Mica Sage 🌿🦝

Second night this week I've woken up at 3:30 and been unable to get back to sleep 🫠

when people feel the need to confess to me, a hater, how and when they use chatgpt?? as if i might grant papal dispensation for their little emails??? honey that's between you, god, and the melting ice caps good luck

Btw, there is an orphaned baby bun who lives outside my apartment. I hadn't seen him in a couple days, but found him this afternoon. Everyone say hello to Baby Bun 🐇

I met a millennial who didn't know what a twink is. I had to explain it to him.

Wild.

[Roommate looks over my shoulder]
R: "Scrolling again?"
Me: "Yeah"
R: "How's that mental health doing?"
Me: "Bad."
R: 🤨
Me: "It's not the scrolling, it's the Everything Else, too"

a picture of an white cat that is very angy with grass and bushes in the background. The caption reads “Touching grass isn’t enough i need bad things to happen to evil men in power “

good morning friends 💚✨

What a year today has been

How Do We Save Our Butterflies? A review of the current literature

I've been busy chasing this guys around, but I finally got around to writing about it all! Well, some of it. This is a review of the literature combined with some anecdotal tidbits.

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I don't think it's a coincidence that cops started acting extra out of hand once we let them wear military gear. Make them wear clown outfits for several years to restore humility to the job

It will take some organizing. #washingtonstate

My stress threshold has been redlining for a week now and I've had two anxiety meltdowns in three days - but my client's kitten is laying on top of my head purring away and it makes this moment a little better

A silvery blue butterfly rests on a purple camas flower, presumably gathering nectar

My field supervisor said if I wanted to come back to the nonprofit once i graduate next year, she'd do everything she could to get me on the team 🥹🥹🦋

#fieldbiology #restoration

April 22, 2025 Today is Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970.

April 22, 2025

Hey Sweetie How a birdsong from my childhood showed me how little I actually know.

Idk man, I've been thinking a lot about birds lately. And how little the general public (myself included) knows about the world we inhabit. #nature

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Two cups of coffee and my headache still hasn't gone away. 🙃☕️ today is not the day

The term "Biological sex" as used by the right is scientifically meaningless. But that's fine for them, because they aren't trying to do science. They're trying to enforce a class system. It doesn't matter that it's social constructs all the way down, it always has been, for five thousand years.

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Delicate pink flowers bloom on a tree

Im going to pretend I have amazing photography skills and definitely don't have a dirty phone camera lens that lent to this Pic

Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

I don't remember the name of this funky fungi, but it sounds like "schizophrenic commune" so that's what I've been calling it 😂🍄

A green prairie stretches beneath a blue sky scattered with white clouds

I started my internship this week and was afforded this incredible view of a local prairie! 💙

A ladybug evades the camera by hiding in a dense cluster of grasses

A brown pelt lichen

A cloudy sky stretches over the expanse of a prarie, bordered by towering pines

Spent yesterday doing very tedious work (measuring plants) in very beautiful places (outside). 🦋

#ecology #conservation

It feels noteworthy that I, a nonbinary woman, am starting an internship on endangered butterflies today, trans visibility day. 🦋
May we all one day be allowed to become what we are meant to be.

#transdayofvisibility #butterflies

#seattle

The oldest of my Beastie Boys, Hiro! My sister gave him to me, I think he's got some Heeler and Husky and mercy only knows what else. He's my sweetest angel baby and is making a face because he saw another dog approaching

Books That Inspire Me I read fiction, mostly, but there's been a notable trend...

I read a lot of fiction, but the books that grip my heart and inspire me have a nonfiction trend.

(Fun fact: one of these authors is on this site and is sweet as heck.)

#booksky #reading #newpost

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"Rooted: life at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit" by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

"Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future'..."
Haupt is incredible and I'm obsessed. 🌲

(Bucket list item: meet my fave naturalist authors)

#currentlyreading #booksky #mustread

March 27, 2025 Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...

March 27, 2025