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Ant-mimic crab spider, Amyciaea forticeps, Thomisidae

Photographed in Singapore by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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Throws these at you and runs

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I do character art, OCs and memes. I will also animate it if you'd like me to!!

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Would you like a commission from me?

I do character art, OCs and memes. I will also animate it if you'd like me to!!

Check out my Ko-Fi here and get yourself some art!! I have a sale happening right now too! 20% off your commission if you use the code BILLSBILLSBILLS at checkout!!

Pls. I'm hungry and have bills due. Pls help.

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There is an ant right there!!

When looking at photos of bugs that aren't ants it's always funny to spot the ants in the background. Even more funny when the person who took the photo, very proud of the rare bug they found refuses to acknowledge that there is clearly an ant photobombing the special moment. This one is called:

"Tiny Purple Beetle, Chlamisus sp."

... aaaand Crematogaster too! They look like friends!

(Photo by Andreas Kay ) If you like this beetle check out this recent post from @apsciencebydan -- it's what got me researching the species.

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Kaniela Ing said Lahaina’s pre-colonial history is particularly important for people to know—not just for the sake of Lahaina’s Native residents, but because it reveals the deeply unnatural roots of this so-called “natural” disaster. After all, he noted, Lahaina used to be a wetland. It was only because of colonization and climate change that it became a tinderbox. “Lahaina wasn’t always a dry, fire-prone region. It was very wet and lush, historically. Boats would circle the famous Waiola Church. Lahaina was also the breeding place of aquaculture. It had some of the world's first and most innovative systems of fish ponds. ”But at the dawn of the 18th century, sugar barons arrived and illicitly diverted the water to irrigate the lands they had stolen. (Note: 18th century European sugar and pineapple barons also brought invasive grasses, Wired reports, which now cover 26 percent of Hawaii and become “explosive” fuel for wildfires.) “Today, descendants from those same barons amass fast profits from controlling our irrigation, our land use, and political influence. Alexander and Baldwin are two big missionary families of the original oligarchs, and they’re currently the largest landowners on Maui. That’s the name of their corporation and they’re one of the top political donors here today. “So on one hand, the climate emergency caused this. On the other, it’s also that history of colonial greed that made Lahaina the dry place that it is."

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I think it's funny that the Warden's letter to the Inquisitor is so nonchalant about the whole curing the Blight thing.

Like this is the person who found the ashes of the Messiah and spoke to the manifestations of saints. They put down an Archdemon. They out-couped another coup with five hitch hikers and a dog.

Of course curing the Blight is just another Tuesday for them.

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Attention: WGA/SAG-AFTRA mutual aid fund low

[ID: tweet from Joelle Garfinkel @/msjoellegarf that says, "We have a low fund alert (less than $200 remains in the fund!) and a beautiful new flyer to make things easier to donate! Thank you so much for your continued support! #greenenvelopeaid #wgastrong #sagaftrastrong #strikefund #mutualaid". The tweet is from August 12, 2023. end ID]

This is a vetted mutual aid fund that provides $100 grocery funds to people affected by the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes. Please boost and donate if you're able!

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i stg this man is going to trick me into blowing something up...

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i promise you being polite isnt that hard try it for once

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do you guys ever think about dying? ✨

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So I remembered that...creative 'Island Boys' song and was wondering what the two dudes that sang that were up to so I looked them up

and now I need someone to go back in time and stop me from ever doing that

there's no way in heaven or hell that I could have predicted all that

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🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

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Check your conspiracy theory. Does it sound anything like this?

There is an ancient global conspiracy plotting to create a one world government.

The one world government will be headed by a single leader.

The conspiracy intends to make everyone follow a religion it created.

The conspiracy is trying to destroy all true religion/spirituality.

The conspiracy deliberately stirs up conflict and starts wars.

The conspiracy deliberately does whatever it can to confuse, exhaust, and demoralize the people.

The conspiracy creates and/or manipulates art and entertainment to control and brainwash the masses.

Liberal politics (EG, religious tolerance, equality) are part of the conspiracy.

Communism and collectivism are part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates the economy to our detriment.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the gold standard.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the free market.

The conspiracy intends to tax the rich, which is bad because taxes are just legal theft.

Teaching people about the mistakes and atrocities committed by governments is part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy creates new religions and spiritual movements to further their agendas.

All secret societies (EG, Freemasonry) are part of the conspiracy.

Presidents are manipulated puppets of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates anyone with a high political position.

The conspiracy grooms world leaders.

Agents of the conspiracy are planted everywhere, in all levels of society.

The conspiracy kills anyone who might expose their plans in ways that no one would suspect are actually murder.

The conspiracy follows/uses the Kabbalah.

Literally all of these were claimed in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an antisemitic hoax created by the Okhrana. It was used by Nazi Germany to justify the Holocaust, and today it still serves as the blueprint for most conspiracy theories - even if modern conspiracy theorists try to hide it, downplay it, or rationalize it with another, equally absurd conspiracy theory.

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funny doggy