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Hello! Entomologist and crustacean biologist from Florida, USA! Also art and game development. AuDHD. has anyone seen my phone

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · Aug 18

HUGE thank you to everyone who helped spread the word about iDigBio's new unnecessary chatbot, or who participated in the information webinar (even though they locked the chat, so there wasn't much we could do). I really do appreciate everything, sincerely.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 7h

you would think "dead bug organizer" would not provide one with many opportunities or influences to break the law. and yet!

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 7h

they forgot to lie over here! we're not even important enough to get our own propaganda...

USDA Web Soil Survey does not have anti-democrat propaganda, probably because the trumpies either don't know it exists or don't think anyone uses it

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 7h

I assume it's because they think there are a lot of trump-aligned farmers trying to use USDA websites to get credits or whatever that they can easily swindle with this crap. If you actually go into the applications, there's no warning, because I doubt they know there are applications lol

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 8h

oh, fuck you

"Mission-critical activities of HHS will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Please use this site as a resource as the Trump Administration works to reopen the government for the American people."

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 8h

it's not even consistent, like aside from the fact that "shutdown" is a noun and not a verb, the NRCS WSS (web soil survey) doesn't have the warning because whichever trumpite they had change all the websites probably doesn't even know it exists

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 8h

can you all shut up for one second so I can find the ESD catalog

US Forest Service page says "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people."

US NRCS page says "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people."

US FSIS page says "The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people."

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 8h

I feel like universities should maybe have some kind of Actively Living Under Fascism clause that lets me take courses as pass/fail. There's state propaganda all over the websites I literally need to use for courses now, and I'd really rather not get immediately angry every time I have to find a PDF

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 9h

they're restricted to just a few counties, and vulnerable to habitat destruction and poaching

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 9h

as long as I have the means to not immediately become homeless upon losing a job, I think I have no choice but to throw myself into the gears over and over

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

quote from my boss at the government: "The law and what we do are two different things."

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

there must be something that can be done about total nonsense like this? did the government not force everyone to violate the hatch act already?

(I honestly don't know. We never talked about what was illegal when I worked for the government, people just did whatever)

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

it's not very comforting for me anymore to hear that so-and-so quietly hates what is happening. you have to loudly hate what is happening, and sometimes manually oppose what is happening, or it's all sausage.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

not to pick on the ten remaining USDA soil scientists or anything, this goes for everybody

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

"the actual scientists probably did not want to do this, some non-science admin person is forcing them to spread propaganda"

okay, but, the propaganda is up there now. you're either working for the Ministry of Truth or you're not, yes?

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 16h

"moss, why don't you consider working for USDA / FWS / some other US government scientific body?

look, I just don't think I would last very long

"Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people." This is a webpage on Soil Taxonomy

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 16h

I'm sure lots of people at my past job are furious right now, too, but feelings alone don't accomplish anything.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 16h

department of agriculture was run by christo-fascists who all went to the same church or whatever, I don't have high hopes

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 16h

something something sometimes you have to keep your mouth shut instead of doing the right thing, and I would rather die

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 16h

"moss, why don't you consider working for USDA / FWS / some other US government scientific body?

look, I just don't think I would last very long

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

they are very good, taste similar to P edulis but the outside stays green

Passiflora incarnata fruit cut in half, with yellowish edible pulp and black seeds

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

I have friends who overwinter their pet tortoises in the fridge and it's apparently comically easy

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

yes! completely correct. P incarnata is also edible though and also weirdly hard to find for sale here

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

honestly, leaving them outside in DC is probably pretty good as long as they're really wet. they also just don't get very big

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

I would check one of the plant reddits for more info, but I think you just stick them in a bag for a few months and ignore them

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

they're just like little cartoon mouths sitting on the ground among the pine needles, like the things that eat that guy in the Dark Crystal miniseries

wild Venus Flytrap plants are very low to the ground, easily hidden among grass and leaf litter

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 17h

I got to visit one of the places with actual live wild Venus Flytraps, and about a dozen nature dorks & myself all walked past them several times until someone pointed at one, about 1 cm tall and hiding meekly under a boardwalk

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