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Dr. Dharma Bum
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Molecular Microbiologist
Amateur Naturalist
Terrible photographer
Neurodivergent
High-functioning fuck up
Pro-Democracy
Anti-Fascist
I follow back all anti-fascists
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I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning
Robert Duvall on the battlefield in Apocalypse Now
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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My first Furrow Orbweaver!
#iNaturalist
#spiders
#spider🕷️
September 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Would you eat this egg?
September 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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BREAKING: Photo of the attacker released
The picture is of a face-eating leopard
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Bumblebumbles bounce
September 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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KKK funded this one too. Stone Mountain Georgia
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I see the problem. Without the cracker and the barrel the name just doesn't make sense
The new and old Cracker Barrel logos side by side, the difference being the old white man with a barrel. A cracker and a barrel.
August 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I'm worried about the Sandwich Gap!
Photo of George C Scott on a tirade in Dr. Strangelove.
August 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Q:Does the Spider Pope wear a funny hat?

A:
A yellow-faced, green-legged spider (an Orchard Orb Weaver) positioned such that her abdomen looks like a Pope hat including a big brown cross. Okay, maybe it's a stretch, but cool pic of her face and eyes
June 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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This little guy at Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan wanted to come home with me. Phintelloides versicolor 🕷️🕷️🕸️ #spiders
White jumping spider with big black eyes and orange chelicerae staring up at the camera
January 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Tiny bolete growing on a pine needle
A brown mushroom growing on a pine needle. The underside of the mushroom is showing and the pores indicate it is a bolete
January 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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November 23, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Spotted snapping turtle hatchlings emerging from their nest back in September. This was on the bank of South Fork Creek in Atlanta. Couldn't believe my luck! 🐢🐢🐢🐢 #iNaturalist #Nature
Three snapping turtle hatchlings peaking out of a hole in the sand. The two brave ones in the foreground are urging each other to go first Close up of a snapping turtle hatchling covered with sand and crawling towards the creek Close up of a snapping turtle hatching being held by two fingers. It is about the size of a silver dollar (the turtle, not the fingers) Snapping turtle hatchling chilling of a leaf under water pondering what he/she/they are doing to do with his/her/their life
November 15, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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🕷️🕸️ If the Lorax was a spider:
A brown jumping spider with big white fuzzy front legs that look like a big mustache
May 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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#invertfest 🌿🦋
Three phases of the Plain Tiger Butterfly (Danaus chrysippus). All pics taken on the same day earlier this week in Batam, Indonesia.
A black chrysalis hanging from a leaf Aa black and white and yellow striped caterpillar taking a stroll on a partially eaten leaf. A orange and white butterfly with black margins on a red flower An orange, black and white butterfly on a red flower in the foreground and a sandy beach and the South China Sea in the background. Islands can be seen in the distance
December 30, 2023 at 7:43 AM
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Joros in Georgia. Took these this summer. Note the male on the female in the pic with the bee
Close up of a Joro spider. It has broad yellow and silver stripes running the short way across he abdomen. Her head is silver Joro with yellow and silver stripes in her web. She has a silver head and black legs with yellow stipes. She is about 3 inches including her legs Female Joro spider with a male on her underside while she subdues a bee
December 26, 2023 at 1:02 AM
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Here are some orange ones. 1. Brown Panzy (Junonia hedonia) 2. Common Leopard (Phalanta phalantha) 3. Gulf Fritillary (Dione vanillae) 4. Monarch (Danaus plexippus). First 2 from Singapore. Last 2 from Atlanta, Georgia
Orange and brown butterfly with orange dots with black outline on lower wings Orange butterfly with black spots and black and orange margins on bottom edge of both pairs of wings Orange butterfly with a black margin. The black margin has a row of orange spots on the edge of lower wings. Monarch butterfly (orange black and white) on purple flower of a butterfly bush (Buddleja)
December 24, 2023 at 12:06 AM
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Yup
Close-up frontal view of a jumping spider, Eris floridana. She has a yellow face and one eye reflection black, the other brown
December 22, 2023 at 1:00 AM
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A male Carrhotus viduus jumping spider (no common name). This was a beefy little guy I found in Changi Village #Singapore #arachnophiles
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Top down view of a black and white jumping spider. It has hairy legs and orange coloration around its forward facing eyes Jumping spider in a defensive posture. Long black chelicerae are visible. It has hairy legs and tufts of hair on its head. A pair of big black forward facing eyes staring to the left
December 19, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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Arboreal bicolored slender ants (Tetraponera rufonigra) on a hanging lobster claw Heliconia (H. rostrata) 🐜🐜
🦞🌿 #Singapore
A pair of orange and black ants on a yellow green and red leaf Close up of a black and orange ant. It is long and slender with striated antennae
December 19, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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My first spider in Singapore!

It's a Lami Beach Northern Jumping spider (Cosmophasis lami) and it's on a spider lily (Hymenocallis) and is having a snack. #arachnophiles
#spiders
#Singapore
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Jumping spider on the stem of a white flower Jumping spider (closer view) on a white flower and with an insect in its grasp
December 17, 2023 at 7:20 AM
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Is it possible that this is an immature rosy brittlegill (Russula rosea)? #fungifriends
A pink cup-shaped mushroom with no visible stem.
December 14, 2023 at 8:37 AM
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The appropriately names Clitoria mariana. Maria must have made quite an impression on whoever named this species.
December 13, 2023 at 1:13 AM
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I think this is a broad-faced sac spider (Trachelas tranquillus). Can anyone confirm?
December 12, 2023 at 11:14 PM