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Rebecca
@phytoseiid.bsky.social
Ph.D. Entomologist
I just want to learn about bugs and help farmers, but the fascists keep interrupting me.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are good things.

When someone attacks a party member, we all roll for initiative.
Things are kind of crappy right now in the world, but I got 26 new loaches yesterday.

Huge shoutout to Hillstream Kingdom (hillstreamkingdom.com) for the best customer service I have ever received from any company. Sam and Max are awesome and I hope they continue to do well.
September 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I am a stinker.

Photo credit: www.fishlore.com/Profiles-Red...
July 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
June 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Don't talk to me or my son ever again"
May 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
So, he begins a 1948 campaign as a third party candidate with the Liberal Party. He is deeply concerned that either major party will begin a war with Russia and completely destroy what is left of the New Deal. He campaigns in the South and refuses to speak in segregated spaces.
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Wallace does not like the Un-American Activities Committee that Truman continues to enable and refers to them as bigots and fascists. He continues to call out the racism of the Dixiecrats and is one of the first in federal leadership to acknowledge that Japanese internment was immoral.
May 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
1947, Truman begins to implement early McCarthy-style policies, despite no actual threat. He is scared of seeming soft on communists because of how poorly the Dems did in mid-terms. It is all political theater. Wallace knew better:
May 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I got partway into The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party (John Nichols) and started posting Henry Wallace's biggest hits. I regret not doing it this way from the beginning.

Henry Wallace DID NOT like fascists, isolationists, or imperialists and it is too bad he wasn't VP for FDR term #4.
May 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
At this point (1946), he started campaigning on behalf of other Democrats. At a rally, he stated, "If the Democrats fail to control the 8oth Congress there is only one way in which we get control again and that is by becoming more progressive."

[ARE YOU LISTENING CHUCK?]
May 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
However, the Red Scare was heating up and this speech got him fired.

In addition to going on to suggest that a mixed economy would be beneficial (further branding him as sympathetic to the hated socialists), he also continued to rail against Jim Crow, which made him loathed by the Dixiecrats.
May 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"The internal foulness of the Democratic Party has not yet reached the point of lancing the boil."
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Wallace's final bid to be nominated VP a second time, right before he is screwed over by the DNC leadership via bribery for votes and multiple rule violations, despite the personal preference of FDR and massive popularity within the DNC rank and file.
May 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Wherein Wallace calls Winston Churchill a Nazi for being a racist, imperialist trashpile.
May 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism.

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.
May 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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May 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I have reticulated hillstream loach babies!!!
May 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I TRIED. It went from kind of normal to saying I don't post about El Salvador (untrue) and therefore am bad, regardless of also doing things offline.

I don't know why I tried.

Here's a cleansing loach for this thread.
April 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Oooh, here's my first one of the season, from March 23.
April 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My favorite flower with my favorite spider.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today is a special day. I decided to stop delaying something that would make me happy just because my world has gotten unstable and upsetting.
March 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I got angry with how it looked and spent five hours "fixing it" Saturday night. I have redone this stupid tank three times now.
March 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Shrimp tanks are so great. I got cherry shrimp for my big tank and the kiddo loved them, so I upgraded my quarantine tank to 10 gal and converted my 5.5 gal to a shrimp tank to breed a different color. Then I added some rasboras.
March 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Looking for aesthetic suggestions. Or should I just stop messing with it?

20 gallon long, destined to breed hillstream loaches, so the river rock piles are important.

I just acquired more small boulders from a person that was relandscaping their backyard.
March 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Aquarium epoxy smells like a 1990s hair salon but my driftwood is no longer floating.
March 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM