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Happy Invertefest to all those who celebrate

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they’re here! it’s them! the

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Encountered this perfect little creature at the neighborhood cleanup this morning.

Can you believe a telephone took this picture? a telephone!! The future has been mostly so-so, but this part rocks.

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After seeing a shit ton of AI art and scraper accounts across social media this week, I'm balancing that shit out.

Enjoy the yellowjacket, taken in the real world, photographed by me. Sigh.

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When night falls, shit on the reef gets weird.

Parrotfish, a decidedly diurnal fish, gotta shut it all down, but they don't want predators to sniff em while they're snoozing. So what do they do? They cover themselves in a big ol' ball of snot so they're harder to sniff out.

P.S. I'm teaching a class starting April 30th about nocturnal animals, it's 4 weeks and just for fun and we're definitely going to talk about parrotfish snot bubbles, and bats who babysit for each other, and bats who have best friends, and how some fungi lasso nematodes and all sorts of stuff. Check it out

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Tried drawing a Sepioteuthis last night and despite the 2 attempts, both ended up looking like truck nuts to me. There are other issues with proportion and all that, but whatever, it's practice. They really do look bulby on the bottom like that sometimes.

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Need suggestions for climate change comedy

Along with others, I'm organizing our neighborhood's earth day event. As part of it, we're going to have a "climate change comedy" room where we loop short videos for people to pop into. I'm looking for suggestions on comedic shorts on climate change! So far the list...

1. You Expect Me To Believe That?!?

2. Extinction

I'm looking through videos now... Any suggestions?! They do, unfortunately, need to be kid-friendly because there will be kids at this event.

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Look you thought YOU were having a bad Monday, but please get some perspective. In all likelihood nobody rolled a gigantic orb of shit over your body, compressing you stinkily into the dirt.

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If you haven’t already heard about it you should check out howiethecrab on Instagram.

Pet crab named Howie who seems to live in crab luxury, she wear adorable hats and it elderly now so whenever she’s going into a molt it gets pretty tense.

Can i handle the stress???? I'm not sure!

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This fuckin rules

The crab is a decorator because they often stick seaweed/sponges/etc onto their shells to help them camouflage. Crab fashion.

Source details and larger version.

If you’re in a pinch, here’s a collection of vintage crabs.

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“I know what I’ll do”, this moth said. “I’ll wear this bark as a hat, and then no one will know I’m a moth.”

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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

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What does it say about me that I saw him and felt a little jealous?

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I made orbstructrions for making PollinatORBS (née seed bomb, but everything's so violent in the world, I didn't want the CHILDREN to see the word bomb. Or me. I don't want to see the word bomb if I don't have to. I am 35.)

Will the teachers I email this to use this worksheet? Maaaan who knows. Does the pollinatORB I drew kinda look like a turd thats being rolled by a dungbeetle? YEAH A LITTLE. But. Whatever kids. We're going with it.

Help a little bug near you. Look up native plants in your area. Plant a couple of em. Whisper to the first bug you see that you're happy to see them.

You can download the instructions here.

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Ummmmmm, yes, hi, Hornbill at the Philly Zoo has a little kitty cat toy and wants to show it to you.

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It’s absolutely a reef squid, good work squid goals!

i am violently clear [emphasis on the violent]