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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Someone was very uninterested in letting me make the bed earlier. Finally live for the first time in almost six months! twitch.tv/microbees_

Goose stares dramatically off to the side while laying under my blanket and refusing to move while I was attempting to make my bed today.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Things have been a lot in my personal life. This week amped things up with the announcement of the end of Destiny and the nonsense announced by USCIS yesterday that's really impacting my coworkers. Been doing some crochet since yesterday to feel a bit more grounded during it all.

A picture of crochet amigurumi pieces. On the left is a prickly pear cactus and on the left is a barrel cactus with a tiny shovel. They are not particularly great, as Bess is still pretty new to crochet. But at least these aren't stuffed wrong side out like the frog.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Someone please talk me out of cancelling class just because Goose is very cuddly and I want to enjoy the cuddles

Goose, the black lab and border collie mix, is curled up over the blankets but clearly up against something (Bees' legs). It's very cute and comfy and warm for both parties.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Who let me play this game? I was fighting 2500+ level enemies and having the time of my life lmao

Warframe end of mission for The Circuit. The time spent in the circuit is listed as 2h 13 min and 38 s

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Palette cleanser for your doomscrolling 💜

Goose is laying on top of Bees, who is curled up in the fetal position after forgetting to take ibuprofen before the IUD replacement appointment yesterday. Bees' forehead is visible behind Goose's back. The picture is somewhat blurry as the photographer could not see where it was being taken, but it looks as if Goose was the one taking the picture.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Apparently you just get loaded into an instance with no one else if Bungie doesn't get anyone matchmade into excision quickly enough. Finally got the new light friend through it tonight alongside Rockets!

A screenshot of the end of excision. The radar shows only two fireteam members.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Goose heard there's a capybara emote in the bright dust store 👀 live with Day 2 of partying! twitch.tv/microbees_

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Now that graduation is over, Frinos bears the doctoral cap. I'm sure he'll do so responsibly.

A plush of Frinos (Hades II) wears a dark blue doctoral cap.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Despite Goose being sick two nights in a row, we persist! Live with Day 2 of Lucky's semi-annual gambit gilding stream ft. @lucky8605.bsky.social @isoracle.bsky.social and @javman158.bsky.social at twitch.tv/microbees_

Goose, the black lab and border collie mix, is laying on a bed facing away from the camera but has his head turned back to look at the camera. He looks like a sad, pathetic man.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

World's most recent doctoral recipient!

Bees poses for a picture after officially becoming Dr. Bees.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Holy shit y'all, I'm becoming Dr. Bees tomorrow. Come distract me from stressing about my defense tomorrow morning! twitch.tv/microbees_

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I just... submitted my dissertation. To my committee. What the fuck?? This feels so unreal.

A snip of a word doc (Bees' dissertation). Page 4 of 168. 50193 words

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Dissertation writing vibes after the drama in the past week

Two stills from the episode Bob's Burgers where Linda's parents come to stay with the Belchers and Bob hides in the walls. The top is Bob holding the Kuchi Kopi night light close to his face and speaking to it "You understand me, don't you, night light?". The second is Bob curled up in the corner of the walls captioned *sobbing*.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Final week of dissertation writing vibes

A frat boy is wearing a tank top, snapback, and sunglasses while indoors and throwing up a peace sign with both hands. He says "Bro, I'm straight-up not having a good time."

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Very lucky to have some wonderful and goofy friends 💜 We raised $200 for CARE yesterday! Draws for the giveaways are happening on October 4th, so there's still time to get draws in for all four, including a ghost shell painted to match an in game one of your choice! tilt.fyi/jDwahmxPGg

A screenshot of two text messages. The first reads: "LOLs my card is locked for fraud activity so I couldn't do a wipe 4 DMG" and the second reads: "But ggs on the last dungeon and the flawless!!! Lol tenacious 💜"

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

IT'S HERE!! IT'S FINALLY HERE!! CHARITY STREAM DAY!! Live with some SERIOUS solo dungeon shambles that you can contribute to in support of CARE and their Humanitarian Aid work!! twitch.tv/microbees_

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It's almost here!! The charity stream where you can donate to CARE to keep me from finishing multiple D2 titles is TOMORROW 1 PM EST!! I am excited and nervous! Be there or be missing out on shambles™️! As a reminder, the Tiltify campaign is live and every $5 donated is an entry into EVERY giveaway

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Took Goose out for a nice long walk this morning and some playtime in the creek while we (unsuccessfully) tried to wait out the hot water heater replacement. While he was an absolute menace on the walk and when we got back, it was nice to just go out for a bit and watch him have fun ❤️

Goose, the black lab/border collie/some sort of hound mix, is approaching the camera. He has a grey harness on that is attached to a green biothane leash. He is very goofy looking, with his tail crooked in the air, feet somewhat splayed out, and mouth open. Goose is standing on some rock like steps that were added to allow easy access to a creek. Trees with various fall colors of leaves are in the background

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Two memes that sum up 95% of the conversations my advisor and I have

A three panel meme of Peter Parker(Andrew Garfield) and Mary Jane. First panel: Mary Jane is on the verge of tears and says "tell me the truth... I'm...I'm ready to hear it." Second panel: Peter Parker (also on the verge of tears, with Mary Jane's hand on his face) replies: "You can't analyze data forever, at some point you have to write the paper." Third panel: Mary Jane, eyes closed and clearly in despair.

A five panel meme of the notorious fight between the owner and guy of that one motorcycle documentary show (OC Choppers?). First panel: The owner is sitting at his desk "Cut this from the paper.". Second panel: Guy is sitting at his desk and responds "It adds critical qualitative detail." Third panel: owner has shifted to face guy, nearly out of his chair "It doesn't advance your argument." Fourth panel: Guy dodges a chair "It took months to dig this up and I want to share it." Fifth panel: The owner pointing at guy and yelling "You have a word limit."

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It's Sushi learns Desert Perpetual Day!! Live with Sushi, Dag, and Rockets, and several charity incentives are already live!! twitch.tv/microbees_

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Very excited to announce that the CARE fundraiser is live on Tiltify! While the solo dungeon stream is on the 27th, I'll still have pick my shader, swear jar, and spin to delete a bow are live! Great thanks to my best friend for putting together this infographic for the stream! tilt.fyi/jDwahmxPGg

Bees' charity stream infographic. The charity stream is September 27th starting at 1 PM EST.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Fucked around (haven't touched pvp in 6 months) and now it's time to find out (remember how to play PVP so I can gild Iron Lord. Send good vibes. twitch.tv/microbees_

A selfie where Microbes looks off the side

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I FINALLY got this finished last night after DAYS (literal IRL days) of trying to get one! Back to helping people with bundle and essence farming!! twitch.tv/microbees_

A screenshot of a Steam achievement titled "Mane of the Hour" with a description "You've looted your first Star Quality Bluebristle Muujin Mane!" 2.2% of players have this achievment

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Why must he be the weirdest possible dog at all times? No sleep, only attention. He wants cuddles to warm up but does not understand that he is blocking the ability to use the blankets

Goose, the small black lab/border collie mix, is laying on top of Bees' legs with his legs wrapped around her right left. He laid down like this as she was attempting to get under the blankets.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Goose has the hardest life in the whole wide world and definitely didn't fart in my face moments after this picture was taken and then again as I was trying to post this.

Goose, a small black lab, is cuddled up to Bees in bed

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Stressful week, but enjoying the weather finally cooling off! Also very excited to be live with the New Light friend again! They're taking on the Witness tonight and FINALLY finishing the Final Shape campaign twitch.tv/microbees_

A meme captioned "bye hot girl summer, hello deranged possum fall" with a picture of a possum with a piece of squash in its mouth next to several varieties of squash (pumpkins of various colors, winter squash, etc)

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It sure has been a week so far. Math is very hard and sometimes makes me feel like this crow. Live with @immaterial-ghost.bsky.social and our honor mode run that surely will be shenanigan free! twitch.tv/microbees_

A two panel comic of a crow. In the first panel the crow is sitting up, with *INHALES* labeled above it. In the second, the crow looks to be yelling with "AAAAAAAA" coming out of its mouth.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is the nicest picture he'd let me take. Live with the return of BG3 ft. @immaterial-ghost.bsky.social and our slightly reformed murder hobo honor mode run! twitch.tv/microbees_

A picture of a blurry Goose and Microbes. Microbes' face is squished preparing for possible goose licks.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Throwback Thursday to this picture I took during another week of relentless LCMS issues. Taking a break from being DEEP in the thesis trenches to goof around in D2! AI nonsense rants may occur twitch.tv/microbees_

Microbes hugging a bottle of LCMS optima grade methanol (i.e. the good stuff) because it was "her only friend now". Public service annoucement that, while similar to ethanol, which you know as alcohol, methanol should ABSOLUTELY never be drunk.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

That is definitely not what this is supposed to look like. Thought I'd resolved the pressure issues on the LC only to discover more later and now MS is doing....whatever this is. A problem to solve with the lab manager tomorrow I suppose.

A TIC diagram from the MS, which is simply how much the mass spec is detecting at a given time. The step function from 14 to 16 minutes is very abnormal, as are the gaps around 18 and 19 minutes. Also the y axis label should be Relative Abundance but is spelled as Realitive Abundance.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It's a great day for LCMS, listening to an alarming fume hood all day as the building's HVAC system is being worked on, and remembering not to trust anyone's work!

Microbes is pictured in front of a closed fume hood. There are two red lights, one to indicate that air flow to the hood is not high enough to remove fumes, and the other to indicate that it is alarming despite being closed.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Goose says hello, do you remember my chaos? Live with for some dungeons because I really miss dungeons! And goose is here ready to bork already! twitch.tv/microbees_

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Just transcribed this from a scanned version of a multi-page series of equations from a typewritten document that had clearly been copied poorly multiple times first. My head hurts and I want to go to bed

A screenshot of an R function written by Microbes. There are many equations and variables and writing all of them here would destroy your text reader.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It's midnight on a Sunday night. I thought I'd be done an hour ago. Instead, the lab manager shoved a sample loop into the LC injector so hard it took 20 minutes to get out, and now the auto sampler is shoving itself into a bar for reasons beyond me. Cannot express how over my thesis I currently am

Microbes, 1000000% over all this bullshit

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Finally getting results back from some of the experiments and they're all completely the opposite of what I was expecting 🙃 chemistry is stupid and I hate it

A screenshot of a drag queen with the original caption of "This doesn't make sense with my fantasy" being replaced by "This data doesn't make sense with my fantasy."

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I LIVED BITCH! Just finished up the last of my experiments! Still a TON of analytical work to do, as well as analysis, writing, and coding, but after endless issues kept pushing the start of the experiments back, I'm super pumped to be done!

Microbes, tired and a little awkward, sorta poses in front of her system

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Good thing I'm stuck in the high bay with no HVAC system for the duration of this 🙃

Screenshot of a phone alert stating "Heat Advisory" from the National Weather Service

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hot water heater? Dead. Rockets' car? Rear ended. Still, we persist. Live with Palia for some chill, cozy vibes. twitch.tv/microbees_

A crop of a text message that has a picture of two little frog figurines on a metal cylinder. The text says "these can only be from you" with a smiley face at the end.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Finished up work a bit early since I've been working late and hard and was like I'll do some heavy metal and then stream some to just enjoy some chill vibes! And then I got this from Rockets. Really wanted to take a shower to decompress but the hot water heater is out 🙃 I'm tired of adulting

A crop of a text exchange that reads from the sender "I have been rear ended on the highway."

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Omg surprise! I'm live! A WHOLE LOT of shit has happened this year, but can't wait to catch up with y'all while we do some dungeon shenanigans with Rockets and his brother! twitch.tv/microbees_

Goose sitting upright and looking like a total goober.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Ugh why the hell did I decide to do a PhD. At least she's submitted

A screenshot of the file properties from Microbes' written portion of the thesis proposal. The main reason is the 10,629 minutes of editing time. That's 177 hours. Don't do a PhD kids

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just sent out the manuscript and associated files to coauthors for final comments before submitting to the journal! Things are still super spicy, but progress and a higher Adderall dose makes it a bit more bearable.

A cute cartoon of a happy cloud (?) driving a blue car with a happy shark in the passenger seat by mahoukarp. It is captioned with "The horrors persist but so do I"

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I think it's time to just call the whole year a bust. Just cannot stop catching L's

A picture of Microbes' shoes which currently includes a walking boot on her left foot.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Just a hunter and her (very serious) palico 💜

A screenshot from Monster Hunter: Wilds with Microbes' hunter and palico Maple. Her hunter is equipped with the basic armor set and the palico with a scythe, googles, and an outfit that makes her look like an octopus. The outfit jiggles every time Maple moves.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Decided to not mess with taking the masks off this time. Got in late because I didn't realize until we got to the doors that I had my water bottle still. It was a nice break from how intense work has been recently and my near perfect record continues!

Microbes and Rocket posing for a picture together after the game is over.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Informed by @tacotuesgay.bsky.social that I needed to share some of the pictures I've been sending him for #wingFriday

Window view of the right wing as the flight is climbing to altitude over LA

Window view of the wing with the coast below.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Sleep: minimal. Room above: absolutely bonkers (a not for all ages story for later). Taking some deep breaths and reminding myself that I'm getting a once in a lifetime opportunity today to go on these tours. I'm hyped, even if it maybe doesn't look like it.

Microbes, pale from lack of sleep, in her frogbert bucket hat, ready to take on the day even tho she's not really sure if she got any sleep.

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Turns out this hotel is actually just a motel with a remodel. My room faces the busy street outside. There's a cop chasing someone down outside with a megaphone and his police car. I have some regrets.

Microbes after the incident that started to make her regret choosing this place to stay

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Microbees @microbees.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Look at how obvious it is that I want to be flying out to a conference! But excited for some of the parts of this week

Microbes looks off to the side while at her airport gate that's she's been at for over an hour. Boarding won't take place for another 30 minutes and she wants to go to bed.

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