Yet another Matt

🚨ALERT🚨 A group of about 10 Secret Service, ICE HSI, and DHS police have been spotted across various locations around Adams Morgan, the Columbia Heights metro, the triangle park at Harvard and 16th St NW in Mount Pleasant, and at the Ft. Totten metro between 8 and 9 PM today (8/8). 1/

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

37 years since the #8888Uprising - we will never forget and the revolutionary spirit lives on, even though the Burmese military junta persists in its dictatorship to this day.

#Myanmar #Burma

What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, & December over the last 7 days of the month. Going out? 1. Find invertebrates 2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest 3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event NOT Going out? - Post your squid painting - Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife - Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins - Write wikipedia pages Questions? ask franzanth / maureenbug / saimihanma More info and ideas on: invertefest.com

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us.

tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs.

Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

🎉✨ Mark your calendar! The Wheaton Arts Parade returns 🖌️🎶

📅 Sunday, September 28
🕙 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

A day filled with music, dance, art, food and fun for the whole family. 🎭🍴🎵

#mocomd #festivalseason #fun #music #art #montgomerycountymd

INTER- Dependence DAY! Sunday, July 6, 2-4 pm a mutual aid fest! sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com home garden harvest share repairs - health supplies kids’ clothing swap - hygeine drive potluck snacks - community circle zine making - collage art - and more! Bring: A desire for community Clothes kids have outgrown Veggies, fruits from home gardens (if you have extra!) Snacks & desserts to share Things in need of repair: (or tools to help repair) clothing, home items, electronics, etc. New/unopened hygeine items: soap, shampoo, etc. Leave with: New friends and community! Repaired items Clothing for growing kids Fresh home-grown produce Health supplies: covid tests, masks, Plan B, condoms, pregnancy tests, lozenges, etc. Zines and collage art A belly and heart nourished by community Silver Spring/Takoma Park Mutual Aid Montgomery College Food Forest, 7719 Chicago Ave

We've added even more to our Interdependence Day mutual aid fest! See you this Sunday, 7/6, 2-4pm, at 7716 Chicago Ave (in the food forest).

I agree that it looks like a grape leave skeletonizer 🍇🍃💀 the adults look pretty slick as well.

A big-eyed black, grey, and white bee on a fleabane flower. It's just fuzzy enough to be conventionally cute, I think.

Cuckoo bees are super cute. I love their big ol' eyes and their spiky butts. Coelioxys (sayi, maybe?) As much as I love bees, I also love their brood parasites (some of which are also bees).

Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff.

When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything.

RTs appreciated here.

I feel like in most situations, it's better to get back outside and take pictures of insects

If you see this, post a bird!

I really appreciate that this is more or less the view out of my "office" every day.

A blue and brown female Karner Blue butterfly

A new report, co-authored by Washington State University conservation biologist Cheryl Schultz, provides a roadmap for recovering butterfly populations across the U.S. xerces.org/publications...

A digital drawing of a Pacific Trillium. Three white triangular petals sit atop three much larger triangular green leaves.

An Indian Paintbrush flower, dark reddish green stem with red tinted alternating leaves. The flowers are in a cluster, stacked on top of each other, transitioning haphazardly from green to bright red.

Drew some flowers...

On the left, some bugs and the text "Thank you for leaving the weeds for us to feed and live in" and in the right a gardener and the text "I am too lazy to clear out the weed" and caption says "Biodiversity can be achieved through executive dysfunction"

The secret to my native gardening success

I think after some time (providing iNat really takes care in its next steps) people will come back. Many people seem really torn about leaving in the first place.

Also, everyone I know irl who uses iNat, had no idea any of this was happening. The bleeding may not be as bad as it feels?

They're my current obsession...so diverse and weird and wild and hardly how they're characterized by pretty much everyone, even other nature loving folks...the quantity of wasp loving folks is one of my fav things about this platform

Your photos, particularly your adorable wasp ones, are like...the best thing for my brain right now ❤️

In a comic strip panel, person in a red shirt walks through a sunlit forest. The text says "Sometimes I go looking for a tiny part of the universe." "This part only takes up as much space as: half an apple, a salt shaker, or 2 ping pong balls." Each of these items is shown. Galaxies and stars swirl as the text says "But somehow, in an unfathomably huge universe," and then there's a complex mess of forest leaves, with one tiny Wilson's warbler in one corner, and the text says "this one tiny part" There's a close up of the warbler, blazing yellow against a sparkly yellow background, and the text says "can fill up my whole heart."

Tiny part.

Im always cycling through star trek series....but whenever I'm watching not-ds9 I'm like...I could really go for some ds9.

We need more puppet PSAs in the world

I'm worried that people are so burnt out on bad faith interactions with organizations/companies that in the rare instance of a good faith mistake (which I do think this is), they just don't believe it.

Too much work went into iNat to let this fuck-up ruin it.

I think it was made with good intentions. There's more to reversing this kind of decision than 24hrs or weeks can deliver. I hope they don't make it worse before they have a chance to make it better.

It's a tenuous hope.

(2/3) In the meantime, we don't want to lose track of any of the really valuable feedback coming in. If you have significant or longer feedback, suggestions, or ideas you’re willing to give us to inform the development of the project, please use this form: inaturalist.typeform.com/to/hCrKAbW0

Even if iNat seems dispensable to you due to your abundance of local resources, it's the only thing people like me have.

They're now taking feedback from the community so this is our chance to steer them in a better direction.

I don't want the platform to die, I want it to do better.

user backlash works

so yeah, keep telling iNat what you think of their genAI announcement...

if you're an iNat user, here's a forum thread for you to voice your opinion in bsky.app/profile/crow...

What are you working on this weekend?!

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Please don't do this. I can't see you recovering from this if you dont back out of it soon. Your best contributors are gonna walk out. Delete their data. Your whole platform will be functionally useless.

I expect the other horrible things I wake up to. This was a surprise. A heartbreaking one.

Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly milkweed. Such a cheerful little plant- and with so many natives over 4-6’ feet tall, it’s nice to have a shorty in the mix for garden edges. #nativeplants #maryland