Otter in a Hoomyn Suit

YouTube video by TheEarthMaster 4.3 Earthquake Southern California with EQ Swarm. Hundreds of aftershock from 8.8 Russia quake.

Pacific Rim Friends: For in-depth Earthquake news, this channel is one of my favourites. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUk...

YouTube video by Micro SH*TFLATION

on Sh*tflation:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2JoW...

YouTube video by Vanessa Wingårdh ChatGPT Religion: The Disturbing AI Cult

oh FFS: m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfK6...

Photographer Wang Shuangquan

Ever have the feeling you're being watched? (1962 photo from Taiwan, of a cluster of Optometrist offices)

YouTube video by KNOWER MUSIC Trust The Light - KNOWER

Even in 95F heat, this song gives me chills. So stunning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwE3...

Thank you for prompting me to look up Bangiomorpha pubescens, I was previously unaware that it is the earliest known sexually reproducing organism (from 1 billion years ago...)

Bangiomorpha - Wikipedia

Today I learned that the earliest known sexual organism, from 1 billion years ago, was a red alga, with the scientific name... Bangiomorpha pubescens.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangiom...

Cool!

I much prefer capturing phantastical images from Reality as opposed to using Generative AI. In this case, a fiery and bossy red-haired Sky-Siren shrieks above the South Atlantic between Antarctica and me. The beach was evidently sculpted and colored by the French Surrealist Yves Tanguy.

Fascinating! Terrestrial equivalent of marine algae -> coccolithophores?

“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” “Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s…

“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. [and] The machine world reciprocates man’s love...” – Marshal McLuhan (1964) "Understanding Media", p. 46

mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/m...

Turtles all the way down - Wikipedia

An exceedingly clever quasi-homonymic wordplay:

"Gödels all the way down"

(to describe the likelihood that one can never eliminate all unprovable true statements in an axiomatic system)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles...

Digital versus Analog / Summation versus Integration / imagery for Math education... "summed up" as it were (I couldn't resist).

Thank you! Yes indeed, I was hoping you could share this great opportunity to your community of practicing entomologists.

@bugeric.bsky.social !

Compared to a lot of places I've been in these years of Insect Apocalypse, that seems an almost healthy-quantity of insects in the glue-trap.

An LLM having a writer's block panic-attack core-dump... best example I've seen yet:

I greatlly admire TheForestJar's philosophical mini-videos. www.instagram.com/reel/DLDD_jX...

Technically speaking, Arthropleura (this 10 foot long Millipede from the Carboniferous) is not an ancestor of hoomyns, but I find this meme amusing anyway.

I'm not a believer in Astrology but... I think Mercury must be in Gatorade. Only possible explanation for current events...

A very coincidental (and likely utterly meaningless) "pattern" I just "discovered". There are currently:
ca. 2.5 x 10^5 distinct English words:
ca. 2.3 x 10^6 named biological species
ca. 2.5 x 10^7 place names on Earth in largest registry
ca. 2.2 x 10^8 unique Chemical Names

Yes indeed! (though, more properly, the "state most *disproporionate* injuries").

w/r/t "Florida Man" comment, it was made partly in jest. There are other factors having to do with FL laws about pre-trial release of still-speculative info about cases for example.

@pecanjim.bsky.social might find this line of inquiry of interest

Fascinating. I note with special interest "Head Injury" as plausible causal explanation for the mysterious "Florida Man" phenomenon.

Geographical clustering of "Suffocation" in High Desert biogeophysical region is also thought-provoking.

A red and white chessboard with pieces in play, but the regular 8x8 grid has been highly distorted into highly Irregular curvilinear quadrilaterals.

As my Poppa always said, "Finding that the field of play has been distorted can be hopelessly confounding, even if the rules of the game have not changed".

(and, yes: planning moves on this geometrically altered 8x8 matrix would be exhausting...)

Update: I'm glad to report that I saw a bunch of damselflies this afternoon...

A Green Darner dragonfly (Anax junius) resting on the hand of a gently smiling young woman.

Thank you, and shared on FB etc. I've been bemoaning insect population collapse for decades and it hit me especially viscerally this summer: I live in a place nicknamed "Dragonfly Meadows", but this summer... I've only seen ONE Dragonfly in what seems an otherwise ideal 3-pond habitat. Tragic.

Please help this survey effort.