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Lisa : Natural history infotainment performer (insects!s!s!!). Randomization stan. She/her most days
Pic: Gopher head. Banner: Damselfly on leaf
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Hegseth has to be charged for murder for this because every day we get a new Fox News clip of some ghoul just SALIVATING over getting to kill some civilians right out in the open and they could not be telegraphing more clearly how many more of these they want to do
December 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This year I saw loads of really good gigs. I wrote about my favourite ones and about why live music is the only thing keeping me sane here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Emily's Favourite Gigs of 2025
We're doing a listicle, baby!
substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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This is so similar to the stories of so many parents trying to deal with the ever changing and soul crushing NDIS system and trying to access basic education supports for children with complex needs. I cried reading this because it's so relatable.
I think this is my best essay on this topic (maybe my best essay). I'd like you to read it, if you haven't.
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
iTunes shuffle just seguéd The Residents "New Hymn" into The Minutemen "Jesus and Tequila" and let me tell you, this is a beautiful thing
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...
The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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And as the pamphlet said about the event: history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
It's the 174th anniversary of the 18 Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (the event, not the pamphlet).

But of course it's not relevant to our times: it's impossible nowadays to imagine the President of a large republic subverting the constitution to get around its prohibition on a further term in office.
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Snoot 🤎
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Good morning from Xanthoria parietina, a form of lichen that grows on tree bark.
#PhotoHour #Photography #Nature #abstract
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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The only bot that I want to see: (this is so cool!)
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Fund the arts
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it

the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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If "meiofauna" includes everybody under 1mm, you KNOW beetles are going to be at the party
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Final sentence nails it, yep
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild (but first, read Laurel's story about the lynx)

Red-billed blue magpie
Ornate helicopter damselfly
Philopotamid caddisfly larva
Black bear
Limpet
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild.
Across Ontario version.

Moose
Lynx
Rainbow trout
Hummingbird moth
Osprey
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild.

I’ll start with five I can see locally:

Mink
Skunk
Dog-day cicada
Long-tailed duck
Coyote
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
screaming
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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““I think that there are now ways of expressing gender identity and sexuality that are more nuanced than they once were, and that only seems to be positive – if that helps people to know who they are and say who they are and communicate to the world who they are. It’s just common sense, really.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Proud to be an Onion member and help them continue to be a pain in the ass in the future
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Coffee is extremely popular in Japan. It didn't always used to be that way. Learn how Japan went from side-eyeing coffee to developing new technology to keep it warm in vending machines in this tasty history lesson.
Coffee in Japan: A Short, Tasty History - Unseen Japan
Did you know canned coffee is a Japanese invention? Learn how coffee went from foreign luxury to everyday staple in Japan.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM