“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

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Antarctic amphipod Friday ....the gammarid Paraceradocus gibber collected on LMG13-12 along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶

the loungerrrr #greatgodgrove

a fundamental fault #art

a moment #art

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

Photo of the day....Austropallene cornigera, a sea spider from the continental shelf waters around #Antarctica #Pycnogonida 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶 Collected in East Antarctica in 2023 on the NBP23-03 research cruise.

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

ICE funding expires January 30. Call Congress to say whether you think it should be continued. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

T is for Tianschanobathynella

i'm losing my dreams. will you please take me home?

my last giant(ish) centipede had a clutch of babies a few months ago, here she is cuddling them right after they hatched

"What do you want the Dems to DO exactly?" is kicked dog behavior. Elected officials are not meant to do insider trading and occasionally give a 4/10 speech about civility. They are an expression of the values of those they represent, you're damn right I expect up to and including physical action.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

Still waiting for those "Warner Brother/Merrie Melodies characters dressed 'street' style" t-shirts that were fucking inescapable in the 90s to show up on supposed "retro fashion" forums, you absolute frauds :V

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

We heard your shitty speech from across the town square and hated your vibe and now you're never leaving this room 😊

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and frankly draw fat people ever. like, ever. draw them, write them, please pretend you live in the real world with real people for one single second. you make a world without fat people you've created a nightmare i want no part of! do not show me! thank you!

new year means please remember to be like nice and normal about fat people, the fat person you are or could become, the fat person you could fall in love with or friends you could have. fatness is not a corrupting force, fatphobia is. the performance is unhealthy, weight loss is social is political

God I am so sick of living in the heart of an unbearably evil empire. My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela

"the left failed men" arguments are pushed to hide the simple reality that Republicans are the party of male supremacy and it's attractive to a lot of men and boys.

I didn't notice that I'd photographed this weird ant-mimicking bug running with a column of Anonychomyrma ants until I was processing the photos. I can't find any research on this, either. (Photo from Wilson's Prom, Victoria, the southernmost point of continental Australia).

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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Louis Wain #illustration #cats #LouisWain

people who aren't furries: errrrm that's not a furry 😂 it's a bird?? birds don't have fur. that's like, a feathery lol furries: yo cool spray bottle fursona

A cool story about sacrifice and social immunity in ants.

Ants Make Individuals Weaker to Build Bigger Societies www.discovermagazine.com/ants-make-in...

Found a nest of one of my favorites! A true oddball. Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus, the red-headed spider ant.

Look at the pollen all over its face, its lost in the sauce fr 🪲ID Guess: Spider Ants #bugsky #ozinverts #inverts

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

beating a dead horse but part of what makes art both worthwhile to the creator of it and interesting to the beholder is that you can’t actually beam ideas from your head into exactly what you imagined that way when you make it yourself, and the left turns and fingerprints are all part of it

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

21. DIESEL

New Ant Lab video today about pincer wasps and a new research project. This one has some really cool, newly-filmed insect behavior in it! youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk

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the moment when a painting or drawing i'm making goes from "this is dogshit and i'm a fraud" to "actually we're back" can be so transcendently beautiful, it's a shame that it's one of the many things people who use AI are denying themselves

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Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

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the important thing is this