iDigBio sent out another advertisement for free webinars, but does not mention at all that the entire image database is going away permanently on August 31. Like, maybe I'm missing something, but I would be absolutely screaming for people to make copies before it's too late.

I think someone asked to use one of my ostracod comics on an ostracod website, but I forgot to respond and can no longer find the comment. Yes, please do that.

When someone uses AI for anything, it says to me: "I don't care what you did with your life and how hard you worked at it, I just want access to what you know and what you can do, without giving you the respect or compensation that you deserve for learning."

the bullies at school keep making me squeeze through narrow gaps so that they can seamlessly integrate cutscenes into gameplay without a loading screen.

I don't particularly trust fresh produce in this country right now, so I am making all kinds of possibly horrible new meals with canned and jarred things. In theory, there are vitamins in these. Today is cactus pasta

omg the babychild

Tom Astle@tjalamont.bsky.social · 20h ago

Mama pseudoscorpion & her cute baby high in the mountains of Montana. Mama is half the size of a grain of rice. These harmless micro arachnids have no stinger, but can deliver venom to prey via their pincers. Also, they can walk backward. Also, you probably have them in your house. #BugSky 🐙🌿

Let us examine the set of circumstances that led to this Eulimnadia clam shrimp living out its entire live cycle in a styrofoam cup on the ground.

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Diplomoceras is pretty fun 😁 it's a Cretaceous ammonite (shelled squid relative) shaped like a paper clip www.museumoftheearth.org/exhibit/hete...

Giant Heteromorph Ammonite — Museum of the Earth

Diplomoceras maximum On display in the Museum of the Earth is one of the world’s largest relatively complete heteromorph ammonites. This specimen of Diplomoceras maximum —which is from the Cretaceo...

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bluesky can I post yet, I found a shrimp in a polarpop

can we not be weird and gendery about the concept of activities for five minutes

have they ever released a version of fallout 4 that's less than 80 GBs or is it still an un-optimized mess like, ten years on. I don't think my computer has that much space, but I want to walk around fake boston (it's boston, right?)

this evening we are enjoying Frank & Barrera's 2010 paper on staphs in the genus Belonuchus lurking around water-filled Heliconia bracts and snatching tasty mosquito pupae out of the water like inverse crocodiles

huge piles of these boisea bugs like to sit around on the plants together doing absolutely nothing

people asked for updates on the wormy herd. today's activity is nothing

we already know no one who works at bluesky has drip, they have to have fuckin claude dress them. dont put that on me

kyrie zebul, i guess. maybe.@wearelauchingzebul.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tbh a glitch in the matrix does not inspire drip

the more time I spend with my younger sibling, the more esoteric our language is becoming. instead of "grab" or "hold" now we only say "grisp"

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Probably over 90% of the people I interacted with on a regular basis at FMNH think genAI is a useless fad / waste of time that will not help do the job. Absolutely no one is willing to say this publically. People know you can get fired for anything there, and are desperate to hold on to their jobs.

Thanks for this info -- I hadn't seen this. For those wanting more info on iDigBio removing ALL images Aug 31, 2026: idigbio.gbif.us/post/2026/me...

"An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise." don't forget anguish. you can also anguish

I still have the huge essay of an email from the iDigBio guy from nearly a year ago about how their chatbot was going to do all this absurd and amazing stuff when it was finished. ha

I have not been able to post properly for at least a day. The site acts like it went through, and then it says "post not found" when you check the replies tab. I assume they had to put all the servers in the pool again

neighbors are 'cleaning' their lawn with some kind of evil Luigi's Mansion cartoon vacuum

Just in case anyone on here still has images or other stuff hosted on the digital collections portal iDigBio, make sure you have your own copies. Servers are shutting down permanently on August 31st 2026. idigbio.gbif.us/post/2026/me...

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

Ophie Dokie 🌻@ophiedokie.bsky.social · 5d ago

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

what the fuck why does this @stupidtwink.bsky.social comic keep happening?

Transparency@transparency.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jez San, founder of Argonaut, donated 2 million pounds to the conservative party in 2025. He was the biggest individual donor in Q1 of that year. Please, be informed before purchasing anything. You can emulate PS1 games on basically any device these days (even your phone) with ease.

bluesky may I post now

It may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.

is bluesky working yet? scribble of a map for the lizard people world