Have you ever replied to a Chat Bot with? "There is no sanctuary"
A naturalist of the US-American Southwest, with an emphasis on entomology. Trailer-traveler, since 2012. Retired USNPS Park Ranger Naturalist (2003-2024). Spoony - Demi - AuDHD - he/him/his
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Have you ever replied to a Chat Bot with? "There is no sanctuary"
I Would have never seen this Beautiful Artwork had I not been on a Ferris Wheel with son in Santa Monica 🥰
beautiful
Yes, but too long, it's smells like farts and burnt rubber.
Stop everything and mourn genius and art deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
Remember when RFK Jr. took his grandson swimming in raw sewage? Good times!
It's "strong" metaphor, but my mind sees a vertebrae for a moment, then tries to shift to the implied meaning. "Without workers, Americans won't have vertebras."
My otter sightings have been less impressive
I wish that they would of mooned us instead of the black smoke in my lungs. I would have not had the asthma reaction. And actually, I would admire the bravery of bare-assed counter-protesters!
Their peckers remain teeny, even with all of that investment and harassment of the peaceful protesters. An undercover officer told me that the surveillance camera would catch the bullies. "If they're dusting you with black smoke or mooning you, we'll give the citations"
I had to bring a folding chair, but I got more of the black-exhaust trucks intimidations, and had asthma troubles. Counter-protesters are teeny-peckered men, with big strangely modified large pickups with tattered American flags. Their exhausts is illegally modified to pour-out black smoke.
Song Sparrow and the sound of a White-breasted Nuthatch.
Song Sparrow
That is a crazy amount of them. And the lucky one with the fishy.
Lucky little sparrow.
there was specimen collection for genomic study with the Grishin lab at University of Texas. Better sorting of taxonomy has been resolved including two new species to science one named after me: Hesperia pahaska hannerwackeri. Now a butterfly has to share my ridiculous last name.
If you would like to know more about Southeastern Utah Butterflies, here's a catalog of the area's species. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1b9OA... Have at it free, or contribute a donation for any amount? gofund.me/eba90270 #butterflies
I wonder what flavor of neurodivergence that Rushad Eggleston has?
Percentages can misleading. 100% California murders, with just 50% more for the Okies - That just means that only a half a person dies extra when you're a Okie from Muskogee.
I'll be there! I'll be square too though. That's how I roll. I don't roll well, because squares you see...
He surely is. And what a delightful workspace.
Have you ever eaten these? Yeah. Not very good. It's mostly the texture that's off-putting. It's a real beauty though.
So I now know the topic of tonight's terror-dreams.
"Lube from the Lake to Make the Earth Shake." Why can't we have more science titles like my rhyming adaptation? Aren't we trying to make STEM more relevant to the broader (perverted) public?
Yikes! I do not compute error error "there is no sanctuary" "there is no sanctuary"
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
I cannot imagine how conflicted their minds are. Some reps and senators true psychopaths. They are more of a danger to society than even school shooters. "...there was a time when he showed great promise in conservative politics."
I was diagnosed ASD at 3, but had no documentation of it with HR. I received my adult ASD ADHD, after the disciplinary action, as to help shield against future misunderstandings and punishment. I wonder if I would be healthier now if it wasn't for intense hurt & trauma processing. No anger.
I was betrayed by my co-workers that knew of my impending anxiety attack. I was betrayed up and down the chain of command, with no mitigating circumstances considered. Nothing like this had ever happened before in the 23 years of the agency.
Yes. It was quite a betrayal. Earlier that day, I told my co-workers that I would need to go home because of some anxiety chest pains. The meltdown happened, because if the stress of new ops for COVID safety. From my co-workers, it went from my supervisor, to her supervisor, to his supervisor.
"Ranger Robb," swearing in the next marvelous Jr. Ranger. Thanks to photographer Kurt Moses, for shooting a proud moment for me. A proud moment for the enthusiastic Jr. Ranger, too! 'Big sigh' These were the days. Joshua Tree National Park, Cottonwood District, California , USA. ~2015.
I was disciplined at work for a meltdown. A 10 days suspension with no pay. The misunderstandings, hurt me so much that my health and personality would ever be the same.
Indeed. I need to be better.
I'm sorry, but I blame women for this whole mitochondrial thing. ATP is for over achievers.
My latest! I wrote about a newly-discovered land crocodile the size of a siberian tiger, part of a larger story of competition between galloping crocodiles and predatory dinosaurs in South America that lasted well into the Cenozoic
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
With modern terms and concepts.
Talkin' About A Revolution ✊
Oh! The brutality!
My comrades at our local chapter of Abortionist Marxists had seeded some clouds, and Cedar City is flooding. We're disabled civil-servants, so couldn't afford silver iodide. So we just used a lot of expired sunflower seeds from the local food-bank. There will be sunflowers blooming everywhere!
For my whole adult life, service has been everything to me. The autism thing and its co-occurring friends had made education and career so challenging, but I succeeded! Finally though, it seems, a systemic neurological burnout had knocked me down. I want to be "Ranger Robb" again. #ASD #vestibular
Hah. This is my first time seeing these on my 17" laptop, and not my 7" phone. It's wonderful!
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics
The same butterfly as above, but from its much less brilliant underside. This species rarely rests with wings open; so not showing the colors of the upper-side. The light-blue on the edge, is not pigment, but the bending of light from nano-structures. The same for the iridescent violet above.
Colorado Hairstreak, Hypaurotis crysalus, female, Castle Creek 6400', Grand Co., UT Collected 29 June 2016, by Robb Hannawacker. It was sent to the Grisham Genomics Lab, University of Texas, then to the Smithsonian Collection, DC. One of the most stunning of the NA butterflies north of Mexico.
Thanks @slooterman.bsky.social for interviewing me for this event. #StaceyTaughtUs
I worry about us resistors focusing on the shallow characteristics, when the person inside is much more hideous. This is too original to not celebrate its value.
Thank You Kerrie. I'm trying to transition to mothing and telephoto. It's a different arrangement for my abilities. We call each other "spoonies." I'm that I've had a later onset of the debilitating levels. It's a real kick-in-crotch though. LOL!
there was specimen collection for genomic study with the Grishin lab at University of Texas. Better sorting of taxonomy has been resolved including two new species to science one named after me: Hesperia pahaska hannerwackeri. Now a butterfly has to share my ridiculous last name.
My work was a labor of love rather than work for any agency, institution or organization. So it was my weekends spring through fall when I did my butterfly survey. My aim was to document species diversity in this understudied area, in these sky Island ecosystems, threatened by climate change.
The area is one of the most rulal, and understudied in the lower 48 United States. Maybe it was just a little too far from academic institutions. Also with the desert and isolated mountains, island biogeography, the region has less consistent abundance of larger connected ecosystems.
After a few years working on it, I feel proud that it is complete enough. It took much hiking on four-wheel-drive roads through deserts Woodlands and forest. I can no longer hike, but I'm still getting around in my beat-up 4runner and walking short distances with a cane.
Initially I thought this was an adult and young bunnies but now I think both are young, one just a little older and bigger. 🐰🐰 Desert cottontail rabbits
Yes, juveniles.
A beautiful Anise Swallowtail seen in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah. #InsectThursday #Butterflies #ColoraDay #YellowThu #photobyraykenny #thelittlethings
Gosh. Thanks for sharing this. It's a real pick-me/up. I can no longer hike and explore as much. Thankfully, before, I did manage to get a baseline catalog of Southeastern Utah's butterflies. Please share, to those interested. It's not published, and I would hate for it to vanish to history.
The detail and feeling is amazing. I can just hear the mosquitoes in this beautiful oil painting.
It glorious!
Thrilled to announce that I've been endorsed by @peaceaction.bsky.social . Humane foreign policy is a cornerstone of this campaign, if you want to learn more go to katforillinois.com
You look and ARE fantastic Kat! I think more people should be like @Kat Abughazaleh. Weird last names and all!
oh gawd!
LOL
We need a new Walter Cronkite. Of course updated for 2025. His ending catch phrase: "and that's how shit is folks." #fact #news #cronkite #unbiased
Finally, some good news.
adorable
You Rang?
Lesbians? Fascinating.
This doggam wonderful Ben!
Write to your US senators and representatives!
The actual lyrics are still weird! Travelling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Men-A...
My misheard lyrics of: Men at Work's “Land Down Under” I’m gunna fry that Gumby On a heavy trailhead full of zombay I come from the Landandunda Dawindabloze Andashunda #Gumby #misheard #zombies
#autism #advocacy #autonomy #freewill #civilrights #HIPAA
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Quite an eye, and nice framing.
stunning
There is a large coronal hole facing Earth right now that is currently sending fast solar wind towers Earth! We may feel the first effects as early as August 17 or 18. It’s possible we see G1 or even G2-level storming and mid-latitude aurora. The moon will be less bright, too. Who’s ready?
Earth's largest forest ecosystem is Boreal. It circles the whole Northern Hemisphere, accept for a couple drops in the drink, and a tundra bald spot that is "losing ground." While you are thinking about the most biologically diverse tropical rainforest, the North's SPRUCE MOOSE forest is critical!
It's important to mention too that my ongoing medical treatments are expensive, though my health insurance is top-notch. The stolen gear cost was between $1700-$2300. I've been helped with $120 towards the $800 goal. Cedar City's DI thrift store has helped save some replacement cost!
This is the replacement survival gear that I keep in my 4x4 vehicle. BlueSky friend @wendywiens.bsky.social was one of the donors to the cause. GPT 4.0 helped me problem solve, advocating for GoFundMe. It was an awkward, but the theft of my gear box, had me feeling vulnerable in my remote areas.
I Sedum. I Sedum clearly. Sedum succulents?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
On the face-of-it, this seems a better solution than most that I've heard of. I identify with the "house-less," as George Carlin described the community. Bless-em. Instead, I had adapted my houselessness, as a hermitage, pulling a travel-trailer from one beautiful nature-world to the next.
As a weird adult, in denial about my autism, the NPS was the best fit imaginable. Mostly I was a nature and culture educator, but did some field biology. I did 9 years at Joshua Tree (2007-2016), but similar work with fed and state agencies since 1997, mostly in the US Southwest. I lived right!
Eel-puppies!
LOL Ranger Robb 2013. Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA.
A BlueSky bot, had triggered a 80s song. Perhaps it's given up trying. That's okay; I'll share here, then take a nap.
