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microbiologist & video game soundtrack enthusiast 💜 || can be commissioned for piano, vocals, and music engraving :) || PhD student @ ISU || she/her 🇵🇭

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · Oct 17

reintroducing myself for the new folks 🦋

hi, i'm Ica! i'm a Microbiology PhD student at Iowa State, but i also love video game music and its community 💜 i'm available to sing for your project, or engrave your sheet music 🎶 let's be friends ayayayaya

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 19h

it feels like they're disrespecting all your prior experience 😭 that's what pisses me off the most, bc why did I spend years getting to where I am only to be treated like babey again??

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 20h

hold on THAT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE bfksjdkafbkabfjwd

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 20h

he says that grad students tend to forget the fundamentals so this class would help me remember. which is a fair point but I DONT NEED A WHOLE SEMESTER CLASS 😭

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 20h

i've been scared posting this bc i might look like a massive cunt smartass but im so tired!!!!!!!!!! i am wasting time and effort in this class when i could be conducting actual research!!!!!!!!

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 20h

it sucks bc this prof is my boss so i can't just. NOT go. he's making me take the class.

but also it feels so disrespectful bc why are you making me take this??? things i learned >10 years ago??????????

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 20h

being forced to take an undergrad class for something you're doing a doctorate in is so demeaning........

prof: let's discuss the basic principles of immunology
me, who's literally designed a vaccine off of those principles: 🫠

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

Oh Dale, I'm so sorry!! My condolences, and I hope you (and CoCo!) are doing okay. Sending love!

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

finally said NO to that one co-worker who's kept asking me for favors and abusing my kindness

feels good! boundaries are great!!

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

gilgamesh is great bc i too like to randomly drop into battles and occasionally deal one (1) damage

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

excited and happy for you!!! mega jazz tunes actually

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

LOMGGGGG

also babey fawf jumpscare holy shit

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 2d

is this normal??? im worried we're feeding her too much bc like HOW DID SHE STRETCH SO FAST

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 3d

how did this child get so long. i swear she was like 2/3 this size when we got her 2 months ago.

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 3d

today in d&d, encountering a mimic:

@furyfulfawful.bsky.social: i want to tame the mimic
another player: if you feed a mimic where does the food go?
me: do mimics have cloacas???
dm: ...do you want to roll to check if the mimic has a cloaca?

bro 😭

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 3d

missing cheap comfort food dimsum :(

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 4d

PAPER MARIO TTYD ON NINTENDO MUSIC!!!!!!!!!

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 4d

SO FLUFFY OML

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JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 NEW JOURNAL PUBLICATION 🎉

Happy to share my latest journal article in Review of Development Economics (SSCI, Scopus), co-authored with UPSE Prof. Emeritus Emmanuel S. de Dios!

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 5d

cloudy night ☁️

Digital artwork of a girl with long plaited purple hair, wearing a white dress with a cape shaped like clouds, holding a floating tiny moon on her right hand

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Tamagotchi Wiki @tamagotchiwiki.bsky.social · 5d

Two new Tamagotchi Uni shells have been revealed! These shells, "Aurora Pink" and "Prism White", are the first official translucent Uni shells, and will be available exclusively through Premium-Bandai Japan.
Preorder period: 10/10 - 11/30. Ships December.
#tamagotchi #たまごっち

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 5d

me in silksong: I would die

ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 7d

ok who wants to be roommates (should be able to deal with me and fawful being cringe)

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 7d

starlight 🌟

Digital artwork of a girl with long plaited pink hair wearing blue dress with clouds pattern on it, holding a shining star on her shoulder.

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ica 💜 @1caaake.bsky.social · 7d

WE GOT THE GAYLORD BABEYYYYYYYYYYY

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