If you wanna inject some positivity into this world, my request to you is: If you like a creative person (artist, musician, craftsperson, literally anything), tell them you like their stuff. Doesn't have to be me, in fact I'd prefer it if it wasn't, but you'll make their day, I promise.

Sure, I use AI in all of my daily activities. Actual Intelligence. That other thing has no business mentioning the word "intelligence".

Alright, to stall out the possible brain worms that might make me second guess literally everything I said in the last hour, I am gonna stream. I spent all this time on makeup, might as well use it huh? If you want to com watch me build the left wing of Wavy Gravy, - www.twitch.tv/emberdione

It's only 100 acres, so it should be pretty easy to shift the damn racist wall a bit to not cut through the center, but NO gotta destroy as much nature as possible. Fuck Trump and fuck the GOP.

Spent a few hours in the hills just entomologist-ing. It feels disingenuous to call myself an entomologist knowing I can never actually be hired as one, but DAMMIT I am one.

Honestly, not really looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Jury duty felt like an activity where I made a difference and was respected; work feels like the place where I'm a replaceable drone with no hope of ever improving.

Done with jury duty and back to the normal world.

On one hand, I'm glad I prepped things far enough in advance that my current jury duty isn't interfering much with work. On the other hand, knowing that two week's worth of my job can be easily done by a couple of people during their slow times isn't encouraging. Maybe I am easily replaceable.

Just the other day I was noting that it seemed WAY too early in the year to see so many dragonflies out and about, then today I found a freshly-dead (intact, not a victim of a predator) green darner on my rain-soaked lawn. I think the weird weather is negatively affecting insect emergence timings.

The existential dread is very real tonight.

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Hey Bay Area/Sac Area peeps, we are BioBlitzing once again for a good cause. Join us! April 24/25/26 at Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve and some adjoining lands. #bioblitz www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Also, Duck LinkedIn.

I've spoken before about how Ybarra is not a game dev, does not understand games, and is just a grifter trying to make money off games. This continues to be true. AI will never be used by Prime8. We will always follow our craft as a journey, not a destination. The crafting of it is important too.

How exactly is ICE going to "help" TSA? The first thug to enter the airport is going to see a huge line of passengers, panic, tear-gas the entire place, then claim they felt threatened and try to detain everyone present.

Just spent a good chunk of the afternoon cleaning up leaves and pollen-based debris from the yard, WITHOUT using any obscenely noisy and gross gas-powered devices. I feel like I'm the only person in my zip code who knows how to perform this feat of magic.

Markwayne looks like a name you'd see on bootleg Batman merchandise... "By day he is bullionair Markwayne, by night he vigilante Butmann"

I'm always forgetting the difference between entomology and etymology. I can't tell you how much not knowing what words mean bugs me. twitch.tv/BennyFits

Work was awful this week and has me questioning the future of my career, I haven't slept much in days, this weekend is going to be a PITA, and yet I somehow feel at peace and generally OK which is NOT a state of mind I'm familiar with. What is even happening?

We're actually really up front about this on our webpage - www.prime8entertainment.com/ghost-hunter...

Oh no. Mildly viral tweet. If you want to support an indie dev - store.steampowered.com/app/3256780/... Our game is on sale *right now*! And we say Trans Rights with our whole chest. We support marriage equality, universal healthcare, and sustainable energy.

In case you haven't seen this yet...

I drew a bed bug during my lunch break today in an attempt to drown out the vicious brain weasels. It's smudgy and the proportions are off, but it's probably recognizable. Probably the first time I've sketched non-digitally in years. #entomology #bugsky #SciArt

I drew a bed bug during my lunch break today in an attempt to drown out the vicious brain weasels. It's smudgy and the proportions are off, but it's probably recognizable. Probably the first time I've sketched non-digitally in years. #entomology #bugsky #SciArt

YUCK. And this is 4 degrees cooler than it was earlier this afternoon.

REALLY not feeling like going to work in the morning.

At least my iNaturalist observations are on track.

Well, no promotion for me. Didn't even make it to the second round of interviews (I was the only interviewee who didn't).

It seems that the City of Sacramento has decided that having a day's accumulation of tree pollen on your street-parked car (during our notorious tree pollen season) means it's Abandoned and tagged for towing.

Sacramento: City of Sneeze

I seem to have forgotten to add some relevant tags: #entomology #SciArt #Bugsky

Thinking about opening commissions to make ends meet... Is there any interest in custom insect art, 100% human-drawn (guaranteed no AI)?

Today's backyard insect roll-call: - Mining bees (Andrena sp.) and their nest parasites (Nomada sp.) - Valley and Foothill carpenter bees - Honey bees - Western Tiger Swallowtail - Damselflies - Western Boxelder bugs - Too many flies to even attempt to list #entomology

Thinking about opening commissions to make ends meet... Is there any interest in custom insect art, 100% human-drawn (guaranteed no AI)?

As we embark on our daily to-do list of deranged posting, we're wondering whether you'd like to join our crew of weirdos as a staff writer for Blizzard Watch. We're taking applications for writers!

Playing more Midnight. Doing all the sidequests now. Among other stuff. Come say hi. =) twitch.tv/serevarno

If GHS sold 10k copies we would be able to sustain work on it for a year. If it sold 20k copies we would be able to sustain work on it for both of us for a year. If we sold a million copies, we'd hire ~6 people and make another game.

That went OK? I think?

I could really use some good vibes/luck in about an hour.

Ghost Hunter Simulator was not one of them. But you can help that by buying our game. @prime8.games

Promotional job interview on Wednesday. I'm not anxious, why would you think that?

It has been [zero] days since the last time I sent a tray of tiny insects destined for point-mounting flying across the room because I'm too damn clumsy.

"Leave Robert Denby Alone"

I SERIOUSLY need a paying side hustle... Anyone need someone to collect insects for them, take mediocre photos of said insects, or occasionally draw insects?

Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Did a VERY quick sampling of the backyard today and came up with two new species: a barklouse (Ectopsocus californicus) and an ichneumonid parasitoid (Orthocentrus sp). That brings my backyard insect species count up to 426! #Entomology #Bugsky

Did a VERY quick sampling of the backyard today and came up with two new species: a barklouse (Ectopsocus californicus) and an ichneumonid parasitoid (Orthocentrus sp). That brings my backyard insect species count up to 426! #Entomology #Bugsky

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

It was fun to display some of my insect art at a big work event today. Also, I think I'm more tired right now than I have ever been.

Watermelon. Gross watery texture, insipid sweet taste, and you have to spit out the seeds (gross). Artificial watermelon candy flavor is gross and it's still 100x better than the real thing.

Why have I recently started seeing a ton of posts that are just strings of seemingly random emojis? Have the bots finally taken over, or did I suffer a small stroke?