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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#Arachtober 1: the lights on this pedestrian bridge create giant spider shadows! The casters are the appropriately named bridge spiders, _Larinioides sclopetarius_. #DailySpiderPic #spiders #orbweavers #Araneae #Araneidae

A pedestrian bridge by night, with downward-facing lights set underneath the wooden railings. A spider has built its web directly beneath one, creating a giant spider shadow on the walkway.

A further-out view showing the bridge curving away, with dozens of similar lights.

An orbweaver spider at the centre of its symmetrical, wheel-like web. It has a darker leaf-like marking (the folium) on the top side of its abdomen which looks a little like a fleur-de-lys.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

They did a pretty good job! Only a few corn stalks left!

A whole bunch of goats who know I have apples in my pockets. One is so close to the camera you can only see her eye, one is staring intensely into your soul (hoping for apples), and the others are jockeying for position. In the background, the two livestock guardian dogs are booping noses, and in the farther background is the remains of the frost-killed garden beds, with just a few corn stalks still standing.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Post-frost garden cleanup done the best possible way

A whole bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily rampaging through a garden with a bunch of dead sunflowers, dead corn, and dead zucchini plants. The grass around the garden is green and they're happily eating that too. The sky above is cloudy.

A whole bunch of goats happily munching on dead corn stalks in a garden row. The sky above is cloudy, with some scrubby woods just starting to turn yellow in the background.

A white goat with a beard happily eating an entire corn cob while looking at the camera. There's lots of corn stalks in the background.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I see the Collins Street Falcon's eggs are beginning to hatch! I also notice the hastag #MurderChicken in use, though phylogenetically speaking Peregrine Falcons are more attack parrot than murder chicken, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xv3NLGO5do #CollinsStreetFalcons #CollinsStFalcons […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

big steppy For #WeevilWednesday, I think this little buddy from High Park is an Asiatic Oak Weevil (_Cyrtepistomus castaneus_). #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae #HighPark #toronto

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

this National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, a quick reminder that you can read lightweight web and plaintext versions of the TRC Report executive summary online here

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Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015. (Original…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Today is Truth & Reconciliation Day. I am grateful to live on Treaty 4, the land of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif. To share my land with local Indigenous people in the original spirit of this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A sunrise view of a mowed meadow area, surrounded by trees just starting to turn yellow for fall. The sky is full of clouds turning pink with sunrise.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#FatBearWeek final matchup, everyone: 910 (daughter of former champ Beadnose) faces off against 89 Backpack (son of former champ Holly). The polls are still open! If you're still in line, STAY IN LINE! explore.org/fat-bear-week

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's still #MiteMonday somewhere: today I wandered around the Necropolis (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Necro…) enjoying the lichen and finding various arachnids including some whirligig mites (family Anystidae). They seem to experience a brief […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A very old worn lichen-encrusted tombstone. A bright red mite with star-like splayed legs, small but still very visible to the naked eye, dances across it.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Went for a lovely nighttime ramble under the full moon in High Park and saw several interesting spiders. I admit I yelled in alarm when I saw this leopard slug (_Limax maximus_, introduced from Europe) by the foot of a tree. It was the size of my thumb!!

A large spotted and striped slug on sandy earth, feeding on what could be some fungus or dropped food. A medium-sized isopod is next to it, for scale.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I totally did not expect it, but one of the highlights of the Colorado rattlesnake den livestream is the spiders that regularly end up on cam! Here's a clip from the other night where they got wonderful close-up footage of mating black widows. youtu.be/Vs9qQQ99NQI #spiders #SpiderSex […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Comrades. IT'S TIME. #FatBearWeek 2026 is upon us. explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻 For the first time, the bracket includes bear families (mother and cubs), "in recognition of the record high number of bear families (19) and cubs (37) at Brooks River in summer 2026"! Find out about all the […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

[Metazooa, emoji] 🦣 Animal #1146 🐬 I figured it out in 8 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6 metazooa.com #metazooa

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Find the mystery animal in this daily biology game by navigating the phylogenetic tree.

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mel @daemonicusprince.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Slime Tutorial #FungiFriday #Fungi #SlimeMold #NaturePhotography #PNW

$A closeup of a bit of tree bark, on which sits a large blob of clear jelly-like slime, which warps and refracts the views of the pine needles on & around it like a funhouse mirror. World's Biggest Booger.$

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

somewhere in the night a raccoon is chittering

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

there's (I think) one chickadee who will eat out of my hand and one who is too shy. it sits on the clothesline and peeps pleadingly but will not land on my hand. I am staying strong and not leaving any seeds on the windowsill for it. sometimes it flies/chirps to the other one as if it's asking […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

*Three* red-tailed hawks circling very high up in the sky! Piercing screams. Squirrels are upset. #birdeing

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

This afternoon I was walking down the street when I heard a red-tailed hawk "Majestic Bald Eagle 🇺🇸" call, relatively close. Looked up, couldn't see anything, wondered if it was just screeching metal from nearby construction. Heard it again. Then a red-tailed hawk "Clinically Depressed Seagull" […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Took a little detour to some streetside pollinator gardens while running an errand today and was rewarded with SO. MANY. LOCUST. BORERS. 💛🖤💛 #bloomscrolling #bugstodon #insects #beetles #LonghornBeetles #Coleoptera #Cerambycidae

A yellowjacket was…No! It's a beetle! A beetle with an elongated body, black with yellow markings, that make it look like a wasp at first glance, feeding on pollen from aster-ish yellow flowers (idk I'm not a plantologist). It has long red-brown legs and very long red-brown antennae, as befits a member of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). Its black, oval eyes have "cutouts" around the base of the antennae, like the cursed phone front camera notch.

A head-on view of a locust borer feeding on yellow flowers (goldenrod, I think). The thorax has horizontal stripes of almost fur-like yellow scales. The antennae stretch way out to either side.

A locust borer stands with its back two pairs of legs on one flower cluster while grasping another with its front legs to feed.

Non-macro shot from above of two locust borers on clumps of small yellow flowers. Goldenrod? Asters? Fuck, are goldenrods asters? Oh shit, they are. Fuck.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

A customer dropped by the store today and gave me this intricate paper cicada

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llewelly @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@futurebird "factoid" refers to any member of the superfamily Factoidea, though not necessarily especially close to Factus factus. More importantly, recent advances in genetics and cladistics have revealed many taxa long thought "factoids" are in fact much more distantly related, having in many […]

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The only question left now is whether the small science-themed gift shop beside a giant parking garage on the waterfront will be named “Shoppers Science Mart” or “Real Canadian Science Store”. #TOPoli #ONPoli #FordToCityDropDead

Screenshot of linked article with photo of Doug Ford being his anti-science centre smarmy self at a lectern. Headline and summary read as follows:

Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department

TORONTO — The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned. Science centre CEO Paul Kortenaar told employees at a meeting today that the
organization is being restructured.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Goth squirrel of the day: the rare SQUIRREL LOAF. Forgive the crappy photos, it was fairly high up in a tree, but too cute to pass up!

A black Eastern Grey Squirrel lying down on a slender branch in an oak tree, its floofy tail flopped over the branch and its front legs tucked beneath it.

The squirrel still lying down but with its head turned towards me, like "Well? What do you want?"

The squirrel back in loaf mode, chin seemingly resting on its front paws or the branch, looking off into space.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

forgot to mention this earlier but this morning I actually got up at a decent hour because two blue jays were SCREAMing and making the rusty gate sound and keeping me from falling back asleep #birdeing

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Met this lovely and impressive _Camponotus_ princess*, damn near an inch long, on my way getting groceries. * Until she takes off her wings and settles down to start a new colony. Then she's a queen. Note: I made this up #bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae

An extremely large, robust dark reddish-brown winged carpenter ant resting on a smooth stone surface in late afternoon sun. Her thorax is unusually muscular (because of the wing muscles) and her abdomen is very large.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

today a chickadee landed on my hand and took a sunflower seed out of it, twice so that's something #birdeing

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

live your life so you're not on this list 'weird little guys of FOSS' drewdevault.com/weird-guys

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Weird little guys of FOSS

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

meanwhile, in an arachnology Discord I'm in

A black T-shirt that says "i spend HOURS looking at spider GENITALIA" with 8 greyscale images of different spider palpal bulbs (vaguely apostrophe-shaped organs). Sadly I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which species.

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

night walk: 1 raccoon, 1 dead skunk, 5 live skunks, 1 rat #parkdale #toronto #skunks

A grainy night photo of three striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) clustered together eating birdseed someone has dumped on the ground. A chain-link fence enclosing a school sports field is in the background.

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY There is a spate of #AccountTakeover underway. Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5" These accounts may be longstanding valid […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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Arthur Gron @arthurgron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

European Harvestman at the #allotment in #Toronto #spider #insect "Most of their time is spent stationary, ..." Wikipedia Location www.openstreetmap.org/way/138153251…

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Here's a new long-horn beetle for our house and garden: the NZ endemic *Eburida quadriguttata*. This one flew into our house yesterday evening and landed next to my computer, so I photographed it. I've been recording all the species in our garden for over 15 […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

A photo of a long thin tan brown beetle with very long antennae (hence a long-horn beetle). It has four spots on its eletra (wing cases) which help to distinguish this species.

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Replyguy Sam @weirdmustard.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Schönes Rüsselkäferfoto heute gemacht. #inaturalist : #insects #weevils #insectphotography

Ein Rüsselkäfer sitzt zwischen rotem Halm und grünen filigranen Blättern einer Pflanze. Der Käfer ist mit samtigem beigen Fell bedeckt und hat eine sehr kurze Nase für einen Rüsselkäfer, kurze Fühler und stramme Waden.

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Look!! It's me! I got a huge and pleasant surprise yesterday when one of our recent graduates from our B.Sc. Conservation and Ecology programme, the talented Chinese botanist Shuizetinglan Dong (水澤汀蘭), returned to NZ and stopped by the university to presented me […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

A photo of an artwork made from lots of carefully cut out pieces of coloured paper. In the middle is a man with glasses and a camera and an orange brimmed hat (that's me) surrounded by many different plants and fungi and animals.

The design sketch that Shuizetinglan made for the art work.

A photo of me (an old greyed haired white guy with glasses) and Shuizetinglan, a young Chinese man wearing a Tibetan-styled colourful coat, both holding the framed paper-cut artwork.

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Replyguy Sam @weirdmustard.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Mein #bugoftheday war so gut getarnt, dass ich allein ihn für nen Fussel gehalten hätte. Hab noch nicht nachgeschaut, was für eine Springspinne das ist, aber sehr niedlich dick. #spiders #spinnen

Eine dunkelbraune Springspinne mit hellem Gesicht sitzt auf dem dunkelbraun welken Teil eines Blattes und guckt Richtung Kamera

Die Spinne hat ein Insekt entdeckt und sich in dessen Richtung gedreht, nun fast unsichtbar auf dem Braun vom Blatt

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