Timberdoodle
@timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social
Same weird forester/forest ecologist/occasional essayist you knew from Twitter. Just a big damn squirrel specializing in regenerative forestry practices and encouraging old growth character
Known by some as "Gandalf" and "That God Damned Tree Wizard"
Known by some as "Gandalf" and "That God Damned Tree Wizard"
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Timberdoodle
@timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social
· Oct 24
a group of knights are standing in a dark room
ALT: a group of knights are standing in a dark room
media.tenor.com
Be forewarned, I am deeply unserious about a great many things.
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The NYT sending a bunch of reporters and opinion columnists to face the firing squad over Epstein than dropping glamour profiles of Gaetz and Nuzzi 24 hours later is nasty work
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The NYT sending a bunch of reporters and opinion columnists to face the firing squad over Epstein than dropping glamour profiles of Gaetz and Nuzzi 24 hours later is nasty work
Yes.... a new glorious achievement in the competition between coleoptera and hymenoptera as to who will be the most diverse order of insects.
EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU CHEATED ON A BELICHICK LEVEL BY CRAMMING THOSE 108 SPECIES INTO PITHYOPTERUS, COLEOPTERA. DON'T TRY TO DENY IT.
EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU CHEATED ON A BELICHICK LEVEL BY CRAMMING THOSE 108 SPECIES INTO PITHYOPTERUS, COLEOPTERA. DON'T TRY TO DENY IT.
[smashing a big red button]
NEW BEE NEWS
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
NEW BEE NEWS
Megachile lucifer: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
NEW BEE NEWS
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
NEW BEE NEWS
Megachile lucifer: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
This Newly Discovered ‘Lucifer’ Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns
Researchers hope the discovery shines a light on bee conservation Down Under
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Yes.... a new glorious achievement in the competition between coleoptera and hymenoptera as to who will be the most diverse order of insects.
EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU CHEATED ON A BELICHICK LEVEL BY CRAMMING THOSE 108 SPECIES INTO PITHYOPTERUS, COLEOPTERA. DON'T TRY TO DENY IT.
EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU CHEATED ON A BELICHICK LEVEL BY CRAMMING THOSE 108 SPECIES INTO PITHYOPTERUS, COLEOPTERA. DON'T TRY TO DENY IT.
ASK ME HOW MANY LABS I'M APPLYING TO AT UGA THAT HAVE OR HAVE HAD CHINESE GRAD STUDENTS IN THEM, HAVE CHINESE NATIONAL CO-AUTHORS, OR ARE LED BY CHINESE NATIONALS.
(pretty sure it's all of them! plant and life sciences know no borders!)
(pretty sure it's all of them! plant and life sciences know no borders!)
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ASK ME HOW MANY LABS I'M APPLYING TO AT UGA THAT HAVE OR HAVE HAD CHINESE GRAD STUDENTS IN THEM, HAVE CHINESE NATIONAL CO-AUTHORS, OR ARE LED BY CHINESE NATIONALS.
(pretty sure it's all of them! plant and life sciences know no borders!)
(pretty sure it's all of them! plant and life sciences know no borders!)
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I need EVERY “if we just tell people about science, it will fix this mess” person to read and internalize this.
If you want ppl to give af about science, try fighting for basic access, democracy, and freedom first…otherwise you’re completely missing the point and misreading the moment.
If you want ppl to give af about science, try fighting for basic access, democracy, and freedom first…otherwise you’re completely missing the point and misreading the moment.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I need EVERY “if we just tell people about science, it will fix this mess” person to read and internalize this.
If you want ppl to give af about science, try fighting for basic access, democracy, and freedom first…otherwise you’re completely missing the point and misreading the moment.
If you want ppl to give af about science, try fighting for basic access, democracy, and freedom first…otherwise you’re completely missing the point and misreading the moment.
The world could be transformed into a paradise if we would simply adapt our infrastructure to be human-centric and respectful/complimentary to the surrounding ecosystems.
Also, if y'all would use those brown paper bags instead of plastic and then re-use them for projects around the house.
Also, if y'all would use those brown paper bags instead of plastic and then re-use them for projects around the house.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The world could be transformed into a paradise if we would simply adapt our infrastructure to be human-centric and respectful/complimentary to the surrounding ecosystems.
Also, if y'all would use those brown paper bags instead of plastic and then re-use them for projects around the house.
Also, if y'all would use those brown paper bags instead of plastic and then re-use them for projects around the house.
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so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
so it turns out qanon was like McCarthyism in that like 90% of the country was spying for the Russians and they somehow managed to accuse the other 10%
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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It's critically important that communities make distinctions between e-bikes and e-motos when implementing regulations, and that starts with a solid definition of an e-moto. Lumping both into the same regulatory bucket will hinder the expansion of e-bikes as a powerful mobility tool.
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It's critically important that communities make distinctions between e-bikes and e-motos when implementing regulations, and that starts with a solid definition of an e-moto. Lumping both into the same regulatory bucket will hinder the expansion of e-bikes as a powerful mobility tool.
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This is the book written by Donald Barr, Bill's father who gave Epstein his start.
It is literally about elites who grow so powerful and untouchable they start doing increasing sexual sadism against teenagers just to feel something.
It is literally about elites who grow so powerful and untouchable they start doing increasing sexual sadism against teenagers just to feel something.
![In the future, humans have formed an intergalactic empire ruled by aristocrats. During a time of war with the Plith, an empire of ant-like alien bug people, ambassador John Craig, a formerly Liberal Earth man in his 30s, is dispatched to the strategically important planet Kossar, a human colony that was settled by the Carlyle Society as a place of exile for political extremists and now is ruled by an oligarchical high council of seven nobles, each of whom is in charge of a different domain with its own traditions. Their boredom and absolute power have driven them to madness, to the point that Kossar's entry into the empire has been stymied by the Man-Inhabited Planets Treaty's clause (written by Craig) against alliances with slave owning societies, due to its practice of kidnapping humans to become illegal playthings of the galaxy's super-rich.
Craig, who now is campaigning to bring Kossar into the empire, had previously been to the planet when the passenger ship on which he was travelling on a return trip from the Betelgeuse Conference was captured by space pirates. While en route to Kossar, one of the pirates awakened Craig and the other prisoners to rape a 15-year-old virginal redheaded female captive in front of them; the rapist's fellow pirates later hear of this and dock his pay as punishment for spoiling her market value. Craig then spent two years as a slave of the beautiful, sensual, and sadistic Lady Morgan Sidney, the only female member of the oligarchy, with whom he became romantically involved. Together, they lived in her castle, ruling over and engaging in sexual relations with those under their dominion, including an enslaved teenager at a clinic used to breed enslaved people. When Craig stumbles on hints of an alien invasion, he realizes he must escape to save humanity.
Craig is depicted as undisturbed by Lady Morgan's sadism. When he is ordered to sexually assault the enslaved teenager, he enjoys his participation in the act.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nruu4ywzsygrdnz6z2ynmgbd/bafkreickwqzmtbcs7lpsrhophrewijtbb2hbda3ayq6yxdxxofdpq72vk4@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is the book written by Donald Barr, Bill's father who gave Epstein his start.
It is literally about elites who grow so powerful and untouchable they start doing increasing sexual sadism against teenagers just to feel something.
It is literally about elites who grow so powerful and untouchable they start doing increasing sexual sadism against teenagers just to feel something.
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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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I am not joking when I say the ICE wives and kids should be equal targets as the agents themselves. I promise you there are a lot of gold bracelets and rings with the imprinting for Guadalajara gold that these people could never explain with a straight face.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am not joking when I say the ICE wives and kids should be equal targets as the agents themselves. I promise you there are a lot of gold bracelets and rings with the imprinting for Guadalajara gold that these people could never explain with a straight face.
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14 November 1913 | A Polish Jew, Berek Gerst, was born in Brzeziny. A tailor.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24540
He was shot in the camp on 17 June 1942.
---
Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24540
He was shot in the camp on 17 June 1942.
---
Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
14 November 1913 | A Polish Jew, Berek Gerst, was born in Brzeziny. A tailor.
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24540
He was shot in the camp on 17 June 1942.
---
Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
In #Auschwitz from 15 December 1941.
No. 24540
He was shot in the camp on 17 June 1942.
---
Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://youtu.be/_ZaWqIsmY4U
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Things I love: Gore Verbinski when he gets to lean into his weirdness, Sam Rockwell being loud, Zazie Beetz doing anything, and weird time travel stories. It's like this movie was made in a lab just for me.
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Teaser Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Things I love: Gore Verbinski when he gets to lean into his weirdness, Sam Rockwell being loud, Zazie Beetz doing anything, and weird time travel stories. It's like this movie was made in a lab just for me.
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listen. the fish and i have an agreement. i don’t go in their house, they don’t come to mine. so far they have upheld their end of the bargain and this video confirms i shall do the same.
WHY sturgeon gotta be like that???
[wait for it]
North America’s largest freshwater fish (White Sturgeon) is obviously jealous of the second largest (Alligator Gar) with its armored scales, teeth, poisonous eggs, air-breathing…but I suppose barbels are cool? 😅
[wait for it]
North America’s largest freshwater fish (White Sturgeon) is obviously jealous of the second largest (Alligator Gar) with its armored scales, teeth, poisonous eggs, air-breathing…but I suppose barbels are cool? 😅
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
listen. the fish and i have an agreement. i don’t go in their house, they don’t come to mine. so far they have upheld their end of the bargain and this video confirms i shall do the same.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Watercolour painting of a dog called Larry! Done from a photo. #dogs #dogsofbluesky #throwbackthursday #petportraits #painting #art #watercolours
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Watercolour painting of a dog called Larry! Done from a photo. #dogs #dogsofbluesky #throwbackthursday #petportraits #painting #art #watercolours
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Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
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@sacrozhangt.bsky.social and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@sacrozhangt.bsky.social and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
Me, at the dog park.
"That dog barks like his name is Chris"
"That dog barks like his name is Chris"
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Me, at the dog park.
"That dog barks like his name is Chris"
"That dog barks like his name is Chris"
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we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them
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Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night
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I know it speaks poorly of me, but I take intense vindictive pleasure at the revelation that the closest thing Donald had to a friend privately despised him.
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I know it speaks poorly of me, but I take intense vindictive pleasure at the revelation that the closest thing Donald had to a friend privately despised him.
well I guess we now know that the reason these emails were never considered a big deal was because literally every major "journalism" outfit *had at least one person who was chatting with the fucking guy running a child sex trafficking ring like they were old fucking pals*
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
well I guess we now know that the reason these emails were never considered a big deal was because literally every major "journalism" outfit *had at least one person who was chatting with the fucking guy running a child sex trafficking ring like they were old fucking pals*