[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: Wandering Ones

[blighted-vessel]

you only love me for my brainwashing spores that make everyone love me. hmph

[bogleech]

We should fix this and start saying "stupible"

[cinemamind]

Killer Klowns From Outer Space✨💫

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Today's worm is basically a little dragon. Or perhaps an axolotl. Ampharete sp. (undescribed species)

Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History

[prokopetz]

Capybaras and anomalocarids are to 2026 Internet meme culture as llama and pandas are to 2006 Internet meme culture, which suggests that the names of popularly-memed-upon animals are getting longer. Imagine what the meme culture of 2046 will look like if the trend holds.

[stupidestasshole]

the puirpose of a spider is what it does

[hyenaswine]

it spides

[cryptotheism]

(Speak as a baboon)

[prokopetz]

The serious reason I have reservations about referring to someone doing art or writing in response to a shitpost as "fanfic" of that post is it feels like it's contributing to the erosion of the term "fanfic" to mean "any media that's in conversation with any other media", which is functionally meaningless because all media is in conversation with other media. At best it's a prompt fill.

The unserious reason is that if doing some writing in response to a Tumblr shitpost counts as as fanfic of that post, the list of people who've written fanfic based on my work includes Eliezer Yudkowski, and I'm not 100% sure how I feel about that.

[sistersorrow]

Accept that this your legacy

[prokopetz]

Honestly, as contemptible legacies of my online presence go, "had a prompt filled by the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality guy" probably ranks somewhere below "coined the phrase 'humans are space orcs'" and "convinced people to start shipping Tony the Tiger with the Grinch".

[kittenwriter]

... wait, people ship Tony the Tiger with the Grinch?

[prokopetz]

You tell me.

[prokopetz]

Daily affirmations:

What is this place?

What manner of creature are you?

What sorcery is this?

[fuzzytheduck]

who goes there?

who sent you?

who dares disturb my slumber?

[scribe-awoken]

What is that beautiful house?

Where does that highway go to?

Am I right?

Am I wrong?

My God! What have I done?

[fivetrench]

*Whimpers*

[onenicebugperday]

This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

Dorsal view by the same photographer:

And from the side:

[bogleech]

Mimicking something and I cant tell what :(

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It was a global problem

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Today's worm, Ramisyllis kingghidorahi is one of a few rare branching annelids! Yes, its body actually branches and it has multiple butts! The worm itself lives inside sponges, but the branching parts can grow eyes, detach and swim away to reproduce. This species was only described in 2022.

Photo from Aguado, M.T., Ponz-Segrelles, G., Glasby, C.J. et al.

[every-day-creechur]

Red-tailed Twigsitter Heteropogon phoenicurus

A robber fly from North America. It preys on beetles and other insects.

image by Rick Nirschl

[departmentoloretorum]

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

[bogleech]

Why would oogie and the scroungers do this

[the-muppet-joker]

Heh. I'm in the Bug Leagues, Kid. No, not the Big Leagues. The Bug Leagues. I'm kind of a Bug Deal, you could say. I'm covered in bugs. I'm covered in bugs