In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Is it the dragon or the coins that need to come from the Philippines?

Two valley carpenter bees side by side, the one on the left is colored like a typical male with orange fuzz and green eyes, and the female on the right colored so black that it is hard to distinguish any features. Speech bubble from the left bee reads, "Hi, I'm Sunny B and this is my wife, VOID"

Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest

Derrida and drum machines That which broaches, breaches

Explaining Derrida's idea of iterability with some weird machines

bucketoverflow.substack.com/p/derrida-an...

Bluesky I am *begging* you to let me turn off reposts from certain users

A detailed bronze sculpture of a carpenter ant worker on a wooden table in diffuse sunlight. #invertebrate #sciart

Worker ant. Sculpted, printed, cast, cleaned, assembled, patinated, polished…and she’s done. 14 separate bronze pieces, 7 nuts and bolts, 2 rare-earth magnets, zero visible fasteners. The animal itself.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby cat sitting in a metal bucket, looking awkwardly at the camera. It seems to be in a bathroom and a towel with a monogram that reads “VHE”.

Just trying to enjoy her bucket in peace. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

peepee poopoo

Maybe aggressively mute channels until you have like five or ten left?

Idk, I find it really hard to get object permanence for discords/slacks. Overthinking Everything is the only one I've managed it for and it was easier when it was smaller

Another pub one, from the George and Dragon here in Bristol

A small but detailed bronze sculpture of a budding yeast cell, with a new daughter budding off the larger mother. Because yeast undergo closed mitosis, the nucleus remains intact, and here it looks like a smaller version of the budding cells nestled inside them.

Here, have a bronze budding yeast cell in late anaphase

I thought I didn't care when I read your first tweet, but then I ended up reading the same thing and it threw me

found some skyshrimp

I was so confused by this

blue sky update

I was walking along the river once and heard a dog walker in front of me on her phone say "I'm just past the heron"

anyone got a brain that works going spare?

hm that does explain a fair bit of what seems off here... those were loadbearing literally unreadable threads of total bullshit

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Yesterday for comparison, even the pigeons were fed up

Finally a proper blue sky day

Dream bluesky algo is to see a roughly equal share of posts from everyone I’m following. For high volume users, prioritize most likes

I guess I can plug notebook posts here. Normally it's useful to give a simple example of something when you're trying to explain it, but sometimes it's good to give a great big example instead

https://lucykeer.com/notebucket/great-big-examples/

I don't think I ever understood *why* to play scales as a kid learning violin, I did it anyway bc I was that sort of kid but just treated it as yet another arbitrary task I'd been given

Now I'm learning piano and playing scales because it's just so obviously going to be useful

update

Wow!

Hm, image cropping here doesn't play well with my habit of posting lots of screenshots of text that nobody wants to read

That's an excellent weird duck!

Here is a picture of a duck