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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 30/09/2026

You may have noticed that while the vibes in San Francisco are fucked beyond all belief, Oakland is still good and chill. We dispatched @redford.bsky.social to make sense of it. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/the-great-vi...

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The great vibes divergence

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

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1News NZ (Unofficial) @1newsnz.nzcow.com · 04/10/2026

📢 Tens of thousands of wētā have now been bred at Butterfly Creek in Auckland and at Auckland Zoo.

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'Amazing conservation success': Zoologists celebrate wētā growth

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think they might be biased #InverteFest

a sketch of a plump leech with a smile in their suckhole mouth wiggling and saying “hooray for parasitism!”

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

talking about vertebrates like how people talk about invertebrates: I saw a blue jay today! This beautiful bird is native to North America. While its bite is painful, it is nonvenomous & harmless to humans. Unlike most tetrapods, the gray squirrel broods its young internally and gives live birth!

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

thanks google, nailed it

I have done a quick google search for the moth genus Meessia, which google has helpfully autocorrected to "messiah" and delivered THOSE search results WITH a helpful AI summary

Our lord and savior Meessia (a genus of tineoid moth)

GBIF informs us that Meessia has been synonymized with the genus Eudarcia, leaving the family Meessiidae without a valid type genus (and frankly too many double letters for my taste)

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/08/2026

Fair question! I use the periods to avoid slandering the Alberts, Albertos, and Alfredos of the world. I use a lower case "i" to devalue the industry's claim of "intelligence," because "A.i." is not sentient. And I add the quotes because the whole thing is an inaccurate, bogus marketing term.

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Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What is this abomination? Since yesterday, everybody has been poking fun at a post asking genAI skeptics if they would really be willing to give up that technology. Just look at this. The answer is obvious. I'd be buying champagne and fireworks if garbage like this went away tomorrow.

Screenshot of an AI assistant for writing a personal message on electronic farewell or celebration cards, which defeats the purpose of personal messages. It asks to construct a prompt consisting of the occasion, the relationship the user has with the recipient, the tone (funny, formal, inspirational, etc.), and what style to plagiarise ("e.g., Yoda or Dr. Seuss). This egregious waste of electricity could mostly be replaced with a randomised selection of stock phrases. More importantly, if I were ever to receive such an electronic card, I would prefer somebody writing a single misspelled sentence themselves over generating this kind of slop.

On the right is what looks like a chat with one alleged message reading "Hi there Welcome to... by Jess". Puzzlingly, the mystery message perennially claims to be one day old regardless of what day I logged in, and there is no context for who or what Jess is. Maybe it is just me, but the entire interface screams fraud.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

me, breaking the ice: "so uh, what's your favorite sessile aquatic invertebrate"

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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Chentomology @chentomology.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Gothmoth 🖤🤍❤️

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The CEO of Taylor Foods has a long record of giving money to ruling party politicians, and now that the FDA is a politicized arm of the ruling party, we cannot trust any FDA statements, and our food supply is not safe.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is just to say I have closed the social media apps that were causing me immense anxiety and which you were probably doomscrolling yourself Forgive me my soft, fragile body cannot contain such fomo and dread

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Other types of A.I. to invest in this week: Artificial Isopods Antagonistic Insects Amblyomma Infestations Accessorized Isoptera Apterygota Identification

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14/07/2026

The entirety of the Boundary Waters is being evacuated due to wildfires, led by eight fearless Wilderness Rangers paddling around to campsites. 1,000,000 acres. 2,000 campsites. 4 teams of rangers. 2 rangers per canoe.

Paddlers make their way towards the Fall Lake entry point of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as wildfire smoke fills the air on Monday, July 13, near Ely, Minn. (Erica Dischino/For the Minnesota Star Tribune)

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Evil Scary Lucy Promise @julesprom.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

is it good that for your new product all the articles about it are like “heres how to avoid using the new product”

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jD. @octodrone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Finished Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant here in upper Michigan last night, while neighbors launched cannon-level fireworks over the lake. The novel is full of repressed history and cyclic vengeance. Meanwhile, are the chants of “U-S-A..! U-S-A!” outside hopeful or hateful? in the end can we even tell?

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ah to be an eyeless cave beetle known only from the gut contents of a salamander

Genitalia dissection slide for a mysterious species of Pseudanophthalmus, locality is “COSTA RICA: C. d. l. Muerte (Bolitoglossa gut)

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Free to download, and printable on standard Avery 5164 shipping label stickers. Enjoy!

Hand drawn text reading: Oh no! ANOTHER HIDEOUS GENERATIVE AI FLYER
Looks like they:
-don’t care about the harm to the planet and our drinkable water
-devalue human artists and creativity
-lined a billionaire’s pocket instead of hiring a local artist
-want everyone to become more lazy, stupid and misinformed
HOW EMBARRASSING

The text image from the other image in this post, printed six times to fit on mailing label stickers when printed

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 22/06/2026

Find a tick after a hike this weekend? My @sciam.bsky.social colleague @katewong.bsky.social calmly walks you through what to do, and beautiful identification illustrations by Diogo Guerra won’t gross you out as you arm yourself with information. www.scientificamerican.com/article/got-... 🧪 #sciart

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Bitten by a tick? Don’t panic—do this

Knowing what kind of tick bit you and where you got it can help inform next steps

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jD. @octodrone.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy International Horseshoe Crab Day, everyone! Thought I’d share an entry from my dear old Endless Swarm blog about seeing one of my favorite inverts in the wild for the first time. endless-swarm.com?p=1320

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The Grand Canyon In My Hand | The Endless Swarm

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佐和さん @sawaharuhiko.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Long time no see! Happy International Horseshoe Crab Day! 🎉 This is a wonderful new horseshoe crab attraction near the Horseshoe Crab Museum in Kasaoka, Okayama, Japan. お久しぶり！国際カブトガニデーおめでとうございます🎉 これは岡山県笠岡市カブトガニ博物館の近くに新たに設置された素晴らしいオブジェです

カブトガニのオブジェ
尻尾が長くデザインされ、地面から立ち上がるように設置されている
屋外の公園の一角

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Me in 2006: This Sci Fi book is stupid! How would a society just forget how to do sophisticated and advanced thinking? Me in 2026: ok yeah fair enough

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ultimately, this change will install partisans in the agencies who will divert grant money to regime allies and donors while defunding and censoring any science that the politicians wish hidden. Open corruption, and essentially the end of the United States as a leading scientific nation.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

America is racing towards willful obsolescence: “the National Science Foundation is removing 900 ocean data collecting buoys that cost $370 million to install. If left in place, the buoys would have continued to provide climate-related data …for another 15 years” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 28/05/2026

No data centers but CAUDATA centers

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/05/2026

What an embarrassment 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A poem for World Bee Day.

The Last Bee

After the last ee
had uzzed its last uzz,
the irds and the utterflies
did what they could.

ut soon the fields lay are,
few flowers were left,
nature was roken,
and the planet ereft.

rian ilston

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 08/05/2026

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

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Oakland’s Hottest Influencer Won’t Stop Pooping on Parking Meters

The creator of the Night Herons of Oakland Instagram account shares how she became obsessed with her avian neighbors.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For #WorldRobberFlyDay a fly who lives up to the name on the package: Bee-like Robber Fly #inverts #becurious

macro photo of a robber fly that does resemble a bee - but with large, round, forward-facing eyes. they are perched on the curled point of a dry maple leaf. they are facing 3/4 to the right.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Democrats could win 2026 elections TODAY by saying “if they build it, in the first week of our majority we will blow it up.” Special nationwide lottery to win the chance to press the ‘blow that shit up’ button will pay for cleanup.

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The science of these little critters is pretty nuts. Here's a comic I did with @rikworth.bsky.social @owenwattsdraws.bsky.social for @bhamlalab.bsky.social #InverteFest #Sciart

Comic page featuring cartoon ripple bugs watching human canoers struggling against some rapids and talking about how much easier it is with their feathery fan structures on the tips of their "oar" legs

Comic page with cartoon ripple bigs talking about how their leg fans create water vortexes and allow them to turn on a dime.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#InverteFest begins at midnight your local time! 36 minutes to go for me. Post your critters, whether from real life or in your art, games, or whatever, throughout the week!

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jD. @octodrone.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

More than the tacky gilded crap thats slathered over our Capitol buildings, The bland monstrousness of these data centers being turned into inhuman prisons is what fills me with horror. Its also the hardest to depict, to critique, to address. I mean, its just a featureless cinderblock box, right?

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Australia and South America are the best continents, judged solely on the basis of ants.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen. (Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

A brownish-black insect with four yellow spots ion his elytra and a pair of pincer protruding from his abdomen. He is standing on a white sheet.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

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Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

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