Brass snail

Brass snail mesuring tape

The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape

A fly with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The fly has pale legs and underside with brown on the top of the head and a brown and tan striped scutum. It is standing on an off white mushroom.

Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is getting ready to shove the fly on the right with his front leg.

Two flies with red eyes that are shaped upward like horns. The flies have pale legs and undersides with brown on the top of the head, a brown and tan striped scutum, and a dark brown and pale striped abdomen. The fly on the left is shoving the fly on the right with his front leg.

Just a lil guy defending his mushroom.

We found a log covered in mushrooms and spotted some small hammerhead flies on it. Turns out these are feisty fruit flies and the males are serious about defending their patch. One of our coolest finds so far! #invert
(Zygothrica sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Two green malachite butterflies hanging upside-down and attached end to end under a large green leaf.

A large blue morpho butterfly hangs upside down from a purple flower showing off its brown spotted underwings.

A black and yellow king swallowtail butterfly sits on the bare arm of a woman.

An orange and black ruby-tipped page butterfly shines in the sun on a fuchsia-coloured flower.

It's damp and gloomy and I'm feeling not so great today, so here are some tropical butterflies from my day at The Leaf in Assiniboine Park last week to bright my day and hopefully yours. #Winnipeg 🦋🐛

Mangrove

Two mudskippers

Went to the Mangrove Wetlands today and saw some terrestrial fishes (mudskippers) 🐟 ➡️ 🦎

female Afrarchaea cornuta looking into camera, she has a tall, elongated cephalothorax that provides leverage to her extra-long chelicerae (jaws). this spider family is also called "assassin spiders" because they're shaped this way as specialist spider predators; they can land a bite and other spiders can't bite them.

male Afrarchaea cornuta in profile, showing his pelican-shaped head.

tell your friends about the pelican spiders of Madagascar, South Africa, and Australia

There are events where they put stickers over your phone cameras. As a glasses-wearer I would accept being stickered as a precaution

multiple sign in options, one of which is wet-dry world

whatever man Sure let me login with wetdry world who gives a shit

The cherry blossoms on the North Shore of #Pittsburgh are in full bloom and looked amazing today when the sun rose above the bridges. I spent a couple hours capturing them, and can't wait to share more, including some film images. These are some early favorites.

A bright yellow roughhead blenny peeks out of a coral head surrounded by algae framed with a dark background.

I found this roughhead blenny sticking out of a coral head in the Bahamas. I really liked the vibrant yellow color.

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#underwaterphotography #macro #fish #blenny #Bahamas #scuba #scubadiving #olympus #om1 #nauticam

Portrait of a graceful crab

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History of a case in which singular symptoms occurred from the swallowing of an iron nail, which remained in the stomach for about fifteen months, by Dr Philip Robarts Willon, physician at Barnet,

I know that the Long S is common in historic printing and writing, but GOSH I just can't stop giggling when I read Fingular Fymptoms from Fwallowing.

Magnificent giant soft green moth with 4 eye spots and long twisty "tail", at rest with wings spread on the side of a pine

Luuuuuuuuuunaaaaaa 💚

Few local creatures stop me in my tracks like this, just the sheer size and soft colors and markings. Like, welp, day instantly better.

Stunning moss mimicry on this harvestman

Macro photo of a shiny, light orange ant with a large head and black eyes, standing on a green leaf in side view.

The beautiful Camponotus kaura is a night-active ant endemic to the eastern Caribbean. El Yunque, Puerto Rico.

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface. Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces. Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done! But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.

The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.

screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s

Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version. Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind

castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

Thinking about that really tall mushroom I photographed from beneath that one time.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

My image is up for a Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award! Vote on the 25 nominated images from the >61,000 submitted.

www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-...

A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024

Screencap reading: They don’t have bodies. Without embodiment, critics argue, there can be no general intelligence. This reflects an anthropocentric bias that seems to be wielded only against AI. People would ascribe intelligence to a disembodied alien communicating by radio, or to a brain sustained in a vat. An entity that responds accurately to any question, but never moves or acts physically, would be regarded as profoundly intelligent. Physicist Stephen Hawking interacted with the world almost entirely through text and synthesized speech, yet his physical limitations in no way diminished his intelligence. Motor capabilities are separable from general intelligence. The sentence starting "Physicist" is highlighted in blue. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it:

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Extremely long leggy ogre-face spider, 4 front legs holding her neat trapezoidal silk net in front of her as she dangles in the dark

She's very Long 🥹

(ogre with her net 🤎)

Cognitive Helmets for the AI Bicycle: Part 1 I hear people name these three fears: will developers lose their problem-solving skills, learning opportunities, and critical thinking? One science-backed area can help: better metacognitive strategie...

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving

www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...

A reader followed up with about the books I mention therein. Sharing:

"the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth" nails is, exactly.

photo of Queensland Ultraflat, a very flat black and white jumping spider which lives under bark. photo by Marten Stevens

please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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Macro photograph of a small yellowish green bug, in side view, standing on a leaf against a pure black background. The bug has a stubby, upturned face and translucent wings criss-crossed with an irregular network of light blue-green, raised veins.

One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation.

tubercle burrowing crayfish is found in southeastern Australia and is mostly dark yellow and orange in color, with a very tiny face

picture of tubercle burrowing crayfish by sneaker1 on inaturalist

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