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I know you are all severely disappointed in how long this years edition has taken me but nonetheless it is here now. Let’s start of w/the more basal stuff

Ctenophora

Pieurobrachia pileus - Sea gooseberry,
Ctenophores, opposed to a jellyfish they have tentacles coated in colloblasts to capture prey, instead of cnidocytes. Vicious predators.

Mollusca

A. rufus - Large red slug
C. hortensis - Garden banded snail

Chelicerata

Amaurobius fenesralis - Window spider

Malacostraca

Corystes cassivelanus - who is that masked crab?! Meant to resemble a human face, maybe humans just look like this crab?

Palaeoptera

Enallgma cyathigerum - Northern bluet. A damselfly

Orthoptera

Chorthippus brunneus - Common field grashopper

Hymenoptera

Vespula germanica - German yellowjacket. Hold the camera very still and try & pretend that it’s more scared of you than you are of it.

Coleoptera

The beetle is the gods’ favourite creature & that’s why they made so many of them
Adephaga
Pterostichus madidus - Black clock beetle, or rain beetle - most distantly related.
Polyphaga
->Scarabaeoidea
Dorcus parallelipipedus - we all love a good stag beetle (even a lesser one)
Hoplia philanthus - Welsh Chafer
->Elateroidea
Cantharis flavilabris - Doesn’t have a vernacular name
Rhagonycha fulva - Bloodsucker beetle. Doesn’t eat blood. Really closely related to C. flavilabris. Almost cousins
->Curculionidea
Otorhynchus sulcatus - Black vine weevil
Liophloeus tessulatus - Try saying that one three times fast. Chequered weevil to its friends.

Lepidoptera

Pieris brassicae - Cabbage butterfly
Pyronia tithonus - Gatekeeper
Aglossa pinguinalis - Grease moth. Yet to star in any musicals (to my knowledge).
Macroglossum stellatarum - Hummingbird hawk-moth
Tyria jacobaeae - Cinnabar moth

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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I’m posting it here for all to enjoy

Always reblog flash debate

on it boss

reminder that the presenter says “oh, shut up” not “can it”

Native French speaker here. “Ta gueule” is actually more like “shut the fuck up” in terms of level of disrespect

also worth noting is that the “are you happy” is the correct gender

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official linguistics post

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SEIS fag sex? En esta economia?

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

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>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

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>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

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>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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fastest reblog in the west

Yeppers. :)

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I’m someone else’s network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.

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Time to FROLIC!

Videos i like so much i painted them

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PSA

[Image ID: the meme of squidward with a button on his shirt, the text on the button reads;

“ Although insect phobias cannot always be helped, they should not be so normalized in our culture because this justifies irrational hatred and fear of an incredibly important group of animals that make up the majority of life on this planet, and continues to perpetuate an attitude that makes violence against and extincion of these essential and often harmless contributors to the ecosystem acceptable, and further propagates more insect phobias in individuals which then continues the cycle of misunderstanding and ecological violence” // End ID ]

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first semester studying marine biology: wow i’m really learning a lot about the ocean ^_^ i can’t wait to get out in the field in a couple years and do my part to make the world a better place ^_^

third semester studying marine biology: the intersection of capitalism, imperialism, socioeconomic injustice, and environmental destruction has turned me into david lynch’s cartoon of the dog that is so angry it cannot move. anti littering campaigns aren’t enough i need to guillotine every petrochemical executive and stick their heads on pikes on the white house lawn

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here are some cross-sections of some undersea cables in case anyone wants to know why this is especially funny

and we know this happens regularly

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recently we were out on a hilltop taking photos of the comet and suddenly some car’s headlights blind us from across the bay. literally four miles away.

who the fuck is out here with these nuclear fusion powered headlights. who puts naval searchlights on their fucking toyota tacoma.

Sodus Point, east of Rochester, NY

mystery solved

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