Alice Porter

I love nerds*

*Complimentary

Dispose of it carefully-the little furry bits are glochids, which have barbed hooks on them and are horrible when they get stuck in your skin!
Most people kill houseplants by loving them too much-it's tricky to get the watering right

Serious side note; cats that get 'fractious' at the vet can often be prescribed gabapentin to help them relax-makes them nice and high and easily handled

SE Asia is a bit of a hotspot for 'flying' (gliding) creatures-frogs, snakes (eg Chrysopelea sp.), lizards (eg Draco & Ptychozoon sp), mammals (eg Colugo). It's a bit weird, presumably the structure of the rainforest there has spurred it

It's irritating how utterly bleeding obvious it was at the time of privatisation that it could only ever erode universal service in one way or another, and yet here we are, 13 years down the line, left dealing with the consequences of the bleeding obvious...

My PE teacher never did forgive me for being appalling at netball (& also not caring that I was appalling) because I was among the tallest* of the year 7 girls, so that meant I ought to be good???

*I'm 5'5, I just got there early

A small (thumb-sized) pink-striped ceramic worm wearing a blue-striped party hat. He has a small horizontal mouth and bulbous eyes pointing in slightly different directions, giving him a gormless, slightly shocked, expression

My sisters bought me a party worm from HattieShake and I love him so much 😭😭😭

Screenshot of Matt Goodwin's Wikipedia page showing that his wife has, in fact, recently divorced him

Just googled and 😂😂😂😂😂

It's always women's fault, isn't it?
I hope his wife divorces him and realises how much better life is without a man like him

The government has discovered regulating social media is Hard (it's good at passing Tough Laws and then useless at enforcing them), so it's now going for the much easier job of just restricting the freedom of teenagers.

Oh for absolute sputs sake

I wonder when we'll be ready to talk about how schools are now full of gameified dopamine slot machine apps for learning times tables, science, even reading itself, that are priming an entire generation for gambling and gaming addiction.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

The 12% of the Greens who 'Don't know' feels a bit 😬

We had some nasty potholes filled a couple of weeks ago...they're now about as bad again. There's potholes I drive around every day that have been filled 3 times in 3 years & they just keep coming back. It's just beyond us now, as a country. We can't build anything, maintain anything or fix anything

This is the best Valentines thread ever

Dart frogs are whole niche hobby within herpetoculture (reptile & amphibian keeping). Some hobbyists create incredibly beautiful mini-rainforests in terraria, with rare plants, and automated systems for misting etc

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and four European allies say Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Fun (sort of) fact for those reading this who don't know-dart frogs in captivity stop producing their toxins due to their different diet (millions of fruit flies). So synthesis of epibatidine does seem far more likely

Yup. He's centering himself, attempting to manipulate the situation through a massive public display of 'emotion' (see also on-stage proposals)

Lol you did, I didn't spot it had alt-text, I was too distracted by the nose-beak (noseak? Bose?)

The US administration’s insanity on vaccines continues to have ramifications across the world – it is not that America will miss out on these potential new vaccines. It is that they simply won’t happen at all. (Or at least they’ll be indefinitely delayed.)

Text from my GP asking me to book an appointment. What for? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
Love not being able to prepare for interactions with healthcare professionals, not the good sort of surprise

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's shitty AI!

A juvenile Brachypelma boehmei drinking from a forest green coloured plastic lid. B boehmei have bright orange legs, with the most distal & proximal segments being black. Their bodies are black, with long pale setae (hairs) on the abdomen

Untethered ones do make better water dishes for tarantulas, but I appreciate that is a niche requirement

(late) happy birthday!
I think birthdays feeling a bit weird/unpleasant is quite normal, at least I hope it is 😬
I hope you had a good day/not entirely shit day x

Yeah, no way a capybara would write that. Now a mara, on the other hand...

1945?

Wtf is going on today. Trump getting a coal trophy, the US border police accidentally-on-purpose firing a plane-killing laser at a children's party balloon and now this is also, apparently, not satire. I feel like I'm losing my grip on reality

Botulism, it's your time to shine