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If I have guests you know I’m busting out the 9/11 chess board 😤

#God the early aughts were so FUCKING weird

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Literally me

I've been thinking about this concept for so long i finally shittily doodled it

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met this sweet thing outside of walmart. was very curious about my hand, i let her sniff me with her antennae before gently encouraging her onto my hand. she stayed for a short while before flying off, undoubtably having much more important wasp business to attend to

Polistes fuscatus, April 12, 2023

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btw. grooming

Polistes dominula

7/10/23

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she hung out with me while i was processing nettle fiber

Chrysis sp. , likely angolensis

9/3/23

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guy who posed nicely for the camera

Polistes fuscatus ♂

10/21/23

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Random bee behavior fact for those who wish to read, just because I feel like it and because it’s late and I’m stalling on sleeping:

Bumblebees may seem like passive, cuddly, and docile creatures, but they won’t hesitate to defend themselves if they feel as if their warnings aren’t being read or taken seriously.

I.e. the photos and diagram below, when a bee feels threatened they will raise one or more of their legs into the air, signaling to whatever or whomever may be bothering them as a message essentiality saying: “hey, back off, too close!”

species pictured: bombus pascuorum, bombus impatiens

If their defensive posture goes unnoticed or ignored, they may be pushed into defending themselves by stinging (which is also a stressful experience for not only one such as yourself, but also for the bee.) If you ever find yourself getting close to a bumblebee while taking pictures, walking close to them, or just admiring them, remember this posture! If a bee does this, it is simply asking you to take a step back as it feels it is being threatened.

Now you can understand and use this knowledge to your advantage if you ever come across one in the future. (Of course, because it’s very hard not to anthropomorphize animals, I do have to admit that they do look pretty cute when doing it. Just remember to respect them though!)

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he Hates it

Polistes fuscatus ♂

8/31/23

#Get grabbed idiot

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🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚I'm throwing eggs at you 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚 egg attack

🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳 im cooking them faster 🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳than you can throw them

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have you made a baeddel blocklist yet?

I recommend getting comfortable with the fact that you will encounter people who suck on the internet, developing your ability to understand why certain things suck and why certain ways of thinking are harmful, and committing to simply blocking people you do not want to interact with as you come across them. instead of relying on strangers to tell you who you should or should not talk to.

I say this with as much compassion as possible, knowing I have used blocklists in the past: you do not know what my standards are for categorizing someone as a "baeddel" (as opposed to, say, a random trans woman who has some unpacked baggage about masculinity). You should not trust that I will be sufficiently diligent and discerning when placing people on such a list. Maybe you're willing to take that risk when blocking people on your own blog, but you definitely shouldn't be comfortable seeing that kind of list posted publicly to a blog with thousands of followers. Particularly when trans women are facing a lot of unprompted harassment as it is, and are coming under fire from tumblr staff themselves.

Baeddelism is harmful, and I don't think it's a bad idea to block anyone who proudly- with full knowledge of what that word means- calls themselves one right now. I'm not going to circulate a list of trans women with bad opinions, though, and I really caution you to think about what that ask really means.

#Just gonna go ahead and rehash my tags #Restate that there is never a point where you should trust a List of Undesirables #There is nobody on Earth you can trust to make that list #Nobody in the world deserves that level of trust #Anybody making and circulating a blocklist #Is a person worthy of scrutiny #Their motives should be immediately suspect #And there's not really a point where that level of preemption is useful #The vast majority of people on a blocklist #Are people you will never encounter in the wild #All it does is foster paranoia and mistrust #And rather directly supports targeted harassment #You don't need a blocklist #You have your head

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justa chill dude with a tiny secret [commission]

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Oh hey, it's actual yeen day! How could I not draw the girls that help me get out of artblock :]

ID: a digital drawing that features the four species of extant hyenas. From left to right, striped hyena, colored cream and brown; aardwolf, colored in pink and purple, with its tongue sticking out; brown hyena, colored bright pink and cream, and spotted hyena, in blue end dark grey. They're all happy and laughing. The bottom text reads "International Hyena Day 2023".

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So I heard it was hyena day

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Lunch time

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Babysitting

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The Pile