officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up
Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus), family Coraciidae, Kenya
photograph by Adam John Bourke
Saddle-billed Stork (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), female, family Ciconiidae, Masai Mara, Kenya
photograph by Steve Garvie
Western Three-toed Skink (Chalcides striatus), family Scincidae, Lousada, Portugal
photographs by Marco Caetano
Mexican Alligator Lizard aka Green Arboreal Alligator Lizard (Abronia graminea), endemic to the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca highlands of Mexico
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photograph by Vojtěch Víta
how to stop isolating yourself?? the answer is give up on code and hidden messages. love fully and loudly and truthfully and always. be deliberate. be open. feel everything. but won’t it be hard? won’t it hurt? yes!!!! yes.
"Rarity" and AJ!
Ponyville's most premier fashion designer, "Rarity." After traveling Europe and apprenticing with the haute couture visionaries of France and England––under the persona of a Shanghai socialite––she returned to the states a reinvented woman, leaving behind her past.
April-Jacqueline, the proud proprietor of the Apple Family Farm––a communal touchstone of Ponyville's hootenannies and barn-burners, as well as the town's largest orchard. A believer in Southern hospitality and an appreciator of applejack liquor, rodeos, and her Winchester rifle.
I don’t like feeling intimidated anymore. I heard from someone I trust that G B Edwards the famous jumping spider taxonomist is creepy towards young women - staring at their behinds and things like that. He also is honestly a really terrible curator and has loans sitting all over the place rotting.
NO ONE was allowed to touch the spiders after he retired, so the other
staff and I had to carefully leave the whole space alone even though
they obviously needed care too. My boss Felipe Soto-Adames (who has G
B’s job now) refused to stand up to him despite knowing things were bad.
I don’t know why.
If the National Museum of Kenya is wondering where all of their specimens have gone, FSCA has a special cabinet just for G B’s abandoned loans. I had to dig through it looking for the Causey millipede holotypes he lost. My job was curating non-insects and my boss, the head non-insect curator, had to tell me and my coworkers not to touch the spiders ever or the PREVIOUS curator would get mad at him. It was lunacy.
People are contacting me with stories of collections neglect, territorial behavior, misogyny, and everything in between from all over the world, and it’s making me so furious. Conservation is already miserably hard right now and I’m sick of horrible people making it worse. No more of this! Name them!
