#Rjalker does iNaturalist

[rjalker]

Anyways :)

if you've already joined iNaturalist, want to do me and all other Queer people, nonbinary people in particular, a favor?

On May 30th, (2023, in case someone finds this in the future for some reason) when this thread - LGBTQIA+ and iNaturalist - is unlocked on the forums, leave a comment about what you think of the staff's reaction to someone purposefully misgendering me. Or just leave some messages in support of trans and nonbinary people. Or just say that misgendering is always wrong. Whatever the heck you want.

You can read it all there on the thread for yourself. Here's a link that skips to where the misgendering starts.

Me and at least one other trans person involved have both sent private messages to the staff of iNaturalist and left feedback with the parent company about the staff of iNaturalist not following their supposed mission of inclusive and respect.

The three moderaters who interacted with this incident all chose to either actively side with the transmisics that were misgendering me, or with the one trans mod, are "playing the center", claiming that the responses to the bigotry (and I literally cannot stress enough how exceedingly civil our response were) are over the top and aggressive and "name calling" (because apparently, saying someone is being a bigot is name calling, now!)

Pride month is less than a week away, and iNaturalist is supposed to be welcoming to everyone.

So if you've already got an account (I don't want people making accounts just to comment for this), please do me and all other trans people on iNaturalist a favor and come out of the woodwork to support trans people's rights to not be purposefully misgendered.

Show the staff that if they're gonna claim to support Queer people and change the icon to be a rainbow for Pride month, then they need to actually do the bare minimum required to respect trans people.

Anyways I'm making a shit ton of memes to post as soon as the thread's unlocked, so you can look forward to seeing those, assuming the staff don't just straight up ban me for *checks notes* not wanting to be purposefully misgendered on a thread that's Literally For Queer People™. Lol.

We're already demanding an official apology. But it would be really nice if more people could show up to leave their support and help drown out the bigotry.

Update: They have now banned me from the forum for asking not to be misgenderd, and have hidden my posts asking not to be misgenered by claiming they're hateful and inappropriate, while...literally still leaving up the posts that are misgendering me!

#Rjalker does iNaturalist #trans rights #nonbinary #iNaturalist #LGBT #LGBTQIA+

[rjalker]

all the trans people and our allies on the thread @ the 2 bigots and the iNaturalist staff right now:

[ID: The meme picture of a group of college students holding red plastic cups standing in a crowd, all of them turning to look at the camera with various expressions of judgement, shock, or disgust. End ID.]

#described images #eye contact #Rjalker does iNaturalist #transmisia #exorsexism

[rjalker]

[ID: a four-panel version of the spongebob meme with manta man arguing about patrick about his wallet. manta man is labelled "Me", with white text underneath on a black background, and patrick star is labeled "Observer", with yellow text underneath on the same black background.

in the first panel, manta man ("Me") says, "Hi! Do you know if this tree was planted?"

in the second panel, patrick (Observer) says, "Oh, yeah, definitely."

in the third panel, manta man ("Me") says, "Okay, thanks! Since this was purposefully planted, I will mark it as captive/cultivated so we can tell it apart from ones that are growing without intervention. This species is not native and is invasive in this area, so it's important that planted trees be marked accordingly, so that the ones that have escaped cultivation and are becoming invasive can be tracked accurately.

"As iNaturalist's guidelines state, any plant that was planted by people less than 150 years ago is considered captive/cultivated and should be marked as such, even if it's not actively being cared for by people such as being pruned or mulched.

"Since this was planted, it's considered captive/cultivated."

in the fourth and final panel, patrick (Observer) says, "It's not captive/cultivated though." there is a large black space underneath Observer's reply because it is much shorter than OP's explanation. manta man looks frustrated. end ID]

#Rjalker does iNaturalist #iNaturalist #described images #tyyyyyy #inat memes

[rjalker]

16,537 to go

and yes the number has jumped up by 3K because now it's sorted to show all pawpaws, not just common pawpaws. Because I may as well do them all at once.....

so yeah.

There are 13,000+ common pawpaws on iNaturalist.org so far (as of July 18th 2022 12:49AM) that still need annotations added.

There are 3,500 ish pawpaws that are species other than common pawpaw that still need annotations added.

Most of the observations of pawpaws are common pawpaws.

actually wait I can just give you the exact numbers:

Common pawpaw: 18,046

Netted pawpaw: 1,500 (Wow an exact number. that's cool)

Small-flower pawpaw: 1,483

Slimleaf pawpaw: 747

Flag pawpaw: 438

Wooly pawpaw: 405

Gopher-berry: 313

Four-petal pawpaw: 13

Manasota pawpaw: 12

Asimina colorata: 7

Asimina × bethanyensis: 5

Asimina x piedmontana: 4

Asimina × nashii: 2

Well, I say exact, this is just how the site sorts them, some of them aren't Research Grade yet (meaning they've been identified as the species they're categorized as by at least two people, or more than two depending on if there are other identifications offered)

oh wow I'm the 2nd top Observer of pawpaws on the whole site out of 11,990 people............................because I've observed 153. Except it's not actually 153 it's more like 50 a few times each since I keep track of individual plants over the course of the seasons lol......the #1 top observer has observed 458.

Those 153 observations are also all of small-flower pawpaws, which makes me the top observer for that species. I'm also the top identifier for that species, since I've helped to identify 1,293 of them.

anyways join iNaturalist if you want to learn about plants or animals or mushrooms or become really good at telling the differences between obscure species since no one else knows how to so you figure 'well I might as well do this' 'oh and there's only 15,000 observations I may as well go through and add data on whether or not the plant's flowering or fruiting or not'

#Rjalker does iNaturalist #iNaturalist #pawpaws #asimina #asimina triloba

[rjalker]

Multiple trans people and allies: Yeah, misgendering is not okay, posts that misgender users need to be removed. These two specific posts, in which a cis person is purposefully misgendering another user, need to be removed. This isn't acceptable behavior and clearly violates community guidelines about respecting other people.

The iNAturalist staff: Oh MY GOD!!! YOu want us to police every single post anyone ever makes?!?!!?! You want us to literally approve every single post anyone ever makes?!?!?!!??! Don't you know something isn't hate speech or insulting if the person saying it says they're saying it out of respect?!?!!?!?

I am archiving this fucking thread as it goes.

Update 5/31/23, literally the day before Pride month starts: They just banned me from the forums for asking not to be misgendered, and hid my posts where I ask the person misgendering me to stop.

While they actively refuse to remove the two posts where someone is purposefully and knowingly misgendering me.

#motherfuckers Pride month starts in 2 days. what are you fucking people doing. #dear gods. #Rjalker does iNaturalist #sigh #transmisia #exorsexism

[rjalker]

for reference because I always forget to get before pictures.

#undescribed images #Rjalker does iNaturalist #outo f spite for the transmisics.

[rjalker]

the diospyros virginiana graph as of 11/23/23 (hey look double numbers!) at 11:50pm.

the pawpaws are one again up to date lofl.

#undescribed images #Rjalker does iNaturalist

[rjalker]

someone doesn't understand the purpose of data collection.

Why do you feel you need to document this sighting through a drawing. Clearly there is a lot of evidence of raccoons in your area? Does one dead raccoon really need to be documented or do you have to document everything you see even if you didn’t get a photo?

#calm down. #Rjalker does iNaturalist

[rjalker]

Please look at this delightful plant. these aren't even all the possible colors. It's beautiful. It's native. pollinators love it. Look at all the colors it can be from individual to individual.

[ID: A collage of photos of different flowers of bristle thistle, each with a different color flower, ranging from white, to yellow, to yellow with purple, red, or pink parts, pink, purple, magenta, and red. Each flower is clasped by thorny leaf-like structures, with the colors emerging from the top as soft feathery tendrils. End ID.]

www.inaturalist.org/observations/148021224

www.inaturalist.org/observations/119496303

www.inaturalist.org/observations/115720501

www.inaturalist.org/observations/113563028

www.inaturalist.org/observations/104615994

www.inaturalist.org/observations/40723474

www.inaturalist.org/observations/73955372

www.inaturalist.org/observations/113563028

www.inaturalist.org/observations/104615994

www.inaturalist.org/observations/152722801

www.inaturalist.org/observations/110431517

www.inaturalist.org/observations/76752548

#iNaturalist #bristle thistle #delightful bristle thistle #Cirsium horridulum #cirsium #thistles #plants #flowers #Rjalker does iNaturalist #Described images

[rjalker]

someone messaged me for help identifying the most hilarious persimmon I've ever seen in my life. Oh my gods. Bugs ate just the very edges of almost every leaf so it looks, at a glance, like it should be a chestnut. It is so funny.

#Rjalker does iNaturalist #diospyros virginiana #american persimmon #common persimmon

[rjalker]

the plant phenology graph for the genus Luffa as of December 3rd 2023:

[ID: A line graph with the bottom axis listing out the months of the year, and the side ranging from 0 at the bottom to 350 at the top. The key shows that red marks flowing, blue is fruiting, orange is flower budding, green is no evidence of flowering, and grey is no annotation. January's stats are: Flowering: 82, Fruiting: 93, Flower budding: 30, no evidence of flowering: 12, grey 1 February's stats are: Flowering: 56, Fruiting: 59, Flower budding: 12, No evidence of flowering: 19, no annotation 0 March's stats are: Flowering: 47, Fruiting: 63, Flower budding: 8, No evidence of flowering: 16, no annotation 1 April's stats are: Flowering: 132, Fruiting: 158, Flower budding: 51, No evidence of flowering: 35, no annotation 0 May's stats are: Flowering: 131, Fruiting: 100, Flower budding: 36, No evidence of flowering: 69, no annotation 1 June's stats are: Flowering: 103, Fruiting: 61, Flower budding: 39, No evidence of flowering: 37, no annotation 1 July's stats are: Flowering: 138, Fruiting: 91, Flower budding: 79, No evidence of flowering: 37, no annotation 0 August's stats are: Flowering: 181, Fruiting: 106, Flower budding: 96, No evidence of flowering: 35, no annotation 0 September's stats are: Flowering: 332, Fruiting: 212, Flower budding: 174, No evidence of flowering: 28, no annotation 1 October's stats are: Flowering: 293, Fruiting: 225, Flower budding: 162, No evidence of flowering: 29, no annotation 1 November's stats are: Flowering: 240, Fruiting: 196, Flower budding: 112, No evidence of flowering: 27, no annotation 2 December's stats are: Flowering: 112, Fruiting: 86, Flower budding: 48, No evidence of flowering: 14, no annotation 1 End ID.]

some of the numbers may be incorrect because I have dyslexia lol.

This graph shows all the observations that have been identified as some sort of Luffa on iNaturalist so far, but you can also narrow it to show only for certain locations.

#long post #graph #plant phenology #luffa #Rjalker does iNaturalist #described images

[rjalker]

I just updated the photos for Luffa from this unhelpfulness

to this. Which actually demonstrates the differences between the species instead of showing you generic yellow flowers that no one who's not an expert will be able to tell apart.

for some reason it's only showing the updated images when I uncheck "verifiable" observations, which is weird.

Also updated the picture for the genus itself

#undescribed images #Rjalker does iNaturalist #Luffa

[rjalker]

Like seven different people have either defended me against the blatant misgendering or otherwise sent me nice messages asking what language I'm okay with them using in reference to me.

and then meanwhile the iNat Staff are just like *tone policing* *treating defending against bigotry as more offensive than the actual bigotry* *punishes all the Queer people rather than remove two (2) bigoted posts*

okay you fucking cowards.

Update 5/31/23, literally the day before Pride month starts: They just banned me from the forums for asking not to be misgendered, and hid my posts where I ask the person misgendering me to stop.

While they actively refuse to remove the two posts where someone is purposefully and knowingly misgendering me.



#transmisia #exorsexism #ititsantagonism #Rjalker does iNaturalist

[rjalker]

diospyros virginiana plant pheonology graph at 10:10PM (EST) November 27th 2023. Done for today because I want to write.

I'm going month by month now instead of just chronological order, on April right now.

There are 25,061 observations of American persimmons on iNaturalist so far, including captive ones, which count towards the graph.

#undescribed images #Rjalker does iNaturalist #diospyros virginiana

[rjalker]

apios americana so far, going month by month.

#undescribed images #Rjalker does iNaturalist

[rjalker]

I took a picture of a mosquito bite on my arm for iNaturalist and put the ID as "mosquitoes" because I know there's no fucking way to identify to species from just a bite. But I'm fine with that. But someone has marked the observation "human" despite me explaining the observation is for the mosquito that left the very obvious bite mark and rash. They're just continuing to double down despite them doing the entirely incorrect thing. sigh.

for those who don't use iNaturalist, "human" is like, the trash category. People taking selfies? human. Someone puts a toy facehugger in the leaves as a joke? Human. Someone thought a peice of rope was a snake? human.

Human observations are all marked Casual and are just... pretty much useless.

To mark someone's observation of an actual non-human animal as "human" because you don't like the way they're observing the animal (You can take pictures of bite marks for observations! Just liek you can take pictures of tracks in the mud, or feathers! The animal you're observing does not have to be in the photo!) is just. Absolutely not how this works and is incredibly rude.

I thought they were new and just didn't know this yet but no. they joined in 2017. so there's no excuse for them doing this.

#Rjalker does iNaturalist