EVER ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 6: pill bug

I called these doodle bugs as a kid. I think everyone has a different name for them.

EVERY ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 5: paper wasp

In wasp terms, super friendly. In regular insect terms, still a huge asshole.

EVERY ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 4: common flesh fly

Cool name. Unless I'm wrong about the name. Cool little guy either way.

EVERY ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 3: argentine ant

I'm guessing with this one more than the last two. Could be an acrobat ant. Or some completely different ant. Either way these 3 were very polite and didn't seem to be hurting the cucumber plant that I found them on.

EVERY ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 2: milk snail.

This dude was starting his day eating my bean plants. But he's edible too. I'm not saying I'm going to eat him, but I could and I want him to know that I could.

EVERY ANIMAL IN MY BACKYARD 1: Asian Tiger Mosquito.

Strictly speaking the only animal out here that's tried to eat me. I'm beginning this photo "essay" in the spirit of danger and adventure.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Once upon a time, the US government sincerely supported research and science. Then those scientists put a guy in orbit and the government says, "Neat trick. We're done here."

Trump is killing scientific progress in America, but he didn't start the decline.

Figure from the AAAS.

If you see this, drop a blue character

Me staring down the gentrifiers that moved to my neighborhood two years ago knowing that I'm the gentrifier that moved in eight years ago.

Transformers squaring up to Titans after Mamba

Dynamic programming in Python like

POV: you're doomscrolling research.gov