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Alan Yoshioka, PhD
@thesheepcat.bsky.social
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Come for the bugs and flowers and occasional topical verse; stay for a vision of human flourishing: faith and reason, dialogue, democracy. “Truth and love need each other.” Byzantinish Catholic,☦️ widower, Japanese Canadian,🌸🍁 medical editor.
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Oh, good grief!😂
December 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
Thanks, DSP! Yeah, that's the flower that goes with the things you cook with.
November 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
And here we go, for the first time in a while! Fennel, I think.
#FlowerFridayFamily
Macro photo of a starburst-like flowerhead with tiny bright yellow florets, many of them adorned with glistening spherical water droplets, against a blurred green background.
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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The fact that the Trump admin removed ASL interpreters tells you everything you need to know about this regime’s stance on disability rights.

They’re eugenicists.

RFK Jr and Dr Oz constantly insinuate only the strong should survive.

Trump suggested his own disabled nephew be left to die
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
Possibly, though I myself don't know.
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
No, that's not how annulment works. A declaration of nullity has to do with conditions at the time the two persons attempted to marry. JD wasn't Catholic then. Catholic rules regarding mixed marriage aren't applied retroactively.
I suppose that might not stop him from filing, but it'd be thrown out.
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
Thanks, Elizabeth!🥰
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
Please note the update, which includes the orbweaver.
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thesheepcat.bsky.social Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · Oct 31
New and improved pics for #Halloween.
1/2. A long-jawed orbweaver (Metellina sp., I believe), a whirligig mite (Anystis sp.), another prostig mite (family Rhagidiidae), and a Western earwig (Forficula dentata).
#arachtober 🐡
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
2/2. What the critters look like IRL. A long-jawed orbweaver, a whirligig mite, another prostig mite, and an earwig. #inverts
Photo, in ventral view, of a spider with very long and thin front legs. Its abdomen is round and has a complex pattern in white, yellow, dark brown, and black, including a wide black stripe. A somewhat irregular radial pattern surrounds an oval ring at the centre of its web. The background is black. Macro photo of an eight-legged creature whose body, aside from white hairs and tiny dark sensory organs, is almost entirely reddish orange. It stands, legs spread radially, on a speckled brown surface. Macro photo of an eight-legged creature, which under flash illumination appears to glow with a cool light. There are many hairs on its legs and body. Its back end is tinged yellow. It stands on a rough dark brown surface beside a smooth brown object, perhaps a seed, which is slightly larger than it. Macro photo, in dorsal view, of a 6-legged critter oriented to the left on a smooth light brown surface. The insect's body and head are glossy. The head and abdomen are red; the legs are light orange-brown. At the back, truncated at the edge of the photo, are two orange crescent-shaped appendages.
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
thesheepcat.bsky.social
Thank you!😊
October 31, 2025 at 5:54 AM