Eric R. Eaton
@bugeric.bsky.social
Nonfiction author, blogger, insect identifier, ally. Presenter/speaker. #SciComm, entomology, urban nature, human conflict with other species, other humans. Opposed to colonialism, capitalism. Married Progressive in Kansas, USA.
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Eric R. Eaton
@bugeric.bsky.social
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University of Texas receiver, to his quarterback: Gee, it’d be great if you could keep the throw inside the stadium, but ok, I’ll catch it [for a touchdown] anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
University of Texas receiver, to his quarterback: Gee, it’d be great if you could keep the throw inside the stadium, but ok, I’ll catch it [for a touchdown] anyway.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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First and foremost, alt text must always be informative and descriptive of the content in the image. It can have character and humor, but it still needs to be informative and descriptive. Alt text is not a place to add easter eggs or jokes for sighted users.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
First and foremost, alt text must always be informative and descriptive of the content in the image. It can have character and humor, but it still needs to be informative and descriptive. Alt text is not a place to add easter eggs or jokes for sighted users.
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Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
Unpopular(?) take on American pro football season: some NFL teams are taking advantage of a weak schedule, and injuries to players on opposing teams, and they will be exposed as mediocre pretenders in the playoffs. Eagles probably win Super Bowl again. Sigh.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Unpopular(?) take on American pro football season: some NFL teams are taking advantage of a weak schedule, and injuries to players on opposing teams, and they will be exposed as mediocre pretenders in the playoffs. Eagles probably win Super Bowl again. Sigh.
True!
I love it that when contacting an author in order to scam, these folks using fake "book clubs" or pretending to be other, real authors, give you the rehashed back of the book blurb.
Like you need to be reminded what you wrote 😂
OK, sometimes I do, but not like that.
Like you need to be reminded what you wrote 😂
OK, sometimes I do, but not like that.
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
True!
Ha! If AI writes something, but no human ever reads it, does the “work” still exist?
i used chatgpt to write a novel earlier today. i haven’t read it but chatgpt did and it cried..
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ha! If AI writes something, but no human ever reads it, does the “work” still exist?
My partner and I went on a walk today. We got about a block before she noticed this Merlin falcon atop a utility pole, eating prey. We dashed back to get our cameras. Bird was done feeding, but flew only a short distance to a nearby tree. Leavenworth, Kansas USA. #birdsky #birds #birding
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It *is* very good.
This is good! This is really good! Read this. Thanks, @dennycarter.bsky.social
badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-...
badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-...
They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read
Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung
badfaithtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It *is* very good.
I love posts like this that elicit thoughtful responses, maybe a little nostalgia, and also evoke the idea of new lenses we should be looking through.
I had crushes starting at age 4. I have clear memories of talking about who liked whom as far back as pre-k. But I cannot imagine my kindergarten and preschool aged kids thinking about that. I actually don't think they know about the concept of bfs/gfs. What's going on there
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I love posts like this that elicit thoughtful responses, maybe a little nostalgia, and also evoke the idea of new lenses we should be looking through.
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
This is a great marine biology scicomm account, all original content.
Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand!
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
#marinelife
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is a great marine biology scicomm account, all original content.
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Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
SMUD’s controversial Coyote Creek solar project moves forward
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the project at a packed Tuesday meeting, where over 150 people showed up to voice concerns or support.
www.capradio.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
This is in the U.S., for international friends who might be unfamiliar. EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency (well, pretty much in name only at this point).
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is in the U.S., for international friends who might be unfamiliar. EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency (well, pretty much in name only at this point).
Another example of our binary culture that’s wrong: we’re conditioned to believe it’s either “abundance” or “austerity.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Another example of our binary culture that’s wrong: we’re conditioned to believe it’s either “abundance” or “austerity.”
Bookmarking to read later.
I've been working since 2022 to try to form the basis for an alternative reading of sovereignty fit for the polycrisis and promoting true, just and internationalist transitions. This view of popular ecological sovereignty is in a few articles, but I just reflected on it in the context of COP30 too:
Ecological sovereignty: from mutual annihilation to true planetary longevity?
When fossil fuel expansion is justified in the name of national sovereignty, you know states have lost touch with the climate reality.
the.ecocene.blog
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bookmarking to read later.
The comments and stories in the thread are wonderful. They will restore your faith in humanity.
#ThingsAreTerrible but apparently, it is not that awful to buy a side dish or dessert for the Thanksgiving pot-luck. Gifted. share.inquirer.com/xuV61P
Is it rude to bring a store-bought Thanksgiving dish when everyone else is cooking from scratch?
And if you buy a pie, do you pretend you made it?
share.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The comments and stories in the thread are wonderful. They will restore your faith in humanity.
This is probably my favorite park in Oregon. East of the Cascades, so can count on lots of sun to illuminate the spectacular scenery.
One of the most exciting sunsets I've captured. A thunderstorm came rolling in just as the clouds started to change color. Smith Rock State Park in Oregon.
#lightning #sunset #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #oregon #canon
#lightning #sunset #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #oregon #canon
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is probably my favorite park in Oregon. East of the Cascades, so can count on lots of sun to illuminate the spectacular scenery.
LOL! Perfect.
Clients are turning to AI, hoping it finally understands their creative vision.
In six months, it'll throw its six-fingered hands up and ask, "What the fuck does 'Give it some more Umph' mean?!"
In six months, it'll throw its six-fingered hands up and ask, "What the fuck does 'Give it some more Umph' mean?!"
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
LOL! Perfect.
Reposting mostly to ask if this is indeed true. Is there consensus?
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposting mostly to ask if this is indeed true. Is there consensus?
Magnificent photography from this artist.
See through the lies ❤️
#portrait #portraitphotography #dopeportrait #portraitmodeling #artisticphoto #artisticportrait #portraitmodel
#portrait #portraitphotography #dopeportrait #portraitmodeling #artisticphoto #artisticportrait #portraitmodel
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Magnificent photography from this artist.
So close! LOL! My best, and favorite, shot of an immature Golden Eagle in flight over El Paso County, Colorado, USA, on March 30, 2015. #FlyDay #EastCoastKin #birding #birds
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
So close! LOL! My best, and favorite, shot of an immature Golden Eagle in flight over El Paso County, Colorado, USA, on March 30, 2015. #FlyDay #EastCoastKin #birding #birds
A Banded Sunflower Moth, Cochylichroa hospes, in flight. Cheyenne Mountain State Park, El Paso County, Colorado, USA, July 25, 2017. #FlyFriday #EastCoastKin #bugsky #moths #moth
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A Banded Sunflower Moth, Cochylichroa hospes, in flight. Cheyenne Mountain State Park, El Paso County, Colorado, USA, July 25, 2017. #FlyFriday #EastCoastKin #bugsky #moths #moth
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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Thank goodness tomorrow’s Flyday!
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #EastCoastKin
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #painting #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts
Questions/comments? @grays.art
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #EastCoastKin
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #painting #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts
Questions/comments? @grays.art
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Thank goodness tomorrow’s Flyday!
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #EastCoastKin
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #painting #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts
Questions/comments? @grays.art
Post original photos & art of live, self-propelled, flying creatures. 1 or more submissions welcome tagged:
#FlyDay #EastCoastKin
Welcome no matter location, nor skill level.
#photography #painting #Art #ArtChallenges #ArtPrompts
Questions/comments? @grays.art