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Mithramuse

@mithramuse.bsky.social

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Husband and father. Reader. Metallurgist. Violist (mildly lapsed).

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Mithramuse @mithramuse.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Chandler Nature Center (Chandler, Arizona) has very strong @tkingfisher.com naming energy. Neat place to visit!

An aquarium enclosure with a Sonoran gopher snake named ‘Bob’ inside. The enclosure includes water, faux rocks, a stick, and a hollow log for the snake to hang out underneath. An infographic above the enclosure describes the range of the snake and some basic facts.

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Mithramuse @mithramuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

We’d planted dill, as one does, and it spread like mad, as some plants do when not many critters eat them. Walking around out back, something found the dill - black swallowtails! There are a couple of different instars (stages) of caterpillar. Neat stuff! And there’s enough dill to share.

Dill plant in a homemade wooden planter box, surrounded by a wire fence. At least two instars (life stages) of black swallowtail caterpillars are visible on different parts of the dill plant.

Closeup photo of one of the larger black swallowtail caterpillars on a dill plant. Munching away, presumably. A younger instar is just visible in the lower left.

At least nine black swallowtail caterpillars are visible on a dill plant, this time with the side of a house as a backdrop.

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Mithramuse @mithramuse.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Driving home tonight, southbound on the NJ Turnpike at 9:30 pm, I could see fireworks ahead of me and had Journey on the radio. It made a hopeful moment. I won’t stop believing in the promise of the USA I was raised with, but man will it take time and effort to recover from what is being done now.

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Mithramuse @mithramuse.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

…dammit.

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Mithramuse @mithramuse.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Is it tacky to make my first post on the day before my one year join date anniversary? I’m not in the first million users, but was close. Thank you to @nome.bsky.social for the original invite. :) Maybe I should post a little more… would not be hard (ha!) now that the ice is broken, right?

The Bluesky ‘celebrating 10M users’ graphic. I (Mithramuse) am user #1,048,751 and joined September 18, 2023.

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