sciencegoth.bsky.social
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Yeah, we're just chilling in the singularity. It's cool.
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I was going to mention the Tines also! (but they start in A Fire in the Deep) A really exceptional exploration of how different biology shapes different modes of thought and interaction.
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Those are house centipedes! They're insectivores, they eat ants, roaches, and spiders in your walls. They can bite but it's pretty rare.
Also, they move like rustling death and my gothic heart loves them so.
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I'll note that he links to ICE's *own publicly available data*
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For real. The "How to Read This Graph" guy just dug into those numbers, and they are obviously bullshit (see article here: archive.ph/zdPYc) and his post here: bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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Depends on the grandmother, tbh.
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Thank you for providing the graph, I laughed out loud.
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And if insurers don't cover it, they won't be profitable for the companies that make them, so they won't be available even if you pay out of pocket.
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This is legit wonderful and made my whole day.
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Can we nominate others? One of my NB friends has the perfect dragon name. 😍
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<snerk>
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I would bet good money that it's just straight-up fraud. They're probably using normal commercial milk and coffee because it's cheaper, then pointing to the fact that people *aren't* getting sick as "proof" that raw milk isn't dangerous.
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Ha. I'm desperately hoping the NIH doesn't fully shit the bed, but if I run out of funding, I'll have so much more free time.
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I was not prepared for A Serious French Art Presentation on what is clearly a cursed object bordering on rogue taxidermy.
(now I want to start making Serious French Art videos about my bits of rogue taxidermy)
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It's real good.
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Darling, it's been a while. I'm sending you something, and hope that others can send more. Feed your family and yourself.
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I have, in fact, peed there!
It made me very happy.
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I put in some, good luck!
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Yes! Now DEMAND it.
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Sent some, posting to spread the energy.
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It's been on my mind a lot lately. Thank you for writing it.
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"Your honor, after the 'delicately shaped ankles in dainty little handcuffs' debacle, opposing counsel is complaining because... my client has socks?"
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"Your honor, opposing counsel has indicated that they still do not like my client's clothes. In the interests of courtroom collegiality, I have asked him to start taking them off."
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"Your honor, my client is wearing a button down shirt, dark-toned sweater, and a restraint jacket and sitting sedately in an office chair. If opposing counsel thinks this is a thirst trap, may I respectfully suggest that he should stop whining like a little bitch?"
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Same story as what? I don't understand the question.
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(I say this knowing that most people who argue "if you care about X, why don't you care about Y" want you to care about neither. I'm not arguing that you have to be ideologically pure to rescue a child, but rather that wanting to protect fictional children should lead to protecting real ones.)
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And can you, honestly, holding the cell phone in your hand that probably contains cobalt fueling genocide, say that "harm no child" is one of my core principles?
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That's not only other read. Do you have the right to dismantle this system? What are the needs of others in this society, who you are willing to cast into misery to save this child? Where does "cast no one under the bus" come up against "am I willing to fuck everyone over for my principles"?
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And in my personal favorite of the current responses to Omelas, "only one child? you are only torturing one child, and you call this dystopia?"
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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So only a subset of people mentally revisit that childish impulse to ask adult questions, like "how much of my clothing is made by child labor?" "who am I voting for, and what are they doing to prevent childhood poverty and ensure child health care?"
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I think too many people (in the U.S.) are given Omelas as assigned reading in junior high, and have the natural reaction of a child: I WOULD NEVER ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. But LeGuin obviously wrote it to *start* a discussion, not finish one.
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Got it, thank you! I'm new to this.
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Do you have to show up for this hearing, or can you submit a written statement?
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It's going to be SO BAD. Like, REAL BAD.
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Drop in the bucket, but a little bit sent.
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Oh. This one. This one is special.
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...and I think that's important, because gender isn't a set of behaviors. You can be as macho/butch as you want to be and still identify as a woman, man, or enby.
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So... there are mice (and every other creature) that exhibit opposite-sex behaviors and/or same-sex sexual preference, but in the absence of speech, it's hard to ask the female mouse that's humping the other girls and beating up the boys if it self-identifies as butch dyke or a transgender man.
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That paypal link goes to a UK account (i.e. paid out in GBP), is that what you would expect for this person?
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Obviously a typo.
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Look, my friend, you wrote the book about the formless monster with malleable tentacles, you MUST understand how hydras work. 🤷♀️
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Oh you dealt with a thing? Now it's 47 things.
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I can't ❤️ this hard enough, this is going to get me through the next round of student manuscript edits.
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Today, I'm definitely one of the "emerge hesitantly from the water only to climb rapidly into the sheltering egg nobody sees me I'm not here I'm hiding dammit"
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oooh, is there an application process? I'm assuming Shep doesn't want to marry me (on the basis of, y'know, not knowing me from Satan) but I would proudly take on the Shitposter-McGee name if anyone would have me!
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Seriously. The NYC MTA must have all of the members at least one hipster electro swing band, and Chicago CTA probably employs an entire stadium worth of rappers.
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What an absolutely delightful mix of goofy and graceful. I unabashedly love transit ads.
Also, the color palette on the animation is GORGEOUS.
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It's GORGEOUS. I love them.
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Let's make this clear: My mom's test results for nearly two years indicated possible cancer, but neither she nor her doctors knew this because of a private agreement between her insurer and pathologists to occasionally lie about abnormal or ambiguous test results and falsely report them as normal.
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LEGIT.
I didn't even hear it and I'm tempted come over and rage-yeet your radio out the window.