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i literally never use twitter. like i havent touched it since maybe 2021, but i cant delete it because then my apps will be ever so slightly rearranged and it’ll take me months to get used to it. and then ill delete/download something else and it will be thrown off AGAIN

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i dont think anything i will ever create will depict me better than this dorito fueled art i made last year at four in the morning after getting my autism diagnosis or wtv its called

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ugh i fucking LOVE spaghetii

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nothing this year will be as funnyto me as referring to my moms husband as her ‘boy toy’ right in front of him

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we’re fighting and i reach for the sword at my waist but i dont grab it and instead reach into my ugly ass jacket that’s only held together by hopes and dreams and i pull out a cowboy pistol

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behold

a collection of antique brass handles

thats not all of them

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I GOT SOME BITCHIN SHOE LACES

[sunhazeys]

americans what’s the state that doesn’t feel real to you. for me it’s montana. i cannot even conceptualize montana

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oklahoma

[ruinedchildhood]

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obviously someone never watched those old polly pocket movies

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currently feel like im in one of those shitty creepypasta x reader fanfiction on wattpad from 2016 because i live in the woods twenty minutes from the nearest populated area and my back door is wide fucking open+ its currently ass o’clock in the morning and its not storming why in our lady Persephone’s name is the back door open so am i about to get snatched and find out im slendermans long lost child or what

any heres hoping i die so i dont have to pay taxes or work

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its been years and finally, my phone charger can no longer work properly.

this is a small idea of what happened. but that along the entire cord.

its time to trash it but like i dunno i might have accidentally pack bonded with it or something because now im emotionally attached.

would it be weird if i used to hang up stuff on my wall?? like i think itd be hella funny but idk would i be too unhinged like would it scare off people??

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“you cant call me cis just because i decided to keep my biological gender as it always was” okay well what the fuck do you want me to refer to you as then, majority non-transgender man #874??

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flashback to that time the governor of oklahoma just decided he didnt like where the capital was so he just moved to oklahoma city and was like hey this is the state capital so now its their state capital

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got my friends 73 year old father to listen to ICP and he LIKED IT. nothing can bring me down from the joy this brings me

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silly little drawing of N because i love him and haven’t done traditional in a while

[mossworm]

entomologists should avoid FSCA (Gainesville, FL) at all costs

I’m going to go into more detail about my workplace eventually but for now it’s important to make public that ethanol holdings in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA, Gainesville) are completely neglected and actively rotting. Holotypes (the original specimen of a plant or animal used to define a species, completely priceless and the pride and joy of any good collection) are already ruined. Don’t ever donate your stuff there, it will go to waste.

Everything that is not personally interesting to the administrators has clearly been totally ignored for decades and priceless scientific information has been lost as a result. It is the worst I have ever seen, having worked in three other collections previously. I was lucky I had not formally donated most of my own collection material there because I guarantee they would have barred me from ever accessing the specimens again and then neglected them all to destruction anyway. Other people have not been so lucky and multiple scientists have their life’s work trapped in there and deteriorating. Admin is not above blocking former employees or whistle blowers from using the collection, even if it is your own material.

Here is how FSCA was keeping the holotype of the rare cave millipede Scoterpes rudis. The ethanol should be clear, but I had to fish the actual specimen out of the opaque yellow slime with forceps. Many others were just like this when I found them, and I did my best to care for them all but there was clearly already permanent damage years before I was even hired. I’m really sorry for the poor solifugid biologist who has to try to get useful information out of the holotype that is just a small wad of legs and glue now.

Many of the specimens, including some holotypes, are like this centipede, with the rubber stopper having degraded into a glue-like material and dripped onto the specimen. Reaching this state requires years of total neglect because you can see the rubber start to wilt long before it drips. All it takes to fix this is replacing the stopper more than once in a century, but apparently that was too much to expect of the “world class” FSCA.

FSCA higher-ups recently presented a big cheesy video at the Entomology Society of America meeting in Nov 2022 in Vancouver, patting themselves on the back for the size of the collection and soliciting new collaborators and donations. They are constantly seeking to acquire more material even though they are running out of space and totally incapable of maintaining what they have already. The other staff are completely aware, but apparently only concerned with their own personal research material and individual favorite bugs.

I would appreciate if you all could share this with anyone you know interested in entomology, natural history collections, or biology in general. I suspect my former position will open for new applicants almost immediately because of how many different aspects of the operation I supported out of a genuine love for entomology and curation. Now that I am gone, the ethanol collection is likely completely abandoned. Please do not give this pathetic institution and its staff more things to ruin.

-Mossworm

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THINGS I DO WITH MY PLANTS THAT I FIND HELPFUL!!

1- i water them with banana water, which is just a jug of water i put banana peels in and let sit until its time to water plants or the peels mold, in which you remove them and thoroughly clean the jug.

2- anytime i need eggs to cook something, i keep the shells, remove the little film inside them, dry them, then crush them and scatter in my plants- keeps away some bugs and gives good calcium to the plants + lowers the soil PH, and lots of plants like alkaline soil

3- i pluck off any dead flowers on my flowering plants. i dont trim the stem, i just pluck of dead flowers and its kept my garden flowers growing nice and full for years + lets them grow taller than if i just trimmed the stems constantly.