Minn's World

Being autistic is weird because I think I'd be entirely entirely immune to the maddening effects of witnessing an Elder God but learning that barnacles are arthropods rather than molluscs nearly gave me an existential crisis

What part of being autistic makes you immune to the effects of Elder Gods?

I'm pretty sure I can comprehend a really big squid dude

"oooOoooOoooo Non Euclidean architectureeeee" I've played portal, highly contiguous spatial topographies aren't that scary brohan.

Wait no sorry, go back. Barnacles are a what

Barnacles are a type of crutacean like crabs or isopods, not a type of mollusk like snails or clams.

HOW

It's a long story, thankfully there is a youtube video about it

The fact that barnacles are crustaceans, not mollusks, is low key sending me. Things aren’t going to be right for at least a few hours.

Whyyyy does this shock people though. Why aren't barnacles more famous for what they are? They are like the true signature ocean animal! Literally as in the surest sign the ocean touched something! Barnacles are how the sea writes its name!! It leaves its cool bugs on everything! I knew this when I was five! Do people not grow up watching nature documentaries anymore

Why is THIS, out of literally ALL OF THE THINGS the ocean has on offer, the one thing weirding people out?? We have creatures that build their home on geothermal smokestacks on the bottom of the ocean! Those smokestacks hold M A G M A. Do you folks have any idea how HOT that is??? They should be burning and dying! but nah, they're fine! We have Hagfish! not only are they a vital part of the oceanic cleanup crew, their primary defense mechanism is the equivalent of someone casting a spell to turn the air in your lungs into jello! There are shrimp that have the biological ability to bully the laws of physics onto letting them force-punch holes in aquarium tanks or flash-cook sections of any predator who gets close!

How is "Barnacles are more closely related to crabs than snails" the thing topping your list???

I need this.

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

hey? did i never post this with the more characters? here *hands you*

names under cut

How do you people design such varies characters, you're so talented!

Do Not Under Any Circumstances Drink From These Teacups

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

fastest reblog in the west

Yeppers. :)

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?

call that

call that a

Its okay, take your time

constellation prize

tell Hera this pun.

@shencomix so, did anyone else notice?

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hmm. i wonder….

surely. surley it must exist

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses​ alright, i’ll bite. what must exist?

i regret asking.

hmm. i wonder….

surely. surley it must exist

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses​ alright, i’ll bite. what must exist?

centipede?

animorphs but there's no alien invasion or save-the-world plot action. I just want a group of teenagers who sometimes take a mental health day by turning into a snail

okay, that sounds cool. But. i would also be totally open to starting a morph as a conversation ender. or for funsies.

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oh u have a gender? how quaint

Taking care of a gender is actually a very difficult experience, mine died when I was young and it’s been very hard on the family. Remember that not all genders want to socialize and that they all have different needs! Every gender is the exception, and some display signs of the opposing gender type! Please take care of your gender. Dispite the fact they’ve been domesticated, genders will run away, this is not the fault of the owner, and while they owner might get another gender, its not a requirement.

A gender hit my window once when I was young. I wanted of course to take it in, care for it, nurse it back to health but it wasn’t meant to be and the gender was lost, I couldn’t handle having one of my own after that

i killed my gender with my bare hands. it felt good.

my gender refuses to be accurately perceived. i try to coax it out with treats, but all it does is stare at me and occasionally pester other genders in the vicinity. someone help please

it’s possible there is a better feeling in the world than remembering u have leftovers in the fridge, but i’m dubious

nah i am 150% certain it is remembering u have leftovers in the fridge

okay, but what about waking up, worried you missed your alarm, realizing you don’t work that day, AND that you have leftovers in the fridge you can eat for breakfast?

sanctuary for ghosts and demons whose unlives have been uprooted by inhumane eviction of nonhumans (aka exorcisms that fail to rehome the spirits they displace, thus disrupting the ectosystem)

kind of like an organ donor bank for haunted houses. except in this case if there’s a rejection your kidneys are throwing hands with your liver.