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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 36m

pretty sure this Afrogehringia was right at 1mm, not counting the extended abdomen

Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 37m

A bit smaller than that!
Polyderidius (like the one we took pics of) and the gehringiines are the smallest I can think of. A bit over a mm

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WFMU Rock ‘n’ Soul Radio @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social · 9h

Drop In Presents
Happy Birthday Uncle Bob #2! with Frank In Queens
Saturday 6PM ET

It's time for the 2nd annual Robert Pollard birthday edition of Drop In! 🎂

@wfmu.bsky.social #guidedbyvoices #dropinonrocknsoulradio #robertpollard

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 20h

Habitat

a nice wooded hillside in West Virginia with a big rock turned over in the foreground. a blue pry bar is on the ground beside it.

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 20h

I had been to this site 7 or 8 times before since moving here a couple months ago and never found anything. That's how it goes, usually. If a spot looks good, keep going back under different conditions and seasons.

Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 1d

Another undescribed species of Arianops, and only the second sp. known from West Virginia!
#Pselaphinae

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 22h

Are you all checking the catch at a scope in the evenings, or will it all be a big surprise when you get home?

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 23h

Day 4 of our Okefenokee NWF collecting trip took us to Mixons Hammock east of Stephen C Foster State Park. We canoed the two miles and then sampled mossy patches and magnolia litter in cypress swamps. Not the most productive, but we found many linyphiids for study.

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 1d

I'll take it! VMNH gave me all their pselaphine vials last year to put names on, so it can go there with the rest.

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 1d

almost lost the vial containing the beetles when I saw this four-toed salamander
#Plethodontidae

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 1d

an undescribed eyeless Lathrobium was under the same rock
#Paederinae

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 1d

Another undescribed species of Arianops, and only the second sp. known from West Virginia!
#Pselaphinae

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 3d

headless horseman tachyine

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Marc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 3d

Day 1 of our Okefenokee NWF trip completed. We canoed to Billy's Island (~2mi.), collected spiders all day via litter sift and vacuum, and canoed back to camp. Very productive and hopefully we collected some lost species.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'I think we should have principles as business owners and stand up for what’s right,' [owner William McCormick] said. The actual shirt, he explained, isn’t really new. 'It used to just say Fuck Nazis. We just clarified who the Nazis were.'"

McCormack’s Irish Pub Sparks National Debate in Richmond

Richmond’s McCormack’s Irish Pub is at the center of a national firestorm after owner William “Mac” McCormick released a t-shirt reading “Fuck ICE, Fuck Nazis, Fuck Trump.” The message sparked viral d...

rvamag.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13d

I hate to be a doomer but the pandemic broke me in this regard I think. After watching like a third of the country proudly say they wouldn't inconvenience themselves even if it cost other people their lives, where do you go from there

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8d

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8d

“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

www.theguardian.com

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 9d

it's never occurred to them. they have zero idea that in the lawless, anti science, brutal world they seek to usher in, defective weirdos like them would have been used for food and firewood

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 9d

A well-timed emergence from a day spent in a windowless building.

We are on a Planet spinning and flying through Outer Space.

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 11d

props to the super-talented Frank Guarnieri for giving this species the star treatment it deserves:
bugguide.net/node/view/13...

Pterostichus trinarius

An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.

bugguide.net

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 11d

Nice early fall foliage, and
the beautiful / kinda-rare Pterostichus trinarius (usually more of a spring species in my experience).
#Carabidae
#WestVirginia

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 14d

#NoKings Charleston WV

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 14d

Best sign I saw today

2025 NOBEL PRIZE
ASS HOLE AWARD
DONALD JACK-ASS TRUMP
SMELLS LIKE SHIT

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Curt H @tyuge.bsky.social · 16d

Yep, soil washing has produced many exciting finds for me. Doesn't always work, but it's always worth a try.
It's very simple, too. Check out Chris Carlton's flickr album showing the steps
www.flickr.com/photos/12666...

Do some soil washing!

A photo demonstration of soil washing to collect endogean (deep soil inhabiting) beetles and other organisms. Brittany Owens is the photographer. Chris Carlton is the collector. Locality is Feliciana ...

www.flickr.com

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Juno Rylee (birthday was yesterday so you have to be nice to me) @junoryleejournalism.com · 23d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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