help, I'm stuck on drawshield.net again

Very blazonable bee

Just stumbled upon an article mislabeling a harmless Jumping Spider as a Brazilian Wandering spider. This carelessness makes me unreasonably angry. Aside from being potentially harmful, it's more likely to cause unnecessary scares when people find a jumper on their bananas.

[Dalek voice] Hydrate! Moisturize! Humidify!

Is Sword & Sorcery having a bit of a renaissance, or just in my bubble?

Didn't expect Message Why is it always Message?

learned a new word www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Imagine being one-thousand fingertips.

g_d has stripped me of this form to teach me humility and simplicity

I helped describe a new species of Andean widow spider! zookeys.pensoft.net/article/185973 This was a rare occurence where an arthropod had a common name before a scientific one. Locals call it "la lucacha," so we are pleased to formally introduce "Latrodectus lucacha" to the scientific community.

Taken with our VLT over a period of four years, these images show the rotating disc of gas & dust around the young star AB Aurigae. Features like “twists” signal the places where #exoplanets could be forming 🪐 More: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/ 🔭 🧪 📹 ESO/A. Boccaletti et al.

As they are now paying per hammer strike, the squeaking may finally cease.

Today it's just Bach's Concerto for harpsichord in D major because I have it running in the background. Very whistle-able, although I'm doing it badly.

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BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL

WORKER: Boss, please stop making us use toy hammers. BOSS: Everyone is using them. They are the future! And I paid good money for them! WORKER: I really wish you had not. BOSS: They are so easy to use. A child could do your work- look! [squeaking noises as he bangs a toy hammer on the table]

So, do we think the very-desperate-to-make-a-deal Iranian negotiator Trump keeps waffling about is a) AI generated for his 15 minute cinematic briefings b) JD Vance with a fake beard or c) a hallucinatory projection of insecurities reflected by his narcissism ?

The Color out of Gays

MORPHEUS: The human organism always requires soap operas. First, it was cheaply produced tele-novellas. Then, scripted reality shows. Next, it was individually created drama on streaming platforms. MORPHEUS: You will soon each have your personal soap opera, created by token-transform algorithms.

Today I woke up and my brain pointed out that I still live in a reality where if you multiply √-1 with itself √-1 times, the result is approximately 0.20788

My dream-self had to sort through 'borgesian affidavits' last night, but my wake-self struggles to conceptualize such a thing.

🔭 Saturn at Night Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas ap260601

Making Dampfnudeln, the savory kind (big steamed dumplings, you mostly only see them as sweets). The way my mom taught me, since you can not open the pot lid because they would collapse, you have to listen to them 'sing' to know when they are ready. Only food with an audio cue I know.

I have some suggestions

Good morning. A blue tit just flew in my face.

New at #Patreon: Stop press (literally, in my case)! Fossils suggest that the tapjearid Sinopterus had blue-green/magenta iridescence? Huge implications for #pterosaur #paleoart and just one of a suite of new papers reinventing tapejarid pterosaurs. Discussion at www.patreon.com/posts/159645...

I have some suggestions

I recommend leaving some Intergalactic Energy Cellar Spiders around, they eat the big hairy ones.

(pneumatic thingy on construction site goes squee-klack) me:

NEW EXAMPLE FOR FONT LESSON JUST DROPPED

Some interesting points in this. How Ai 'art' is for the poor, while human created art becomes the purview of the wealthy. There is only one war and its class war. youtu.be/EfeGc02nzC4

kind of feeling like spontaneously turning into a manatee and fucking off into the sea.

Humanity's Largest Repository Of Vibes

the joke used to be that to actually find useful information you would google "[query] reddit", but despite being a joke reddit has become so flooded with ChatGPT replies that it's now the same recursive bullshit as a regular search leading to a SEO page.

My 'whistle random melodies while cooking' playlist (reconstructed): Choose Your Pipe (Totaka) Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) Habanera (Bizet) Kiwi Kraze (Follin) Non piu andrai (Mozart) Not quite sure what kind of mixtape my brain was going for.

how work felt today

Alt headline: Humans get paid less than robots

I've written and erased about ten posts complaining about the weather, I'm just letting La Linea do it for me.

Zwerchhau shadow bra

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Brother Gregor gone fishin'

Pictured: Reinhardt's Smart Robot shredding Reinhardt's research (and Reinhardt's fellow scientist). The Black Hole (1979)

Mitsuoka Bubu 502 appreciation

شكشوكة

'A 4,500-year-old Egyptian beadnet dress, crafted from approximately 7,000 blue-green faience beads. It dates back to the Old Kingdom's 4th Dynasty (circa 2551–2528 B.C.E.) The dress was unearthed from a tomb in Giza and painstakingly reassembled from loose beads found among human remains.'

'Helmet shaped like an aubergine. Japan, 1671-1699' royalarmouries.org/collection/o...

In the face of ruinous GPU prices, we find ourselves once again replaying Dark Souls 1. Got a lucky BKG drop in Basin, and although I was going for a Claymore/BSS build I might switch for that. Kicked off Lautrec, but maybe I want two ring slots open for this one.

Ill Communication is one of those albums where you feel like listening one song of it and then inevitably end up listening to all of them. It's an amazing album-as-album.