Beetle butt.
It’s Blue Death Feigning Beetle (Asbolus verrucosus) feeding day & these three (of my seven) said “nahh, no thanks” to coming out.
#invertebrates#bugsky#beetles
Three of the Insect paintings I did last year. A blue south American cicada, an Atlas beetle in purple, and a ladybug.
I'll be making prints of the Atlas beetle and ladybug once I get a good scan of them. I'd like to sell the originals, too!
#sciart#invertart#insect#art
The rise of Vine 2.0 being as bad for YouTube’s legitimacy as it was for twitter and Instagram…I shouldn’t need a 10-30 second selfie vid to rant about it, or a mustard bottle on a google ad
One of those days when I would much rather be at home with my wife, daughter and butterflies than at work with people who I know will most likely vote for the Orange Sociopath. The business world sucks, always has, always will.
#TextureTuesday#VoteBlue#Photography99 📷 #Butterflies 🦋
The ‘Mexican standoff’ between sane conservatives, sociopathic grifters, and actual cult members might sound better if we call it something like ‘tres mariposas de un flatulencia.’
So #Ukraine using it is the first positive news I’ve heard about the #telegram app since the maga cult swarmed to it after January 6th anyone on #newssky#journalismsky want to open up the can of worms with me?
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... A lot of actual #journalism here…but a glaring omission of where #sandiego begins and ends when they say my city has more autistic kids than any other, so many that #military families want to be stationed here because of it.
The butterfly weed is very small and overshadowed by other things and hanging tenuously over the exposed aggregate, but by gum it is blooming. This is a bigger achievement to me than is reasonable to expect others to understand
#nativeplants#flowerreport 🌱
Some of my tiny baby plants, picked up as seedlings earlier this year, are starting to bloom 🫣 🥹 🌱 #nativeplants
Particularly psyched about the butterfly weed 🦋🧡
My pumpkin is getting way WAY too much sun…but it seems rude to pretend it (and the surrounding cacti) aren’t getting water that should be going to sanitation and actual agricultural engineers anyway 😅
So @spiffykt.bsky.social just pointed out that there used to be a whole genre of media you don’t see much of anymore: comedies where the whole joke is “a man, but he has to raise children!!”
This is what Orwell got wrong: it's not the last command but the first one.
A lot of the "adults in the room" of Trump's administration and the congressfolks who thought they could "moderate" him thought that by not challenging him on inconsequential lies, they were building up credit to use later.
One of the most important elements in binding believers to an irrational authority structure like a cult is insisting that they publicly and passionately declare beliefs that are plainly and demonstrably false
It's about getting the marks to disable their own BS detectors as a price of admission
