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Cecelia
@aspidoscelis.bsky.social
Botanist, ecologist, wanderer, hermit, photographer, bureaucrat, data wrangler, autistic / ADHD, scritcher of cats, master of the long-form email, maker of jokes (some of them funny).
I rarely visit here since the platform isn't a good fit for me, but:

Look folks, the US is currently in the middle of a coup. Either this ends with Elon as our new dictator or this ends with some group outside the president-level power structure removing him through force.
February 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
June 23, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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This is gorgeous. If you wanted to spend the time (not asking you to) I would totally read a blog/post about what each image is and inspect the full image, that is how awesome this is
June 14, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Three minutes of healthy discussion of masculinity:
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June 6, 2024 at 10:25 PM
It's amazing how many cultural expectations you can internalize while still being a non-conformist.
May 23, 2024 at 6:33 PM
April 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Want to talk to someone without a soul? Which, I suppose, just means "someone"?
April 28, 2024 at 8:45 PM
For social identities, description is prescription.
April 28, 2024 at 8:22 PM
April 15, 2024 at 9:26 PM
April 15, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Fun fact: There's a solar eclipse every night.
April 8, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Identity is external.
April 3, 2024 at 7:33 PM
We could see the birds gathered on the cliffs, guano streaked white below, as we sailed aukward.
April 2, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Can I be an April fool for the rest of the month, or do I have to stop tomorrow?
April 1, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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For you...

"The moment was all; the moment was enough."

Virginia Woolf, The Waves.
April 1, 2024 at 10:41 AM
The easiest way to seem is to be.
April 1, 2024 at 8:50 AM
I am a mirror, in which you see yourself.
March 29, 2024 at 8:38 PM
How to confuse people in MS Teams:
March 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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but that’s my emotional support misinformation
March 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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So good!

"If rockets hit rock bottom, this is how they would feel: five hundred thousand gallons of fuel capable of ripping through the atmosphere, all that potential energy, but utterly trapped in concrete footings."

(Accessible via free registration)
kenyonreview.org/piece/flight...
Flight Risk - The Kenyon Review
The truth is, I wanted it to be something that sounded complex, something that matched how I felt on the inside. “But I just don’t think we should rule out […]
kenyonreview.org
March 27, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Inclusion is self-interest.

'Cancel culture' is worrying because 'cancelling' means 'radicalizing'.
March 23, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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This was a highly enjoyable survey.

If the link doesn't work, try vub.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
March 21, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Winning is loss.
March 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I think my mind has more red and blue in it.
March 10, 2024 at 6:17 AM