Guy wearing an insect camera trap that says ask me about the open source mothbox

If you are curious about the Mothbox, I'm around #entsoc2025 talking about #openscience hardware!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

(Published 2019)

"ProPublica reported that more than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including 20 children," - not that it's ok when they do any of this to non-citizens, either.

Happy 50th anniversary to Nashville, truly a wonderful movie.

@andertoon.bsky.social

The people at the doctor's office weren't nearly weirded out enough by this

Incredible shot.

Quality joke.

people in a jitsi call with sloths

Our meeting with the Open Science Shop's group of manufacturers went even better when @wellreadpanda.bsky.social shows up with sloth friends.

I couldn't decide which video was better/worse

Good morning to all non-fascists from this Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

Meme image from the movie Mean Girls showing a blonde teen girl saying, “So you agree Tylenol does not cause autism.”

Headline: US health chief (🧠🪱) says there is not enough data to show Tylenol causes autism

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Um, yeah. We know.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Diy glowy light hooked up to battery

We now have full documentation up for if you just want to make your self a super duper inexpensive Moth Light!

Build your own #opensource Mothbeam!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/docs...

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A cross stitch that says “LET’S DESTROY ICE!” featuring a femme person with a magnifying glass melting a large cube of ice

My latest #crossstitch is done!

The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.”

“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.

💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown?

This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress.

The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats.

apnews.com/article/snap...

Great earrings!

Tapirs are the strangest animals, not least in the sounds they make (sound on)

Lovely!

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

A nationwide search for "Observe And Report-type dudes." A whole new parallel armed force made up of guys who have described themselves as "a pretty serious DUI guy" in conversation. A qualification exam where the only task is getting upset and driving your truck into another truck. A new age.

title card saying sharing berries and tools. creating gift economies with inspiration from open source movements and Robin Wall Kimmerer

I wrote a little comic about #opensource hardware and serviceberry foraging!

I'll post all the panels here, but you can also read the whole thing on @archive.org :
dinalab.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

I think the commenter is referring to the Guardian running too many TERFy opinion pieces and news while not covering pro-trans news or op-eds

Merlin entry for Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant, a tiny greenish bird.

I have a soft spot for the tyrants and tyrannulets.

I think podcasts like The Flophouse and How Did This Get Made probably qualify! Super fun listens.