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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Photos from the Houston Arboretum, was fun to spot a green tree frog

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've been busy, haven't been able to get into the wild much lately but I did got to a local pond for a few minutes. Got a snap of a pair of Black Saddlebags in tandem. Got some eye lens detail on some Halloween Skimmer males and a Blue Dasher.

Halloween Skimmer male who's seen some action

Halloween Skimmer male close-up with eye lens detail

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Birds from this morning: Green Heron, Barn Swallows, YCNH

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I spotted a nice butterfly garden near the office at work so I went to check it out. I found a lot of butterflies. The highlight was this Lyside Sulphur. Amazing color like a day-glo butterfly.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Text describing images from alt text is used by AI companies to train models, saying “nope” to that fact is willful ignorance. And those companies promote using alt text with bots. It’s still potentially beneficial to the visually impaired, but you should be aware that the reality is more nuanced.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

FWIW, re #1, use your judgment. Using alt text is adding image classifications, exactly what content scrapers want most, so you are doing their work for free and they use it which is why they use bots proclaiming how liberating/virtuous alt text is. Think about whether it’s adding real value.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Found a Gulf Coast Toad out there this evening, always a pleasure to see

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Red-shouldered hawk taking off

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great Horned Owlets seen at Hornsby Bend recently.

A pair of Great Horned Owlets, one offering a menacing looking stare.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Found a Halloween Pennant this morning, we're getting a lot more Odonate diversity emerging now.

A nice detailed photo of a brown and yellow striped dragonfly with a mostly red eye that fades to blue on the underside and a largely yellow abdomen with thin dark brown stripes.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

THIS MORNING I WAS BLESSED BY THE CAMPUS FOXES!! #DoNotFeed #NoTouching #VaccinateYourPets

Grey Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, slinking along the shrubbery of Life Sciences A at Arizona State University

Grey Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, pausing in the shrubbery of Life Sciences A, looking toward photographer with AN ADORABLE FOX FACE at Arizona State University

Grey Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, pausing in the succulents of Life Sciences C, with AN ADORABLE FOX FACE at Arizona State University

Grey Fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, looking camera front with AN ADORABLE FOX FACE at Arizona State University #NoBoopingTeensyFoxSnoot

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Good morning! 🪶

Burrowing owl standing next to a sugar beet field.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Thanks! I had been getting out every weekend for a long stretch last year, this year's been hard with my house in remodeling, but I was delighted to get out in the wild again. Loved seeing the RWBBs dogfighting, there were tons of wildflowers out, lovely way to spend a few hours.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There were a lot of wildflowers around, with a bunch of Antelope-horn Milkweed. I found milkweed bugs (lovely to see), but also found this beast, Apiomerus spissipes, an assassin bug that specializes on bees. When I first spotted them they were trying to snag a honeybee.

Photo of an assassin bug with red-brown and black wings over a wide black and yellow striped abdomen.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

RWBB battle, Northern Cardinal

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Photos from birding out in Georgetown, TX today #nature #birding #birds #lepidoptera

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

A “BirdCast” map of the USA reads:

Night of April 13, 2025
129 million birds predicted
Generated 13 Apr 2025 at 06:00 UTC (13 Apr at 02:00 ET)
Bird migration forecast

The map colors show the highest intensity in the southern US, spreading northward and gradually fading in intensity in that direction.

Gif of radar map. A 24-hour national mosaic animation of radar imagery featuring large numbers of birds taking flight. Circular blue and green features represent bird migration; precipitation appears as irregular bands. (Base reflectivity radar imagery from October 16th-17th, 2017, 12pm-12pm EST.)

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I found a Gulf Coast Toad this evening.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Moon Jelly graphite painting

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

If you ever thought “man it’d be cool to have an orchid in a greenhouse,” you are correct.

Photo credit of pink orchid flowers in a greenhouse

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Found a white-lined sphinx moth this morning. Lovely moths, always a delight to find.

Photo of a large brown delta shaped moth with light tan striping

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Found an emerald moth by the lamps last night. Love finding my green moth pals.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

More photos from this morning. The white-throated sparrow was fun to see, we saw tons of cedar waxwings, and watched a downy woodpecker drumming away for a while.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Birding this morning was lovely, especially cool to spot the lark sparrow and see so many bluebirds.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We were out at Lost Pines this morning, lovely area. Mostly saw common birds but they're good birds. Northern mockingbird, mourning dove, northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Found a salt marsh moth, they are so stunning.

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March Mammal Madness @mmmletsgo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The #2025MMM Bracket is LIVE!! We have a Player Portal for EVERYONE! We have a Learner Portal w/ pages for College, High School, Middle School, & K-5 students! We have an Educators Portal with those sweet sweet curricula materials! youtu.be/1QKQN1YC6zw?... libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

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March Mammal Madness 2025 Epic Trailer

YouTube video by Katie Hinde

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Nice morning birding out there, lots of songbirds singing, tons of ring-necked ducks on the middle pond, I watched a red-bellied woodpecker pecking and calling, and found a few field sparrows among other sparrows.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Common yellowthroat amid ice plant

A common yellowthroat bird standing on ice plant with purple-ish blooming ice plant behind.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Birding Crystal Cove State Park was really great

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Birding the suburbs of Laguna Beach this morning I found a lot of fun species. Especially cool to spot a Townsend's warbler, and the Swinhoe's white-eye was neat too.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Found a nice nudibranch at the tide pools yesterday

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Birding this morning was lovely, always good to get out there. Happy we still have our winter ducks around.

Northern cardinal reaching down for a berry

A nicely detailed photo of an Eastern Phoebe.

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Call Congress: www.congress.gov/contact-us Call your State Governor & Attorney Generals (they are leading a lot of the legal challenges to these Executive Orders) And get embedded in your communities- church events, neighborhood gatherings and talk with your neighbors in REAL, sustaining ways.

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a woman with her eyes closed and the words members of congress behind her

Alt: a woman says "Members of Congress must act now."

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is a tetradrachm from Athens issued 420 BC. When this was issued Socrates is in the agora, Plato is still a kid, Aristophanes is writing comedies, Thucydides is collecting notes for a history, the Erechtheion on the acropolis is being built, Euripides is writing new plays, Sophocles is retired.

Obverse of an Athenian tetradrachm featuring a nice classical portrait of Athena.

Reverse of an Athenian tetradrachma featuring an owl with olive leaves/crescent moon to upper left, and the letters alpha-theta-epsilon partially spelling out Athen's name in Greek.

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

SE/30 in the new cube, running A/UX with an Apple IIGS keyboard, an ImageWriter II for style, and a purple aardvark for flair.

SE/30 booted into A/UX with an old ImageWriter II printer, a WWDC 99 bag, and a purple aardvark

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

They're so fun to go in and visit!

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nemo @bug-appreciator.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I have a passion vine in the greenhouse. I found some Gulf fritillary caterpillars out before a freeze so I transferred them onto my vine. I have a bunch of them munching away in there now, should get some nice adults eventually.

A pair of Gulf fritillary caterpillars eating a passion flower bud in a charming greenhouse setting.

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