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@ryncoon
You are a genetic researcher who has come across a universal truth. The DNA in all living creatures are attempts to build a single design. Viruses and phages have been stopping this process intentionally, resulting in different species. You now know what that design is and can complete it.
As suspected, we all remember that there is one step, and it is crab
Sideways! To progress!
sh tk ll f m vwls n th dvrc
Aand II’m maakiing gooood uusee oof theem
Cnt hv sht n dtrt
The most genius I’ve ever felt was when I was working in the physics lab. We had installed a camera at a pressure chamber window so we could watch a laser do pulse ablation on a metal plate. However, we had a problem no one could figure out; the laser would phase in and out on our live feed from the camera. The team was freaking out about the possibility of this 30k laser being defective and they were about to take apart the vacuum chamber when I was like “uh... guys? We’re firing the laser at 23 pulses per second.”
Mind you, I’m a sophomore at this point, working with 3 grad students and a professor. I’m at a point in my career where I can barely explain the math behind what research I’m actually doing.
The professor is like “.... Yeah? What about it?” And I explain: “Most cameras film at 24 frames per second. The laser looks like it’s phasing in and out because it’s out of phase with the camera” so we adjusted the pulse per second a bit until it was in phase and shockingly! It worked perfectly. The prof and the grad students just looked.. dumbfounded? And I guess camera fps rates aren’t common knowledge, at least to them. They treated me like I was the smartest person in the room even though the only reason I knew that information was from making gifsets of Pacific Rim when I was in high school
Look. You are smart. Applying random bits of knowledge gained in unrelated activities is smart. You learned something and retained it, and it was later useful.
This sort of thing happens all the time to me at work, only I usually end up lying about how I knew it, you know, to the other engineers, because it's always like "I hyperfixated on nerf gun manufacturing once," or "I looked it up because something in a fanfiction struck me as scientifically wrong but it turned out to be right," or "I literally learned this watching fursuiting tutorials in preparation for making a protogen headpiece."
It made me feel like an imposter for a while. But here's the thing: I actually knew that stuff. I wasn't faking the knowledge. It didn't matter that I learned it on a late-night YouTube binge started by searching a one-off line from a webcomic, or wherever else. I really know the stuff. I am smart.
You are smart too.
I Fucking love these stupid alien things with my whole fucking heart
Me, at the first makeup counter demonstration I ever saw back in 1935 at the Bon Marche.
Have you ever taken a life?
I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.
It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.
Frank is a serial killer
Oh, that’s a good point. “Serial killer” is such a loaded phrase.
True, where’s the whimsy? The fantasy? The fun?
I mean, I’ve taken drugs that have made me feel like I was about to have an out-of-this-world experience, and had a lot of fun while doing so. I’ve taken “pretty hardcore” hallucinogens that have made me say things like “Wow, I don’t think that was really LSD.” And I’ve still been able to have fun while having those sorts of experiences, sometimes while just listening to the experience in my head in real time.
Is that what you mean?
Frank. Frank, hun. ‘Taking a life’ means murder, not taking a drug called ‘a life’.
Yeah, I’ve taken drugs called “death” and “life” and the latter was extremely unpleasant and involved a lot of painful screaming while the former was super enjoyable
Okay, you clearly have more experience than I do, so I stand corrected.
These are the first three "adult" mice from my-pick pairings of the feeder colony self-blacks. I took pics so I could ask opinions from the FMBA group, to see if I am looking for the right things when I'm picking for structural type.
I'm definitely keeping #1 because he's got the best color and I think he has ok type for an F1, and #2 I think has the best face (and DEFINITELY had the best temperament, I scooped him up by the body without needing to go for the tail at all and he was chill about it). I think #3's tiny ears and white tail-tip mean he's going to go, and his personality is lacking, but we'll see what the group says.
I have 6 others who are growing out that I've got high hopes for, and a BUNCH of nice looking ladies whose ages I actually know, so I will be reorganizing a lot in the next few weeks. I'm very excited to watch this line change and grow!
The extra bits on the ears make me wonder if you could/anyone has bred for ruffly-eared mice?
What if your Mew came from a shiny Arceus? Then it's kinda both from a shiny parent and the first Mew from Arceus, you know? Just a random thought
there’s only one Arceus in my headcanon so there is no shiny arceus, unless he can just make himself golden when he feels like it
Some days you just wanna feel special and do yourself up, you know?
Omg tag ur triggers
Have you ever taken a life?
I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.
It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.
Frank is a serial killer
Oh, that’s a good point. “Serial killer” is such a loaded phrase.
True, where’s the whimsy? The fantasy? The fun?
I mean, I’ve taken drugs that have made me feel like I was about to have an out-of-this-world experience, and had a lot of fun while doing so. I’ve taken “pretty hardcore” hallucinogens that have made me say things like “Wow, I don’t think that was really LSD.” And I’ve still been able to have fun while having those sorts of experiences, sometimes while just listening to the experience in my head in real time.
Is that what you mean?
Frank. Frank, hun. ‘Taking a life’ means murder, not taking a drug called ‘a life’.
I’m going to hell by choice (not into the whole ‘eternity spent worshipping a creator god’ thing) but also mainly bc my cat was napping and I made the moral decision to wake them up so I could get to my hoodie
Sorry Gaud your existing privileges have been revoked.
to be FAIR yesterday the cat broke a vase at 4am AND this morning they body slammed my face while I was sleeping AND also I was cold
It must hurt more to be bodyslammed while gelled, I’m so sorry
so im working on a thought about how often, lately, i’ve seen science fiction dreams of space exploration dismissed as ‘colonial fantasies’ and what i’m thinking on is how readily we fall into the easy assumption that white people are uniquely and intrinsically exploitative (that white people are uniquely and intrinsically anything) and that this urge to colonize (to be exploitative, to consume, to sin) is an inherent property we can’t help but reproduce.
and the thing is it’s really important to think about what colonization entails and how much of the white american dream is built on an incredibly destructive way of life, how much white american ideals revere exploitation, consumption, destruction. it’s important to point out that elon musk’s vision for mars combines all the worst parts of manifest destiny, disney world, and company towns: he wants to build a fucking resort there with indentured servants and he absolutely doesn’t give a shit how many people die along the way so long as he gets his money. that’s a colonialist fantasy. absolutely. fuck that.
but… i can’t believe that the human desire to travel is nothing more than the desire to colonize. that’s like saying the human desire to love is nothing more than the desire to rape. humans love to travel. countless cultures have been nomadic or migratory, and even the most stable civilizations have traders, pilgrims, tourists. we have been travelers our entire history. we love to go new places. we love to see new things. we have looked up at the stars for more than a hundred thousand years; we’ve sailed our ships by their lights for more than ten thousand years; we’ve told each other stories of going out among them for more than a century. we are so close to the edge of the universe, and we are a species of ardent travelers. of course we want to go.
some science fiction is colonial. the desire to space just to plunder everything we can get our greedy little spacesuit gloves on, by all means, let’s interrogate our motives for trying to do that kind of thing. let’s point out that this is a pretty shitty thing to do.
but holy shit, we’re on the edge of the universe. we have always wanted to go. you can’t tell me it’s wrong to want to go and see what’s over the next horizon.
Stewardship has also always been a concept in lots of cultures, and it’s becoming a more prominent thing lately in discussions of land use and sustainability. I think that’s the route to go, and I can even think of a couple works that already explore that idea! Mare Internum is a very pretty webcomic that takes place on Mars (there is some body horror involved, tread carefully.) and the Mira Grant novel Alien: Echo has a colony that’s very conscientious about not extracting resources at all from the planet they’ve colonized. It’s also in the Alien franchise, so the typical body horror warnings apply there too.
Have you ever taken a life?
I have, several times, for the purposes of having fun.
It was a blast, though. I hope to do it more often.
Holy shit Frank
Best neighbour
how can you tell if a rabbit possesses the gift of prophecy or not
I want to win Best of Show at a 4H competition for prognosticating rabbits
Oh, good luck! The issue isn't actually whether they can tell the future-- all rabbits are clairvoyant to a certain degree. What you want to breed for is precision as well as clarity.
The current 4H show trials involve getting the rabbits to predict the outcome of a horse race (via nibbling alfalfa out of a cup with a picture of the winning horse on it). Many rabbits can predict the horses that will run well over the course of the racing season, but you want to breed for a rabbit that can predict a specific race in the immediate future. So, it's all about narrowing that window of vision.
That said, this is obviously the strategy for show rabbits. If you're aiming for the rabbit equivalent of the kwisatz haderach, you don't want to narrow that window of prognostication at all.
My chief concern is that heritable rabbit clairvoyance seems to be negatively correlated with vitality. Rabbits that are heterozygous for the prognostication gene (Pp) tend to be moderately clairvoyant but feeble and small in size, prone to anxiety and stress—their visions are vague and symbolic. Rabbits that are homozygous for prognostication (pp) tend to have visions that are both more accurate and more precise, but also display a failure to thrive; even when they do survive to sexual maturity, they are almost always infertile.
Which begs the question: is it animal cruelty to attempt breed prognostication into rabbits, if it reduces their quality of life so dramatically? I know some animal rights groups are lobbying to have clairvoyant rabbits barred from show. I doubt they will succeed since there is so much financial incentive to be made off breeding for clear, precise, and accurate rabbit prognostication... but I think we have to consider the ethical implications even if it remains legal.
One interesting study I read recently showed that rabbits bred to prophesize only in abstract concepts tend to be more healthy and hale than those trained on naturalistic variables like horse racing and weather patterns. The conclusion was that rabbits experience the most psychological distress when they understand the nature and content of their visions, but are nearly unaffected when the content has no meaning to them—suggesting a potential application in the stock market.
Reblogging especially for the deep dive into the ethics of breeding prophetic rabbits for show. It's an important issue that I don't see enough folks talking about. I wasn't aware of the vitality issue, and this post reminded me to get current with the science.
I think my main concern with the study you mention above-- if I'm thinking about the right one (A Sense of Impending Doom: Semiotic Stress Syndrome and Prognostication in Domesticated Rabbit Populations?) is that it was, like so many studies in this area, funded by an investment firm. I feel it's not unreasonable to suggest that they might have ulterior motives in encouraging breeders to focus their efforts on refining rabbit lines that foresee exclusively abstract concepts.
That isn't to say that more precise prognostication isn't stressful for rabbits; I'm just doubtful of the validity of the claim that abstraction is somehow better for them.
That is the study... I had no idea who funded it! Now that you mention it, I absolutely can see the ulterior motive in promoting the idea that rabbits can/should only be used for abstract prophecy. You don’t actually need a rabbit to issue clear or accurate prophecies about something like the stock market—you just need people to believe that it can, “leak” those supposed prophecies, and voila! they fulfill themselves.
I have also read that wild rabbits tend to produce only one prophet per warren, regardless of population size. Does that produced one likely pp kit were actually observed culling extraneous pp kits in the same and subsequent litters. You would think that having multiple prophets in a warren would be beneficial, but I guess rabbits have never read The Minority Report.
They’re prophets, Ship, not geniuses.
Another thing I’d forgotten about this month, a request doodle for Magdalene from Dappervolk. She turned out pretty cute, I think, if slightly sinister.
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To be fair, Magdalene comes across sinister until you get to know her. I adore this sweet little piggy!
In which I am both of them
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is a self proclaimed crafter. A week ago she made a stuffed dinosaur from scraps on the space station. The little T-rex is made form the lining of Russian food containers and the toy is stuffed with scraps from an old T-shirt. While many toys have flown into space, this is the first produced in space.
Photos: Karen Nyberg, via CollectSpace
THIS IS SO CUTE AND IS MAKING MY SCI-FI CRAFTER ASS SO DAMN HAPPY
Crafting in Space!
It’s hard enough to find a needle when you drop it in an environment WITH gravity.
I would think a magnet would make it easier in space. Plus no carpet to turn it into a ninja caltrop.
