Deine Zauber binden wieder, Was die Mode streng geteilt!

Striped shore crab in colored pencil #sciart #art #artist #illustration #drawing

Wow. A pretty nifty snake star called Sthenocephalus which means "strong head" from mesophotic depths in the Indian Ocean collected 6 years before I was born! The patterns have been retained even on this dried specimen #echinoday #ophiuroid

Mr. Tchaikovsky making up a new planet

You can tell me this isn't the cutest shit you've ever seen. LOOK AT THAT LITTLE GUY GO! 🥞🐙📷NOAA Ocean Exploration

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

🎵 I’m gonna keep on dancin’ at the

Proud to support @4mrconservatory at the ribbon cutting of the new ADA-compliant kayak launch at Four Mile Run Park! 🎉 Go check it out!

Now referring to all voter persuasion efforts as forcedemming, thank you for this

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

"I do not know what weapons Victory Day 2026 will be celebrated with, but Victory Day 2027 will be celebrated with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein

You can’t park there #art

you need the gold chocobo to find the ultra rare conehead cactuar

The Final Architecture, aka Adrian Tchaikovsky's Galaxy of Seafood

Figured I would share this macro shot #mobilephotography #photo #insect #milipeede

Saw the cloud that looks like a skeleton jacking off again

Wood Duck family. Illustration from my book From my book A Field Guide to Cape Cod, Yale University Press. a.co/d/eK4A0sd 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #ducks #CapeCod

A 2024 comic about cats(?) sticking out tongues #FFVII #FF7

If you’ve ever wondered why they’re called Horned Larks #birds

A little sneak peek of the little dudes I'm making for pride month :D #SciArt #animalart #embroidery #wip

Thanks for the feedback/suggestions on the spider anatomy design!🙏 Was going to update it today but went on a hike instead - here are some handsome jumpers I found: Hentzia mitrata, Habronattus coecatus, Paraphidippus aurantius, and Habronattus decorus - all in situ w/in about the same 1 acre area!

Every day's a safari when you go looking for bugs - here's quite a ... cheeky little beetle spotted earlier today. Malachius bipustulatus, Rosy-Arsed Malachite Beetle https://www.naturespot.org/species/common-malachite-beetle #Derbyshire #insects #beetles #macroPhotography

history books are full of guys who thought “surely the people will tolerate this forever”

I don't know how the clams snuck in there. Crabs rule! 🦀 Silver tetradrachm from Akragas, Sicily, 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

The Seed Song

I can think of no weapon of justice that could not also be wielded for injustice. That is not reason to abandon justice. It means the wielder must take care when they aim their weapon. It means we must be vigilant in our defense against the appropriation of our weapons.

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There’s a segment of the left that is just traditional male chauvinism but couched in left-wing aesthetics as camouflage, and it’s really easy to spot.

Hojo sensei of Shinra Private Academy high school nurse office that will check your health 💉 #FFVII #FF7 #FF7EC #Hojo #ProfessorHojo #EverCrisisAcademy #art #fanart

A bit of cheerleading for you: Even some gerrymandered seats are not 100% certain to go the way the GOP wants in a wave election. In the last five midterm elections, the incumbent's party lost 9, 13, 30, 40, and 63 seats. Do you know how many turnovers Democrats need to flip the House? Three.

“How do you keep track of all that neck?” (Red-winged Blackbird) #birds 🌿

For those who fear that our news media have lost all courage and can no longer ask the hard questions of leaders, fear not: as soon as we get a democrat as president they’ll all grow spines and fangs overnight.

From what I can tell in this ruling, Virginia could just do the referendum again after another session happens (in 2027 or 2028??), but obviously ruling like this after voting and millions and spending is total horseshit

And should Va Dems hold both chambers through 2031 (expected at this point) they will replace the majority of justices on the court. So this sort of problem is temporary.

Spring peeper, peeping #AmphibianWeek

The good news is that going by PVI, the current map (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgini...) will probably still be a 9-2 map in 2026, and they still have plenty of time to update the map correctly for 2028.

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I will not do propaganda for the enemy, and *I* certainly will not give them the gift of my publicly-expressed terror, giving them for free what they lack the ability to coerce by force.

Found another Black Swallowtail Caterpillar 🐛 on the Bronze Fennel. #pollinatorgarden #hostplants #butterflies

Probably my favorite Attenborough clip 🪶

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

I have seen live giant isopods for the first time ever, and while they don’t really look any different than dead giant isopods, it made me happy. @montereybayaquarium.org

pigeon mug turned out so cute!!!!! #pottery

Look do you want roads you aren't charged for every single use? Do you want schools? Parks? Clean air? Better cancer treatment? A national defense? The answers to these are *always* yes, yet nobody ever makes the connection to general government spending and having those things.

They've also dedicated the locomotive to Turbo, the Naugatuck Railroad's shop cat who sadly passed away back in march.