Encyrtids are important biocontrol agents, pretty much always tiny (biggest one I've found is a few millimeters long), and the most ridiculous, goofy, gorgeous, harmless things. I will get people to love them. 🐡🐝🌿#InverteFest
Periodic reminder that there is more than one kind of wasp and I really don't ever want to hear your sting stories uninvited, any more than a dog lover wants to hear your dog bite story
Not what I was going for but with some elbow grease it wasn’t a loss… #art#sciart#anatomyart#watercolor
I don’t. Imagine a bunch of white users tagging a discussion of systemic racism with “CW racism” for merely mentioning that racism exists and is a problem. You’d have the inverse of the problem and offer up a massive tool to bad actors to police the content of others in a serious way.
The social media experience has trained us all to see our preferences as moral failures or successes instead of just, what we personally like or dislike
one thing i really fucking loathe about bluesky apologists is when the team made a clear and deliberate decision to something extremely stupid and damaging and you can even point at the design parameters that went into it and some fuckwit says "but it's just a beta!!!"
I haven't really been on this app in days. Are the admins still acting like shitheads and burying their head in the sand as often as they can?
I’ve harped on this too much already, but Alice’s language is quintessential “new” racist language - co-opted buzzwords that are racist in context but existed outside the racist community as innocuous, often academic terminology. Linguistic “OK” hand symbols. Anglosphere is a textbook example.
Because that would require them to step outside the narrative of ONLY being cast as hero/victim; never the villain…if you can’t accept (1) that you fucked up (2) that your lack of knowledge caused the fuck up (3) that you’re not qualified to fix the fuck up & shouldn’t be building in the 1st place