND START FINDING COOL BUGS! @briannaljohns.bsky.social even made nice documentation to show you how to do it! digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs...

I'm a good judge of bullshit and nonsensical hype! So can be a good opportunity to get cool practical concepts developed!

Hey do you have a cool idea for minimalist AI that can actually help us understand the natural world? I'm a judge for @hacksterio.bsky.social 's @edgeai.bsky.social 's Earth Guardian challenge! Submit a cool USEFUL concept by September 30! www.hackster.io/contests/ear...

Another person blocked by Hyrax Every Hour for no apparent reason. This is why I stopped following them…

Oh man, what on earth did i do to get blocked by Hyrax Every Hour?!?

Night creatures are so cool

Queer Night Hike! We took the local queer activist group, Salva El Grillo, on a fun nocturnal adventure in the rainforest! Saw so many creatures including: Olingo, caiman, red eyed tree frogs, scorpions, and more!

I mean you're either pro-choice or pro-women dying of septic miscarriages, living in fear, lacking bodily autonomy, etc. We've had more than three years to see what lack of reproductive rights looks like, and it looks like a sadistic nightmare.

This baby sloth was so small and the flower was so big it got confused about how to eat it, but it still really appreciated it 🦥🌺

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Lucy the spider monkey and mandy the 3 armed sloth say they hope your Friday is really cool!

This fascist shit sucks, but fuck I would love if they get Fallon. That bastard is one of the amoral douches that normalized trump, inviting him on the show, and giving him noogies. 🤮

Here's lovely pick that cheered me up that @wellreadpanda.bsky.social sent me as she's going around foraging for food for the sloths. Hot pink flower petals cover the forest ground from recently bloomed water apple trees.

Update after trying to save the neque after a couple days the poor thing died. The horrible neighbor who is negligent with her dogs is not only completely unrepentant, but actively gaslighting people about it saying it never happened. Total sociopath

Excited to share. Apply!

Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

You can look at the data like this and see how it's actually fiscally responsible to enact these types of programs, but to the "fiscal responsibility" types, this is still a waste of money because it gives funds to people they consider to be "unworthy." They would rather punish some than help all.

Conference organizers: If you want people who work outside of academia (or financially secure company), to give a talk at your conference bc you value their expertise, it's unreasonable to make them pay for registration. Artists/Nonprofit folks do not have the funding to pay you to share expertise.

I'm watching Dr. Strangelove with my students tomorrow and challenging them to imagine a world where a man who thinks fluoride in the water is destroying the very fabric of our nation could somehow rise to a position of political power and influence.

There's a really irresponsible dog owner in our little town in what is supposed to be a legally protected forest. She keeps letting her dogs loose and they attack and kill poor ñeques. Kit saved one being chewed up by a couple of these bastards today and we managed to get it to the animal rescue :(

Report: You Could Just Lose An Arm One Day

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

This Thursday at 1pm EST the monthly livestream runs with guests Concretedog talking about his Magnet PCB Clamps, Mark Salazar with his DIY Suturing Board and William Kennedy with his Contactless Bicycle Dynamo and Light! Tune in at www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIyE...

I've taught the basics of if statements so many times, so I've been working on a series of explainers! If anyone is interested in proof reading/technical reviewing my new zine, let me know! I can give you a copy once it's printed !

Testing the MEGA MOTHBEAM. It kicked ass tonight and didn't melt itself! With @briannaljohns.bsky.social

Stephen Miller: We’re going to use the power of the state to crush every last Democrat parasite Chuck Schumer: Not unless you sign a non-binding resolution to bring down bread prices, Mister!

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

"Considering the long history of liars winning debates by lying, you would have thought that intellectuals might have learned to stop debating liars." @hormiga.bsky.social ...from old timey creationism "debates", to climate etc. social media today. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/debating-is-...

Happy 30th birthday to this gang

Why can SpaceX afford to blow up a rocket every 5 seconds? Because going to space is not its goal. Its real goal is to funnel billions of dollars of taxpayer money to Elon Musk. So what he's announcing here is that NASA is no longer a space program, it's now a graft program.

It's weird how in marketing of electronics, for some consumers just saying something is "3D Printed" is like a bonus? Like, wow this device is 3D PRINTED with PLA can you believe it?! and then there's a whole separate audience where if something 3D printed it's like "oh so it's just a protoype?"

Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K. Yet @royalsociety.org still has him as a Fellow. If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.

No discussion of political violence is complete without noting how hard elected Republicans work to encourage more of it. You don’t pardon political murderers unless you want political murders.

I say with as much pleasant mildness as I can muster: I would appreciate some more forceful mainstream media coverage about how the murderer is not at all who the MAGA right assumed, and continue to bad-faith-pretend he is. And now, having whispered into the void, I fade away.

OSHF announces new initiative We are pleased to announce a new initiative focused on Understanding and Advancing Enabling Ecosystems for Open Science Hardware. The project is made possible by a grant from the Navigation Fund. #openscience #opensciencehardware #opensource #openhardware

Pull off some tricky days long hacking? Make sure to go on a celebratory bike ride and get rewarded by getting to hang with some capybaras under the moonlight.

Oh so apparently wimpy little capacitors need you to "Plug things in correctly," and "not label your parts wrong" just to NOT EXPLODE. WTF, grow up capacitors!

Okay, that's enough photos of endotherms. Back to bugs! Here is your Saturday Stink Bug, a very pretty little nymph spotted recently in Montana. I love the speckling on this quarter-inch critter. 🌿🐙 #insects

It's weirdly difficult to power a raspberry pi 5 through its pins instead of the usb port

this is fucking horrifying

It is a profoundly weird notion that just because someone is wearing tax-funded riot gear, beating and caging people who pose no physical threat to anyone is not violence. Of course it’s violence.

So sometimes ive seen people be like, we created mealworms that eat plastic. and they do, they put mealworms in with food and styrofoam and they eat some styrofoam. but like i can also do this trick. and I am pretty sure we both just poop styrofoam.

Moths are good.

“The insect populations were found to have declined by an average 6.6% annually — a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period.” 🌎 🪲 🪳 🧪

Latest beautiful mothbox boards just arrived! Can't wait to test them! ( / Also terrified to test them)