LeafSchafe @LeafSchafe@social.cleverlibre.org

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! They look like friends!

(Photo by Andreas Kay via: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaskay/25508849608)

If I was to nominate an insect in a vampire lookalike contest, this would be one of my top entries:

Stilbula sp., a wasp that, by the looks of it, is a parasitoid http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178149023

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #wasps #entomology #insects

https://www.nknews.org/2023/08/a-mystery-in-black-and-white-the-curious-case-of-north-koreas-missing-pandas/
中国送给朝鲜的熊猫比其他任何国家都多，但是都没有下文。原来生为熊猫也与地狱模式

2019年5月，同婚法案通过后，台湾同志运动的下一步该往哪儿去，这也是当地同权运动者们思考的问题。同年11月，台北骄傲游行的主题是“同志好厝边”，强调性少数群体，可能就是你的邻居，也是日常生活里的普通人，呼吁大众关心老年同志的养老问题，关心同志的职场平权等等。

到了22年，台北骄傲游行提出主题“無．限．性─解構框架，性／別無限 An Unlimited Future”，强调性别气质的多元，性少数群体可以突破既有性别框架的限定，去自在地展现、保有自我认可的样子，而无需承担别人任意评判的压力。

所以，在婚姻平权通过之后，程伟豪才姗姗来迟拍“结婚狂”同性恋（很难想象，一个热衷参与同运，对同志权利敏感的人，会忽视、感受不到男朋友并不想结婚的意愿，放到以往异性恋反思情感关系的作品里，那就是《金都》里的妈宝男啊），我们当然可以认为他是在吃同性恋豆腐。而且，他以一个同性恋的死，来帮助完成两代顺直男心灵上的成长，同性恋的工具人意味昭然若揭，程伟豪的顺直男ego也自大、膨胀得让人感到窒息了。

@alfora @futurebird @MostlyHarmless My favourite Excel “feature” is that biologists ended up having to rename some genes because Excel “autocorrects” them, leading to detectable errors in over 30% of a sample of published journal papers:

“What is not funny though is having genomics spreadsheets suffer from auto-conversion of gene names like SEPT8, DEC1 and MARCH3 into dates, a problem first characterised in 2004. A 2016 article on this topic led the Human Gene Name Consortium to change many of these gene names to be less susceptible to autocorrect. Despite this, our work here shows that gene name autocorrect errors continue to accumulate in supplementary genomics spreadsheet files at a rapid pace.” — https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984

J. Degen: moths use patterns of light in sky for orientation - when moon is up, they orient better. Used harmonic radar to measure tiny antenna onto backs of moths and measure flight paths very accurately. Released moths in center of 6 streetlights 85m apart. Caught moths each night to measure, many different species.

Moths got stuck inside circle of streetlights unless moon was up. Flights are more tortuous/curvy when streetlights on.

#ALAN2023

Eine Goldwespe besucht die Heideblüten

「1936年12月1日晚，数百名艺术家在纽约因为参与抗议政府解雇艺术家的活动被捕。随即在监狱里发生了一件奇妙的事：所有艺术家心照不宣地在登记时使用了假名，信口胡诌了历史上不同的伟大艺术家的名字蒙混过关。于是，“米开朗琪罗”被捕了，“毕加索”也被捕了。当一个著名艺术家的名字被喊出来的时候，其他人会注目一阵，看谁又挑走了有趣的名字。狱警一头雾水。
女艺术家李·克拉斯纳也是当晚被捕的人之一，她给自己选了印象派画家玛丽·卡萨特的名字。事后，她回忆说：“我当时并没有太多选择……不是用罗莎·博纳尔，就是用玛丽·卡萨特。”
“并没有太多选择”——克拉斯纳无意间道出了艺术史令人尴尬的一面。」
「在艺术史的几乎每一个阶段，女艺术家从未缺席，总有女艺术家超越自我和社会的限制，创造出动人心魄的作品，然后迅速被人遗忘。」

In 1947, three platypuses were brought to the Bronx Zoo, New York City. One of them, a platypus named Penelope, was an absolute hero so we'll tell you more about her because we like her style.

就我觉得即使作为无脑消遣，它也不是特别适口的作品。我看得蛮开心是因为我会自己制造笑点而且我有和我笑点同步的朋友，但是这个片子它实在……
当然如果你想看费翔老师的奶和800个青年男演员的漂亮胸肌背肌那你来吧。

首先我要说这个片子真的蛮土的，性癖之作，我感觉导演如果是同人女的话嗑的一定是美帝，搞不好还是那种会写捡手机文学的美帝姐。就，他的性癖好他妈明显啊，通俗，明显，而且需要强刺激。但令人生畏的是导演虽然有一颗美帝心但却是个实打实的中年男的，他不仅拥有低俗的性癖！他还拥有了呈现它的能力！于是他就呈现出一种……我不知道怎么说，假如我是节食了三十年的麦当娜而我突然看见一坨糖油混合物……啧……的那种感觉。太凝了，我都没法准确描述，太凝了。固然他也在凝男的但是相比起他凝起女角色女演员的力度和强度，他凝男的简直就像是在慈爱地摸摸头，算了不想说了。

其次从专业手法来说，这也不是一部好的商业片。
只说最基本的，作为商业片你起码要让观众快点搞清楚谁是谁吧，结果开场大概前半个小时里我只认出了殷寿，因为他是费翔，和妲己，因为她是女的。中间我一直在靠台词猜谁是谁，还一时半会搞不清王后和妲己心想这个叛臣之女怎么这么快就参政议政了真是领先版本三千年……
这片子的角色标注真是一闪而过啊，有两秒吗大人，没有吧，我用PPT做淡入淡出都比你会把握节奏，真的。主要角色服装又雷同，我真的服了你们，费翔戴个头盔钻进质子团中间我可能都认不出费翔，我当大王是为了什么，难道是为了泯然众人，让黑白无常不知道应该勾谁下黄泉吗！
音乐和音效也很烂，不是说你不能配也不是说不好听（是不太好听）就是你能不能安静点，动不动来个bgm，说真的就好像你第一年考进图书馆事业编第一天开始上班，半天没有一个活儿你惶惑不安了，哪怕放屁也一定要弄出个动静来！……于是你一上午走访了53个书架到处大声放屁，不是你妈的这，有意义吗？

最后，你能很明显地感觉到一些，我姑且称之为致敬，的东西。因为我不想很苛刻地界定它所以我不会称之为抄袭或模仿，也只是打算轻轻地把它放到最后来说。但是你确实能感觉到，起码在这部作品里导演临摹了这些场景出来，但他不知道什么放在哪里才合适，他也不知道这些场景背后的逻辑是怎么搭建出来的。
这对于一部影片的主要创作负责人来说蛮悲剧的，因为他就好像在收集稀有卡片一样收集它们，然后用这些CG硬做连线题连出一套剧情来……我都能猜到他主要想抓的是哪几张CG……

@futurebird …the book begins with this diagram, and in the book he posits each of these eras having a timeline branch where intelligent life arose at that exact moment and then all future evolutionary branches get cut off there as that new planetary apex species initiates their version of the anthropocene.

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Let's get together and read a scientific paper! Let's find out what Ernst Gräfenberg, namesake of the G-spot actually had to say about G-spots...

The paper in question is titled "The Role of Urethra in Female Orgasm", published in the International Journal of Sexology in 1950 by Gräfenberg. It's available online in English and the original German if you'd like to read along.

We have this cool garden visitor! Found it on the front path (nearly trodden on) & identified it as a lime hawkmoth caterpillar. We don’t have a lime tree but have a Himalayan birch in the front garden. Silver birch is listed as a foodstuff for this beastie so hopefully it’ll like the Himalayan variety. Put it at the base in case it’s looking to cosy up & pupate, but last seen inching its way up the trunk. Maybe still hungry or will hunker down in a crevice.

#moth #caterpillar #insects

@futurebird @ct_bergstrom My searching got me to a bird called a buff-banded rail https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buff-banded_Rail_chick_%28Gallirallus_philippensis%29_%2836761960344%29.jpg

@ct_bergstrom

Carl, is it OK if I share this baby crow over on tumblr? I'll link back to this post and your account obviously.

People have been saying that this is a baby crow over there and it's driving me up the wall:

you ever just spend an hour at work photographing ladybug wanguses? (technical term: aedeagus)
#Nature #Insects #Beetles

《本人捷克造》：是一部以诙谐手法拍摄的捷克青年从共产主义童年逐渐成长的影片。

是不是很那个。我的想法可以多看捷克电影，毕竟我们共享同一个共产主义童年，同一个共产主义阴影。

捏了一个屁股嘻嘻

#做完放哪儿 （冰箱