Salticid boy with a blue-grey face and bright eyes, pale legs, peering up at you from a dry leaf
Mr Maevia intermedia, a handsome pale blue-grey leggy boy found in our savannahs. Shy, and very likely they see you much more than you see them
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Silly little meme heading is "sorry I'm booked all weekend" Friday the 13th a picture of a knife and a picture of a guy in a hockey mask Saturday March 14th Pi Day a picture of a knife and a steaming freshly baked pie Sunday March the Ides of March a picture of a knife and a guy in a toga RIP Caesar
A school nurse I worked with would catch one on scotch tape and tape it to the note so the parents couldn't deny it.
You should ask the nurse and give her a container for next time. Promise prints in exchange?
Chaperoning a middle school dance. Witness me.
"Faster than a speeding bullet."
I love watching border collies work.
Finally, a counterpoint to one of my own
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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪
"fallacy" is a weird word to use. the actual conclusion is that yeah, raising cattle feed in the desert is fuckin stupid and wasteful as shit, it's just our hyper anachronistic legal system prevents obviously correct decisions
www.landdesk.org/p/the-alfalf...
My best advice for enjoying working parenthood is to lower your housekeeping standards and then lower them again
2lb green cabbage cored and thickly sliced, 1lb uncooked italian sausage. spread 1/3 cabbage in buttered dish, 1/2 meat on top, salt, pepper, dot with butter. repeat. top with remaining cabbage and butter, cover and bake 2 hours at 300, check, if very liquidy uncover, cook 30 minutes more
Why is animal print almost exclusively big cat patterns when these creatures exist?
My uranium glazed gravy boat in its school safe enclosure
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*God making the handfish*
Handfish: please stop why are you doing this
Post a great photo of a musician
Sphagnum palustre and girgensohnii #moss #bryophyte
Moss. I feel deeply in my soul that I might run away into the woods and cultivate moss - beautiful and diverse.
Chromoskedacity / Chromoskedasic - A medium generates apparent colors due to the size of the particles differentially scattering the wavelengths of light.
Can't wait for summer and all the curious little jumping spiders. They love investigating new stuff in their environment. Had to let this one get tired of looking over the sheet metal. Large hole is 1/4", small 1/8". Bitty.
Got an excellent little spood, an Emerald Jumping Spider, I think. I am not alt-texting the video because I usually have to try three times before it takes. It's cute, wiggles its palps, and has iridescent green coloring. Anyone know how to crop vid previews correctly? #spiders #entosky #inverts
Got a father-in-law with dementia and memory loss and this hits accurate.
Sphagnum austinii with green and red S. rubellum #moss #bryophyte
Sandhill Crane profile eye in the sky #birds
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
Sphagnum affine and angermanicum #moss #bryophyte
Always a thrill to read an essay by Betty Gilpin www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
See also @thalkowski.bsky.social !
