spyyyder.bsky.social
Queer, leftist, anti-authoritarian, scientist.
I like weird art and stuff too.
They/them.
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I heard that the official government pronunciation is closer to “Dougy”, which is the worst possible option imo
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What if I like the dirt but not the vegetables?
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Vitamin D supplements are a must for this strategy, I recently went into the sun after about a week and a half of only going out a night (the time when I was awake) and my mood/health improved immediately. And I usually hate the sun!
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(To be clear, my minor understanding of foreign policy/natsec stuff should NOT be taken as an endorsement of those policies or that way of thinking)
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A foreign policy/natsec reason to want Greenland is so the US has more control of the increasingly important arctic (trade, mineral extraction). However, I do not believe that that is his reason, it’s just chauvinism. The US could just cooperate with Denmark and get all the strategic benefits.
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Drugs maybe?
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Yeah, although I’m not the most up to date on dinosaur stuff, I believe the current thinking is that all dinosaurs share the more efficient breathing cycle that birds do, with unidirectional lungs, as well as a high metabolic rate, which helped some of them grow so large.
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Also, just to make sure: are you aware that caecilians make a milk-like substance to feed their young? It’s one of the weirdest and best facts, imo, so I’d be remiss not to bring it up.
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Yes, exactly! Those are the most known examples, and certainly the ones with the highest degree of limb minimization. The figure below shows the two “ecomorphs” (sry, not morphotypes) described in an excellent paper (cited in alt text). Caecilians are the burrowing type, for example.
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… seem to predispose a lineage towards or away from certain body plans. My hunch here is that it has to do with size or metabolism, with both archosaurs and stem mammals being larger on average and with higher metabolic rates. I imagine that in the case of 6 limbs, similar patterns would apply!
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Another interesting fact is what sorts of animals tended to develop these “morphotypes”; in the case of terrestrial limb reduction, it’s only amphibians, stem reptiles, and lizards (with 26 instances!). No mammals or archosaurs developed this morphotype, which suggests that certain traits …
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A little while ago I did some research looking at limb reduction in terrestrial vertebrates. It turns out, nearly all modern & fossil examples are one of two types, a long tailed “grass swimming” type and a short tailed “burrowing” type. These are examples of morphologic attractors like you describe
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The black fingerless gloves, raised into the air at the concert, alongside friends.
The fuzzy winter gloves, stuffed into pockets as the crab hurries home.
The familiar snap of blue surgical gloves, before reaching for the scalpel.
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…do I have to win the cases?
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have you seen this shit
this shit is going to make some of the most annoying people on the planet they/them me so hard
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It might be fun to see what it’d really take for me to stop loving you
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Subscribed!
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These types of thoughts are the ones keeping me moving these days.