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Aquatic Entomologist 🪲
Crohn’s, hEDS, Bertolotti’s
MALS surgery 9/11/25
❤️‍🩹Chronic illness community and awareness
🌈WV queer🌊
insta @ CrohnicallyOutdoors
Back on Bluesky after getting logged out, forgetting my password, and being too lazy to reset for 3 months 😌🫶🏼🤪
August 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
On hour 5 of updating my labs taxonomic literature bibliography from whatever random format it was in to APA 🥲 page 11 of 19 just a few moreeee
April 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In addition to the country sliding into a fascist authoritarian regime, I’m also trying to prep for my wedding, a move, and a surgery all in the next 3 months and I’m handling that by baking bread and crying
April 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Political Retaliation.

“But, back to the letter. It said I was under investigation for a fraudulent donation. The MEC had launched an investigation and I was to call them immediately to discuss what I had done and what discipline I would face.”

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Political Retaliation
Pull up a chair...
open.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Not sure which of my coworkers titled this picture in our reference collection but I’m a big fan
April 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
April 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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your day begins with sewers.
it ends with sewers.
it is sustained by sewers.
sewers every day.
sewers are life.
life is sewers.
April 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.
April 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
the hair salon that I started going to 2 years ago SOLELY because they had online bookings so I didn’t have to call apparently doesn’t do online bookings anymore 🥲🥲 may need to find a new place to get my hair cut
April 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I don’t think I’ll ever forget telling my therapist, “my childhood was good, I wasn’t abused, and my needs were always met” and then telling a few stories and her having to gently explain to me that my needs were NOT being met 🥲😅
April 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
having a chronic illness in a capitalist society just means I hate myself anytime I work less than 8 hours a day
April 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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in 2008, I had nothing. so when everybody lost everything it was hard for me to watch with anything other than morbid curiosity. now I have something, but my something is much closer to nothing than everything, so it's still mostly morbid curiosity with a light seasoning of existential dread
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Hello world! My name is Marcy Rheintgen and I recently became the first person to be arrested under the transgender bathroom bills!
April 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.
April 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Akron, Ohio showed up 💗 hands off our rights!
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Fishing nets can work as a flagpole 🫡
April 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“I asked ChatGPT wh-“

Shut the hell up. Just shut up. I don’t want to hear whatever pointless thing AI wasted gallons of water to tell you.
April 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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THIS. I work with teens, am a parent, & live deep in tech bro region. At school parent meetings, dudes cheer AI for convenient summarization of required reading (yay shortcuts for critical thinking?)…ladies in those meetings voice concerns over deepfakes. We’re having wildly different conversations
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM