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Brian Wolven

@brianwolven.bsky.social
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Coulrophobic Hydra tamer. Terrified of dyslexic zombies. Friend to arachnids. All of my puns are 100% organically groan. //|\oOOo/|\\ wolven.us orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-2332

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 21h
anyone else feel like this
A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 21h
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I return to Paris, I notice they've done more to reclaim streets from drivers and cars, including removing on-street parking, protecting cyclists from drivers, and prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists in shared spaces. Other cities can learn a lot from Paris.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DumbSchmitt Schmitt-for-Brains SchmittHead
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2026
Wait - are you telling me that the self-proclaimed saviours of humanity that lead the tech-bro giant orgs, all got together with the guy who has made the world an incredibly worse place (by any measure) to decide on the guardrails of what could be the most powerful/dangerous tech to emerge in years?
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me
A black lemur in a leafy tree with its mouth open as if singing, beside an inset photo of Pavarotti striking a similar pose. Text reads: “New research shows lemurs use operatic techniques when they sing, to reach high notes.” Classic FM.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s recycling night, but Sir Timiny of Cricket has asked that we refrain from adding his new domicile to this week’s bin.
A dark brown and tan tabby cat sits in a cardboard box, half wrapped in a piece of plain brown paper. He stares up toward the camera, eyes pleading.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.
From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To get to the outer solar system, Juice needs an assist from Earth’s gravity. It’s passing over the planet on Monday before it gets flung out to Jupiter—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way.
scientificamerican.com
Jupiter-bound spacecraft Juice to fly by Earth Monday
To get to the outer solar system, the Juice spacecraft needs an assist from Earth’s gravity—and it’s going to be taking pictures along the way
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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Alex Rimberg @ajrimberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Misty morning pond. Norwich VT, September 2026 #ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Scape #Landscape #Stunday
This image shows a view of a still, reflective pond on a misty morning seen from behind a set of tall green bullrushes.  The eye is captured by a central rush, rising from the lower right corner, whose tip ends in a brownish-orange seed head at nearly the center of the image.  This rush draws the eye to the far left shore of the pond, where another set of rushes and bushes are reflected in the nearly mirror-like surface of the pond.   Behind the central rush, other slightly more distant rushes rise from left to right, framing a tree on the right shore of the pond, and its reflection in the water.  The image is finished by the appearance of part of a willow on the left border of the frame, and more distant trees behind the pond that gradually vanish in the mist.


Nikon Z8 + Nikkor Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S @ 14mm, ISO 1250, 1/500, f/9.0
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve got a soft spot for Europa Clipper, but I have to admit that JuIcE is a catchier name.
xkcd.com
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/09/2026
Almost all of Meta's PR about Muse was about how careful they had been to set it up not to do things like this, how they delayed the launch by months to carefully design it so it could be trusted. And then...
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hard to ignor’easter 🌊
Satellite photograph of the east coast of the US, currently dominated by the huge white swirl of clouds marking the “nor’easter” storm heading up the coast.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't recall _ever_ having an encounter with these pests (oak leaf itch mite) until just a few years ago here in central Maryland. Apparently there must be a bumper crop of them this year, as I've now had numerous VERY annoying bites from these critters (we have a large oak tree right out front).
en.wikipedia.org
Pyemotes herfsi - Wikipedia
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This, among so many other things, _this_:
daringfireball.net
I Was Not Blown Away by Eli Tan’s ‘I Was Blown Away’ Review of Meta Muse
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/meta-muse-ai-agent.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.Wram.T8Ww85vXKKYU
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The print version of The Onion is priceless.
Photo of a printed newspaper that reads “Lizard Would Give Anything To Have Nipples”
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Listen, I'm just saying: a) @marynmck.bsky.social is a treasure b) if you like this kinda thing, I really really hope you'll read BLACK RIVER ORCHARD, because it literally features apple detectives hunting rare apples
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ibis' out for a walk with pizza.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Statement from @murray.senate.gov and the Senate Appropriations committee about Vought takeover plan. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
appropriations.senate.gov
Senator Murray on Trump’s Latest Plan to Politicize Lifesaving NIH Research | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And that, as they say, is the ball game. 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! 🔭🧪🎢 What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧵 www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...
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First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Did reasonably well on this round. 👍
SMUSH game scorecard for Sep 20, 2026

1174 points

PERFECT 100 • 4-day streak

hankgreen.com/smush
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🕸️ @holojester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
fuck you but tell the horse you rode in on that it was really nice to see him again
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Spooky Season from the Denton Pumpkin Patch. The seven foreground pumpkins are F1s - maybe? But whatever ~ they grew from the 2025 Compost Pile.
Me, sitting on my front porch step, surrounded by a variety of pumpkins and flowers. There is probably about 100 pumpkins of different sizes and colors. Next to me are seven pumpkins that I grew in my garden. I am wearing black jeans, a brown paisley shirt, and and barefoot. I am drinking a glass of wine.
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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I may have shared this before somewhere, but here’s some katydid faces from Costa Rica, a land of many fine bugs
A collage of nine colorful katydid faces. Most have tall, rectangular heads large eyes of variable color, green, red, yellow, white, bright blue. Most have “staring” pseudopupils, a trick of the light and human facial recognition. On several, the three simple eyes are quite plainly seen, two between the antennae and one below those. Most are green, but some are brown and one has a bright blue face. Several are ornamented with a “forehead” horn or crown of spikes.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For crying out loud, we can’t even eat hand soap safely anymore in this country.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bad news for people who hate biodiversity and education, I am feeling inspired. Buy an advent calendar so I have funding to do biodiversity education projects when I get home. Scratch off a shell a day for facts about snails 😎 SquidFacts.net
Snail facts advent calendar with 4 shelled snails and 2 sea slugs and 1 sea angel and a banana slug with a bunch of scratch able shells
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some nice images here 🤩🪐🌌
bbc.com
Nebula image wins Royal Observatory Greenwich competition
Ali Alobaidly is named Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his image of the Shark Nebula.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Found a wee friend on the food scrap/compost bin when o fetched it in from the curb. I’m not sure who was looking harder at whom. //|\oOOo/|\\
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i thought macklemore’s costume in 2014 was offensive and gross *and* i’m moved by his activism on behalf of palestinians and the way he’s using his platform to help those who are living/honor those who were slaughtered. for me, both of these things can be true.
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump: “We are winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it. People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President, we’re winning too much. We can’t take it anymore. And I say, no, no, you’re going to win again. You’re going to win big. You’re going to win bigger than ever.”
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BRB, flying to Moon…
A crescent moon is visible in the early evening sky. A jet is approaching from lower left, while higher up a faint contrail aims directly for the illuminated crescent.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As a Jewish person who is absolutely horrified by the ongoing genocide, I have found instances of antisemitic behavior among people who are putting themselves forward in the pro Palestine space to be one of the most difficult and painful parts of this whole conversation
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 14/09/2026
Really cool seeing other interpretations of the same JWST image. Here's mine. Tarantula Nebula 30x37" 76x94cm Oil on Canvas 2023
Abstract space scape of a nebula with hundreds of stars.
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ummm, @lukemeister.bsky.social 🤔 🥴
Snack display at the grocery store that says

LIVE BETTER. EAT BOULDER.
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So this photo contains zero birds, but in my defence, we were sitting outside waiting for birds. But the sun was almost setting and the backlit Snapdragons stole the show!
A backlit  snapdragon flower that is partially opened. The background is dark green with a round sun like highlight in the top right corner. It’s actually an out of focus highlight that appears large because it’s a telephoto lens. The pink snapdragon flower is rim lit but has some light bouncing back to light the flower. 
For those interested, the lens is a 400mm and required 5 frames focused on slightly different  parts of the flower to be stacked together so the entire flower was sharp .
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sure seems like we should revisit that whole "lying president tried to have his goons put an Olympic athlete in prison for his own incompetence" thing
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Catherine Gulsvig @crgulsvig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's that time again! Time to play "Moth, Or Sheepdog?" (Or Yeti, or Random Cuddly Toy ... needs more thought before I trademark this one 🤣) #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #MothsAreAmazing
Close-up of very fuzzy Grey-and-white moth on the back of a faded green-stained chair.  The moth has fur-like material popping out in a number of unlikely places.
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A perfect capture of a raven and the moon by British Columbia photographer Shelley Lewis. #Canada Goodnight
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So I was in NYC on 9/11 and my then future husband was in Chicago sleeping through it because 9/11 is his birthday and he’d had an epic bday night out the night before
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