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Discount Canadian store brand Green brother, fantasy author, lapsed bicycle scientist, Muppet biologist, waistcoat enthusiast, cosplayer, cat haver, he/him. I contain multitudes, sometimes they leak out. Books: https://stealingfromwizards.com
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what's the weirdest thing you're famous for on some corner of the internet? feel free to stay vague if it's an iteration of yourself you've long shed like snakeskin.

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

In case anyone needs to dilute the devastating reality of these modern times, can I recommend the SciArt feed managed by @flyingtrilobite.com. You will get lovely pictures of critters alive and extinct from pros and enthusiasts. It's a good time.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating read on the ongoing collapse of marketing reach. “We live in an environment where monoculture doesn’t happen in the way it used to. So, you have to be everywhere.”

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Is there a nice way to let someone know that their profile looks like an AI bot?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is a fascinating topic. I think it's part of why retro-futurism is so prevalent. But I don't think its all about catching up, it's also saturation and stabilization.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Men in power poisoning themselves in pursuit of immortality, a long an noble tradition for at least (checks notes) 2200 years. A modern day Qin Shi Huang, I wonder if his tomb will also be unopenable due to fear of toxic exposure.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This week's Sloth and Manatee comic from the Space Boat letter which comes out Saturday Mornings, found here: buttondown.email/thespaceboat #Art #ArtSky #SciArt #Sloth #Manatee #Comics #Drawing #Friends #Trees #YesYes

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Listen to your heart, no matter how it trills and cheeps and wants to be free. Read "To Free a Bird, Trapped" by @rukman.bsky.social today and let your heart move as it wills: smallwondersmag.com/...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I'm once again being reminded that having fans, especially young fans, does not give license to be a monster. I don't feel like I needed this lesson at all. But given how often it's repeated, clearly many people do, and maybe I should take notice.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

How it do be

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

Post your favorite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This is cool, and unexpected! (also, never pet velvet ants, even though they are fluffy and cute) www.sciencenews.org/article/velv...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

This will get a bit lost in the shuffle of everything, but glaciologists in Antarctica have finally drilled a continuous ice core stretching past 1 million years. Congrats to the Beyond EPICA team! Can't wait to see the results.

submitted 45 days ago • 18 comments

“Wait, there’s no way coffee helps someone with ADHD focus,” my co-worker said, unaware he was leaning on the button marked “Stephen should over explain this subject, including a digression into tobacco use in adults with ADHD and a weird ‘will trade wheat for sheep’ metaphor regarding dopamine.”

submitted 45 days ago • 12 comments

Come one, come all, and gather round for my definitive thread on the MOST COMMON MYTHS ABOUT BOOK PUBLISHING:

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

100% free ways to support authors you love: - share their social posts - recommend their books - leave reviews - order their books at your library - request their appearance at events - drop them an encouraging line - exhort the will of ancient gods in dark rituals to ensure their success thanks!

submitted 46 days ago • 22 comments