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Fruit Dinos // Ceramicorn

Rami Kadi | Les Miroirs

(April 12th 2024)

No medical confirmation or psychological evaluation necessary. The law will be active by the 1st of November this year.

First names can also be changed while changing gender. One all inclusive package with minimum effort.

Here's the AP article about it for anyone who wants it

[ID: The Destiel meme, edited to say, in the first panel, "I love you", and in the second, "Today Germany passed a law that allows everyone to change their gender by simply going to the registry and telling them to change it." End ID]

Hass Idriss | Untitled Creation 2024

I made the first page so long ago but hey, I finished.

Part two

also! Prada has blue sweats.

blue prada-

vector ass lookin mfer

He gets that vector ass from Pilates

dc comics heritage post

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

There's this website I like using with my students sometimes that has a bunch of simple lil virtual models on it to teach various aspects of ecology, like this one that shows how two species of bacteria compete in a petri dish to illustrate niches, and this one that shows both how to estimate field vole populations using mark-recapture but also how their trap preferences affect the results, and this much fancier one showing how barnacles are affected by sea level rise. They are simple and fun and pedagogically useful. I like them.

I also want to make one of my own to teach climate proxies; sediment cores using foraminifera and their temperature-induced spiralling shells, for example, or pollen or beetle casings or what have you. Tree rings. Ice cores. Shit like that. So, the student would have an image of a layered sediment core, the model would generate random-but-within-parameters numbers of clockwise or anti-clockwise spiral foraminifera, in each layer, boom. Past climate record generated.

THE PROBLEM: I am a fucking moron when it comes to coding. I have tried so many times. It just absolutely resists my ability to understand. It's my Achilles heel. I'm an imbecile. A cretin. A joke.

THE POSSIBLE SOLUTION: my friend Dan who knows how to code.

THE NEW PROBLEM: there has been an XKCD-style assumption about baseline knowledge

Sara Mrad | Ripples in the Wind

I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

An occupational hazard of cab driving I had not previously considered

I love that the nola problem here is not “ghosts in my taxi cab,” but “ghosts are FUCKING BROKE DEAD BASTARDS & I GOT BILLS”

Horror is when ghosts get into cabs and scare drivers Magical realism is when cab companies have to develop policies to prevent ghastly fare-theft

In a book about the tsunami in Japan in 2011, the writer talked about how there was a huge increase in reports of ghostly activity. Apparently in Japan treating ghosts rudely is basically considered the stupidest thing you could possibly do. For months after the tsunami, taxi drivers would pick up a passenger only to have them give an address in one of the devastated areas. The cab driver often looked up halfway to the destination to find their fare had disappeared. Not wanting to be impolite to the person (even if they were dead) they’d drive to the address, open the door to let them out, then drive away.

As a former humanities student, I feel it is my duty to reblog this one.

A tech bro tried to convince me AI was amazing cause "you could make 30,000 screenplays in minutes" not realising that every single one would be shit, you'd have to sift through everything just to find some good bits, time wasted that could've been spent just writing a screenplay.

Technology Brothers know nothing about what goes into creating a work, other than the fact a work has been created to be exploited for cash. They see creativity as an investment opportunity, not a love for humanity.

Matthew Dow Smith: "Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date."

This makes so much sense

May I add:

Too many I know, give more than asked and run themselves ragged.

I know you want to be good and kind to others and show your skills. But please don't. It just leads to more work because people think you can handle it, or uses you. If you can perform 100% of what is asked with 70% of your energy, do that and save the 30% for yourself.

Sometimes the smallest thing can rewrite the trajectory of your life. For example: the reason I could only think about Dragon Ball Z for five years of my mortal life is I attended a local theater one-act play based on Waiting for Godot where Vegeta and Frieza were fighting on namek and waiting for Goku. It was so good it rewrote my brain chemistry permanently

Vegeta's growing despair contrasted with Frieza's dispassionate apathy. Desperately trying to ignore the growing realization that Goku might never arrive, might not even exist. The spirit Halloween costumes blending seamlessly with the truly sensitive emotional acting. I would give anything to attend again but there will never be another run

I forgot a really important element of this, which is that the actors for Vegeta and Freeza had heelies on the whole time to suggest flying

you know you need to get back to non-gmo grassfed organic canon when the group chat AUs start turning into stuff like the characters hiking the Appalachian Trail. but will I? Non.

“that character would never hike the Appalachian Trail.”

That’s even better. Imagine the most outdoors-adverse person alive. They’ve never peed outside. They would rather be drawn and quartered than eat camp food, and they’re also broke.

Now what is it going to take to get them into a situation where they’re spending 5 months and several thousand dollars to hike over 2,000 miles? Likely with 2-3 other people they cannot stand.

This is perhaps your greatest challenge yet, but I know with some creativity and elbow grease you will find a reasonably in-character excuse to put them in the most hateful situation they could possibly imagine

& it will be so funny. And horrible. And maybe they’ll fall in love < 3 They’re at least getting trenchfoot.

Hi, I’ve been thinking about this comment for about three and a half minutes now because it’s had me so confused, and I think I know what’s going on but I don’t want to make an assumption so I am asking so genuinely:

This post is about the Appalachian Trail, a hiking route established in the 1900s, which roughly three million people visit yearly, and one option is to thruhike it, meaning going from one end to the other without stopping, which many of my friends have done.

Are you thinking of the Oregon Trail?

To be entirely fair, it's 1000% in-character for any D&D party to fuck up what road they're on and not notice until they're all standing in the waters off Key West and finally pass the knowledge check to remember that Oregon does not have gators.

I am well aware the Appalachian Trail ends like two whole states before Florida but it's also 1000% in character for any D&D party to triple down on a mistake.

Ushiku Daibutsu, Japan. Photography by Yuya.M @yuyar33