Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!
More than 60% of the global population that are classified as the Phase 5 famine/catastrophe level of food insecurity and starvation are in the Gaza Strip right now, and that percentage is projected to increase to 95% by Februrary
if you are unable to donate financially to help palestine, you can donate your time by protesting, boycotting, and putting up posters!
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and i would urge those able to spare a few dollars to donate to one or more of the following organizations:
weevils being a popular species on tiktok is wild as hell to me. like i saw someone using this weevil design i made forever ago as a profile picture. Like Theres a market for this? I thought this was just a me thing
thinking about weevil photonic crystal structures...
Weevils (such as Pachyrhynchus genera) have evolved epidermal cells that can produce colour through opal-like arrangements of packed spheres, forming a three-dimensional photonic crystalline structure.
i posted a tiny drab moth to inaturalist and someone pipped it right to species
and i was like, hmm, from hanging out with mothologists i got the impression that most tiny drab moths need to be under the microscope to be IDed to species instead of being left at genus or even just family level, this guy might be winging it, i should get out my field guide and check