Sluagh Sith

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She's gonna get most of the bag, I bought it for her. But she only gets it in small portions, because salt, and I have to break off the hard bits. But yeah, she gets a small bag now and then.

The cat's been given a few bits of popcorn, and is now clawing at my ankles for more.

Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae) A taxonomic revision of the eumenophorine tarantula genus Monocentropus Pocock, 1897, which currently comprises three species, M. balfouri Pocock, 1897 (♂♀; Socotra, Yemen), M. lambertoni Fage, 1922 (...

Get yourself a tarantula boyfriend who has "the longest male palps known in tarantulas, possibly functioning in cannibalism avoidance during mating."

White amorphous slime mold covering a branch and casuarina needles

Big blob #slimemold

Two small oval pink petals on a gray quartz countertop. The petals are striped a more saturated pink and are yellow at the tip where they once joined the center of the flower.

Little beauties.

Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates

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A woman carries an orange tabby cat wrapped in a swaddle blanket

Megan bought a swaddle to carry Pabu!

#Cats
#CatsOfBluesky

Okay, best thing I've seen on the internet today, I can log off now.

A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) sitting on the sandy seabed. Its arms are tucked under its head and mantle, making it look like a lumpy orb. Its skin is has small bumps of sandy beige over a red colour, and it has a couple larger pointier bumps sticking out from its skin.

An octopus doing a Kirby impression

🐙📷Roberto Pillon (inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Mature hot pink bee balm bloom with petals falling off and revealing the brown seed head. Another bloom is out of focus in the background.

#NatureIsArt

Shaggy bee balm - 2025

#Phonetography
#flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #hotpinkseedhead #spiky

A Least Sandpiper, a very small wader standing on a rock near some pickleweed. The bird is flecked brown and white, darker on the back and lighter underneath. It has a pointed bill, in this shot the shadow of the bill stretches down the breast of the bird - and the sun catches its eye. It has yellowish feet and legs, which help distinguish from the very similar Western Sandpiper.

#WaderWednesday, and one of the smallest - a Least Sandpiper catching the evening sun. #Birds 🪶

A large, red-orange “jellyfish” with a lobed bell & trailing tentacles is stranded on a sandy beach.

Saw another big lion’s mane jelly on my morning beach run yesterday 🦁🪼 #MarineLife #Invertebrate 🦑🌊

The cancellation of mRNA vaccine development hits hard

Millions of lives could be saved by present & future vaccines

Millions of cancer cases could be *prevented* by mRNA technology

But those lives don't matter to Robert Fuhrer Kennedy

So millions will get cancer

And millions will die

1/

What My Hysterectomy Taught Me About Bodily Autonomy and Misogyny We are more than our wombs and more than our ability to bear children. Yet our health and lives often come second to hypothetical men

I spent five years fighting for a medically necessary hysterectomy.

Endometriosis & adenomyosis left me disabled. I was forced to undergo six surgeries, various hormonal treatments and iron and blood transfusions to preserve a womb I didn't want.

Why? Because I might 'meet a man who wants kids'

small brown rabbit in grass

I had just about given up on getting any bunny pix this evening when - gasp! 🥹

A photo of a blue tree monitor lizard. The reptile is positioned on a rock and visible in profile. It is a vibrant blue in color with an extremely long tail.

Meet the blue tree monitor (Varanus macraei)! Growing up to 3.6 ft (1.1 m) long, it can be found only on the Indonesian island of Batanta. This arboreal reptile uses its prehensile tail—which is nearly twice the length of its body—to assist with climbing.

Photo: Josh More, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

A close-up macrophotograph of a Hemiargus ceraunus butterfly, also known as the Ceraunus Blue, resting on a cluster of dry, beige plant stems. The butterfly is viewed from the side, with its wings closed, displaying pale grayish-blue undersides marked with small black spots and delicate white edging. Its slender body, banded antennae, and fine legs are clearly visible, showing the subtle textures and scales typical of Lycaenid butterflies. The dried stems and seed pods around the butterfly are wispy and fragile, creating a muted and natural background that contrasts with the butterfly’s gentle patterns. The overall lighting is soft, highlighting the intricate details of the butterfly and the plant material, while the background remains dark and out of focus, ensuring the subject stands out clearly. This image captures a moment of stillness in the arid morning light at the Southwestern Research Center in Arizona.

A Hemiargus ceraunus (Ceraunus Blue) perched on dried stems at the Southwestern Research Center, Arizona. Okay, some #lepidoptera are cool, I will admit. 🪲🪳 🌿 #Entomology #Invert

A white cat (Heihei)looks like a goblinoid cryptid grasping a colored pencil behind his fangs as an artist tries to hold it

Heihei does this every time he asks to sit in my lap while I'm drawing.

I used to use "gastrolith" as the password to my IRC channel.

A fledgling cooper’s hawk standing on a tree branch against a busy background of green leaves.

Fledgling Cooper’s hawk standing near the end of a broken tree branch

Fledgling Cooper’s hawk standing on a high tree branch, looking down as it hunts for birds.

Three fledgling Cooper’s hawk siblings terrorizing the other birds
#birds #raptors

A mantis shrimp facing the camera. Its lilac-coloured eyes it above a blue head; one of the flat green antennae is prominent, as are the mottled arms and red tips of its smashing clubs. #UnderwaterPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

The always-photogenic peacock mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus), Anilao. I'm not sure what the feathery bits it's trying to hide behind are, though

#MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrates

A young rabbit on a lawn in profile.

A young rabbit on a lawn looking at the camera.

This juvenile bunny is the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Three deer in the neighbor's front lawn across the street from my house.

New neighbors.

MBARI researchers deploy new imaging system to study the movement of deep-sea octopus • MBARI 3D visual data collected by MBARI’s groundbreaking EyeRIS camera system could contribute to the design of bioinspired robots in the future.

The EyeRIS camera, developed by @kakanikatija.bsky.social and MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab, is a game changer for studying the biomechanics of marine life, revealing new insights about octopus locomotion that open the door for future bioinspired technologies.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

I'm not just whining. This adds hundreds of extra clicks a day, would have been tens of thousands during last month's mount farming. This is repetitive stress injury territory, now I'm farming carpal tunnel and my whole arm already aches.

I'm aware it's only really useful when you're soloing old content dungeons and raids. Which is something I do A LOT.

Me: Why the fuck would they do that?

Partner: So you can spend more time with the cat?

Me: So they did it to make me rage quit? 🤦

Patch notes says they got rid of it. I can change my spec, but then I can no longer use my exotic hunter pets. My solution, apparently, is multi-shot, which will kill three mobs at a time, and this will now take forever. Fucking blizzard.

Uuuugh. Warcraft OF COURSE reset my talent tree, and now my hunters no longer have access to "barrage", an ability that shoots a whole lot of mobs at once. Dungeons are gonna take *forever* if I have to shoot everything one at a time. Fucking HATE THIS. Anyone got a solution?

#SundayFishSketch Don't have a new piece ready yet. But I need to test some video-related things, so here's a sped-up timelapse of my blind cave fish painting 🐡 (Hopefully it uploads ok!)

#art #process #timelapse #artists #SciArt #fish #FishArt #nature #wildlife #NatureArt #WildlifeArt