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Grad student. If ya know me, ya know me, otherwise shush.

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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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A chocolate bunny in a box at the store. It looks out upon us with distress in its eyes.A closer view of bunny's face, showing the horrors he has seen
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is your annual reminder that you should visit your older relatives and help them clean out their pantries. Botulism express over here 😬
A puffed up can of expired fruit cocktail. This WILL kill you, and it will hurt the whole time.An unspeakable black growth emerging from an expired exploded can of mandarin oranges.Big pile of cans to be thrown out.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In case you doubted how much of a dictatorship we're living under
WV Legislature proposing to rename Spruce Knob, the tallest mountain in WV, as Trump Mountain
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Crocuses have begun to pop in northern WV! 🌱
Small 6-petaled lavender flowers with bright orange centers and grassy foliage emerging from brown aged mulchA side view of the same
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hey did you notice all the GORGEOUS BEAUTIFUL SNOW outside (if you live where the snow is) ???? Please share your #snow #nature photos today!
A fisheye lens photo taken over a snowy azalea bush. The top of the bush has lumpy mounds of snow, and there are some leafy twigs poking through. The late afternoon sun is on the way down, as high cirrus and low cumulus clouds roll by in the blue hazy sky.A closeup of a pine bough fallen in the snow, showing the outline of ots shape, and little needled branchlets poking up above the snow.A snowy landscape, with a heavily crooked snow-laden tulip poplar in the foreground and a frozen pond in the background. The sky is a deep blue, with cumulus clouds.Tracks through the snow to a tiny footbridge over a small creek
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Yes they are! Silver WV state quarters.
Close up of the rings in question, showing the state name & 1863Same, showing 2005 and E Pluribus Unum
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hey guys I got hitched last week to my best friend!
Me and my husband standing and hugging out in the snowOur wedding rings laid out on the notebooks where we each wrote our vowsGreg and I in the dining room posing for a pic before we cut the chocolate wedding cakeGreg and I kissing in the snow in from of a Little Caesars
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
My Pink Princess Philodendron is actually a Pink Prince Philodendron 🌱🍄📸
A hand holding up an incredibly small yellow mushroom (the plant-pot dapperling!). The mushroom is young, with a rather thick base, and without a full cap. It looks a bit inappropriate.

This is a harmless little fungus for your plants to cohabitate with! It promotes the release of nutrients from the soil.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Please enjoy this nice stick. 🌿🍄📸 Sly Park, CA, December 2021
Closeup of a gorgeous stick, covered in white lichen, tiny purple shelf fungi, bright fluorescent green lichen, and a fluffy pale lichen.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is a lovely town to be a sidewalk user in
Photo of a narrow sidewalk along a busy road. The sidewalk is fractured, with rusty rebar poking out, and a utility pole protrudes about a foot into the sidewalk by the road. Another pole protrudes another foot in on the other side, a few feet past the first. You cannot safely use a wheelchair or walk past, without carefully checking the road for vehicles.Another view a little ways farther down the sidewalk. A road crew has placed a flagger warning side in the middle of the walkway, leaving zero clearance for sidewalk users. There is also another utility pole protruding through the sidewalk a couple feet farther.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
If we lose NOAA, at least we can all make our own weather predicting coconut
A coconut hanging from a rope in front of a wooden sign. It reads:

"WEATHER FORECASTING COCONUT

CONDITION-FORECAST

Coconut is Wet-Rain
Coconut is Dry-Not Raining
Shadow on Ground-Sunny
White on top-Snowing
Can't see Coconut-Foggy
Swinging coconut-Windy
Coconut jumping Up & Down-Earthquake
Coconut Gone-Tornado"
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
A scraggly almost-naked oak tree silhouette against a grey sky.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Either I found 2 leucistic Canada geese, or these 2 geese love to play in poop or paint, or they're having a hard time molting 🦆 #birds #WeirdDuckTime
A black and white Canada goose on blue rippling water. This one has a big white patch on the back of its head, which "should" be black.Same goose and setting, different angle.A second goose, with smaller white patches on its face and neck.Same goose, different angle.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Want to distract yourself? Learn the etymology for "limpet"!
Screenshot from a webpage about freshwater limpets. It reads:

Etymology of Freshwater Limpets

Although the name 'Limpet' is of uncertain origin and might be folk etymology, it is also believed that it has Latin roots from the word 'Lampreda'.

The Latin word 'Lampreda' is a combination of the word 'Lambere' meaning "to lick" and the word 'Petra' meaning 'the rock'.

Therefore, Limpet can be translated as 'Licking the rock'.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Me, going to my silly little office, to do my silly little job on November 5, 2024
Meme image of a blone-haired little girl coloring with wax crayons. She's resting her head on her hand in a very adult-ish expression of distress, and looks close to tears.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
She's reaching for the surface, but climbed up onto the underside of the plant so can't reach 😂 (She did perform some impressive acrobatics to get on top after the photo, and happily siphoned air for a bit) 🐌 #MysterySnails #aquaria
A big golden-orange snail standing upside down on a ferny fake plant. She's reaching through the frond with a tentacle to find the water's surface.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Had a flip-flop blowout at work, so I'm dressed as a Saturday Morning Retired Dad (feat. khaki cargo shorts and a tee) for the day. Happy Halloween!!
Looking down at my feet, showing some brown leather slippers and ugly white quarter socks.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
I voted! Check out the weird sticker. I wish we had the children's drawing ones
A selfie of me, smiling at the camera and holding up my voting sticker. The sticker is round, has a red ring around the outside with text that reads "Presidential Election 2024" and "I Voted". In the center is a blue circle with the Great Seal, a spread eagle holding leaves and arrows in its feet and a banner in its beak.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Its a little late, but another of my guerilla-gardening dahlias has bloomed! 🌱 (Ignore the whitefly-wracked foliage...)
A wine red dahlia flower with a golden yellow center. The background is a blurry blue sky with high cirrus clouds, and lots of dahlia foliage with white areas from insect damage.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
😱😱😱
A screenshot from the video game "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild". Link is standing outside Impa's house, and Paya has just spotted him. She's holding her face and crying in terror, while yelling "A man?!"
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Pretty proud of this chickpea curry 🤤 #WhatsForDinner #food (Recipe: minimalistbaker.com/easy-chana-m...)
A blue-grey plate with curry and white rice on one half of the plate, and broccoli and beef on the other half. The curry has visible chickpeas, tomato chunks, cilantro, and ginger bits.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
American Senna bringing the spoopy factor for Halloween 🌱🎃🌿
Closeup of the narrow black bean pots of American Senna. They have sparse long white hairs.Wider shot of the same plant, showing more pods and lots of bright yellow foliage.Closeup of leaves from a different plant, showing yellow fall color and lots of black fungal patches.The whole rachis, showing lots of yellow leaflets with black spots
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Somehow the dahlias are still poppin' here in West Virginia 🌱🌸🐝
A bumblebee napping in a pink, yellow, and white dahlia flowerA mixed clump of pink and red dahlias in a mulch bed, still covered in blooms
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Guess what I found in a pasture today!!! (Answer & description in alt text)
My finger behind a very odd-looking grass seedhead. The background is a blurry grassy pasture.

The seedhead begins where the stem bends to the side. There, a long series of downward-facing tubelike seeds begins, extending all the way to the stem tip. It resembles a brown toothbrush, bent a little near the head.

This is Blue Grama grass (Bouteola gracilis), a rare grass for the state of West Virginia. This is shortly going to be the first observation of the species in the state.

I am so excited about this because it is one of the first wacky seedheads I learned to ID, and I am so excited to find it in the wild!
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Because I can't have dogs (stupid lease agreement) I just take pics of other people's dogs
A brown and white dog with a silky coat laying on a hardwood floorA brown sighthound watching birds in a tree just out of frame. She's posed like she's in a dog show. Behind her is a big hydrangea bush.A brown short and shiny-coated dog looking at the camera with a sweet expression, ears back. Her chin is resting on a light grey pillow.A black Scottish Terrier with her face smushed into a blue linen pillow. She's giving the camera some nice side-eye.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Meet Penny, the shop puppy from Dogwood General Store in Shepherdstown, WV
A brown and white mutt dog with a silky Collie coat, laying on a brown doormat on a dark old hardwood floor. She's looking at the camera pensively, with her head cocked to the side.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
My mystery snail SnAmy (given to me by my friend Amy) woke up from a nap to hit the spinach bar, and is now back to napping. I am envious. #aquarium #freshwater You can see copepods and ostracods zipping around in the clip!
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
🤔
Screenshot of WVBRIM website.

About Us

A five-member board, appointed by the governor, oversees the West Virginia Board of Risk and Insurance Management (BRIM).

BRIM operates under the authority of Chapter 29, Article 12; and Chapter 33, Article 30 of the West Virginia Code, as amended, and the provisions of Executive Order 12-86. The Executive Director manages the daily operations.

[This part is highlighted] The primary responsibility for BRIM is to provide casualty insurance coverage for all State Agencies.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Seems like a great state government we have here State-run insurance given a 🚮 budget and also given permission to drop customers to save $. In this case, customer = whole entire city transit system
Photo of the front page of the Dominion Post, a local (Morgantown WV) newspaper. The cover story is "State insurer drops Mountain Line resulting in 300% price increase"
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Hahah hey who the fuck decided its cool to advertise prescription pharmaceuticals in the middle of grocery aisles
An advertisement for Wegovy next to the diet snacks
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
⭐️ My stanky star plant is stanky again ⭐️ (Orbea sp., more info here: plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/orbea...) 🌱🌿 #botany #houseplants
A very bizarre dark red and cream colored meaty star shaped flower. Close up of the center of the flower, showing multiple parts in groups of 5. Looks like several stars of different shapes sitting inside a cream colored donut with dark red spots.A flowerbud next door to the opened flower. Its shaped like a 5 sided oyster cracker, an inflated pentagon.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Pardon the potato quality, but looks like I have a chytrid or some other aquatic fungus munching on this freshwater aquarium plant! 🍄📸
A plant sprout in an aquarium. It is covered in a thick layer of white fuzz.Different angleZoomed out some, showing more of the plant stem that the sprout emerged from
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
But alas :(
The lid of the container, with "Dog Food" sharpied on it
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
I was staying at a friend's place this morning and went through a bunch of cabinets looking for coffee. I thought I found it...
An orange plastic container of Dunkin Donuts original blend ground coffee on a wooden windowsill
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Aurora! Summersville WV
Dark tree silhouettes against the night sky. The sky is tinged pink and blue from the aurora, and pinprick stars are visible.A similar scene, with more purple than pink.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
October views
A cluster of small white daisies with yellow centers covered in morning dew. The background is a slightly out-of-focus dewy pasture.Dead flowerheads from ironweed, strewn with spiderwebs and morning dew. The background is an out-of-focus pasture.A white gravel road lined with trees showing fall color. A clear blue sky shines overhead.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
I'm in the middle of a fun mental-break side-project where my job is to identify and sort all the plant biomass in a square all the way down to the soil. Perks include sitting in pretty fields and talking to cows 🌿🌱 #botany
A top-down view of a yellow 3-sided metal square laying in a pasture, marking the sampling zone. Lots of different small plants are visible. My wet boot is poking into the photo.Another sampling square from a different site, showing the plot after sampling. The area inside the square is bare brown soil.View down a fenced meadow/pasture with sparse trees. My dirty boots are poking into the frame, showing that I'm sitting on my butt in the grass enjoying the view.Sunset in the same pasture, with the sun lighting up the setae on Setaria seedheads.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Hello, this is your yearly reminder to GET THEM MOLES CHECKED Y'ALL! #SkinCancer #melanoma #dermatology Got another one removed today.
A selfie of short-haired woman in a hospital gown in a doctors office.A close up of the same woman, looking to the side, to show a bandaid on the side of her jaw.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Got a video of one a few years ago. All that motion you see in the head is the *lenses* and other visual machinery inside the head moving around!
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Finally getting some rain in these hills!
View from the passenger seat of a car going down a wet highway. The road is straight but has tree-covered low mountains on either side.  The sky is very dramatic, with sunlight bursting through a large dark rain cloud.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
My pet apple snail enjoying a big chunk of spinach 🐌 #invertebrates #mollusks #aquarium All the little dots are copepods, ostracods, and daphnia.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
How did we go from "I did not have sexual relations with that woman!" to this?
Screenshot from NPR of a headline that reads "North Carolina GOP candidate for governor denies report he made racist posts on porn site"
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Brachycybe rosea, one of the millipedes I study, doing its thing somewhere in California 🌿🐛
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Me on the outside Me on the inside
Smiling brunette white woman in a white blouse and brown blazer sitting in an office using a computerSeveral photos of Moo Deng, the angry baby pygmy hippo screaming into the void and biting a handler's leg
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
I caught one snacking on a whole bumblebee this afternoon!
A small assassin bug with its proboscis in a bumblebee's abdomen. The bee is still on the goldenrod plant, but is definitely dead.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Ohio quarter for comparison
Hand holding an Ohio state quarter, featuring an astronaut and an airplane, with the phrase "Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers"
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Want to make an Ohioan mad? Show them a North Carolina state quarter
Hand holding a North Carolina state quarter, showing the airplane design and the phrase "First Flight".

(Ohio is mad because the Wright Bros were from Ohio, but did their flight in NC, so NC gets all the credit)
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Got to see her tictacs while she napped today
Closeup of a long dog snoot, with front teeth and canines just barely poking out of a relaxed mouth (she nappin')
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
My latest petsitting charge, a sweet longnose gal named Honey! (Silken Windhound) #dogs #PetsOfBluesky
A sweet long-nosed tan dog laying on a couch, with my hand petting the top of her head. Her sweet shiny black mousey eyes are looking at me.Same pup, on her back on the couch with feet in the air, asking for belly rubs.
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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Just two guys being dudes (Two male periodical cicadas trying to get it on)
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