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ink doodles of a mutant meerca and korbat neopet ocs

ink studies of ant mandibles and particularly bulbous antennae, ink doodle of fictional ant medicine

pencil and ink studies of ant mandibles in rotation, pen study of the ant veromessor pergandei

stupid small ink doodle on a very small area of an otherwise blank sketchbook page of an ants tibia and tarsus, ink doodle of a waja from the petsim Wajas with another small ink ant study

ink studies of dogs, ink doodles of various creatures

ink study of an ant, pen study of an ant

ink study of an ant and a dog, ink study of an ant, pen study of an ant

various studies of animals and doodles of creatures, a marker study of a baby ostrich

ink doodle of a heraldry type beast, ink doodle of a weird wolf watching tv in some kind of interior

pencil doodle of a worm, pencil studies of elephant seals and a bat, pencil doodle of a weird creature, pencil study of an ant

pen study of a forest floor, pencil study of an ant

pen studies of a creosote bush twig and a pen sketch of an ant

ink and pencil studies of ants

pencil studies of ants

pencil study of an ant, pencil sketch of a mutant blumaroo oc

Another yellow jacket drinking water. The sun is hitting its body, making it appear to glow

these are little animals just getting a sip of water and I will not tolerate slander

ink and pencil sketches of a mutant blumaroo oc, pencil study of an ant

ink sketch of an anthropomorphized ant, pencil study of an ant

I know it's a question for which I will never get a satisfactory answer, but I still wonder why non-Natives still say they're "a Native of" a place instead of just saying "I'm from this place" or "I'm originally from this place". No, you are not "a Native".

A termite faces off with something that looks like a Michelin man pseudoscorpion but is in fact the deformed abdomen of an aleocharine staphylinid who lives as an inquiline in the termite nest

Thanks to Jordan Rainey in the Staphylinid Madness symposium for sharing some full-color photos of the most upsetting beetle I’ve ever seen in my life

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

this is literally never not accurate

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

A eucharitid photo from bugguide showing the massive, backward-pointing spine projecting from the thorax like a handle

A curling stone, which also has a large backwards-pointing spinose process arising from its dorsum

Ashley Bui of UCR is giving a great talk on eucharitid phylogeny, but most importantly she tells us what the giant scutal spines are for: handles for grabbing by suspicious ants (their hosts)

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

Quick reminder that Christopher Columbus was considered a vile, repulsive, evil man even in his own time. His actions as governor of Spain's New World colonies landed him in prison for his cruelty and violence.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

is this good

A small painting of 6 dead house flies arranged in 2 columns and 3 rows of 2.

"6 of flies", ink, watercolour, oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #sciart