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A meme showing an open-palmed hand slamming down towards a big blue button. A caption over the hand reads: "18th century European naturalists classifying a new species of marsupial" The button is labelled "Didelphis"
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Geodude
Geodude set against a white background. It is a rock-like creature with two wiry, muscular arms, prominent brow, and triangular anime-style eyes.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Creationists: created kinds are at the family rank

Me, studying taxonomy:
Blight from Batman Beyond, a character with glowing green translucent skin covering a black skeleton. He is standing in front of a computer console. A caption reads: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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An image of Kent Brockman from The Simpsons front of a pale green background seen through a television screen. The caption reads "I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW INSECT OVERLORDS." in Simpsons font.
August 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNs_...
A still frame of Arthur and Buster (an anthropomorphic aardvark and white rabbit, respectively), from the TV series 'Arthur'. Arthur is sitting on his bed facing away from the viewer towards Buster, who's in a red office chair and has a deeply concerned look on his face. Caption reads: 'You really think Casey Luskin would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?'
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Well that's depressing. They're shutting down CIPRES after the NSF cut funding.
An email. It reads: Dear CIPRES User, For more than 15 years, the CIPRES Science Gateway has been the premier resource for global access to phylogenetics and population genetics codes run on high-performance computing systems. Unfortunately, funding from NSF, our long-time sponsor, has ended, and revenue from subscriptions has proved insufficient to provide the level of service that our users expect and deserve. Regrettably, then, we will need to end production operation of CIPRES on March 31, 2026. New subscriptions will continue to be accepted until September 30, 2025, but the period of service will be gradually reduced from one year to six months. User files will be retained for 30 days after the end of production to allow you to retrieve those that you want. The CIPRES team – Mark Miller, Mark Zhuang, and myself – have appreciated the opportunity to help thousands of users around the world advance the science of evolution and wish you continued success in your endeavors.
April 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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A tweet from Dr David Hamilton: Potoroos – 50% "oooo" Coincidentally, also the sound I make every time I see one Beneath is an image of a potoroo, a rabbit-sized animal with a conical snout, small eyes and round ears, holding its short forelegs in front.
March 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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This is a fundraiser for Ahmed from Gaza. It's at 28% of the goal and Ahmed is in serious need of support.

PLEASE DONATE AND SHARE

www.gofundme.com/f/help-ahmed...
Text: ""I am Ahmed from Gaza, 26 years old. I stand before you as a person trying to support my family of 7: me, my father, my mother and my sisters, in our miserable circumstances, which we live in after the occupation launched the war on Gaza. We were displaced from our home and it was completely destroyed. We are now living in shelters." Beneath are two photos of crude shelters in an arid place Text: "Due to the circumstances and low income, we are unable to provide the necessary benefits such as food and drink due to the crazy increase in prices. Thus, my source of livelihood has been destroyed, but it has been completely destroyed, as we are no longer entitled to work; and we expect to live in miserable conditions in the shelters. It is difficult for me to find the words to describe what we face every day in the shelters; without food, medicine or clean drinking water; with the oppression, helplessness, psychological pressures, doubts and daily shocks caused by everything around us and the inability to care for our loved ones. The fear of danger, disease and death never leaves us. Now, I find myself in this difficult situation, and I humbly ask for your help to save the lives of my family, especially my father and mother, by getting us out of Gaza to Egypt and building a new life outside Gaza or helping us get money to buy the necessities that we may be able to afford. Asking for help is not easy, but we had no choice because we want to survive and strive to rebuild our shattered lives. We are very grateful for any help you can offer, no matter how small, as your help will go a long way in alleviating our suffering. I hope you will share my story with your family and friends.” An image of a GoFundMe campaign titled "Help Ahmed And His Family Survive In Gaza Crisis A photo above shows a young Arabic man with a short-back-and-sides haircut sitting on a motorbike. He's smiling slightly and wearing an off-white t-shirt.
March 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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trying to run PCAs but i'm so eepy
A kitten with white fur and a black patch over its eye. Its eyes are squinted in a tired expression because it's so eepy. As I am.
February 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Fun fact, the closest living relatives of whales are hippos, so whales are technically ungulates. That's alongside things like deer, cattle, antelopes and giraffes and means we find really funky fossils like this:
A fossil skeleton of Ambulocetus natans, an Eocene whale. The skeleton has four proportionately short limbs with long digits. The skull is long and narrow, with several sharp teeth transitioning from simple and narrow at the front to jagged and multi-cusped at the back.
February 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding"
A close-up of Gordon Ramsay wearing his white chef's uniform and a pencil behind his ear, scowling. Captioned: You fucking donkey.
February 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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A low-resolution black and white image of a stenciled fish and a fishhook above it. Text at the top of the image reads: "Low quality bait"
February 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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You can access it with a VPN lmao. You'd think mr super-savant tech genius Musk would've thought of that.

There's not much point though since this is all that's there.
The official website of DOGE. It's a plain black screen, at the top of which is written "An official website of the United States government". Halfway down the page is more text: "Department of Government Efficiency" in bold and immediately underneath "The people voted for major reform". To the left is a logo comprising a gold dollar sign "$" inside a gold circle.
February 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I couldn't find any posterior images but you might like this Eastern Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii). It's also very Round.
An Eastern Banjo Frog. It's a dark brown frog with copper coloured mottling fading to yellow towards its belly, which is white. It has large brown eyes with a large pupil, beneath which there's a distinct coppery stripe. Its snout is rounded and it has three long, thin toes without pads on each foot.
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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YOUR phylogeny might be just a hypothesis. Not mine tho. Mine's special.
A crudely drawn cartoon of a vaguely feminine character looking bashful
February 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Wasn't paying attention and thought these were both the same post
Two Bluesky posts, one above the other. Post 1 from Big Joel: Was just logging onto the internet to buy 30 tons of Canadian lumber when this happens ... Post 2 from PinkNews: Troye Sivan reveals he's into hairy guys and strict sexual dynamics in risqué new Grindr campaign
February 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Darwin's "it is painful to be hated in the intense degree with which Owen hates me" is a pretty damning quote

On the other hand Darwin also said "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" so he might have Owen beat on that one day in particular
Text from one of Charles Darwin's notebooks. It reads "But I am vy (very) poorly today & vy stupid & hate everybody & everything"
January 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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A frame from The Simpsons of Lionel Hutz looking up at Judge Snyder and saying "I move for a bad court thingy"
January 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Stephen Meyer has no idea what he's talking about. Like, at all.
Two frames from The Simpsons placed one on top of the other. Top frame: a young boy with blue hair asks "Mr. Meyer, what does D.N.A. stand for?" (Referring to Stephen Meyer). Bottom frame: Troy McClure (representing Meyer), wearing a chef's hat with 'GOD' written on it, looks dumbfounded at the viewer (he has no idea).
January 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Holy shit. Anyway, reason 274,146 to not vote for these racist fucks.
An ABC News notification: Politics Sussan Ley has compared the First Fleet's arrival with Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars in an Australia Day speech
January 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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That title sounds like it's going to be incomprehensible which isn't really a new thing from Kyle Butt.
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A logo for the "leopards eating people's faces party"; a drawing of a leopard's face in profile within a red circle. Text around the circumference of the upper half of the circle reads "The leopards eating people's faces party" Underneath, text reads: PROUD MEMBER Underneath this, smaller font reads: "It's not like they're going to eat my face"; 'my' is bold for emphasis
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Unfortunately not but if you're looking for somewhere to evacuate to we would welcome you in Australia.

We've also got these. They're called Noolbengers.
January 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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An edit of the comic "it won't leave me" by mysillycomics. The first panel's text is edited to say "time to listen to Old Age by Nirvana and have an absolutely DREADFUL time". In the second panel the character has a pained expression.
January 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Me every time Stephen Meyer says anything, ever:
January 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM