#FunFactFriday Mosquitoes are not obligate parasites! That means they *could* just drink flower nectar their whole lives and never bother a single mammal— in fact, all male mosquitos do this! But female mosquitos choose to drink blood, because it’s a concentrated source of lots of nutrients. 🦟🩸

Just a fun Tuesday reminder that “AI Art” is an oxymoron, & takes about as much skill as it takes to look up random stock images 🧡 So many real artists undermine themselves, but if you’re putting in the effort, you’re already 1000x better than anyone using AI. Real art is worth doing the work. 🎨🎤📚📷

#FunFactFriday When ancient Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died on the road, those around him feigned he was still alive by dragging a cart of dead fish in front of the carriage he’d died in to conceal the smell. 🐟🐠 Ironically he likely died from trying to make himself immortal by drinking mercury.😬

Been reflecting a lot lately and figured I’d share something. I knew a man, growing up, who survived WW2 as a kid from Poland. He was a neighbor of mine and a kind-hearted soul. He told us stories of that awful time. The one the stuck with me the most was the last time he saw his father. 🧵 1/4

#FunFactFriday When animals are sexually dimorphic (meaning different sexes look so different from each other they could come from a different species), sometimes nature makes a genetic mashup of sexes in one individual, called a ✨gynandromorph✨. They’re on the rarer side & very cool to see! 🧡🦋🏳️‍🌈

Giselle Fernandez/GZ Fern (they/them)@gzfernvo.com · 11mo ago

Sex chromosomes are fun. In humans, the learned norm is XY and XX, but genetics are complex! Some folks have an extra X or two or three or four, some have only one X with no Y, or the X or Y is mosaic, or there's three extra Ys or XXYY or XXYYY or—you get the idea. We're pretty varied!🧬/

Fire & Ice RGX today was such a blast!! I’ll be back again hanging out tomorrow, anyone swinging through come on by and say hi! 🧡✨

Casey Scheld@caseyscheld.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More great photos from the Fire & Ice RGX Mario panel with Kevin Afghani, @thecourtneylin.bsky.social, and @gzfernvo.com 📸

#FunFactFriday Male carpenter bees are literally drag queens. •dressed up as female bumblebees •sassy and fun •obsessed with hole •harmless yet often villainized by people scared of what they don’t know Happy pride yall 🌈❤️🐝

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#FunFactFriday Some insects can technically live for 50+ years! Depending on conditions, certain buggos can stay as eggs until the environment is right to hatch. Others can actually reverse their development as larva if deprived in order to conserve energy, sometimes even repeatedly! 🪲🐜✨

#FunFactFriday At time of writing this, the oldest verified human to have ever lived was 122 when they passed away, and the oldest currently living is 116. Lots of animals can outlive us though! Many aquatic creatures, reptiles, birds, even invertebrates can live for decades longer than we can! 🦈🧡

#FunFactFriday The official language of the USA is not English. It’s not anything. The reason for not having an official language is to acknowledge the diversity of this country. Many languages were spoken here before English ever was, and many more languages than English are prevalent now. 🧡

Super stoked to get to see folks in Roseville this June!! I’ll be at Fire & Ice RGX the 20th and 21st; if you’re around come by and say hi! 🧡✨🎉 (Con info if you wanna check it out: fireicergx.com ~) …I gotta start practicing some character doodles 😅

Fire & Ice RGX

Roebbelen Center @TheGrounds 700 Event Center Dr. Roseville, CA 95678

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Gamers Heroes@gamersheroes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The current voice of Princess Daisy and Baby Daisy in the Super Mario franchise, Giselle Fernandez - @gzfernvo.com - will be a Guest of Honor at Fire & Ice RGX 2026 this summer. www.gamersheroes.com/gaming-news/...

#FunFactFriday Some animals can sleep with one eye open! It’s called unihemisphereic slow-wave sleep, where only half the brain rests at a time. We see it in birds & marine mammals like seals! Seals & dolphins still surface for air while sleeping this way, and birds can even do it while flying! 🦆💤

Been reflecting a lot lately and figured I’d share something. I knew a man, growing up, who survived WW2 as a kid from Poland. He was a neighbor of mine and a kind-hearted soul. He told us stories of that awful time. The one the stuck with me the most was the last time he saw his father. 🧵 1/4

#FunFactFriday Red wine is made with red or black grapes fermenting along with their skins. White wine is made by fermenting grapes without the skin or pulp. A rosé is a red wine fermented like a white wine. A bit oversimplified, but if you ever wondered, that’s the difference! 🍷🥂

I have an entomology joke but it has a tendency to bug people

Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️@apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have an elevator joke but there's only one and it's out of service

#FunFactFriday The smarter the insect, the more organized their social structure! The most complex for buggos is eusociality— where there’s communal caretaking of offspring & a division of labor for the whole. Eusociality can be seen in bees, termites, wasps, ants, and even some cockroaches! 🐝🐜🪳

Ellen Joe is best shark girl 🦈 This was so much fun to be a part of! Thanks @drgnmusic.bsky.social for making me sound so lovely! 🧡 #zzzero #EllenJoe #zenlesszonezero

DragonMusic 🐉🎶@drgnmusic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

DragonMusic & Ellen Joe ENG VA (Giselle Fernandez) - BITE! (Remix/Cover) [Zenless Zone Zero Visualizer] <PART 1> #zzzero #zenlesszonezero #EllenJoe #GiselleFernandez

#FunFactFriday Some plants don’t photosynthesize— because they don’t have any chlorophyll! Some parasitics attach to other plants to survive, like mistletoe and squawroot. Others, like coralroot orchids and pinesap, tap into mycorrhizal fungi networks in the soil for their nutrients instead! 🍄🌾

#FunFactFriday Whenever a month starts on a Sunday, the 13th lands on a Friday. Every year has at least one instance of a Friday the 13th! 🍀🧡

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom

We have seen this song and dance before.

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#FunFactFriday Vanilla comes from an orchid flower! It’s considered a ‘new world’ spice, native to Mesoamérica where the Aztecs used it to flavor chocolate. Despite vanilla’s western origins, Madagascar is actually the leading commercial producer of vanilla these days, followed by Indonesia!🍦🧡

#FunFactFriday Animals have all sorts of ways to survive cold climates! Some insects overwinter as eggs, others undergo a hibernation-like state called diapause, red squirrels rely on cached food in middens, Alaskan tree frogs freeze solid and thaw later— nature’s adaptations are pretty varied! 🧡❄️

Little announcement— BIG HOPS IS OUT NOW!! It was such a blast to work on, @luckshotgames.com made a really fun game. Honored to have been a part of the team! 🧡🦇🦝

Chris Wade@luckshotgames.com · 7mo ago

Meet Giselle Fernandez! They play Remy and Granette in BIG HOPS! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

#FunFactFriday When a book came out revealing the details of the meat packing industry in the US, the first version of the FDA was born to protect workers and consumers. 🏭 When a book came out about the effects of DDT pesticide on the environment, the EPA began to protect it (and us). 🌿(1/2)

#FunFactFriday Tiger beetles look for food in two alternating modes: 1-running too fast to process the world around them 2-stopping to reorient in space Some hunt without using their eyes at all! Scaled up to humans, that’s like running blindly at 240mph in short bursts. Nature’s fast food! 🧡

living in LA during the winter is just like living anywhere else, it’s 72F post-solstice and sometimes an apocalyptic wall of noise makes you look up to see a tree with parrots for leaves, just totally normal and universal things

#FunFactFriday In 1980, Roger Rager raced in the Indy 500 with a repurposed school bus engine block. He didn’t win (placed 23rd after spinning out) but he did place 10th fast qualifying! Even qualifying at all was an impressive feat, and he went down in history for his boldness and creativity 🚌💨🏎️

"COVID alters brain structure long after infection, new Qld study finds" "Queensland researchers have discovered coronavirus significantly alters the brain long after recovery, with MRI scans revealing lasting changes even in people without ongoing symptoms." Source: archive.md/JURHA

#FunFactFriday There’s a mushroom that drips a black inky substance as it ages, melting from the outside in. It has many names, but my favourite is “tippler’s bane”. It’s helpfully descriptive, because while technically edible, they’re poisonous when consumed with alcohol. 🍄‍🟫