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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾

@whysosciurus.bsky.social
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Conservation field worker, often talking politics. I like oak savanna and calcareous fen. “Occasional” snark, rants, and shitposting.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“An object at rest cannot be stopped.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the correct energy. No respect to Republicans, KKK, or any other hate group.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Even if you zoom all the way in to many bodies of water on Apple Maps, it still steadfastly refuses to put a label on them. But hey, it looks “clean”!
Apple Maps zoomed all the way on to a body of water so that it takes up the entire screen.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spraying native brush species in prairies makes me an addled boy. Spraying native brush species in prairies makes me an addled boy. Spraying native brush species in prairies makes me an addled boy. Spraying native brush species in prairies makes me an addled boy. Spraying native brush in prairies ma
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/09/2026
Inside of it is a faith hugger
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Now that’s a lotta trees!”
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Cut a multi-million dollar preventative program, save a few bucks! Enjoy having to pay for the billion dollar curative program, all while paying higher prices for beef, indefinitely! Screwworm? Screwjob.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/07/2026
A sailboat, the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, was removed from the Sail4th 250 Parade of Ships for displaying banners about climate justice and clean water. Source: ig/jackiemarieburton, ig/sloopclearwater
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Someone needs to invent a weed seed vacuum. Like a leaf vacuum but with a cutting head to break off seed heads and suck them up. Would be great for desperate late season garlic mustard triage situations.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A demon lurks Big Rock. (Location: Southwestern Wisconsin)
Two spots of light within a dark crevice look eerily like eyes.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So, who’s excited to find out what it’s like to experience a +3°C El Niño season?
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David Baumiller @apolloyorp.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have an Excel joke it's really good most people rate it Oct 10
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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/03/2026
“They’re actually breathing underwater, and that is really exciting and interesting.” scim.ag/3OZwj4s
science.org
How bumble bees survive days underwater without drowning
Insects can stay alive for up to a week in flooded nests, thanks to several tricks
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Like a damaged ship trying survive with sails shredded. Survived bad storm, but now heeled over so far that waves are lapping at the gunwales. Tacking back and forth fruitlessly, making little to no head way. The winds and currents continue to work against me. Waiting for a knock out blow… mercy?
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A slapstick comedy of errors in which the entire prison: guards, janitors, and other inmates, are, unbeknownst to each other, all actually assassins sent by the Clintons, the Trumps, Bill Gates, and others. Hilarity ensues as they each attempt to sneak by each other and eliminate their target…
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Seth Moulton is calling for ICE to be prosecuted in no uncertain terms. This is becoming a foundational political agreement for anyone seeing to oppose the regime. We need the broadest possible coalition all united about the necessity of caging these fucking monsters.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Fuckin’ Vichy Democrats, man.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
MAY TODAY BE A BREAKING POINT.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Whulp, this is more relevant now than when I originally posted it.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is to provide a caucus beli that Trump is taking the US to war as self defense. This adding another BS layer of justification to the strikes, which they’ve already been making: they’re for the defense of the US’s allies in the region. More importantly it’s about the Alien Enemies Act. 1/
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

text says:

Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. 
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
YOU’RE ALL GOING TO HELL, HE HE.
Screen clip of a DHS tweet with the text “YOU’RE GOING HO HO HOME” and two images of ICE stormtroopers photoshopped with Christmas lights and Santa hats.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“‘It is a pity that our friends lie in between,’ said Gimli. ‘If no land divided Isengard and Mordor, then they could fight while we watched and waited.’ ‘The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt,’ said Gandalf.”
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is a sentence: “Chuck Schumer.”
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The inefficient and/or counterproductive methods some land managers use to manage native shrub species in grasslands kinda drive me a little batty, sometimes. Especially when you consider how limited resources available for conservation are.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Even the military leadership can’t keep a straight face in the presence of this bullshit. I guess that gives me some hope?
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Lysenkoism never hurt anyone, right?
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement” Fuck you, make me. Prove you’re exactly what we’re exposing you as.
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They-Ra @xanindigo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
you are now afflicted with: Breaking News (curse) every time you check social media, receive 2d6 psychic damage and take -2 to all WIS and CHA rolls for 1 hour
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In Trumpist America, news break YOU.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Conservative media personalities this week who have previously called for or have made jokes about political violence.
Text: “little yappy dickhead suddenly doesn’t like loud noises” with two pictures, one of a toy-sized dog and the other of fireworks.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS
When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks.
"We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges.
"When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hits hard.
youtu.be
SOEN - Illusion (Official Video)
YouTube video by SoenOfficial
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today, another spark was thrown into the rapidly drying pile of tinder that is the United States. What is the probability of ignition this time?
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
(Quoting from memory.) “The Democrats are the party of no ideas. The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. A Republican says, ‘I’ve got a really shitty idea!’ to which a Democrat says ‘And I can make it shittier!’” Truer and truer by the day.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
What is the point of printing expiry dates on perishable goods if they just end up rubbing off so easily?
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Not looking forward to a winter field season with polar vortex visits.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Reading Facebook comments below news articles really makes you realize that many adults are just children who graduated to adulthood not by achieving it as such, but by simply running out the clock on childhood.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
My wife: “the recipe for creamed spinach very simple, it’s creamed spinach...”
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Why don’t major social media sites support basic text formatting? What year is it??? Please re-skeet, I want this to go all the way to the top.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It’s time to play “Whodunnit?”
Apples stuck on a barbed wire fence with a farming gate in the background.
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
LEAKED: RFK Jr. set to announce new health care plan for the elderly and the sick.
Cloaked figure standing with arms out on the precipice of a high cliff. (Screenshot from movie Midsommar.)
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
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Addled Conservationist 🍁🔥🌾 @whysosciurus.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This does remind me that I need to get a bottle of good liquor to keep on hand for The Day. What would be most fitting? Tequila?
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eek @eke.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
yo this guy is cooking
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