IM SORRY. I'M SO SORRY. They Really Chose To Draw THIS? I CAN'T😭😭😭😭

I can stare at Johnny's work all day

And jst be mesmerised 😳♥️

2025!! 🎆🤍

Mary Magdalene in the Cave by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1876)

Immortality. 1901. Endpaper. 

Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

CNBC

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

[设计] - reposted w/ permission

Wyoming Moonrise

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Backyard find!

The atalanta butterfly (Vanessa atalanta), also known as the red admiral, has an almost worldwide range, sometimes even reaching heights up to 2000 meters! For its great migration throughout the year, this butterfly often surfs on a northwind to help reach their destinations.

Their wingspan can reach up to 6 cm (about 2.5 inches)

Classification: Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae - Vanessa (Vanessa atalanta)