Her majesty will see you now ... 🫅

Hate to blow my own 🎺, but I'm quite proud of this picture – a stack of seventeen macro images taken with slightly different focus, to capture the full detail of this female goldenrod crab spider, Misumena vatia.

She was kind enough to stay (mostly) still for the whole sequence 🙇‍♂️

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#ArachnidsOfMastodon 🕷️
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:

🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

Trump’s FCC Wants Input on Whether ‘Transgender and Gender Nonbinary’ TV Programming Is ‘Appropriate’ for Children

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/trump-fcc-transgender-gender-nonbinary-tv-children-ratings-1236727876/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116456973972107204

My impulse on this one is that people who are least targeted by the fascists need to flood the FCC with comments in support of having trans and nonbinary content on TV so that trans kids don't have to go back to how it was when I was a kid and there were almost never trans characters, and when they were it was usually a joke about trans sex workers or a trans person who was a real problem for their cis family a la that terrible fucking marriage episode of Friends.

I have 1,000 Snickers bars in my fridge and you have 1 in yours. I pressured you into giving me half of your Snickers and you blamed it on a homeless person.

This is how the modern US tax code works.

🔴 THIS IS THE END OF DEMOCRACY!!

🔵 Whoa whoa what's wrong?

🔴 GERRYMANDERING IS WHAT'S WRONG YOU ABSOLUTE DEMONS YOU'RE LITERALLY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt this way. Okay, well in that case, please sign this law making gerrymandering illegal.

🔴 whaaat no gerrymandering is totally legit you guys stop being such a cuck you're always overreacting like this.

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt this way. Okay, well in that case, we redistricted California to give us 5 more seats. We think that's fair.

🔴 THIS IS THE END OF DEMOCRACY!! GERRYMANDERING IS WRONG YOU DEMONS!! YOU'RE LITERALLY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt this way. Okay well in that case, maybe stop gerrymandering Texas to eliminate blue seats.

🔴 whaaat no gerrymandering is fine dude stop making a crisis out of nothing you're always doing this if you don't like it just vote harder.

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt this way. In that case, we redistricted Virginia and flipped a bunch of red seats into blue ones. If you don't like it, just vote harder, right?

🔴 THIS IS THE END OF DEMOCRACY!! GERRYMANDERING IS WRONG AND EVIL!! YOU'RE LITERALLY DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt this way. In that case, please stop the gerrymandering you're currently doing in a number of these other states like Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri.

🔴 what no gerrymandering is just a part of the game broski don't hate the player amiright you guys are always getting your panties in a knot over nothing.

🔵 Oh gosh, I didn't realize you felt that way. In that case, here are plans we have to redistrict a number of other states like Utah, Washington and Pennsylvania.

🔴 THIS IS THE END OF DEMOCRACY!! THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!! DEMOCRATS ARE LITERALLY DEMONS!! SEE YOU IN COURT MOTHERFUCKERS!!

...and now you're all caught up on the policy debate over redistricting in this nation.

Today is an important anniversary.

75 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school.

What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality. After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down . . .

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