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I like ichthyosaurs, they are like if a lizard was also a tuna

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

chthonion

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

gaybichon

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

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gaybichon

👆 me

lamine-19

scientific fact

muttsandmustelidae

roan>>>>>

abortionsommelier

Can a similar color show up in cats or is that impossible?

muttsandmustelidae

would love for someone who understands cat coat genetics to chime in with more info, but from a quick google search all i’m seeing is that a few cats in Finland have popped up with a roan-like coat pattern?

^ like this stunning guy here

triangle-dog

They found the mutation that causes the salmiak pattern shown above, it's a deletion downstream of the KIT gene (KIT controls several other, but not all, of the other white cat markings). It's a recessive mutation, Photo c in the figure below shows a normal patterned carrier next to his salmiak patterned brother. The carriers may have some white on their coat, but it's unclear if it is due to the single salmiak allele or another cause.

So yeah, it's possible. I'm not aware of any breeding projects for it though.

"FIGURE 1 ... (a) Salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal), (b) salmiak solid blue cat (diluted black, aa/dd/wsalwsal), (c) salmiak brown mackerel tabby (wsalwsal) (right) and his normal-colored brother heterozygous for salmiak (wsalw), (d) salmiak phenotype on a long-haired solid black cat (not genotyped), (e) salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal) and (f) salmiak phenotype on a tortoiseshell cat (not genotyped). Cat a was sequenced, and cats b, c and e were genotyped for salmiak. Photo credits: (a) Ari Kankainen and (b–e) courtesy of the cat owners."

Source: A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak,” is associated with a 95-kb deletion downstream of the KIT gene. Anderson, H., Salonen, M., Toivola, S., Blades, M., Lyons, L.A., Forman, O.P., Hytönen, M.K. and Lohi, H. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13438

gremlininho

alphabetizing-posts

A be can many rat shapes..

werewolf-transgenderism

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

werewolf-transgenderism

^ like this. waaaaaugh 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

luck-system-shenanigans

i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????

wotzka

I don't mean to dismiss the fact that the world feels like shit, but this is also an incredibly human experience. There was always a Before. Decades ago, there were people who remembered what cloth felt like before plastic and polyester, and before that there were people who remembered what food tasted like before it was processed at huge warehouses and factories, and before that there were people who remembered what the night sky looked like when there was no electricity. Centuries ago, people complained about how much better the air smelled before factories existed, even miles and miles away.

Even when the world around you doesn't change in a way that is strange and scary, you might. It's why that final line in Gatsby hits so hard.

vulcartist

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

tournevis-real

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

scorpio-system

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

vanshira

#‘that goose keeps laying golden eggs. that’s stagnation. I’m going to kill it and go look for a goose that lays diamond eggs’#‘that goose normally lays golden eggs but this time it laid a silver egg. I’m going to kill it because even though I can still make good#money with that it’s not as good as a golden egg’#‘that golden egg laying goose only lays an egg once a day instead of constantly shitting them out. I don’t care that golden eggs take time#if they’re not constant the goose is worthless to me’

@thebaldursmouthgazette y u leave all the good stuff in the tags

sybaritick

last night i made a quick little crochet "mouse holder" thinking of how much mice enjoy small enclosed spaces. luckily they immediately understood its purpose