The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Sometimes I think that we'd be better off if the US broke up into multiple countries, either peacefully or not. But then I think: no, it's a lot more good than bad, and we'd miss it when it was gone. This sort of thing changes the calculus.

This little guy looks as worried as I feed about everything right now. Ghostgoby (Pleurosicya sp.) on bubble coral, Anilao #MarineLife 🌿🐟

I wrote the guide you didn’t know you needed: Your cheat sheet on complicity for the people involved with Epstein (and the non-release of his files) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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I see she's wearing classic North Korean News Lady pink today. Should we read anything into that?

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

❄️ 🐙 Do you like my “Snoctopus” ?! With the snow continuing to dump, I thought i’d take inspiration from the recent Kraken discovery here in Newburgh (Deep Water “Blob Octopus” Haliphron atlanticus)! And yes, I am disproportionally proud of this construction 😆 #snow #scotland #winter #octopus

OMG. Please let this happen. I'd give a lot to have knees that worked well again.

Crosshatch Butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus), Anilao #MarineLife 🌿🐟

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

Heard from Tanner Mierow at #SICB2026 about the mutualisms between snapping shrimp and gobies. Gobies need shrimp to dig holes. Shrimp need gobies to keep a lookout. But who asks who out here? Gobies initiate- they’re *desperate* for a shrimp. But once initiated, shrimp maintain the relationship.

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Okay, #MarineLife folks: what the hell is this? Pic is from a blackwater dive in Anilao. There were a lot of small squid around and my best guess is that it's ink from them, but I thought the ink was supposed to form a cloud? This had some sort of weak surface layer keeping it together...

Given that abducting presidents you don't like and shipping them abroad to face trial is now apparently OK, the next US president will have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

I am rather jealous. I'd like to see one of these. #MarineLife

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

It's not just the cancer at the heart of the White House. The entire cancerous party that unquestionably supports it needs some serious chemo. The question is whether the patient will survive.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

2026 is not going to be any less of a clusterfuck than last year, is it?

ICE defeated by SNOW

I think about this cartoon far too much nowadays

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You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

Happy New Year, Bluesky! Here, have a fish. Threadfin hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aprinus), Anilao #MarineLife 🐟🌿

bye 2025👋

Always brings a tear to my eye, this one.

It is the last day of #Invertefest, so... here is a shrimp (I think). On the end of a finger sponge. I have no idea what either of them is. #MarineLife 🌿

This is something I have never understood about football on this side of the Atlantic. Why are players at the top of the game so often utterly incompetent at tackling? How do they not know the difference between 'tackle' and 'fall over in the general direction of the man with the ball'?

Granulated Sea Star (Choriaster granulatus), Anilao. The second pic is a detail of the centre of it #Invertefest #echonoderms #MarineLife 🌿

A ctenophore of some sort... maybe a sea gooseberry? Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao #Invertefest #MarineLife 🌿

This really reminded me of Tony Benn's comment when he retired as an MP: he said he was "leaving parliament in order to spend more time on politics." And I'm glad they picked a Grievous Angels photo to head up the article, rather than the standard guy-in-suit-at-podium one that politicians get.

Shrimpgoby horror movie: when your partner gets way bigger than you and the relationship suddenly goes bad. I'm not sure if counselling can save this one. Also #Invertefest

The nudibranchs are arriving for the #Invertefest party! Chromodoris lochi, Anilao #MarineLife 🌿

Hydro Ottawa is sharing this information ahead of the potential ice storm on Sunday evening.

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

If you are squeamish skip this one. If not, keep watching to the end for a wild predation event! Down in the deep if it fits it sits... in your mouth. #OkeanosExplorer #MarineLife youtu.be/lwuWHMmOpNY?...

Feather duster worm, Anilao. I think it's Bispira sp. #MarineLife #Invertefest 🌿

Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate boxfish.

The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar

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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

Once again, #Invertefest is upon us! Starting this time with some feathery hydroids, which often get relegated to the background/scenery in photos of more charismatic critters. I think they deserve to get a bit of love in their own right, don't you? #MarineLife 🌿

How can we not help but love the largest known land invertebrate? Also? Think of the tracks this absolute unit would've have left. (ht to @susieoftraken.bsky.social for reposting @caseystegman.com for the original post.) #FossilFriday #Invertefest

Speaking as a Canadian, I feel obliged to point out that the loon is the bird of the year every year :)

😆 no one needs to put any effort into making American media look silly. They're eminently capable of doing that on their own.