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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶
@zeesm.bsky.social
PhD in Entomology & certified scuba instructor. Queer trans masc neurospicy leftist invertebrate ecologist, scuba diver, kayaker, weightlifter, TTRPG gamer, scifi reader, cat lover, professional pessimist.
School of Smallmouth Grunt in staghorn coral. The name creatively tells you that, um, they have smaller mouths than other grunts, which they use to eat plankton, small crustaceans, and worms. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sunset over the ocean just before dropping for a night dive. #scuba #diving #oceans
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Flamingo tongue, a sea snail that eats gorgonians, converting their toxins into chemical defenses (though hogfish, pufferfish, & Spiny lobster eat them). The spots are in the mantle, but people collect them thinking the shell is colorful, and populations have suffered. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🐙 Newly completed artwork for the Sculpted Reef series

✨🪸 Reef Dreams VII 🪸✨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The Trumpetfish is such a ridiculous looking creature, they always make me smile. They are masters of color change as well, shading from brown, reddish, orange, and bright yellow. They often drift head-down like this, especially when hanging out in clumps of soft coral. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A trans teen in Iowa completed suicide after severe bullying by classmates and teachers.

"Miles’ death came a day after a substitute teacher refused to use his preferred pronouns."

It's the type of bullying @thefireorg.bsky.social and @aricohn.com support.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/17/m...
Heartbroken family of trans teen speaks out about how bullying led to his death
The family of trans Iowa student Miles Phipps has spoken out about bullying following losing their son to suicide. He was just 15-years-old.
www.thepinknews.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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10 years ago my mum and dad found a stray kitten on the property who eventually went to live with my cousin.
This photo of Archie feels like a Christmas Card
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Can you see the scorpionfish? (hint: eyes to the left, caudal fin to the right) They are tremendously camouflaged and I generally miss them, but this one shot in front of me, dropped onto some coral, and then stayed motionless. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Stoplight Parrotfish, just a ridiculously beautiful animal. #scuba #diving #oceans 🦑
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Trump Has Violated A 32-Year-Old Military Policy In A "Humiliating And Painful" Move Never Seen Before

www.buzzfeed.com/lev...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Trump Ends Retirement Benefits For Trans Troops
The move raises questions about how far the administration will go to reshape the armed forces.
www.buzzfeed.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Green sea turtle, Bonaire. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Foureye Butterfly Fish, Salt Pier, Bonaire. Lots of these little dudes at just about every dive site on the island. #scuba #diving #oceans
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Hovering above a porcupine fish. #scuba #diving
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Midnight parrotfish at Candyland on Bonaire. At least 3 feet long. It was an astounding animal. #scuba #diving #oceans
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Sunset on Bonaire after a day of diving. #scuba
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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These tomato pickers earn 86 cents per 25 lb bucket. On an average day a worker fills around 170 buckets --or more than 4000 pounds of tomatoes picked by hand. The fruit is picked green so it ripens red by the time it reaches your store. #WeFeedYou
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This will kill people. Some of us have physical bodies that need HRT to live. Trans people’s blood is on the hands of these supposed Christians. This is a declaration of intent to do harm to patients. Somebody needs to sue these genocidal maniacs.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Senate Democrats are about to learn about the ineligible in-group
I spent a good chunk of the past 11 months angry, angry at what this regime is doing to this country.

But im feeling levels of unbridled rage that I have not felt in years after watching the democrats negate their biggest win in years with a deal that gives the regime an even bigger victory
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM