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An immature treehopper at Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas. All spikes, all the time.

Last year I wrote a spooky story about a vampire and a werewolf competing over a very hungry woman. No, not that story If you’re in the mood for a Halloween longread, I would appreciate it! medium.com/@leighalexan...

Working on some pseudoscorpion drawings. Takes a lot of concentration so slow going. Quite pleased with the results so far. These are drawn from several of my own photos and experience of watching them in the field. #arachnids #invertebrates

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Someone on iNaturalist thinks this incredible moss-mimicking katydid I photographed in Ecuador is an undescribed species, no idea if that is true, but definitely possible, would be so cool if a taxonomist someday used these photos to describe a new species! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

Lula Goes HARD

My phone was blowing up over this last night. (Progressives are pissed!) One potential outcome could be lots more last-minute money pouring into local independent expenditure campaigns, since the $7,500 limit no longer applies.

Héloïse might have made short work of the mantis but for its mesmeric dance. 'Avaunt, hen, and harm me not!' Cried the fae creature. 'For I am the Sibyl of the Shrub, and it shall go ill for thee!' #Boktober Hen and Mantis. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

The new bike connection on S Henderson St is now open. We'll see you at Sunday's Rainier Beach Harvest Fest to celebrate. We'll also have free helmets! We'll be at the Rainier Beach Community Center from 2-5 PM on Sunday, 10/25. Project info: www.seattle.gov/transportati...

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Had to draw the ‘cat puddle on a glass table’ photo because WHO COULD RESIST #art #cat

Phyodesmus, a Bornean endemic genus of very large platyrhacid millipede. this one looked like an ambulatory spinal column

I found these at an orangutan sanctuary and I’m not ashamed to say I spent about three minutes looking at the ape and the rest of my time watching these glorious myriapods trundle about

no amnesty for ice and their collaborators

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

A long-term perspective on humanity’s battle against malaria. According to the latest data from the World Health Organization, the global death rate from malaria has almost halved since the year 2000. The chart above puts this recent progress into a larger historical perspective.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

Dudes rock

Quick feedback from the march yesterday in Toulouse. Gassed as of the start, police were super charged even before things got rolling. Then, the march went pretty well. Massive. Never seen one that big in my town. Police gassed regurlarly but ppl kept on moving. Lot's of youth, Fun. Then...

ICE is still using WA driver data in their arrests & detentions, while Ferguson fails to act to plug the data flow (New York state shows it's possible). I also wrote about a Bellevue incident showing ICE/DHS is using this data channel to identify local ICE observers.

Ballots are in the mail, King County voters! If you don't receive yours by Monday, October 19, call us at 206-296-VOTE. Vote early! Use an official ballot drop box! kce.wiki/DropBox Track your ballot! kce.wiki/BallotAlert Tell your friends!

some Pseudopolydesmus to keep the glowing genitalia theme going. top is P. canadensis reared from Tennessee, and bottom is P. collinus collected today here in Virginia. Fairly common millipedes with nice elegant gonopods

King County voters: Your ballots are now in the mail, with nearly 100 drop boxes now open through 8 p.m. on Election Day (Nov. 3). An expanded renewal of the Seattle Transit Measure, and vacancies on the Seattle City Council and King County Council are on the ballot. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

aaand there it is: if he merges he gets more control and it fast-tracks his trillion dollar pay package capital markets are just a machine that hands wealth to Elon Musk regardless of literally anything else now I guess www.wsj.com/business/see...

🧡 pumpkin season 🧡

Reminder that our WEBCOMIC FEST is happening THIS SATURDAY at THREE PM! Join us in celebrating the confluence of web and print comics with five local artists and tons of fun! :D New promo art by @dulceskull.com !!!

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

A fascinating little ring from the Punic necropolis on Ibiza. It depicts a bearded man in profile, but his hair and beard are composed of two birds (!), and his collar is a dolphin. 😮 The Punic inscription reads 'Belonging to Abdim'. 🏺 1/ 3rd-2nd c. BCE. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional 📸 me

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time. [sheets.works]

brother are you sure you don't want a smaller knife

I'm at a wedding where the favor is the bride made linoleum print blocks of the face of every guest????

Seen on instagram but its cooking with Bluesky energy

Petition to rename the aphids tended by ants for honeydew as "sugar babies"

Still a long way to go, but the wing looks much better now that I’ve coloured it in more.

According to Kickstarter tracking service, Kicktraq, the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE campaign is trending toward only reaching 94% of our goal. So WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP. If you love SF, fantasy, and horror short fiction, please consider backing today and sharing this post. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Found a midge this morning, Goeldichironomus carus, that appears to mimic a jumping spider.