Jaybug Jabbers

✿ Hello! You can call me Jay or Jaybug ✿ I love science, nature, arts/crafts, words, and tea ✿ I also love video games, especially Pokémon ✿ I love to chat; feel free to drop me a message or an Ask! ✿ This blog is a blend of original content and reblogs ✿ If you want to see just my content, go here! ✿ Links to my other socials:  Undertale Cookbook Account   My Bluesky

[jaybug-jabbers]

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Invertebrates and Pokémon are special interests of mine so you’ll see a lot of content focused on that.

Nature

Invertebrates -

Insects   🐞    

Arachnids  🕷️  

Molluscs   🐌   

Crustaceans  🦀

Misc. Arthropods   🐚

Vertebrates -

Birds   🐦  

Reptiles   🐍 

Amphibians   🐸

Rodents   🐁  

Cats  🐈   

Fish  🐟

Other Nature -

Plants  🌼   

Fungi  🍄  

Mythical Creatures  🦄

My Nature Content -

My Nature Hikes 🌿

Isopod Keeping 🦐

Bug Watching   🔎

Pokémon

Pokemon Glitching 

Bug Pokemon

Pokemon Fan Games

Beta Pokemon

Pokegods

Bug Challenge Runs

Glitch Challenge Run

Twitch Plays Pokemon

Pokefusions    

Fakemon 

My Pokemon Content -

Pokemon Discussions

Pokemon Research/Resources

Pokemon Playthroughs

• Bug Runs

• Glitch Run

Pokemon Reviews

Pokemon Favorites

Shiny Hunting

Lord Helix Gospel

Glitchdex

Other Video Games

Fire Emblem

Animal Crossing

Legend of Zelda    

Undertale

My Video Game Content -

Video Game Discussions

Video Game Favorites

Video Game Playthroughs

Undertale Cookbook

Video Game Urban Legends

Miscellaneous 

Crafts  🧶

Atheopaganism  🔮

Writing/Grammar  ✍️

Mental Health   🩹

Nostalgia  📼

My Favorites   ⭐

My Other Content -

My Crafts

My Visual Art

Personal Entries

College Survival

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[jaybug-jabbers]

Yeah. The simple fact is, people have very limited information about you and are going to make snap judgments all the time about you as a result. We all do it. I guess the trick is thinking about whether that really matters or not.

I have pretty nasty social anxiety. It was even worse when I was younger. A few of my teachers helped me out with it. One of them was very approachable and kind and helped draw me out of my shell and talked to me.

And another professor helped in a very different way. He was a brand-new teacher. Still figuring the whole thing out. One time, he seriously bungled a lecture he was giving. Confused everyone, kept apologizing, made a real ass of himself, I was dying from secondhand embarassment, felt real bad for him. Cause it was clear he was a nice dude and knew the material, he just was still new to teaching. Students in the class were making eyes like 'omg what is wrong with this guy' and giggling. By the end of it, I was like 'holy shit that was an unmitigated disaster.'

The next class session, though, he came back and tried again. It went better that time. The whole time I kept thinking, 'If something like that had happened to me I would have never returned. What the hell. How did he have the guts to come back in here after all that.'

I think that was when I finally realized that telling myself "people won't think less of you" was such total bullshit and the truth was "people will think less of you sometimes, you WILL look so stupid sometimes, and you have to accept that."

Easier said than done, of course. Something that soothes me is telling myself, "Okay, so you did something stupid today, but that's just one data point. If you come back and keep trying, they'll see you're not always stupid, they'll have more data and will probably change their evaluation. And if they don't, they're probably jerks."

It doesn't always work, I still have anxiety, but. I try to think back to that professor when I do. If he was willing to look stupid over and over in order to give teaching a fair try, I want to be willing, too.

[skajador]

Message to all Americans: you BETTER NOT have brought BURGER in your SUITCASE

[crevicedwelling]

a little post on molting in isopods:

uniquely among arthropods, isopods shed their skin in halves: first the back, and then the front (biphasic molting). for terrestrial isopods, this helps to split up the energy strain of molting across the body and allows them to recover and eat their exuvia quickly to regain calcium. most terrestrial isopods usually complete the molting process in a day or two, with some time separating the halves.

if you see an isopod that’s a slightly different color on its different halves, it’s probably not a mutation, but just in molt. conversely, an isopod that shows very different coloration from normal ones probably isn’t just teneral.

unlike insects, centipedes, and some other arthropods that often show wildly different colors when teneral (soft-shelled), recently molted isopods keep the same coloration they have between molts, like this piebald P. scaber demonstrates. an isopod in premolt may appear chalky due to the exuvia separating, and a teneral isopod could appear a bit pale and matte like the A. vulgare. isopods with a wax coat like P. pruinosus take time to secrete a new one, so they may appear half-powdery and half-shiny sometimes.

young isopods gain a lot of size with each molt, and this can sometimes result in them having much larger teneral back halves until their head catches up.

[jadafitch]

HAPPY NATIONAL MOTH WEEK! Celebrate with moth ART and STICKERS! Moths of North America poster Saturniid Moths of North America poster

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[planefood]

I'd be down with more "modern witches" if they were less all about indigenous cultural appropriation and more about bubbling cauldrons and cackling into the night

[planefood]

"I want to reconnect with my precolonial european pagan roots" then stop selling dreamcatchers on etsy, you should be eating turnips and yodeling.

[jaybug-jabbers]

A lot of them are all about the appropriation but a lot of them also are very careful about not doing that. As with any group, you have a mix.

[fwizard]

[celebrinienjoyer]

i need to show you all something that made me crylaugh last night. just fucking look at them.

[thesylverlining]

It's fine they just went a little nuts with the character creation face sliders

[munchflake]

someone had a bit too much fun playing spore 🤔

[discheaven]

Myst (PS1)

[historicity-was-already-taken]

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

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[bellisima-writes]

I am an old bitch - 20/20.

[subtextsays]

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Voting ended onJul 30

[redrobber13]

Those bubble dogs from the DP dev docu 🩵

(They bare an uncanny resemblance to my oc…)

[lychens]

jesus fucking christ almighty (Platythomisus octomaculatus - "Pikachu Spider")

[gremlininho]

then & now ♡

[vivaciouscynner]

i always wondered how animals process this or if they even care. like wow you grew up fast... oh... oh you're still uhh going... oh wow, STILL going huh? okay can you STOP

[depsidase]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick