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Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano

Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection

Odilon Redon, Landscape with Rocks, near Royan, c. 1875
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135115

City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals

Sometimes you see a story and you know exactly who else needs to see it. Hey @timcushing.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...

Welcome back to #fossilfriday

Here is the crinoid Arthroacantha carpenteri with a Platycerid snail attached. These snails are Coprophagous which means they ate fecal matter. The snail would attached to the anal chimney of the crinoid and would feed on the waste.

Arkona Shale
Mid Devonian
Ontario

Donald loves Zohran

the son he always wanted

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

I'm about 70% through it, and Grossman's wonderful writing is the only thing that has made reading about such horrible things tolerable right now.

Wikipedia: Lia Purcell Smith (March 7, 2004 - October 18, 2025) was an American student at Middlebury College who died by suicide on October 18, 2025, at the age of 21. She was reported missing by her father on October 19, 2025, and her body was found by the Vermont State Police near Middlebury College's organic farm in Cornwall, Vermont, on October 24, 2025. Smith had been a member of the Middlebury Panthers women's swimming and diving team but left the team in 2023.

middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete

you will not hear her name once on cable tv

don’t let them erase her

#TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

Two books are propped upright against a wooden cabinet, titled "The Cicadas of North America" and "The Social Wasps of North America". Both books show many colorful examples of the respective insects on their covers. Various holiday ribbons, garlands, and lights are strewn about the edges and foreground of the photo, which I shamelessly pilfered from my mom's attic. The text at the top reads "FREE SHIPPING ON ALL QUALIFIED ORDERS".

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Ramisyllis, a polychaete worm that has a branching body form (and thus multiple butts). Watercolour illustration by me.

Illustration of an Exogone species a tiny (usually <0.5cm) polychaete worm. It reproduces by attaching its eggs to the side if its body, two per segment, and then the young develop from there and stay attached to the parent. No larval stage, just mini worms growing from mummy's feet. Illustration from an 19th century paper/book by Ørstedt. See https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Syllidae_Externe-Gestation.jpg

Polychaetes do well in the weirdo department. Behold Ramisyllis, living in the labyrinth of sponge channels and consequently having adopted a branching body form. Or Exogone, who grows its babies from its feet. Because why not.

Burn it all down

Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.

Have a book recommendation on the topic?

Ira Berlin noted that in the lower South, the chaos led to effectively the greatest emancipation event before the Civil War. Georgia’s enslaved population fell by *two-thirds* during the Revolution as the enslaved liberated themselves in the absence of strong authority holding them down. But. (1)

No

Me chilling, locked in with my 50 year mortgage and 6 figure student debt that I took on for a job that requires a masters degree but pays 40k.

a small fish of the family percidae, with a snub nose, and multicolored scales, primarily brown or whiteish, with lines of red scales near its belly, splotches of dark brown scales along its dorsal area and where the lateral line would be (if darters had lateral lines), and a tinge of turqouise on its fins. Dorsal fins are primarily red.

via @biologicaldiversity.org, "Petition Seeks Endangered Species Protection for Imperiled Alabama Fish" biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

In what I can only describe as the most-on-the-nose thing I've encountered in my career, nameless, faceless AI-slop enablers want to build a 1,200 MW data center that will, according to a Yale biologist, "nuke" the habitat of a tiny beautiful fish found only in Jefferson County, Alabama.

I got it... I actually got it... Interstellar comet 3i, imaged from the middle of light-polluted Kendal, at 6am this morning, using my Seestar S50... This comet was already billions of years old before our Sun was even *born*... Very chuffed with this!

JD Vance's steady assertion of hostile claims against Greenland, which rarely ever rate a mention in US newspapers, are front page news across northern Europe.

Those lichens!!!

Burn it all down

"The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions. When I was a boy, My belly was my sun-dial; one more sure, Truer, and more exact than any of them. This Dial told me when 'twas proper time To go to dinner, when I had aught to eat. But now-a-days, why, even when I have, I can't fall-to, unless the sun give leave. The town's so full of these confounded dials, The greatest part of its inhabitants, Shrunk up with hunger, creep along the streets."

Maccius Plautus (250-184 BCE) bitching about the inventor of the sundial feels *extremely* relatable to me in this year 2025

The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.

we need a department of kerning

The point of this isn't that it Republicans are stupid ha ha look at what they say about advil.

It is that Republicans view suffering as a positive, and so they want to ban anything that alleviates suffering, especially things that alleviate suffering in people they hate, like women.

See Jerry Falwell Jr's name mentioned?

Pleiades: The “Seven Sisters” Just Found Thousands of Long-Lost Siblings 🔭🧪

uncnews.unc.edu/2025/11/12/t...

This person was the President of Harvard University, the US Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the National Economic Council of the United States.

hung out with some beetle people, mentioned fairy shrimp, and they mentioned a specialist ground beetle which is a fairy shrimp predator. how can you know that much of the story and then not know the best part, which is that the beetles only hunt at night because the shrimp GLOW IN THE DARK

Behold, a 3D rotating image of a probable dinosaur regurgitalite (fossil vomit) that also contains the type specimen of a newly described Cretaceous pterosaur from Brazil, Bakiribu waridza! Muito obrigado e parabéns, Prof. @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colegas. 🧪🪨🦖🤮