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uncharismatic minifauna
@uncharismatic.bsky.social
queer cat person.
nerding out on plants, insects, sci-fi & whatever else grabs my brain and won't let go.

mad for moths, loopy for leafminers, & giddy about galls

(pfp - Lorquin's admiral)
Pinned
Chuck really gets it.

(h/t to @entomemeology.bsky.social)
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I need Joyce Carol Oates to be mean to me online so I can get my life together
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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one of the funniest parts about Joyce Carol Oates going viral for nuking Elon Musk is that he absolutely needed someone tell him who Joyce Carol Oates is
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
could I please fall into an all consuming passion? I'm tired of thinking about stuff.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
backpack, head tassel and a handle? man wasps got great accessories
Ashley Bui of UCR is giving a great talk on eucharitid phylogeny, but most importantly she tells us what the giant scutal spines are for: handles for grabbing by suspicious ants (their hosts)
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
best state map
Well, it is my bot. 🤓

Anything on the list is understaffed and at risk of reduced flight ops.

ATC ops are broken into regions, many of which are referenced in the list (eg PHL Area C or the ZJX entries). Other bits listed are airport-specific (eg DTW tower).

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November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Well good news bad news

I made exactly $5 for 4 hours of work.

Good news, there was a minibike takeover and I have something to pitch.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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A well-loved bunchberry plant (Cornus canadensis) with leaf mines of Phytomyza agromyzina (lower left), Antispila cornifoliella (other linear mines), Antispila freemani (big blotches), and a Caloptilia sp. (narrow blotch and leaf roll at right), as well as stippling from leafhopper feeding.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
apparently my vocabulary is ok for work, but not ok for bluesky?
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"you should make a blog!" they said

I was good at that sort of writing, 15 years ago. but who reads blogs anymore?
October 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I'm about to be xx years old and I can't snap my fingers. been practicing for months, it was a fun silly bday goal

alas!
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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thank you to the bugs
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I'm down on the water

I'm down on the water

we don't like what we just saw

but I can't swim so I'll dog paddle

I can't swim so I'll dog paddle
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
do not go gentle into that good night ,
we all should write and rave at close of day;
plums & rage against the dying of light.
this is just to say
i have demolished
the east wing

and which you
were probably saving
for posterity

don't forgive me
i am demented
so weak
and so cold
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
2nd panel is me today
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
today's main character, goody two shoes, was rather dreadful.

can we stick with stuff like folks who make flowcharts of their sex lives?

heck I'd even settle for bill pencil posting thru it, or another round of burrito taxi
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
go to bed, or eat chocolate?
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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#invertober 18, black n yellow mud dauber!! i love love love a wasp

#invertober2025
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
she's got style, she's got grace
assassin progress video
October 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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hands you some bugs
October 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
has anyone talked about the goofy ass Space Force emblems?
October 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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deep cleaning is sometimes like the Mines of Moria. sorry you woke the balrog
August 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM