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Jeff Clark

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plant galls - gallformers.org Oaks - soon to launch oak compendium software and gadfly to myself

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 21h
Words cannot express my loathing of Vanity Fair right now. This man can’t see the future, or people. He can only see marks, and wow are you easy pickings
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In my AI class today I'm going to try to convince my students that super intelligence has already arrived, far surpassed humanity, already rules the world with humans doing its will and it is not a computer, it is corn
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, dear. This is global-level not good.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If we can't hold rich people accountable, then we need to abolish rich people
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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bolas spiders are not easy to find, but I have had the good luck to recently find two. This one had 6 "bolas" hung from the branch that she was suspended from. When she hunts, she emits a pheromone that mimics her moth prey. On approach, she swings the sticky bolas to snare them. #arachtober
A female Bolas spider, Mastophora sp, perched amongst the petioles and buds of a hickory tree. Her legs are folded up tight against her body. The top of her abdomen is adorned with light tan marks akin to some form of alien writing that is reflected symmetrical about her axis of symmetry. Gossamer threads suspend milky white sticky blobs against a near black background. These are the bolas spider's hunting tools. This one has suspended 6 from a thin branch.
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A flyer for a book launch event for Widow Spiders of the World. There is a tasteful widow spider illustration in the center. The text reads as follows: "SOMETHING NEW IS COMING THIS HALLOWEEN... Join Frenchtown local Chris Alice “Alie” Kratzer as she unveils her latest contribution to the natural sciences at the Frenchtown Bookshop. Her newest book—Widow Spiders of the World—is the first-ever illustrated field guide to some of the most feared animals on Earth. BOOK LAUNCH PARTY at the FRENCHTOWN BOOKSHOP. 28 Bridge St Frenchtown NJ 08825. October 29 2026 at 6:30 PM EDT. Family-friendly presentation, refreshments, and book signing. FREE ADMISSION."
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming to a national park near you: The Death Valley Developers, the Denali Data Centers, the Badlands Billionaires, the Canyonlands Cronies, the Grand Teton Tech Bros and the Crater Lake Cryptos compete in the Trump Corruption League. My latest column: www.washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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Ballparks in Our National Parks? Trump’s Plundering Is in a League of Its Own.
Coming to a national park near you: The Denali Data Centers vs. the Crater Lake Cryptos.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 (is looking at lichen in the cemetery) @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I found a cricket leech after work today! :0 Cricket leeches are the larval form of solitary wasps in the family Rhopalosomatidae, which is the ancestral branch of all paper and potter wasps.
A photo of a dark bean-like entity stuck to the side of a cricket between its body and left hind leg. The cricket's posture looks like if a basketball player was trying to hide the fact that they got bit by a tick the size of a poodle, carrying it casually under one arm. The wasp may not directly kill its host, but the loss of so much hemolymph will likely reduce the cricket's lifespan. A photo of the same unfortunate pair from further away, so you can see the scale of the parasite. The cricket is gravid and will likely lay her eggs soon, parasitic wasp be damned. #girlpower
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, that kind of Christianity
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know… If you just prosecuted companies and individuals in companies whose products were breaking the law, this sort of thing would stop.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026
This is why they need to just arrest Altman, Amodei, and Huang and get this bullshit over with.
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norikonbuchan.bsky.social @norikonbuchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote this closing statement of Gall Week Sept 2026 to pay homage to one of Raymond Gagné’s life achievements ☺️ www.inaturalist.org/posts/135782...
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To wrap up this Gall Week...
We’d like to take a moment here to celebrate the recent release of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America (Second Edition - 2026) by Raymond Gagné. At age 91, Dr. Gagné completed this highly a...
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 26/09/2026
i think everyone but @rich-bryant.uk will like this
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How A Hungry Michelin Star Chef Makes Instant Ramen After Work!
YouTube video by The Drunken Sommelier Food Show
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
beep boop. show this to your boomer parents youtu.be/0KoeY54M5VA
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Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades - and that's good!
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Jeff Clark @jeffc666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you like oaks, even a little, you can support the wonderful International Oak Society - www.internationaloaksociety.org by buying some newly released merch! I bought a shirt, but they have other items as well. www.bonfire.com/ios-oak-t-sh... #oaksrock
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IOS Oak Shirts | Bonfire
Support oak conservation and research worldwide. The mission of the International Oak Society is to advance the study, sustainable management, conservation, and appreciation...
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If someone were to sell me a fridge that needed an internet connection to keep functioning, or even if someone sold me a fridge with an internet connected feature that I really liked and valued, than what they sold me is a dependency. I'm thinking we should learn to identify and reject those.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:
Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.
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Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To follow up on a question @colinpurrington.bsky.social asked me several years ago, here are five different leafminers in a single leaf! bugtracks.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/a...
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A New Record
Greetings from Aton Forest! I came here to present a slideshow this afternoon about the leafminers of Aton Forest, but I arrived earlier in the day so I could spend a few hours looking for, well, l…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes them country boys come up with good ideas because.. lol I’d pay to watch this 🚗
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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neutral @neutral.zone · 12/09/2026
Frontier Psychiatrist sounds like an Anthropic job posting
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11/09/2026
If you’re ever wondering why your tiny rural police force has a DHS supplied APC, fucktons of riot gear, tear gas, automatic weapons and sniper rifles, well, today’s why.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️
Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m one of at least 28 former Washington Post journalists who have joined the @washingtonsun, which launched this morning. Paul Kane, Jeff Stein, Tom Sietsema and many other names will be familiar to Post readers —and we’ve got the Capital Weather Gang. Join us! washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.
My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Washington Sun rises today. I hope you’ll join our orbit. The Sun aims to do nothing less than reinvent the newspaper for the digital age — and to prove that there is a market in the capital region for local news and sports coverage. washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.
My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...
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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The elephant mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus) is one of the largest mosquitoes in North America with a wingspan of 12mm! They also do not bite, as females do not use blood for their eggs. They're also predators of disease-causing mosquitoes like those in the genus Aedes. So, friends! #invertefest
A large green iridescent mosquito sits on a yellow coneflower bloom.
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norikonbuchan.bsky.social @norikonbuchan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Next Gall Week is Sept 5-13! Due to an admin error, this project page was moved so here’s the correct link: www.inaturalist.org/projects/gal...
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Gall Week September 2026 new
-- This is the updated project for Gall Week September 2026 -- Welcome to the 10th Gall Week event! During September 5-13, please document galls = structures induced by arthropods, fungi, and sometime...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck theonion.com/google-maps-introduces…
Google Maps Introduces Crawling Directions For Cyclists Hit By Truck
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/09/2026
For what it's worth, if you're on Apple devices, and just use passwords for yourself and/or your family, Apple Passwords does a good job of providing all of the features, often better integrated, if you're an iCloud subscriber. (Apple sucks in its own ways, of course.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cop enters private pasture without a warrant, shoots and kills a beloved donkey. "Heehaw's" braying apparently made him fear for his life.
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Donkey shot, killed in Polk County; Cedartown police officer on leave
A Cedartown police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a donkey was fatally shot in Polk County on Sunday.
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Jesus Jones @jesusjonesband.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The best of times.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New from me: The first of a three-part series, 20 years in the making. Some may be familiar with the broad strokes, but there's a lot of new reporting here. It's a story about one conviction, but also the systematic corruption that affected thousands of cases in two states over three decades.
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The framing of Chris Duncan
Part One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.”
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 31/08/2026
anger is, in fact, an energy
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Your Racist Linux Distro Is Very Nice
sometimes, you know, you should be judged Today I found out my password manager betrayed me. No, not like that - it didn't leak my bank account login to the Uzbek mafia or anything nearly that drama...
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Galling, @galling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Gall of the week is caused by the gall midge Mikiola fagi on beech, Fagus sylvatica. Photo of gall by Steve McWilliam, of the insect from Rubsaamen & Hedicke 1926 via Bladmineeders.nl
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There has been a mistake.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026
Hummingbirds.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."
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Adam Bates @abates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's such a promising omen for Hakeem Jeffries' tenure as Speaker of the House that before he even takes office he's already falling for "your shoe's untied" from Jared Kushner
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In Virginia, data centers are destroying the countryside — even in counties that have no data centers. It’s time for a moratorium. My latest column: www.notus.org/perspectives...
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Dana Milbank: Data Centers Are Destroying Virginia’s Countryside — Even in Places That Have No Data Centers
Why won’t Spanberger stop the madness?
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
posts like this are why I’ll never leave Bluesky
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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