the next president needs to feed ICE into the woodchipper
12.12.2025 22:21 β π 527 π 103 π¬ 3 π 0@derekhennen.bsky.social
Entomologist & Myriapodologist: leaf litter critter enthusiast. Author of Ohio Millipede Field Guide. "Scientist & avowed Swiftie" -Rolling Stone Richmond, VA www.derekhennen.com
the next president needs to feed ICE into the woodchipper
12.12.2025 22:21 β π 527 π 103 π¬ 3 π 0Cleidogona
12.12.2025 04:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0a glossy brown millipede on some rotten wood
its millipede time
12.12.2025 03:49 β π 189 π 39 π¬ 6 π 2Centipedes are plagued by the necessity of dorsal and ventral photos. But it's surprising what squinting and tenacity can do for your identification of blurry photos skillz.
12.12.2025 03:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Could be, particular close to the Gulf of Mexico. Any stone centipedes and soil centipedes would be worth grabbing! Florida has some enigmatic and endemic genera that I've never seen specimens of, so they're hard to stick into my key.
12.12.2025 03:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If you're in any of the states bordering the Gulf of Mexico and see a soil centipede that's kind of thick and has dorsal spots like this, please consider collecting it for me so I can confirm its ID. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
12.12.2025 03:04 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0I just want to find the forbidden Florida soil centipedes (described once and never talked about again, but almost certainly real)
12.12.2025 02:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I find a friend in spirit, his sage words from three years ago speak to me: "I won't even pretend I know what it is, but it's cool as heck."
12.12.2025 02:49 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Feels like 19th century myriapodology. Everything identified as either Geophilus, Polydesmus, or Julus.
12.12.2025 02:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Squinting at blurry pixels on iNaturalist, trying to identify centipedes that you need to put under a microscope. Spurred on by Emily Dickenson, βHope is the thing with feathers."
12.12.2025 02:46 β π 29 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0Time Magazine is bought by Marc Benioff, Salesforce Billionaire
Salesforce to invest $15 billion in San Francisco to advance AI
Time's 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI
A story in 3 acts
11.12.2025 17:31 β π 113 π 46 π¬ 2 π 1A couple months ago, @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social collaborated with baker and dessert detective Claire Saffitz on recreating a beloved cake, simply by descriptions and photos of that cake. And now Claire has a video on how to make it! Good luck and happy munchinβ
11.12.2025 15:46 β π 166 π 27 π¬ 6 π 0While I agree with P.A.'s sentiments here, Walt Disney was notoriously awful to other animators. He lied to them about profit-sharing for Snow White, fired the creator of Goofy for trying to start a union, and tried to convince Congress the upset animators were "Commies."
11.12.2025 16:50 β π 92 π 33 π¬ 3 π 0#Crustmas
11.12.2025 15:06 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Day 10 of #InsectAdvent & the Christmas flirting has ramped up
This male Robberfly, Pegesimallus teratodes, has striking, feather-like scales on its hind legs, likely used for female attraction during courtship. (& cleaning the dance floor)
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Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...
10.12.2025 15:19 β π 19 π 29 π¬ 0 π 2As the host for the largest flea in the world, this is the mammal we need to have intense conservation initiatives behind!!!
10.12.2025 15:56 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Field botanist job with Virginia Natural Heritage, based in Roanoke, VA. $55-65K pay range. Please share widely! www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/field-b...
10.12.2025 15:19 β π 19 π 29 π¬ 0 π 2If you would like to get a tattoo of my art, that's totally fine with me! I'm honored! In lieu of payment, please instead donate some money to Museum of the Earth. They've almost hit their goal! priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...
10.12.2025 02:52 β π 82 π 47 π¬ 2 π 0To introrse or to [latrorse]? The timeless question.
10.12.2025 02:50 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More tiny treasures beneath the substrates
09.12.2025 23:17 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Last thing: A reminder that Trump's FTC almost immediately shut down the public inquiry Lina Khan had opened into surveillance pricing.
09.12.2025 15:31 β π 38 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
To recap:
β’Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
β’Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
β’Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clearβWhite supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on βalkaline diets.β
Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.
This whole so-called βparents rightsβ movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive βparentingβ and disregard for actual science on child development
09.12.2025 03:16 β π 1301 π 297 π¬ 15 π 26Horsehair worms aren't segmented like this and no parasitic millipedes out there. But would love to know what it is.
09.12.2025 14:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I see them in leaf litter uncommonly, but had great luck finding them in pine cones near my old apartment!
09.12.2025 03:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also picked up a photogenic pincushion millipede in that sample. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
09.12.2025 02:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is the first Anthicid beetle I can remember from my leaf litter samples, check out that pronotal horn! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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