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🌱They/Them🌱 ✨I’m trying to keep things alive✨ Artist/Writer, care provider ☮️ Lover of little creatures. Studying plants, insects, and people. 🌲🌵🌴🌳🌱🪴👁️👁️✨🏳️‍🌈🌚🌝🏳️‍⚧️✨
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Currently hyper-fixated on Irdovirus in isopods Found two this month they move so much slower than the healthy ones from what I have seen That or my other is particularly active (might also be true) I’d slow down too if I had crystals forming under my skeleton

This is Shadow. He was found dragging his back legs. He was diagnosed with IVDD, a degenerative disease in his spine. Doctors believe his best chance at a comfortable life full of zoomies is steroid treatment and months of physical therapy. You can help him get it below ❤️‍🩹 15outof10.org/shadow-3/

laguna beach ☀️

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

They will help you reach your deadline ✏️📓📝

Valley Carpenter bees and their fun sexual dimorphism for #invertefest

Under observation.

“Frog,” said Toad, “if I dust my chairs and scrub my windows and water my plants right now, then I will not have to do it tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog. “You will not have to do any of it.”

I think a lot about how COVID-19 was sold as an "individual responsibility," an approach which got over a million people killed but that the culture still accepted. Following that P.R. success, they're eager to say every illness is your fault.

location, location, location.

My plans for later are sleep

Expressive

Noopy sticker packs are back in stock!

This Is Not a Love Song (2023) by Jiri Hauschka. Acrylic on canvas.

I’m rooting for ya

make america healthy again is all about eating more fast food and making lists of queer and autistic people but does not include cheaper or free healthcare which is interesting

I’ve heard about you 👁️

Waldkautz, Tawny owl, Norbertine Bresslern-Roth, 1922.

quick study

I need to start telling the story again

Escapism

they are afraid of what everyone is made of

I used to write more But now it feels like all I do is respond

One of my kids is a therian

He is no deity

what if we all walked together in the same direction #earthday

#2948 It's a little guy day

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

Cypress trees look like if creation held a draw your own tree contest And a child won on a sympathetic entry

waiting room drawings

Angy

electric aquarium #art

Mad

seeing how people saying 'thank you' to chatgpt costs them 'millions', we should be able to bankrupt the company with a script to waste its time with other mundane pleasantries like "nice weather we're having" and "how is Mabel doing after her procedure?"

If emojis were invented in Eastern Europe there would be all kinds of folk remedies to prevent them from getting inside your house

“Now seeds,” said Toad, “start growing.” Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow.

I find the common talking point that anarchists assume everyone is as nice as them strange. I'm a pessimist who has learned from numerous horrific life experiences that people can treat each other terribly and that's exactly why nobody should be given vast amounts of power over others.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

james bong

My Linus, has heart shaped leaves that ruffle at the edges.

Captitalism breeds these twin notions of zero sum scarcity and competition. They believe that basic human rights must be earned and competed for, and that there are only so many resources to go around, so they must be doled out to those who put the time in to get them.

Looking at a hillside choked with kudzu gives me the same feeling as standing under a scale model of a blue whale. Nature is vast and terrifying

My partner got weirded out by how much my new calathea plant wiggles during the day, so of course I had to capture an 11 hour timelapse of it wiggling.

I need to look at plants to heal me emotionally

I had a dream I was caught up in an avalanche and the people I was with urged me to summersault away Because you can’t outrun an avalanche, but you can out-summersault one