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zeesm.bsky.social
Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶
@zeesm.bsky.social
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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.
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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
A school with dozens on small oval striped fish with yellow fins hovers over white sand behind spikes of elkhorn coral in the foreground.
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Sunset over the ocean just before dropping for a night dive. #scuba #diving #oceans
A view across the water's surface of an orange-glowing sunset behind low fluffy greyish clouds.
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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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
An oblong snail dotted with small irregularly-shaped orange blotches with black rims sits on soft coral.
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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
A fish with a long narrow body striped in orange and white, fanlike tail fin, and elongated trumpet-shaped mouth drifts head-down above the coral.
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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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
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Stoplight Parrotfish, just a ridiculously beautiful animal. #scuba #diving #oceans 🦑
A large fish with a teal body and purple, yellow, and orange bands on its fins swims above a sandy bottom.
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Green sea turtle, Bonaire. 🦑 #scuba #diving #oceans
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Foureye Butterfly Fish, Salt Pier, Bonaire. Lots of these little dudes at just about every dive site on the island. #scuba #diving #oceans
An oval fish with a little snout and a pale body with a thick vertical black line running through yje eye, and round black dot edged in white near the tail, and thin diagonal stripes running from the midline of the body diagonally toard the belly and back.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Hovering above a porcupine fish. #scuba #diving
A mottled grey porcupine fish swims along a coral shelf.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Midnight parrotfish at Candyland on Bonaire. At least 3 feet long. It was an astounding animal. #scuba #diving #oceans
A very large dark blue fish with a bright indigo head swims over a coral teef
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Sunset on Bonaire after a day of diving. #scuba
A cloudy sky suffused with an orange sunset over the ocean with a coral beach & low stone wall in the foreground.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Happy Caturday from Io and Miska. #catsofbluesky
A chunky tuxedo cat with white ties and belly sprawls on her back. A shaggy tuxedo cat with white belly & feet is laying on his side. Both are on large grey cat beds on a futon.
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Not the best photo but this is one of the biggest wolffish I've seen while diving in the Pacific Northwest. It wasn't swimming, just hanging out and being very mellow. 🦑
a large wolffish with a long grey body and darker grey spots is coiled among kelp and rocks against a paler sandy background.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Lewis' moon snail (Euspira lewisii), Sund Rock, Hood Canal WA. Named after Meriweather Lewis, who collected shells at the moht of the Columbia River 1804-1806. 🦑
The wrinkly pinkish-white body of a large snail protrudes from below a white shell
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Isabella Tiger Moth larva rescued from a walking path today. They've finished feeding for the season & are wandering in search of a sheltered spot to overwinter before pupating in spring. Antifreeze proteins protect their cells in freezing weather. #invertebrates #insects #entomology #Lepidoptera
A fuzzy wooly bear with black & brown bands is curled up defensively on a fallen green leaf.
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Full double rainbow on a wet day.
Two full rain ow arcs against a grey sky above a tree-lined street.
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Io is a ridiculous cat. 🐈 #catsofbluesky
A chonky black cat with white belly, toes, and chin is sprawled on her back on a futon with her head against her fluffy orange brother, who is curled up like a shrimp.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov
Inflatable animal dance party Huge crowd of people on the Portland OR waterfront. A green banner with a golden fist holding a trumped & the words Unpresidented Brass Band.
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Todd Lake never disappoints. #pacificnorthwest #water
A calm alpine lake with a tangle of logs in the foreground & a pine forest & cloud-shrouded volcanic peak in the background. A small creek runs over bedrock & wood tangles.
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The lovely Deschutes River in Bend Oregon. #rivers
A fast flowing river dotted with boulders and edged by rocky bluffs with tall pine trees beneath a cloudy sky.
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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My pitcher plant, Lord of the Flies, flowered for the 1st time this year.
Close up of a pitcher plant flower with a curved stem & reddish-brown petals. Terra Cotta pit with a large pitcher plant with white-veined pitchers sporting a mahogany colored flower.
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Old man Miska is happy to have me home again. #catsofbluesky 🐈
A long haired cat with a white chest & muzzle & black head is sitting on a human's lap. His white whiskers & earfloofs are dramatic.
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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A view from Deception Pass. Great day to kayak.
A view across a bay with fir trees in the foreground & bluffs & a small island in the distance.
September 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Just finished reading T Kingfisher's @tkingfisher.com new novel that I nabbed at Rose City ComicCon Con last week. I resented not being able to just devour it in a single sitting. What a fantastic read.
The dust jacket of a book showing a red apple encircled by a snake & bundles of herbs with the title Hemlock & Silver and the author name T Kingfisher .
September 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A very chonky Black slug (Arion ater) with my wife's hand for scale. I love how their moist l'il butts accumulate a tiny superhero cape of pine needles. #invertebrates
A glistening Black slug with eyestalks extended crawls across a pine needle-strewn trail. A human hand hovers above it to show how heckin' chonky it is.
September 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM