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Jake Withee

@witheelabs.bsky.social

Former bee biologist. Former-er plant geneticist. Intermittent videographer. Occasional musician. All-the-time dorky science educator, plus spooky podcaster at https://superduperstitious.com

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The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House
YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts The Tiny Scorpions* In Your House

My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these liโ€™l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

07.10.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT TO TRY THIS

07.10.2025 03:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Poster taped to the back of a street sign featuring several small photos of a black cat, with one large photo in the center depicting the cat in a jaunty liโ€™l party hat. The posterโ€™s text reads:

FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS: WEโ€™RE CELEBRATING DORIANโ€™S FIRST ANNUAL

*BIRTHDAY*

fun games for all, tree climbing, animal tracking & orientation skills, obstacle course, mice, butterflies, raw liver, nap area

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Bring three (3) gifts

PLEASE BE PARTICULARLY NICE TO HIM THIS WEEK IF YOU SEE HIM

No guitar music, *please*!

For more information please read again

Poster taped to the back of a street sign featuring several small photos of a black cat, with one large photo in the center depicting the cat in a jaunty liโ€™l party hat. The posterโ€™s text reads: FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS: WEโ€™RE CELEBRATING DORIANโ€™S FIRST ANNUAL *BIRTHDAY* fun games for all, tree climbing, animal tracking & orientation skills, obstacle course, mice, butterflies, raw liver, nap area ALL ARE WELCOME! Bring three (3) gifts PLEASE BE PARTICULARLY NICE TO HIM THIS WEEK IF YOU SEE HIM No guitar music, *please*! For more information please read again

Perhaps a friend of this cat whose birthday was advertised in Lowry Hill a few weeks back?

03.10.2025 03:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@danielobrien.bsky.social I meant to make this updated GIF ages ago. Congrats on all the congratulatable stuff!

24.09.2025 02:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

18.09.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4658    ๐Ÿ” 1467    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 52

DAMMIT CHANDA

05.09.2025 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

03.09.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8768    ๐Ÿ” 3007    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 124
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.

Millions of people with jobsโ€”even multiple jobsโ€”aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

01.09.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4190    ๐Ÿ” 1968    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 85    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84

Trying hard to remember all the philosophy faculty to work out who it wasโ€ฆ

30.08.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

16.08.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3316    ๐Ÿ” 1134    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

And Iโ€™ve proudly been approximately 15% Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar by bodyweight for about 15 years now ๐Ÿ˜

24.07.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wrote a script for an educational video about hornbills, a family of birds that often have a large growth on the top of their beaks, and which often nest by walling the female up inside a hollow tree.

They actually let me include โ€œMore like *Casque* of Amontillado amirite??โ€ in the final draft.

14.07.2025 02:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How Naked Mole-rats Defy Aging and Cancer
YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts How Naked Mole-rats Defy Aging and Cancer

I learned so much about these weird little dudes editing the script for this video, written by the excellent @witheelabs.bsky.social! ๐Ÿงช #scicomm

07.07.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

01.07.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3400    ๐Ÿ” 1232    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 116

The thing about Senators, and Representatives, and Justices, and many, many politicians, and pundits, too, is that they never have to live in the worlds their actions create. They don't even know anyone who does.

01.07.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Paging @formalsorcery.bsky.social

27.06.2025 03:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

22.06.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1980    ๐Ÿ” 465    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
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BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

It does not seem like a super tenable state of affairs that people are disguising themselves as cops to commit political assassinations and simultaneously if you ask "real" law enforcement agent for identification/authority they wrestle you to the ground and arrest you.

www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

17.06.2025 16:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

so far this week:

DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps

Opposition leaders detained illegally

Opposition leaders indicted

Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state

military parade with tanks through US capital

Red line here yet?

14.06.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1136    ๐Ÿ” 343    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

No one is in danger from undocumented immigrants. EVERYONE is endangered by the fascist Right in this country and that means the GOP.

14.06.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2423    ๐Ÿ” 658    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

10.06.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2758    ๐Ÿ” 1127    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 175    ๐Ÿ“Œ 253
Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg

Thiago Avila

Thiago Avila

Madleen update:

Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila arrived at Ashdod port, after being kidnapped by Israel along with 10 activists including MEP Rima Hassan.

09.06.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 590    ๐Ÿ” 214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

09.06.2025 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5678    ๐Ÿ” 1352    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 97    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

there are only two things that make us cities unsafe and difficult to live in: 1) cars; and 2) cops

both of which are structural pathologies forced upon cosmopolitan civilization by encircling enclaves of suburban barbarians

09.06.2025 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 291    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

The fact is that liberals don't want protests that work; they want protests that look nice. And the aestheticization of politics is the crucible of fascism

08.06.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 280    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Please please please keep talking about Greta and the Madleen

Israel is threatening to bomb their aid ship if they donโ€™t turn around

08.06.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 148    ๐Ÿ” 104    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

MPD isn't supposed to be helping. This is in direct contradiction to what O'Hara pledged in January: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...

03.06.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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