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Andrew Mountcastle

@mounty.bsky.social

I investigate how insects are so good at crashing into things. 🐝Insect Biomechanist, 🏒Pond Hockeyologist, 📸Photographer-ish, Dad, Mainer, Biology prof at Bates College

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Women’s Olympic ice hockey final maybe?

19.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cycling the high beams - low beams in rhythm is elite maxxing

19.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And the shadow's too chilly to linger

Leica M5
50mm f2
Fuji C200
The Yukon

19.02.2026 12:40 — 👍 111    🔁 9    💬 5    📌 0

I’m blinker-maxxing (using the hazard lights all the time)

19.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Double rainbow guy was so hopeful

18.02.2026 02:56 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💯. Truly trash

17.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A vehicle in the shape of an LLBean boot

A vehicle in the shape of an LLBean boot

I’ve gotta get a good shot of the LLbean bootmobile, a local favorite around here

17.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dunkin slander

17.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Gogurt in a yurt: "Yurtgurt"

15.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Anyway, I'll be sure to give them each a 90's WWE-style piledriver when we're playing in the snow this weekend as payback for their insensitivity.

13.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last night my kids referenced an event from the 90's with "Back in the 1900's..."

13.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@alexwild.bsky.social ?

13.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm no beetle expert, but I've seen some Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) grubs that look an awful lot like that

13.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A+ skeet

13.02.2026 04:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Claude, stop!

collaborate and listen

12.02.2026 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t stop beecleaving

12.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If anyone is experiencing imposter syndrome, this should make you feel a lot better. (And also a lot worse, but for other reasons.)

12.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' . Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' .
12.02.2026 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hear you on the print catalog, but their website is also a joy to use. Just excellent web design that does what it's supposed to do (enable you to efficiently find what you need) very well.

12.02.2026 02:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Javier Bardem has way too much fun in Dune 2. He's hilarious.

12.02.2026 02:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate everything about this

11.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
inflatable trump blimp

inflatable trump blimp

Maybe an airborne toxic event?

11.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Give the rock compliment sandwiches to maintain its self-esteem

11.02.2026 02:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm doing something right!

11.02.2026 02:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quantified by the "Jerry Index"

11.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And on the same day that Susan Collins, who helped put RFK Jr. in office, announces she's running for reelection. 🤮

11.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Both are bonkers! Luge is faster I think, but there's something about head first that is particularly terrifying.

11.02.2026 01:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Luge! 😬😬😬

10.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Storrowing is my favorite one

09.02.2026 04:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

29 lakes have been sucked dry to create the AI slop that has besmeared all these Super Bowl ads

09.02.2026 02:02 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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