Max Helmberger
@vermivorax.bsky.social
Teacher of applied entomology. Grew up off the grid. No kings, no slavers, no Nazis, and no suburban assholes who think they're country because they drive an $80,000 pickup truck.
I assume he then got a job at the car wash? Strangely, the article doesn't mention that.
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I assume he then got a job at the car wash? Strangely, the article doesn't mention that.
There's literally a show where a convict joins a firefighting crew to shorten his prison sentence. But he's white, so it's an epic story of redemption.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
There's literally a show where a convict joins a firefighting crew to shorten his prison sentence. But he's white, so it's an epic story of redemption.
I believe this species of bee is called the tab bee.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I believe this species of bee is called the tab bee.
I have these pictures of him as "stickers" on my work computer for putting into slides.
October 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I have these pictures of him as "stickers" on my work computer for putting into slides.
In terms of number of decks I put it in, An Offer You Can't Refuse. In terms of the number of times I've technically cast it, Shrieking Drake because it's part of various infinite combos.
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In terms of number of decks I put it in, An Offer You Can't Refuse. In terms of the number of times I've technically cast it, Shrieking Drake because it's part of various infinite combos.
Apollo timeline cleanse. Please pass the remote, he can’t reach it.
September 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Apollo timeline cleanse. Please pass the remote, he can’t reach it.
One time I reached out to scratch my cat's chest as he slept next to me, and he wrapped his paws around my hand and squeezed.
August 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
One time I reached out to scratch my cat's chest as he slept next to me, and he wrapped his paws around my hand and squeezed.
Had to try this out with insects and HOO BOY is this embarrassing.
August 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Had to try this out with insects and HOO BOY is this embarrassing.
"it can find and cite real sources now bro"
August 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"it can find and cite real sources now bro"
Supplies all laid out for my field entomology course (2-week summer course starting next week)!
August 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Supplies all laid out for my field entomology course (2-week summer course starting next week)!
Definitely the mourning cloak butterfly for me. Overwinters as an adult and is a harbinger of spring - as a kid I’d see them flying around even as the last piles of snow were still melting.
July 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Definitely the mourning cloak butterfly for me. Overwinters as an adult and is a harbinger of spring - as a kid I’d see them flying around even as the last piles of snow were still melting.
Apollo has been enjoying his lower plinth lately.
July 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Apollo has been enjoying his lower plinth lately.
This tracks for me. I usually like to keep things simple. My least favorite restaurants to go to are the ones that try to be fancy and end up adding weird extra ingredients to things. Always ruins it for me.
June 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This tracks for me. I usually like to keep things simple. My least favorite restaurants to go to are the ones that try to be fancy and end up adding weird extra ingredients to things. Always ruins it for me.
You don't have to do their work for them by saying it was an effort to "slash spending"
May 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You don't have to do their work for them by saying it was an effort to "slash spending"
May 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
It seems if you don't want your fellow students to yell at you, you would avoid giving them more reasons to do so, like their friends having their visas revoked and being disappeared for writing an op-ed, or the research labs they work in being defunded.
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It seems if you don't want your fellow students to yell at you, you would avoid giving them more reasons to do so, like their friends having their visas revoked and being disappeared for writing an op-ed, or the research labs they work in being defunded.
We did it, we trumped low prices!
April 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We did it, we trumped low prices!
Someone at Wizards of the Coast has really had the lathe. Maga hurts a specific player or group of people (by an amount equal to "X"), and Maha makes creatures frail and weak. Presumably with measles. Or cancer-causing industrial emissions.
March 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Someone at Wizards of the Coast has really had the lathe. Maga hurts a specific player or group of people (by an amount equal to "X"), and Maha makes creatures frail and weak. Presumably with measles. Or cancer-causing industrial emissions.
This is a minor aspect of Project 2025, but the one that most genuinely surprises me, considering the federal sugar program is a strongly protectionist measure meant to keep (heavily Trump-voting) domestic sugar beet and sugar cane growers competitive.
February 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is a minor aspect of Project 2025, but the one that most genuinely surprises me, considering the federal sugar program is a strongly protectionist measure meant to keep (heavily Trump-voting) domestic sugar beet and sugar cane growers competitive.
The flies in that picture:
February 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The flies in that picture:
Couldn't find the exact meme I made 4 years ago, so here's a redo.
January 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Couldn't find the exact meme I made 4 years ago, so here's a redo.