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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
noise dept.
almost home
Three Goblin Art
trying on a metaphor
todays bird
dirt enthusiast
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cherry valley forever
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@squirenonny
pokèmonize yourself!!!!
spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
spin this one to see how you'll look like
how did it go!!!
literally dream scenario
it's good!
i can live with that
could be better
hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate this since i began to live.
fuck it remaking the poll hi
the best option ever
yea its good :)
i mean i guess its okay
ehh
what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527
Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I'VE EVER SEEN.
It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.
IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.
The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.
This fic is criminally underrated* go look at it!!!
(edited to add: the story is about original characters so even if you haven't read Murderbot, you can still read this story!)
*at time of posting, the fic had like 50 kudos. Thanks to y'all it is no longer criminally underrated 😅
silly goofy murderbot commission for @anna-neko!💥
the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don't worry about it:)
i just started taking my first botany course and politely op what the fuck is this supposed to mean
Well
Um
...
All creatures with cells that have the fancy stuff like nucleus and mitochondria are Eukaryotes. That picture is from the Wikipedia page for Eukaryotes.
Long ago there was just the Bacteria and Archaea. Then something weird happened and an Archaean ate a bacterium but the bacterium was not consumed, instead they became friends. By "friends" I mean "permanently merged together into an entirely new kind of life form that can do all kinds of fancy stuff with its cells." This life form is your ancestor and the ancestor of all Eukaryotes.
One of those new, fancy life forms ate a cyanobacteria and made it into chloroplasts. This created the plants.
A few others decided to go multicellular and form tubes out of cells that could wriggle around, and they became animals.
A few decided to also go multicellular and team up into big networks of interconnected thread-like tendrils, and they became fungi.
But most of them just kind of went off and did their own thing, going about their single-celled business, evolving into all kinds of weird stuff without doing anything multicellular. And all of those guys got called protists. Every eukaryote that didn't become multicellular is a protist.
The guys that went multicellular are just a few weirdos in these random corners of the tree of life, but they get all the attention cause we multicellular organisms are kind of self-absorbed (and we had to do some strange things to sand to turn it into lenses to see the single-celled organisms).
If each of those multicellular clades counts as a "kingdom," how many kingdoms do the single-celled guys make? Good luck with that one. We keep finding more of them.
Every time we look at some more pond water, the taxonomists collapse into sobbing again. There are too many ways to be a little guy. Every time there's a cilium or a flagellum somewhere it's not supposed to be, or there's something suspicious going on with microtubules or zoospores or helical structures something, or god forbid two guys get freaky and do another endosymbiosis again, they have to rewrite everything and there's at least two fistfights and one brawl.
Protists: Just don't worry about it.
Also I lied and there are plenty of eukaryotes that are multicellular and not animals, plants, or fungi, such as giant kelp
However those get called protists half the time too because with kelp, it's easier than trying to explain what the fuck it is if it isn't a plant, and with everything else, talking about it just starts an argument about what counts as a "cell" and what counts as "multi" for that matter and nothing good comes of it.
Wait wait wait. Hope do you argue what counts as multi. Anything larger than one, right? Anything larger than one?
Well
Xenophyopores found a cool hack to be unicellular but still get 20 centimeters long—they just have lots and lots of nuclei in their single cell.
They look like this. Of course it is in the ocean where all kinds of freaks are.
Behold, a single celled organism
Maybe it is cheating though.
Don't worry, though, the squiggly thing isn't really its body, it's more of a shell they secrete. Yes, you see they take in minerals from their surroundings, like for example, uh...
...Okay, maybe worry a little bit.
wikipedia article btw
They really like radioactive isotopes and collect radioactive materials in their bodies at high concentrations.
But this is exactly what i'm talking about, these guys are totally different from plants, animals, or fungi, just like they're totally different from kelp and amoebas, they are Their Own Thing.
@ayoungparent Well apparently slime molds are a polyphyletic group (a bunch of unrelated organisms that happened to look similar).
The Myxomycetes are the ones known as plasmodial slime molds and basically they form spores which hatch into single-celled haploid guys (basically like sperm or egg in humans) and when the spores meet each other they become a diploid cell with more and more and more nuclei until they can be one cell several meters in area and several kilograms in weight. Despite being one cell technically and having no brain, they can learn and have some form of intelligence. They are good at designing the most efficient railroad system.
The big green ball I assume you refer to is Valonia ventricosa. It has some complicated structures inside and lots of nuclei to make it work, but it is just one really big cell.
Yeah. It does mitosis and everything like a regular cell.
This guy is actually much closer related to regular plants than kelp or anything else we've discussed.
ah yes, Parakaryon myojinensis
we, uh....we don't like to talk about that one
they're the definition of Doing Their Own Thing
i hope this helps
The United States has 3 times as many Jerusalems as Israel
10 times as many Londons as England
30 times as many Parises as France
World capitals, but they’re all in Arkansas.
I actually think Illinois has more world capitals in it but they’re not as funny.
New York ran out of names to take so they just started taking other states
Maryland has Hollywood AND California!
You’ve been kidnapped and the main character from the last show you watched is coming to rescue you. Are you safe?
yes
no
results
THE LICE ONE IS MAKING ME FUCKING CRY OH MY GOD
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE
Making it is own post for visibility:
No Nuance: do you *want* the next Murderbot book to start a full slave rebellion to save all the other constructs from slavery?
Yes
No
y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot
you are so right so let's go over this shall we -
change in mental state: confusion, agitation, slurred speech, irritability, delirium, seizures
skin may feel deceptively cool or dry. you may also stop sweating entirely.
nausea and vomitting
extremely flushed skin - whole body!
rapid breathing/heart beat
headache
dry, swollen tongue
stay vigilant of yourself and others!!
hi, i’m a workplace safety person and i would like to further emphasize:
even if you’re used to heat, please understand that high humidity changes things drastically. your body’s ability to thermoregulate (cool itself down) is largely dependent on sweat evaporation. this is an interaction of physics; when a liquid evaporates, the surface it evaporates from is cooled down by that state change. when it’s very humid, sweat doesn’t evaporate as efficiently, so your body isn’t able to manage your internal temperature very well.
in occupational safety, we consider both the temperature and humidity together in a measurement called the heat index. basically, as the humidity rises, the “temperature” rises to reflect the added danger from the increased difficulty of thermoregulating. here is a chart from the national weather service:
the top axis is the measured temperature, and the left axis is the humidity. so if it’s 90° out and the humidity is 75%, the heat index is 109— or, put another way, if humidity weren’t a factor, it would effectively be 109°.
do not underestimate the heat. if you start feeling sick or light-headed, immediately get out of the sun, get somewhere air-conditioned (if possible), sit down, and sip cool water. if at all possible, do not get up again until you’ve been feeling better for 10 full minutes, and take it slow after that. if you don’t feel better, or if you start to feel worse, seek medical attention immediately.
when you’re dealing with heat stroke, minutes matter. your brain is starting to cook inside your skull.
When I took these, it was about 109 with 37% humidity (which is EXTREMELY humid for the desert) and I had been walking around for a couple hours when my friends noticed that I was bright red and not sweating. I felt fine, until I sat down in an air conditioned car and realized that I was dizzy and shaky and felt like I was going to throw up.
If you are going to be exposed to dangerously high temperatures, set a timer for yourself once an hour to check in. Look in a mirror, take your pulse, feel your forehead, MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL SWEATING (if you're not sweating in temps like this you're potentially dangerously overheated or dangerously dehydrated) - basically pause for a few minutes to verify that you still actually feel okay because when the heat index is super high you *already* feel so miserable that you might miss the fact that you are showing symptoms of heat exhaustion.
Some things you can do to reduce your chances of experiencing heat exhaustion in a heat dome event are:
Stay hydrated
Keep electrolyte powders, chews, or capsules handy to supplement lost electrolytes. Make sure that whatever electrolyte supplement you're using includes sodium and does NOT include B or D vitamins (you're going to have to take multiple doses if you're outside for hours and you don't want to have to worry about limiting your sodium based on how much Vitamin D you've taken)
Plan downtime - give yourself a few minutes to recover and rest as best you can every hour you're in the heat
Wear lightweight, loose, breathable clothing
Spend time in the shade, carry an umbrella to make shade if there is no available shade where you're going to be
Avoid activity during the hottest parts of the day
Make use of a cooling towel; these work by soaking up water that cools by slowly evaporating, they are less effective in high humidity.
Use high SPF sunblock - this won't prevent heat exhaustion but a bad sunburn can make it harder to recover from heat exhaustion
Make it a point to check in on people around you as well as checking in on yourself.
If you interact with your local unhoused population, make sure that you know where your local cooling shelters are. If you are able to, get a case of water bottles and stick them in the freezer now so that you have bottles frozen and ready to hand out to people who don't have a place to cool down.
Also, something that doesn't get talked about enough -- there are a LOT of meds that can increase your risk for heat illness and in a variety of ways. Some big ones include:
SSRIs
Stimulants, including ADHD meds
Beta blockers
Some antipsychotics
But there are seriously so many. Here's a link to a CDC page with a more complete list of meds to be aware of. If you're taking these - especially if you're taking multiple, like me - be extra cautious on hot days!
Summary of how heat can affect medications and patient health.
they went off with this
@ruffboijuliaburnsides basedball
hot damn they really did go off with this
Reminder: this is Trump's America right now. This is a very anti-DEI, anti-queer moment in our nation's history. Lots of groups and companies who used to do surface-level Pride pandering are going to be quiet this year - even if they don't throw themselves fully behind the hate, for optics reasons - because the current administration is making supporting diversity less profitable and more ~political~. So groups and companies who look at the current state of things in the US and say "fuck you, we're supporting the queer community anyway"? Who are going out of their way to stand with us even when it seems more people are standing against us than ever? That means something. That's worth noting.
This year, even more than other years, the Seattle Mariners didn't have to do this. The Seattle Mariners wanted to do this.
hi im relistening to artificial condition and just realized that at no point do murderbot or ART make proper introductions and it's making me giggle. ART pretends to be a normal bot pilot to lull mb into a false sense of security, waits until murderbot is effectively trapped and unable to escape, and then proceeds to threaten it and scare the shit out of it by way of greeting. and murderbot, understandably, does not then proceed to ask what to call it or anything, it's just like. this guy fucking sucks. i'm gonna call it "fucking sucks".
AND ART PUTS UP NO PROTEST.
like okay we don't know exactly how much access ART has to murderbot's... data? thought data? we know it derives something from how murderbot interacts with the feed (access to interpretable emotion), we know it just sort of barges in wherever it wants, we know from system collapse that "no, ART can't read my mind, it just knows me really well", so like. it probably doesn't have context for the origin of this new nickname, which murderbot presumably begins calling it with no explanation.
but ART's smart so like it definitely knows what ART stands for, given (gestures at murderbot's entire disposition), and this is just so funny to me. ART refers to murderbot by some complicated string of letters and numbers that any other bot would use, and murderbot refers to ART as "you jackass" and ART's probably just soooo pleased that its newest bestie4lyfe gave it a nickname it's all so unbelievably funny
The best part of the whole nickname debacle, in my opinion at least, is that ART uses it to introduce itself to people. In Artificial Condition, while Murderbot was off rescuing Tapan, it apparently contacted Rami and Maro as "Eden's friend Art," and told them to pay Murderbot in hard currency. Later, it tells Amena she can call it Art. It not only is fine with the nickname, it literally tells strangers to call it "Asshole." Considering how it behaves with its crew, it's probably proud of it.
I love ART.
AND THEN. When MurderBot is trying to rescue Iris et al from the contaminated colonists. And they don’t trust it.
It tells them “I call it the asshole boat” and they go “oh yes, you definitely know our friend, that’s our peri, lol, let’s go!”
Gotta be one of my favourite tropes ever.
anticipating an exponential increase in murderbot misgendering so I drew something about it
go is a doply complex strategic gwame, famously far more complicated than chess, with [the hypnosis activates], [for the next 30 seconds i believe i am a honeybee navigating a field of flowers]
I found it!
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Someone in the twitter comments said "it sounds like someone trying to get into a really hot bath" and I am cackling.
The way it's gradually strays to breakdown the closer it gets to the numberd
"Go is a dupp lee complex stratee-gic wuayme"
And then doesn't say the rest of the sentence at all.
dude zelda minish cap is literally so magical, its like a ghibli movie to me. sure tears of the kingdom has sprawling cg vistas or whatever BUT IN THE RAFTERS ABOVE THE BAKERY THE LITTLE GNOME PEOPLE HAVE OPENED A CAFE
this lil dude put a candle in a mug inside his home. this is like a fireplace to him. his tablecloth is a leaf. Are You Seeing This
you can shrink down and help an overworked shoemaker who fell asleep at his desk by fixing the shoes for him. look at this. you are smaller than his goddamn pinky finger
this guy LIVES inside a library book that he CARVED OUT!!!! u can see the freakin depth of the pages and how they overlap each other where he carved them. im crying. minish cap you will always be famous
this game is so special please play it
a tango with the enemy (…?)
