The Spider of Pride, aka rhe Sprider. #Pride #spider #entomology #lgbtq

Portland's fine, Chicago's fine, fascists eat shit

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today. A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The Queer Lives of Frogs thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-queer-li... #Biology #Frogs #Genderstudies #Toxicology via @mitpress.bsky.social

It's finally time for Skinktober! What's that? No, I'm pretty sure it was never called anything else. #art 🦢

Books, stickers, merch!

Greetings little one 🤓🥹

Texas is limiting the discussion regarding transgender people in 5 universities. It is now banned to acknowledge trans people exist in the classroom. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

My old workplace is hiring!

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

go outside and observe something. could be rocks, could be plants or herps. let the world be imbued with meaning as you continue to learn.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

As we mark 1 year since Hurricane Helene devastated communities and river systems across the South, progress has been made, but recovering our rivers effectively must remain a top priority. Read more: abcnews.go.com/amp/Business...

there's a special kind of male improv called yes, but improv and it is not enjoyable

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

Life, has changed this planet fundamentally. One cannot look at the integrated shifts through the Proterozoic and into the Phanerozoic and not see how biology terraformed this planet. 🧪⚒️

The single best way to ensure studios & press become more afraid angering us with their coverage and their actions would be to cripple a major studio & sink a bunch of productions for a while. This is a/b more than entertainment or favorite movies. This is the future of America. Make it hurt. BAD.

it should be a punishable crime to keep putting back out every persona game (except the first 2, apparently) when there's so many more, better SMT games out there that haven't even seen remasters

This is political violence. (gift link)

I've written a post about Cynomorium songaricum, a holoparasitic plant found in the deserts of Inner Mongolia. So how does this plant disperse its seeds across the desert and reach the roots of its hosts? Well, with the help of some little friends. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/09/cyno...

IT’S TENEBRIONIDS

Here's the list of senators that MAHA wants people to call in support of RFK Jr. Seems like the kind of list you should also call if you want to say you support vaccines.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Weathering patterns in basalt (a boulder lodged in beach sand) where oxidation of iron-bearing minerals (mainly amphiboles and pyroxenes) was controlled by earlier formed orthogonal joints. The dark grey bits are remnant non-altered basalt. Karioi Mt. Raglan, west coast NZ ⚒️🧪

Look at this pretty spider friend!

Spiders 🕷️ learn to trap glowing fireflies 🪲💡 then use them as bait to catch dinner 🍽️ www.earth.com/news/spiders... @earthdotcom.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social 🧪

hi, cis folks! the WSJ endangered trans lives with false reporting yesterday. it’s still accepted as truth by many, regardless of it being false. the article’s still up with a little note. it needs full retraction. it's not even a phone call—it's email. you can do this. contact info below.🧵⬇️

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

Predator or prey? 🤔 Bit of fun while I pack up finished pieces…

This is a lovely article that showcases some of the outstanding work that my UCLA colleagues Tom Carmichael and Alcino Silva and their trainees have done over the past few years seeking to leverage intrinsic repair pathways. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/s...

medium.com/the-island-c... 100% true too. And yes, Ash Ketchum is named after him.

The Hidden World of Harvestmen – A Talk by Alan Cann – 25th September 2025 7.30pm: knightonwild.org.uk/2025/09/08/t... #Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #Opiliones

garden buddy

First time sharing a spider. This is juvenile Argiope (orb-weaver). I thought it looked cool. #Spider #OrbWeaver #Argiope #GardenSpider #Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca (1894–1946) was a labor activist who particularly represented women workers in the garment industry. She moved to the US and started her first job as a hand buttonhole sewer, and later became a strong leader and a successful full-time organizer.

Circling back around to this proud gent. Bit of remodeling and then he becomes metal.

Telamonia dimidiata #Invertefest

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Your monthly gift makes it possible for someone to get the care they need, when they need it. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

This year alone PSAF has supported more than 500 people—including two South Carolina women cruelly denied miscarriage care. We’ve helped folks from Alabama and Mississippi travel as far as Maryland, and we’ve helped Georgians get to clinics in North Carolina. Every caller’s story is proof that

#InverteFest 🐙🌿 Male tree cricket, Oecanthus sp. The males' song in some species of these lovely little insects is a series of chirps that varies in rate linearly with temperature, allowing you to pretty accurately determined the temp by counting chirps and applying a simple formula. For example--

Do you think Goku and Vegeta could stop Sauron while Krillin and Yamcha deliver the ring to Mordor

Quit your job. Help a widow save her ramen shop by perfecting the recipe. Get in a fight with a loudmouth contractor who becomes your friend.

If you haven't been wearing a face mask in public lately (or just not consistently), now would be a great time to start. You deserve to protect your health.

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

cambrian explosion of kids with surname first names

kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though