A good strategy is to paralyze your opponent, cast some kind of touch spell that does damage for awhile, like poison, then retreat to a farther range to cast your targeted, long range spells. Recast paralyze if the creature isn't dead by the time they reach you again.

have been extremely busy at a new job and pretty tired as a result in a way that feels almost silly in the grander context

writing my answer to Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo titled Game Cam Image of Raccoon on Javelina, with the same final line

Sharing these pictures with everyone I know with the caption "How we need to be" and no further elaboration

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

The police are corrupt and incompetent. We will have to help ourselves.

It's never occurred to me that it IS an assumption. This is the most astonishing start to a paper I've read in years: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species."

funny finale. "maybe don't put how much I liked Kissinger in the paper? 👉👈"

7:31pm... going back for more autism

I'm utterly devoted to improving user experiences

crying masked wojak precursor

just got this ad on reddit lol

Each time I see a years of lead comparison I get a little more frustrated with what so often seems like a purely referential, superficial sort of historical analysis but then it makes me want to reread the 18th Brumaire which is always fun, so it's sort of a wash

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

No. You have not done enough chores.

just saw someone use the phrase "the enshittification of the presidency" lol

You have a kwama egg for me? These are quite tasty. And not so easy to get. Thank you.

lol, not sure about that tagline guys

Roommate noir: Looks like he made a lot of food.... I guess he's pretty hungry.

*loudly, so all the creatures around me hear* I would never say anything like this btw

*we're pregnant voice* we've diarrhea

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While you are here, observe the laws of the Triad.

as with the crackdown on university protests, "bullied" seems to me an incomplete explanation. I think there are many people in positions of power in these institutions that quietly agree with much of either the content or the purpose of the hagiographies

Beak

saw a snapping turtle, great blue heron, and wood ducks all hanging out last weekend

Is hostility to immigration something that people develop spontaneously based on their own experiences, or is it deliberately cultivated by politicians and the press? The authors of this FT don’t say so, but it’s hard not to see this figure as evidence for the latter. www.ft.com/content/43da...

saw a big new traffic sign yesterday that just said "traffic patterns have changed," which I appreciated the vagueness of but I think they could have gone further. something has changed. something is new

chilling

That's not what he said!!!

I have seen how you lust after the power and prestige that only I have as the Guildmaster here in Vvardenfell. If you truly think that you can take my place, meet me in the Arena for a duel to the death.

Tyrannidae is so goated

Rat grasping a soybean pod netsuke, Japan, 19th century

Reply to this post for one of many charming anecdotes about a north american blackbird, oriole, or tanager

This book is so sick, the devil is telling me to buy 20 volumes of this series

bearded Ezra Klein jumpscare

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

check out this camouflage

@mardiroos.bsky.social this is a cute video (of a baby elephant) www.facebook.com/share/v/16bZ...

I just invented flying a flag at quarter-mast to show even more respect. Now if you see a flag at half-mast you know their heart's not really in it.

Thrift store haul

buying new glasses and feeling so incompetent at it. I think glasses are like a haircut for me in that I can't really tell if I like it until I've worn it for a month

Got any friends here? Thought not.