Bea Leiderman

I hope it hurts. A lot.

Democracy dies with Florsheims

A butterfly still standing on its empty chrysalis. The wings are orange with black veins.

Tonight I got to watch an Actinote emerging from its chrysalis. Better than any sporting event

I hope he’s hungry some day. Really hungry. And cold. And nobody gives him a hand.

Cameron Diaz with her hair sticking straight up. From the movie There’s something about Mary.

Ummm…

This is one reason why everyone with a bar license should be lining up to do pro bono habeas petitions for detainees right now.

I know so many people who are doing this. A few hours of training and you will save lives and families.

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

I have dense ones PLUS scar tissue from mastitis. I’m going in for a mammogram tomorrow and I know I’ll have extra stuff done and technicians will be wringing their hands and giving me the look. It’s scary even though it’s happened every single mammogram I’ve ever had.

If Bellingcat has confirmed this, then surely the Pentagon knows it hit the girls’ school too — and is simply lying to us about that fact right now.

This should be unacceptable in a thousand different ways.

Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce
Special orders don't upset us
All we ask is that you let us serve it your way

Dorsal view of the moth, wings outstretched to show the abdomen. The whole moth is furry, green, brown, and black in wavy designs that look like overlapping layers of lichen and moss.

Here’s the rest of the moth, meant to blend in with mossy tree trunks here in the cloud forest. 🌱

A moth looking over the edge of a leaf, facing the camera. It is furry green with black eyes. The eyes are reflecting my flashlight. The antennae are very large, light orange, shaped like rabbit ears but like combs with a spine and long teeth

Timeline cleanse. There are beautiful critters everywhere.

Quentalia intranea, a moth with excellet antennae. Its wingspan is about 1.8cm 🌱

#bugsky #insect

I used to watch it weekly with some friends in high school. My dad joined us once, then he bought me All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir a few days later. Not the same story but the same idea. Mortality is a gift.

The Heart of Gold ran on bad news. We have an abundance of that at the moment

There’s a fort where the poem that became the star spangled banner was written. It’s interesting.

The moth, head-on. The face is furry black. The antennae are comb-shaped and the same color as the wings.

The antennae are quite impressive, too.

A furry moth. The body has alternating bands of pink and black. The wings are gray with black veins and a line of yellow spots across the middle.

Megalopyge perseae moth. One of the furriest I’ve ever photographed. 🌱

#moth #insect #bugsky

BENEFITS ELECTORAL CERTIFICATE • Priority in the case of obtaining a tie in the results of the entrance exams to public or private institutions of higher education. • Reduction of one month in the time of provision of compulsory military service if they are high school soldiers or high school assistants and two months if they are peasant soldiers to regular soldiers. • Benefits in the awarding of educational scholarships, rural properties and housing subsidies offered by the State in cases of equal conditions strictly established in an open competition. They will have a similar treatment in case of equal score on an eligible list when it comes to a career job with the State, • Students of an official higher education institution will be entitled to a 10% discount on the cost of enrollment, according to article 1 of Law 815 of 2003, which adds new incentives to the suffrant. • 10% discount on the value of the issuance of the passport you request during the 4 years Following the vote, for a single time. • 10% discount of the value in the initial procedure and issuance of duplicates of the Booklet Mitar, in duplicates of the Citizenship Card, from the second duplicate onwards. • Half a day of compensatory rest paid for the time you use to pay. • Unofficial universities may establish a discount on the value of the enrollment to the. Undergraduate and graduate students.

The back of the certificate lists rewards I can claim for having voted. A discount on passport, new or renewal. Discount on any official document. A month off my mandatory military service if I were of the right age. Those are just three. See the rest in the alt text. Better than a free donut.

A certificate proving I voted today. It’s a small piece of paper with a number bar code, the place and table where I voted, the signature of the poll worker. I blacked out some of my information. I voted in Envigado, at the public works administration building, table 23.

I had not voted in Colombia since 1989. This is what you get here instead of a sticker. My name and ID were hand-written on my way out of the polling place and signed by the poll worker. My rewards for voting are printed on the back. See next post.

A picture showing the whole moth 🌱

A close-up of the underwing of the moth. It is mostly brown with a light tan fringe around the edge. There is a spot that looks like an eye, a black circle with a white spot surrounded by a larger yellow circle with a wider, thin arch like an eyebrow in silver scales.

It’s primary day in Colombia and this moth is watching. An absolutely astonishing moth wing close-up. Opisthoxia descimoni. Only 16 observations on iNaturalist. Two of these have been at our lights recently. 🌱

#moth #insect #bugsky

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Tomorrow is International Women's Day - time to put your money where your mouth is. Corporation, festival, arts organisation, trade union or political party, we don't need your praise. We need you to hire us, commission us, give us the same money you'd give to a man for the same work. And repeat.

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

Pass the mind bleach, please

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

“You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall!”

Her existence is certainly grotesque and incomprehensible.

Anyway. They gave Ashli Babbitt full military honors for trying to murder Mike Pence and her family got $5 million in taxpayer dollars.

Inglaterra

It’s actually FEWER Misérables