Queer kids need to see queer people doing well. I cannot stress enough how important this is.
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Cassie
@mosquito_chaser
Queer entomologist. Cis Lesbian. Surgical menopause & HRT. Ethical nonmonogamy. Grief. ADHD. Doing my best. #BlackLivesMatter. #ProtectTransKids. (she/her)
Lol noJoined April 2011
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Friend: Should I walk you? This neighborhood is scary.
Me: Is not. Also, I live here.
Friend: If you’re sure…
Me (indignant): Yes, I’m sure can walk in my own neighborhood by myself.
Mom (text): Careful walking back there’s people with crow bars breaking things downstairs.
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Mom: How do I get your dog to stop begging when I’m eating?
Mom later that day: Can I give your dog some of these chicken scraps off my plate?
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Playing with resin recently and I’m kinda proud of this. I still need more practice but I might try to do more of this… prob with a typed label in the future.
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I would just like to share that Youtube autogenerated captions heard “Anopheles gambiae mosquito” as “an awfully scary mosquito”.
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I love bringing hello dollies to potlucks because they never don’t start a conversation. Usually it’s mainly “wtf are these?” but still. I enjoy a good conversation.
Coworker: I ordered blood but they said it’s going to be a little later than normal since they’re getting a lot of orders because of the holidays.
Me: Oh that makes sense
Me a second later: wait… what?
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My colony mosquitoes are officially mating in the cage 🦟 💜 🦟 I’m so proud of them.
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Finally started playing Oxygen Not Included and I have no regrets.
Don’t Starve Together and Dwarf Fortress space baby?
Yes, thank you, don’t mind if I do.
I don’t know what to say but hey there are layers of it’s okay if you’re not okay today, okay?
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A woman brought in a spider for me to ID the other day, made me promise not to kill it and wanted to know the scientific name, not just the common name, so she could do more research. When she left she was brainstorming pet names for it.
I love people sometimes.
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I played cat tv with birds for Kitten this morning who kept looking behind and under the phone when the birds went off screen and then angrily slapping the phone before finally just flipping it into the ground and walking away 😂
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Kitten has figured out that I turn my phone screen back on by touching it and is very upset that it doesn’t respond to paws. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a frustrated cat before today 😂
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Witnessing other people let out involuntary expressions of excitement while watching bugs do bug stuff will never not make me happy.
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Sacrificing one of my colony mosquitoes to demonstrate the awesomeness of assassin bugs to my newest coworkers feels like it was a good choice.
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I appreciate that I’m someone people often feel they can express their secret queerness to but it’s depressing how often that’s followed by “but obviously I’m never going to actually do anything about it”.
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Check it out! First real rain in a minute, first (found) egg raft in the creek 💛 🌧 🦟 🍂
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I just got invited to a local skate night so I… guess I need to get some skates.
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Not exactly something I’m allowed to repeat but I’m sure glad I got to read that.
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I love reading old research sometimes because you find things like a researcher got his colony mosquitoes to mate and take blood meals by letting them loose in a bathroom and watching them while hanging out in the tub.
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Pictures could be better and I’m regretting how dirty that corner of the cage is BUT! check out what I got to watch from basically start to finish in my new (still hopeful) mosquito colony, this morning 😁 🦟
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Anyway, my new temporary assistant got to ride along while I vacuumed this tunnel for resting mosquitoes and then tried really hard to come back to the lab but I did eventually catch it and set it back down where it belonged. The experience kinda made my day, though.
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Okay so I took another picture and went to grab the lizard to put it back down on the rocks with all the other lizards and it made a run for it again… Good reminder to put my hair up in the field, I guess.
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When I tried to put it down it promptly ran up my arm
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So I helped it onto my hand and let it chill for a few while I took some pictures
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I helped it onto the edge of the trap but it just ended up falling back in…
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So yesterday I found a lizard in one of my gravid traps. At first I thought it was just cooling off but then I realized it couldn’t get up the sides…
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I have a really cool idea for a project and I’m simultaneously really excited about it and terrified that I won’t be able to do it because… well… insects don’t always cooperate.
It’s a a really cool idea tho.
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I may have finally found a home for grumpy garage cat and now I’m kinda sad she’ll be gone soon.
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It’s 113 degrees Fahrenheit outside my lab so I’m postponing field work to one of the cooler 105-107 degree days later in the week.
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I was all worried because I didn’t have time to eat this morning and then I came to work to discover chocolate bars and homemade pear pie in the free-for-all space at work so I’m happy now.
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Friend: *does something annoying*
Me: *gets annoyed*
Friend: *cracking up* yes! i love it when you get crabby! more! more!
I can’t always tell if I have good people in my life but they are certainly not boring.
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The thing I love most in this moment about being an adult is I can just eat sardines and egg salad and nobody’s mean to me about my smelly food because that’s rude and also it’s delicious.
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Oh yes this sounds fun
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