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Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas. https://www.alexanderwild.com

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If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.

10.03.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 771 πŸ” 229 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

Ides of March coming up, how are we all celebrating?

10.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen!

Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa

#diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater

05.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

It’s rare that I love the lede photo in this sort of news story

10.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a β€œwater emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

"The last hope to avert disaster, the official said, was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.

'It would basically have to be a hurricane,' he said."

09.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Concentration camps.

09.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

This is excellent news! One to look out for in the coming months. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

09.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Little Ambush on the Prairie

09.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would watch this movie

09.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

That it was an AI error makes it categorically worse, in my opinion, not less. We value the lives of the "other" so little that we cn't even be arsed to do the due diligence ourselves before murdering 150 kids.

Good piece @willbunch.bsky.social

www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

09.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

And we’re about to make the people responsible for poisoning Oklahoma vastly more wealthy.

09.03.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’ll go through my editor’s cat first, though.

09.03.2026 00:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, I see the cat had made a number of edits to my book while I was away from the keyboard

08.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I looked it up; yeah. Yolo County.

08.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
MARKETS | THE TRADER
The Stock Market's New Fear Is an 11-Letter Word That Crushed the Economy in the '70s

MARKETS | THE TRADER The Stock Market's New Fear Is an 11-Letter Word That Crushed the Economy in the '70s

Bellbottoms

08.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 473 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 127

You'd think they'd not be so dim as to try that, but that's likely how the Trump regime just killed dozens of Iranian elementary school kids.

08.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine when they adopt AI policing, basing operations on who lived in your house 10 years ago.

08.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yet poetic in its own way

08.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis Ants that get injured during predation on termites get saved by their nestmates and recover inside the nest.

Nearly a decade old now, and still one of the most amazing studies on ants. Africa's Matabele ants rescue and treat their injured nestmates during termite raids.

08.03.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah, this is the exact problem I have with Texas, the absolute most generous people but holy wow

08.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is depressing, because have you met ordinary people? They’re like the worst kind, except for all the others

08.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhhhh forgot the alt text β€œphotograph of a tray of small plants labeled β€œHEB Yolo Wonder peppers”

08.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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These peppers make poor choices on spring break, I’m guessing.

08.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 196 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25234 πŸ” 8085 πŸ’¬ 783 πŸ“Œ 329

Thought so

08.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So what does the government do with all the hours they are taking from us tonight?

08.03.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

People seem to be worried we'll be a poor country if we have poor people immigrating here, instead of the actual problem of becoming a poor country because the rich people already here took everything for themselves.

07.03.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Cat takes out the red wizard

Cat takes out the red wizard

Update:

07.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably my favorite Hugh Grant character.

07.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Dungeons and Dragons movie is unexpectedly quite good.

07.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3