This yearโs cohort, I dunno. Somethingโs wrong.
04.12.2025 16:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@alexwild.bsky.social
Entomologist and Photographer in Austin, Texas. https://www.alexanderwild.com
This yearโs cohort, I dunno. Somethingโs wrong.
04.12.2025 16:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If itโs like my class of 15, 9?
04.12.2025 16:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Really not liking NSF's new emphasis on applied science. It defeats the purpose of the agency.
It's like the idiot billionaires who staged a hostile takeover are now just trying to squeeze money out of U.S. scientists as quickly as possible, at the expense of future discoveries.
But one of them could have run for Paxton's seat
04.12.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I'm so annoyed that the Dem's A-list candidates are all trying for the same office.
04.12.2025 14:47 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Or they could just pay higher taxes. Their choice, really.
04.12.2025 12:41 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Guillotine futures looking like a good investment in these troubled times.
04.12.2025 12:40 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Itโs a longhorns-colored longhorn beetle
04.12.2025 03:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0the car that takes you to hell after you die
04.12.2025 01:52 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Photograph in top view of a large black beetle with burnt orange elytra, long antennae, and muscular legs standing in a cluster of white flowers.
A Trigonarthris atrata flower longhorn feeds from the spring blooms of a rough-leafed dogwood. Austin, Texas.
04.12.2025 01:47 โ ๐ 95 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Gracefully carving through the solar corona, a mini eruption of filament plasma erupted from the Sun earlier today! Beautiful.
04.12.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 149 ๐ 52 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 6Sheโs incredibly easy to โtrickโ which doesnโt speak well for her ability to judge or her discernment capabilities. She fostered these folk on the US. She owns a part of the blame.
03.12.2025 16:40 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The sooner this regime falls, the better. The longer it goes on, the deeper the suffering and the more expensive the recovery will be.
03.12.2025 15:51 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Making America Great Again by allowing foreign countries to bribe government officials.
03.12.2025 15:46 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0They think decades of modern medicine has made us soft, and our obession with keeping people alive has diluted the master race, so now these deeply weird losers think it would be a good idea if huge numbers of people just died.
03.12.2025 15:25 โ ๐ 57 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1The anti-vaccine coalition is a mix of idiots who just parrot the GOP party line, and smart people actively trying to kill Americans for eugenics, imagining themselves breeding humans like cattle by culling millions of the "unfit".
People should know that death is the plan.
The death toll from Republican extremism will be immense.
03.12.2025 14:53 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Highly recommend these. So cozy.
03.12.2025 03:40 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Selfie of a bald middle aged guy standing in a white room wearing an enormous oversized fuzzy gray fleece-lined hoodie covered in happy cartoon quoakkas
Oodie weather, the most distinguished time of year.
03.12.2025 03:33 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Also, this is such a clear use of deploying AI to relieve wealthy people of responsibility and consequences when they kill poor people.
02.12.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Do they want more Luigis? Because this is how we get more Luigis.
02.12.2025 22:37 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 23 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1The most important questions that need to be answered by shark science is how much of a risk is the risk that sharks pose in a shark bite or other event such a scenario that could occur on a given occasion in a given situation or situation that could occur at a given event that could occur during th
02.12.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
Weaving in and out of lanes, accelerating down the bike lane, merging without looking, running red lights, holy shit humans are awful, itโs a miracle weโre not all dead.
02.12.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My defense of Waymo- yes! The same Waymo I have seen drive into an oncoming lane- is Have You Seen Human Drivers?
02.12.2025 13:56 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isnโt for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost?
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? Itโs preposterous.
Very NYTimes that the main issue the story raises is the political ramifications for powerful people in the United States, rather than the dozens of people Hegseth has murdered, and their families.
02.12.2025 03:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This shirt is about a different Alex Wild. But, I'd still wear it.
01.12.2025 22:28 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Iโd be extremely surprised if this actually goes through. Too many wealthy people hold multiple citizenships.
01.12.2025 22:20 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0"Cyber Monday" sounded cutting edge three decades ago, I suppose.
01.12.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0