ashton

pfp: bare-rumped sheath tailed bat banner: andean mountain cat he/him/his. 16 yrs old australian

[theconcealedweapon]

[ryan-sometimes]

I hate people who call themselves “brutally honest” when really they’re just mean. You don’t need to be brutal to be honest. You can deliver the truth in a way that’s direct yet kind. If you only use the truth to hurt people, that’s not honesty. It’s just being an asshole

[macmanx]

Bandcamp takes a stand against AI music, banning it from the platform | TechCrunch

"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the co

Bandcamp’s new guidelines state that music and audio generated “wholly or in substantial part by AI” is not permitted and that it will not allow the use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles.

[raevenlywrites]

another win for bandcamp! and friendly reminder about Bandcamp Fridays, the first friday of every month, when the platform waives its fees so more money goes directly to the artists youre supporting, and often they run charity drives as well

[moonlitmartyr]

I hate ruminating on what could have been. Out here thinking "if only I locked in when I was 13" are we serious

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Today's worm is Myrianida pachycera, looking like a gummy dragon.

Photo by Siobhan O'Neill

[rosybetta]

I'm so so hyped to have just discovered this blog YAYYY here's a picture of M. pachycera from a sample collected by my lab this past June :)

Look at all those epitokes!!! Cuties!!!

[polychaete-of-the-day]

!! We have a bonus worm today

[bogleech]

Passing users need to stop and understand that this worm mates by dividing its tail into littler worms who just exist to swim away and explode with eggs or sperm, like detachable genitalia with their own eyes and limbs

[energyprison]

Anyone that still says ads are personalized is trolling you. The only ads left are gambling, temu, and ai sex chat

[clwed]

if you're genuinely using words like "transtrender" and "theyfab" you should probably shut up ❤️

[jamjarblues]

i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.

i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”

THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.

stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.

[visorforavisor]

I think disability justice would be easier if abled people understood that being disabled is a mixture of all three of

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

and that trying to treat one of these as if it’s another one will get you nowhere.

[smeep-smorper]

everyone expect more pitcher plant posts im so obsessed with carnivorous plants rn :(

did u know wooly bats and nepenthes hemslyana have a symbiotic relationship…. bat gets comfortable resting spot, pitcher gets Bat Poop Nutrients. me inmy house

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Hey so an insane new dinosaur got announced??

This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??

The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".

Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.

The publication is available to read here!

[hollowedskin]

Seeing a lot of posts like "umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they're the same as bees"

Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.

The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.

Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.

The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.

If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people's perceptions.

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

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[jesse-is-spiralling]

[ashtonsmobius]

graphic dump

archive.org/GifCities, neocities, spacehey etc

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[flannelettefish]

the strength of wikipedia is that you take all the autistic people on the globe with internet access and you give them a place to infodump about whatever random shit they know too much about and you end up with what the larger internet was advertised as (an infinite source of knowledge) in one singular website

[ashtonsmobius]

and wikipedia allows you to expand off of their site, the purpose isnt to keep you there and restrict you to wikipedia, its to give you base to jump off of. you can peel back the curtains, check the sources, and have your own input. love wikipedia <3

free badge i use for my spacehey! <3

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[flannelettefish]

the strength of wikipedia is that you take all the autistic people on the globe with internet access and you give them a place to infodump about whatever random shit they know too much about and you end up with what the larger internet was advertised as (an infinite source of knowledge) in one singular website

[innerchildabortionclinic]

you can tell your parents Hey so ai may not give an accurate answer to that. they will not care because they are enamored by it anyway