Charles Wallace
@chwallace.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ASU in hist/phil of biology, dissertation on Dictyoptera. One half of @asabpod.bsky.social. Particular fan of Dictyoptera, Diptera, and freshwater macroinvertebrates.
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/cockroacharles
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/cockroacharles
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"Fine Dining"
Collab between my bestie @artdisaster.bsky.social and myself.
I'm just in love with how they draw facial expressions. 🥰
Still catching up on those art uploads... X_x
Also a reminder that I have a telegram channel, where I update more frequently!
t.me/ArtOfIleyeah
Collab between my bestie @artdisaster.bsky.social and myself.
I'm just in love with how they draw facial expressions. 🥰
Still catching up on those art uploads... X_x
Also a reminder that I have a telegram channel, where I update more frequently!
t.me/ArtOfIleyeah
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
"Fine Dining"
Collab between my bestie @artdisaster.bsky.social and myself.
I'm just in love with how they draw facial expressions. 🥰
Still catching up on those art uploads... X_x
Also a reminder that I have a telegram channel, where I update more frequently!
t.me/ArtOfIleyeah
Collab between my bestie @artdisaster.bsky.social and myself.
I'm just in love with how they draw facial expressions. 🥰
Still catching up on those art uploads... X_x
Also a reminder that I have a telegram channel, where I update more frequently!
t.me/ArtOfIleyeah
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In case it's helpful to anyone, Brian Merchant made a guide to getting off Spotify that includes information on individual competing services including rates of payouts to artists.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In case it's helpful to anyone, Brian Merchant made a guide to getting off Spotify that includes information on individual competing services including rates of payouts to artists.
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Rhipidioides sp.
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Rhipidioides sp.
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳
#ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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Its day 2 of #InsectAdvent
I think that this little fly ate too many mince pies! Welcome to Platyna hastata - whose bum maybe as wide as they are long!
Soldierflies or Stratiomyidae are some of the most eye-catching of the flies.
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
I think that this little fly ate too many mince pies! Welcome to Platyna hastata - whose bum maybe as wide as they are long!
Soldierflies or Stratiomyidae are some of the most eye-catching of the flies.
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Its day 2 of #InsectAdvent
I think that this little fly ate too many mince pies! Welcome to Platyna hastata - whose bum maybe as wide as they are long!
Soldierflies or Stratiomyidae are some of the most eye-catching of the flies.
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
I think that this little fly ate too many mince pies! Welcome to Platyna hastata - whose bum maybe as wide as they are long!
Soldierflies or Stratiomyidae are some of the most eye-catching of the flies.
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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Real whiplash re: our senators in the past week, I'll tell ya.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Real whiplash re: our senators in the past week, I'll tell ya.
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Bristly Ladybird, Rhyzobius lophanthae.
Pencil for scale.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Pencil for scale.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bristly Ladybird, Rhyzobius lophanthae.
Pencil for scale.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Pencil for scale.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
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This.
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This.
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"
We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"
Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Scientist Spotted 🦣 BBC talked to our paleontologist Advait Jukar about fossils preserved in Florida's freshwater springs and how they help researchers understand our past and present biodiversity.
Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets
The state's blue sinkholes are the silent reminders of the time when giants roamed the Earth.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Scientist Spotted 🦣 BBC talked to our paleontologist Advait Jukar about fossils preserved in Florida's freshwater springs and how they help researchers understand our past and present biodiversity.
Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
Diving into Florida’s prehistoric cave of Ice Age secrets
www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
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A migration corridor that allows jaguars and ocelots to cross into the U.S. is the latest border wall construction zone.
Border wall opponents rally as Trump closes a 27-mile gap across a remote Arizona valley
A migration corridor that allows jaguars and ocelots to cross into the U.S. is the latest border wall construction zone.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A migration corridor that allows jaguars and ocelots to cross into the U.S. is the latest border wall construction zone.
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"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism."
Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@vicmanch.bsky.social
Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@vicmanch.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Here is an exciting new way to think about the century that produced Darwinism."
Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@vicmanch.bsky.social
Janet Browne's review of Martin Hewitt's Darwinism's Generations: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@vicmanch.bsky.social
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
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You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You may have seen that 600+ detainees are eligible for release, which is amazing! BUT: you may not know that immigration detainees still have to pay for their freedom-- $1500 bond per person! The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is raising money to help people get free, please donate: www.mibfc.org
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
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If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
U.S. Senate
senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen...
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
& your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati...
Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.
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Find out more about how the right is destroying public education--a goal it's had for decades--via @translash.org media and season 4 of "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine" with @imarajones.bsky.social. The latest and final episode deals with the plan--use vouchers to destroy public ed. #LGBTQ
The right-wing push for "vouchers"--using taxpayer $ for private schools--comes right out of the right-wing push in the 1950s to fight desegregation. Slightly different branding now ("we don't want them damn woke or gay or trans people near our kids!"), but same argument.
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Find out more about how the right is destroying public education--a goal it's had for decades--via @translash.org media and season 4 of "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine" with @imarajones.bsky.social. The latest and final episode deals with the plan--use vouchers to destroy public ed. #LGBTQ
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
Looking for a supernatural queer read?
🏳️🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality
Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:
a.co/d/bufFU4f
🏳️🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality
Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:
a.co/d/bufFU4f
February 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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Zohran says you’re trans now
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Zohran says you’re trans now
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I hope Democrats unveil their new “TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE” policy tomorrow. America is ready.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I hope Democrats unveil their new “TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYONE” policy tomorrow. America is ready.