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Matt Fossen

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Entomologist, infrequent artist, WoW fanatic


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Brian O'Meara's avatar Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social
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Wow. "four out of 16 curators lost their jobs. Three other staff members in the division took voluntary buyouts, including the manager of the fish collection—one of the largest in the world.... One of the laid off curators had an endowed position"

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Extra-melty!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Remember when I was complaining that it was going to be 108 degrees on my birthday? It is now supposed to reach 112 degrees that day.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Nah, he'll just order the National Guard to swoop in and slaughter anyone who dares to picket. Problem solved!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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What part of a proudly-published manifesto is the quiet part? Seems like it's all pretty loud to me.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Huge if true.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Good song choice!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Hey, there's a NEW Mexico!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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I think it depends a lot on whose attention you get. There are some very helpful bee and beetle folks that are on both BG and iNaturalist and they always seem happy to help.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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I like BugGuide for ID browsing, but they seem to have a habit of frassing perfectly clear photos for no obvious reason.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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It's my party and I'll fry if I want to!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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My birthday is on Friday and it's supposed to be 108 degrees. I think I'll sit in the dark and try not to melt and/or burn to a crisp.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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How foolish of me. It's not inflation, interest rates, rising cost of living, or stagnant income. It's dementia!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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"Biden's Health is Just Fine and Here's Why That's Bad for Biden"

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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That already makes you more attentive than 90% of the mainstream media outlets.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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As someone else said, he also met with the Secretary of Transportation recently so he must be slowly turning into a train.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Share yer mug

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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SCIENCE!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Same.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Definitely yellowjackets!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Future elections will affect you in the future!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Never Forget.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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And Trump fell asleep during his own damn criminal trial. What's your point? Needed to squeeze in some more fascist boot-licking on the 4th, I suppose.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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I am celebrating by playing video games, being generally lazy, and making enchiladas for dinner.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Gnarlroot (Normal difficulty) soloed!

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Gnarlroot (Normal difficulty) soloed!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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If it was a crane fly, I'd agree. In fact, I'd say that having four intact legs is above average for a crane fly.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Yes, it only has four legs because I stopped after three minutes. Let's just say the other two legs are hidden behind the body. Yeah, that's it.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Three-minute damselfly sketch. I don't care for non-digital drawing, LOL. #DamselflyJuly

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Yeah, I'm less than thrilled about my forecast but at least the A/C seems to be making a valiant effort to keep up.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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LMFAO, someone commented on an older soloing video (Anduin, Normal difficulty) that I used a program to do my rotation for me. If that were the case, I'd do a lot better than I actually did!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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It's too hot today.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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108 degrees and we lost power. Fun!

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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That's unfortunate, but if that's their attitude about AI you're definitely better off somewhere that respects your principles.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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On the other hand, the Robber Baron Flies are actively discouraging the various art movements and are inspiring a slew of arthro-anarchist pieces.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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That's infinitely more than I've received in the past four years... Spread some of that gummi wealth around, I'm bear-ly hanging on at this point!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Today is not a good day.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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The Venn diagram of those who loudly proclaim that Biden is terrible because he's doing "nothing" (i.e. not planning to murder his opponent or somehow wipe the SC off the face of the earth) and those who will do "nothing" (i.e. not vote) to stop Trump is nearly a single circle.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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It's even worse on Mastodon: "you have to Content Warning your posts so people from other countries don't have to see them"... hate to break it to you, friend, but this will affect you too whether you like it or not. Unfollow me if you want, I'm a nobody anyway so WTF do I care about clout?

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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I've seen a lot of hot takes today, but the "despair is a sin", "don't bring your scared vibes to this magical app" and similar can fuck off into the sun. Some existentially bad shit went down today and your tone policing is worse than useless.

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Since we now officially have kings instead of presidents, I for one will not be celebrating anything this July 4 (not that I ever did much anyway).

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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Pardonez-moi!

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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NOW do you see how important it is to defeat Trump no matter what?

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Matt Fossen's avatar Matt Fossen @mattfossen.com
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NOOOOOOOO

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