It’s actually FEWER Misérables

We made hamantaschen filled with ripe plantain, raisins, honey, and pecans. Absolutely delicious. The world is on fire but we still celebrate. It was on Purim that my grandmother and her family received the notice that their visas to Colombia had been granted back in 1939.

Singularity will be reached when UC Riverside's Claude agents start inventing mandatory trainings faster than my Claude agents can take them.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Three treehoppers 🌱 Yeah. One female, two competing males. Genus Alchisme, the most common treehoppers living in the hedge. #treehoppertuesday #insect #macrophotography

Okay, folks- I know we all have plenty to do, but if you're at all concerned about the White House & historic preservation, please consider submitting public comment on Trump's ballroom project; info in this thread. First, a direct link for submitting written statements: www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

A little sunshine on this Monday morning. I hope everyone caught in the snow, and everyone fighting for what’s good has a moment of joy today. 🌱 A hoverfly on a calendula flower #insect #macrophotography

A super fun thread. History, science, and unexpected jokes.

To make up for my awful typo in my last post, here’s a new post. This coleopteran, maybe in the genus Cladodes, also has pretty spiffy antennae. 🌱 #beetle #nature #macrophotography

While we’re debating whether or not Trump called into C-SPAN using a pseudonym to rant about the Supreme Court, let’s not lose sight of how we’re all in agreement this is something he would do and this is the person with the nuclear codes.

Moth antennae are a true wonder. Males, with their enormous comb-Thales antennae, can sense pheromones secreted by females from 4.5 miles away in some species. This particular guy is in the genus Dirphia. 🌱 #moth #insect #nature

La vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida… Willie Colón died yesterday. He was an incredible musician and a good human being. This was one of his famous collaborations with Ruben Blades. Listen to Willie sing and play in the second half of the video youtu.be/c7e5h9qsiS0?...

Moths should be inspiring fashion. They really are so beautiful. Genus Pseudatteria 🌱 #moth #insect #nature

A moth with clear wings and red stripes. Dasysphinx ozora. 🌱 #moth #insect #nature #photography

thinking about women at the top of their game winning medals and trophies and being genuinely supportive of their competitors bc they aren’t threatened by each other’s success, meanwhile the face of sports transphobia is some asshole who placed eighth in a swim meet and made it everybody’s problem

A little yellow moth with silver bands. This is in the genus Eois. Many of these yellow/brown moths have silver bits on their wings that are invisible unless the light hits them the right way 🌱 #moth #insect #photography

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

The Gen X urge to be burning down the house

I know someone who spells his name with a double x, unironically, and he’s exactly as you’d imagine him to be. He’s definitely maxxing something and I’m glad he’s doing it where I don’t have to know about it.

Happy #weevilwednesday I can’t walk along the forest path until my broken humerus heals, but there’s enough wildlife along the driveway. 🌱

How long does it take a Happy Meal to start working?

Your interpretation of what you read is more precious than what any critic or scholar has said about what you read, & far more precious than any kind of summary AI can give you of written material. The work is supposed to go inside of YOU & work with what's inside of you to have a home there.

Yesterday Doug Wilson, TheoBro patriarch, preached at the Pentagon. Just a reminder that he's this guy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mesothen nomia, a gorgeous clear wing moth. The blue is so blue! But only when I shine the flashlight at it. It’s not blue, really. Just reflects blue light without having any blue pigment. 🌱

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Sometimes there are jewels just sitting on leaves out here This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.

Just a friendly reminder everyone, it is now “community science”, not “citizen science”, no matter what country you’re in. #communityscience

This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.

Since I love insects but have no formal entomology training, sometimes it takes a picture like this to realize the critters are in the same species. Also, I startled the poop out of them. Literally. 🌱

Cotton stainer bugs very much in love 🌱

Solitary bees not being very solitary. Happy Valentine’s weekend 🌱

I’ll be sharing paired insects this weekend. Why not? Here’s a pair of hairstreak butterflies from my yard in Virginia the last summer I lived there. I hope everyone has a moment of sweetness this weekend 🌱

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

Moths are cool, and so are their caterpillars. This one in the genus Xylophanes is pretending to be a snake. It was big, almost the size of my index finger. #lepidoptera 🌱

It is #weevilwednesday. It’s also the day I found out I’m an @inaturalist.bsky.social ambassador and I’m very excited to help others help scientists and conservation efforts. Wooo!!! Anyway. Here’s a weevil with its cute sad face and oddly blank eyes. 🌱

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

A blushing grasshopper 😜 A female in the family Eumasticidae. It was a nymph with developing wings. I’ve seen hundreds of Paramastax duquei specimens all over the place, but this is my first red-faced grasshopper. 🌱 Also, this is how embarrassed people in the Jeffrey files should be.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Any governor who attends and doesn’t speak up is complicit in this behavior.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Maybe the halftime show will cause an aneurysm or two. Here’s hoping.

Got the butterfly, though. Sorry the alt text is crap. I hurt. 🌱

This is the picture of me sliding down a steep muddy slope and tearing the crap out of my shoulder. I did get that one butterfly shot, though. Bug hunters, beware of muddy slopes. Heading to ortho ER #photography

Overnight development. About the moth, not The Pitt. This could be an undescribed species in the genus Melese. It’s similar to M. peruviana but not close enough. 🌱

Never have I ever had to turn off the tv while watching ANYTHING because I could not stop gagging. The Pitt did that to me today. Went outside, shot this picture, came back in and finished the ep. Best line, “Does Dr. McGyver work at this hospital?” Insanely good show. #thePitt

Today I finished reading The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman. So beautifully written. Such an accurate and relatable bunch of characters. I knew people like them back in the day. Such an accurate depiction of 1998-2002.