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Cornelius the cone snail wishes you a happy #MolluskMonday and apologizes for the delay

#MarineLife

Plants animals and fungi are just the weird really big protists.

That's very exciting! Thank you for explaining

So a grandparent doesn't need to be *born* in Canada? My grandfather emigrated to Canada from Germany in the 1950s and got his Canadian citizenship, so would that still count?

Every day I don't run screaming into the forest forever is an act of extreme courage and bravery. The forest never stops calling

Please tell me the thermometer at least goes in the mouth

Photo of an urn-shaped (or cook pot shaped) dark brown fungus with rough edges around the opening at the top. To the left of the fungus is a small brown spruce cone. The fungus and cone are sitting on a mossy forest floor, among brown leaf litter.

Devil’s Urn Fungus (Urnula craterium). Northwest Territories, Canada. The fungus is about 2cm in diamete.
#fungi #fungifriends

If you are stuck using Google Search for any reason (like on a school computer in my case) you can disable AI overview by going to the settings of your browser, and adding a new search engine and putting "{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14" (without quotes) in the URL field :3

vampy-campy on tumblr: "*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard *remembers some ppl use AI* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating."

there is a true nap and a false nap. the false nap is scheduled. a true nap must be taken when necessary. the false nap is timed. a true nap must be unfettered. the false nap's goal is to return to work. a true nap's goal is to play within the mind

I can understand regular people being totally oblivious to the shit going on behind the scenes of twitter and paying zero attention to what's happening, but like companies' with PR teams have to realize how bad it is. It's their entire job.

It's a lemon pig with my shiniest penny in its mouth

Happy new year!

There's Sporobolomycetes, which is decently long. Also super cool organism

Closeup shot of many, fresh, vibrant Green Elf Cup fungi growing on a log

Elf cups 🎅🍄💫

I loved the fan made robot masters so much! I cherished the one Nintendo power magazine I had where they published like 20 unused fan designs, I'm sure it's still in my parents' house somewhere. This was well before I had internet access so it was some of my only exposure to fan art as a kid

Don't forget weird cutscenes and king being disappointed

WHAT A SPIDER!!! 🤯🤯

BEHOLD, one of the coolest arachnids in the world, the Long-horned Spiny Orb Spider (Macracantha arcuata)! 🕷😍

Found in the rainforests of SE Asia, these magnificent beasts are found usually at head-height in a web they’ve made to catch flying prey!🐞🕸️

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Do you make any collections of what you find?

Oof, single cell RNA?

cryptonature on tumblr: "Learning to delete/mute/block before a negative comment takes root in your mind is a modern survival skill. If you're going to wander the overgrown countryside of the internet, you need to develop a quick eye for ticks. It's deeply tempting to respond to the "well, actually," to the cruel assumption, to the unjust accusation, to the odious viewpoint. It's tempting because you're defaulting to the etiquette of dinner conversation. This isn't a dinner conversation. Someone is shouting at you from a moving car. Turn away."

A soaking and floppy Amanita in the fall rain with a pine tree in the background

Yesterday at lunch. Pine tree for scale🌲

#WhimsyWednesday
#MushroomOfYesterday

buying an ice cream cone full to the end: hell yeah. hell fucking yeah. every ice cream should be this full.
halfway through the cone: Lord Forgive Me For My Greed

photo of concentric swirls in the wood grain on a long dead oak branch.

Knice knobbly knees on this dead oak branch ^_^

#oak #quercus #deadwood #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features

A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features

They look so bitable

Similar situation reported by my wife when she tried forestry work. Apparently it's a lot of just measuring "carbon credits" to help corporations exploit environmental regulation loopholes

This is like, almost fewer enterable buildings than Pallet Town from red/blue

I guess this is graphics bloat? But the graphics aren't even good in the modern pokemon games

I wish so badly they'd just go back to 2d sprites