Tyler :^)
@bucephalandra-g.bsky.social
He/ they.
I have three cats, one leopard gecko, and lots of fish, bugs, and plants.
Tired a lot.
Especially love learning about freshwater dwarf south american catfish.
Pfp are my cats, header is my favorite fish (who passed away).
I have three cats, one leopard gecko, and lots of fish, bugs, and plants.
Tired a lot.
Especially love learning about freshwater dwarf south american catfish.
Pfp are my cats, header is my favorite fish (who passed away).
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Direct link to the article:
www.earth.com/news/toxic-a...
www.earth.com/news/toxic-a...
Surprise culprit identified behind toxic algae bloom that killed millions of marine animals
Scientists uncovered a rare toxic algae, Karenia mikimotoi, behind mass marine deaths in South Australia and elsewhere.
www.earth.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Direct link to the article:
www.earth.com/news/toxic-a...
www.earth.com/news/toxic-a...
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Not the primary purpose of our Australia trip, but I did take some photos and have been uploading to my recents gallery:
Recent - Alex Wild
Alex's most recent photographs.
www.alexanderwild.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Not the primary purpose of our Australia trip, but I did take some photos and have been uploading to my recents gallery:
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Sure, you've seen hundreds of birds on land take flight, but have you seen hundreds of pelicans on the OCEAN take flight? 🦑 🪶
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Sure, you've seen hundreds of birds on land take flight, but have you seen hundreds of pelicans on the OCEAN take flight? 🦑 🪶
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I have no idea where this year went but it's December 1st again, so here we go
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I have no idea where this year went but it's December 1st again, so here we go
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
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Never gonna forget this merry gang of grabby hands, who feasted on wasp for days probably.
#InverteFest
#InverteFest
December 31, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Never gonna forget this merry gang of grabby hands, who feasted on wasp for days probably.
#InverteFest
#InverteFest
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Day 30 of my 2025 Favorites: That time I learned the fun way that social pseudoscorpions (Paratemnoides) can take down a live goddamn yellow jacket 😳
They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎
#InverteFest
They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎
#InverteFest
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Day 30 of my 2025 Favorites: That time I learned the fun way that social pseudoscorpions (Paratemnoides) can take down a live goddamn yellow jacket 😳
They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎
#InverteFest
They caught it, held it down until it exhausted. I'm still kind of flabbergasted, months later. Incredible teamwork. 🤎
#InverteFest
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Gonna do my top ten shots of 2025 tomorrow and you can bet your bottom dollar my first ever photo of Bald Eagles mating will be in there!
#LakeCasitas #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
#LakeCasitas #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
December 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Gonna do my top ten shots of 2025 tomorrow and you can bet your bottom dollar my first ever photo of Bald Eagles mating will be in there!
#LakeCasitas #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
#LakeCasitas #Birds #Photography #Nature #Raptors
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2025 top ten: #2
Male bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on wild ironweed blossom
9-1-25 in a Chicago city park
#MyBest2025 #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #pink #magenta #bees #native #insects #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #top10 #chicago #art
Male bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on wild ironweed blossom
9-1-25 in a Chicago city park
#MyBest2025 #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #pink #magenta #bees #native #insects #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #top10 #chicago #art
December 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
2025 top ten: #2
Male bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on wild ironweed blossom
9-1-25 in a Chicago city park
#MyBest2025 #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #pink #magenta #bees #native #insects #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #top10 #chicago #art
Male bicolored striped sweat bee
(Agapostemon virescens)
on wild ironweed blossom
9-1-25 in a Chicago city park
#MyBest2025 #eastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #pink #magenta #bees #native #insects #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #top10 #chicago #art
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We actually shouldn’t include people who want to use the state to murder minorities.
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We actually shouldn’t include people who want to use the state to murder minorities.
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AI worshippers cannot even explain why I would need something like a stapler to predict anything for me.
They could be using those brains to make the world safer and more accessible. Instead? “What if you blender was also a heart rate monitor and it listened to your conversations? How about that?”
They could be using those brains to make the world safer and more accessible. Instead? “What if you blender was also a heart rate monitor and it listened to your conversations? How about that?”
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
AI worshippers cannot even explain why I would need something like a stapler to predict anything for me.
They could be using those brains to make the world safer and more accessible. Instead? “What if you blender was also a heart rate monitor and it listened to your conversations? How about that?”
They could be using those brains to make the world safer and more accessible. Instead? “What if you blender was also a heart rate monitor and it listened to your conversations? How about that?”
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A flock of Scaups (I think) riding the waves of Lake Ontario near Darlington Provincial Park 🪶
December 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A flock of Scaups (I think) riding the waves of Lake Ontario near Darlington Provincial Park 🪶
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The irony here is he’s denying clean water to an area with the highest proportion in CO supporting him. 🧐
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The irony here is he’s denying clean water to an area with the highest proportion in CO supporting him. 🧐
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Still thrilled that I saw the blue-banded bee last night. I had to slow the video to see it again. They're hovering so fast 😆
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Still thrilled that I saw the blue-banded bee last night. I had to slow the video to see it again. They're hovering so fast 😆
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December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Americans must learn to decenter themselves. We cannot export instability and expect to find it elsewhere for our comfort.
yes, you can live the American dream in CDMX (good food, high quality of life, low cost of living - [albeit it's getting more expensive because of expats], etc.)
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
December 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Americans must learn to decenter themselves. We cannot export instability and expect to find it elsewhere for our comfort.
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Delphinium ajacis, the nonnative Doubtful Knight's-Spur, has naturalized here in Denver and parts of the Front Range. It was originally in the genus Consolida but that was merged with Dephinium to make it monophyletic.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 30 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 30 🌿
December 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Delphinium ajacis, the nonnative Doubtful Knight's-Spur, has naturalized here in Denver and parts of the Front Range. It was originally in the genus Consolida but that was merged with Dephinium to make it monophyletic.
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 30 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 30 🌿
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As a Pacific Islander living on the fringes, I want to say that we notice.
But I love this thread, so THANK YOU for saying this 🙏🏽💕
If your "safe haven/tropical paradise" is free of, or displaces local people, its just settler colonialism/imperialism being perpetuated.
But I love this thread, so THANK YOU for saying this 🙏🏽💕
If your "safe haven/tropical paradise" is free of, or displaces local people, its just settler colonialism/imperialism being perpetuated.
we end up repeating colonial patterns in the ways that we occupy space abroad
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As a Pacific Islander living on the fringes, I want to say that we notice.
But I love this thread, so THANK YOU for saying this 🙏🏽💕
If your "safe haven/tropical paradise" is free of, or displaces local people, its just settler colonialism/imperialism being perpetuated.
But I love this thread, so THANK YOU for saying this 🙏🏽💕
If your "safe haven/tropical paradise" is free of, or displaces local people, its just settler colonialism/imperialism being perpetuated.
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yes, you can live the American dream in CDMX (good food, high quality of life, low cost of living - [albeit it's getting more expensive because of expats], etc.)
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
December 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
yes, you can live the American dream in CDMX (good food, high quality of life, low cost of living - [albeit it's getting more expensive because of expats], etc.)
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
but, what happens to an area when the pursuit of *your* Western dream kills the dreams of locals?
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It's still too cold to find bugs for #InverteFest so how about this beauty from June 30 instead of December 30?
(Hummingbird Clearwing Moth) #invertebrates 🌿
(Hummingbird Clearwing Moth) #invertebrates 🌿
December 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It's still too cold to find bugs for #InverteFest so how about this beauty from June 30 instead of December 30?
(Hummingbird Clearwing Moth) #invertebrates 🌿
(Hummingbird Clearwing Moth) #invertebrates 🌿
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Show me your best bug of 2025! 🪲🎆
Another big year comes to an end and we found over 1000 different bug species between the Amazon & Australia! 🤯
Probably my favourite was this Giant Amazon Silkmoth from Peru! 🦋
I'm keen to see what beauties you guys found this year! 🥰🐝🐞
Another big year comes to an end and we found over 1000 different bug species between the Amazon & Australia! 🤯
Probably my favourite was this Giant Amazon Silkmoth from Peru! 🦋
I'm keen to see what beauties you guys found this year! 🥰🐝🐞
December 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Show me your best bug of 2025! 🪲🎆
Another big year comes to an end and we found over 1000 different bug species between the Amazon & Australia! 🤯
Probably my favourite was this Giant Amazon Silkmoth from Peru! 🦋
I'm keen to see what beauties you guys found this year! 🥰🐝🐞
Another big year comes to an end and we found over 1000 different bug species between the Amazon & Australia! 🤯
Probably my favourite was this Giant Amazon Silkmoth from Peru! 🦋
I'm keen to see what beauties you guys found this year! 🥰🐝🐞
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By the way, bro, just because you didn't hit all the goals you set out to in 2025, doesn't mean you need to punish yourself by making an insurmountable mountain for 2026 to "make up for it" that will only stress and burn you out right out the gate. Go for your goals, but try to be on your own side.
December 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
By the way, bro, just because you didn't hit all the goals you set out to in 2025, doesn't mean you need to punish yourself by making an insurmountable mountain for 2026 to "make up for it" that will only stress and burn you out right out the gate. Go for your goals, but try to be on your own side.
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please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)
December 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)
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Well you just said how you do it, what's the problem
“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work.”
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
From May 2025: www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
December 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Well you just said how you do it, what's the problem
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