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I recently chatted with the folks at No Such Thing podcast about keeping indoor cats happy!!

www.nosuchthing.show/p/are-outdoo...

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.

Photo of a dead meadow vole laying across an evergreen tree branch. He looks very peaceful.

Photo of a rock formation partially covered in snow behind a river.

Favorite photos of January (so far)

for comparison purposes

fuzzy small brown bat with little black ears and leathery wings

bat on wooden planks, waking up

A bat fell out of the eaves here and seemed a plump little kiwi fruit w no visible signs of injury. So we put the bat in the sun to warm up, in a higher spot. Flew off after a few minutes. Hopefully to find a cozy bat colony shelter. Interrupted hibernation? (yes yes we all know not to touch bats)

And you found such a round one! Hopefully he’ll find a better place to hibernate, it seems like he has enough fat reserves to get through the winter otherwise!

Photo of a little brown bat next to a q-tip. He’s smaller than the q-tip, and is eating a mealworm.

There’s something so special about observing bats up close. You get so used to seeing them at a distance, flying up high, that it’s almost otherworldly to see how small & intricate they actually are.

Coyote scrambles onto Alcatraz Island after perilous, never-before-seen swim Experts have reacted to a viral video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz Island in what is a surprising first for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Well done!

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

so don’t delay- spend those 15 hours of AO3 downtime improving global scientific data & find a new fandom (I personally recommend the crayfish fandom, we’re a lot of fun, all 4 of us).

are you worried that your expertise in queer smut won’t translate into hyperspecific species identification? don’t be! if you can tell the difference between a plant & a bird at least 50% of the time, chances are you can improve a general-level observation!

that feeling when you get kudos on a fic? that’s when someone confirms your ID.
big fan of tags? we got observation fields galore- you can even create your own.
fandom discourse? wait until you see taxonomy discourse.

feeling lost alone & hopeless at the prospect of being without AO3 for 15 hours? don’t despair- there’s another highly addictive website out there just waiting for you. it’s got heated rivalries. it’s got behavior: mating. and so much more.

that’s right. it’s iNaturalist.

It’s almost like we’re one people divided by imaginary lines drawn by yt men who never stepped foot on the continent.

👏 the Algerian government next pls

Panafricanism is possible right now. Strike while the iron is hot and everyone is in agreement about how much we all hate Morocco.

Like yeah, of course Algerians are going as close as possible to the Moroccan border to light off fireworks. Of course it looks like the Algerian team won instead of Senegal. If there’s one thing our country excels at, it’s pettiness in victory.

My Twitter feed has become highly entertaining but ultimately unusable in the aftermath of Senegal winning #CAN2025. It’s literally all towel jokes, calls for the removal of Morocco from the continent, & people realizing for the first time how dedicated we Algerians are as haters.

I’m not receiving slightly ominous “go outside” texts so I guess it’s not visible here either.

image of quagga mussels attached to a crayfish, which stands on an aggregation of quagga mussels

quagga mussels on the move (July 2023) #InvasiveSpecies #LakeConstance

You should make that recording a ringtone/texttone.

a close up of a raccoon playing with a piece of paper that says ellentube Alt: a close up of a raccoon playing with a piece of cotton candy

This is the energy I’m getting:

Come on people, it’s the native Hawaiian hoary bat! The ʻōpeʻapeʻa! They’re endangered! Listen! I’ve been riding this high all day lol

SpongeBob reading two titles meme: “I’m so happy for you” and “I’m overcome by jealous rage”

YESSSSSSSS I AM SO JEALOUS YOU HAVE NO IDEA

Always nice to see Procambarus clarkii as education ambassadors!

Now that I know what to look for, I can even see the cheek spines in the first picture. Crayfish ID is closer to an art than a science sometimes 😂

OOOOH, lol I totally misread this! These are Faxonius limosus, spiny cheek crayfish. Unfortunately also invasive.

Looks like Faxonius neglectus (ringed crayfish). The black banding on the claw tips narrows the species down significantly- no Pacifastacus species have black banding, F virilis doesn’t either. What area were these found? Near OR?