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Immer noch bestürzt darüber, dass Entomologie nichts, aber auch rein gar nichts mit Enten zutun hat

Haha that's fine. Everybody starts out somewhere, and as a kid that's the standards our parents set. My parents had outdated, non-Western views on animals, so I didn't start providing species appropriate care for my rodents and fish before my twenties. The path to redemption is full of poop and fur!

Big feel. The only exception to this could be Destiny 2 or TESO since I have friends with whom it is/could be a fun weekend activity, but that's it. 😢
Online games are a grind as a working adult, and if you don't receive free onboarding.

This is figure 3, which shows the effect of the zoster vaccine on new diagnoses of dementia.

The shingles vaccine reduced the probability of new #dementia diagnoses by around one-fifth over seven years, according to a large-scale study of a population in Wales, UK, reported in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4460AE4 🧪

Holy shit I wish everyone treated their rodents like this

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

Hecking good puppers, our bestest boys. Currently working on special illustrations for our upcoming science comic ”The Mind of a Dog” .We bring the most recent and best dog behavior science to people in fun and easy to read format suitable for all ages. You can preorder it here arador.info/mindofdog

I've stopped catching up on any US news. In fact, most news in general. My mental health has been so abysmal since 2024 that I can't afford putting it at risk no matter how much I'd like to stay informed, and how much I consider it my duty as a citizen. There can be no duty without a healthy citizen

So this is where the ancient Chinese/East Asian folklore of Yazi - aka the canine holding a sword in its mouth, aka the Pokémon Zacian - came from!

Màthair Meg Bateman Bha sinn a’coimhead nan rionnag mus do thionndaidh sinn a-steach leis na coin, is thuirt thu gum bu mhithich dhut na h-ainmean aca ionnsachadh gu ceart. Ach chan fhada gus am bi thu fhèin nam measg ’s is mise a bhios a’feuchainn ri d’ainmeachadh, thusa aig nach fhaca mi do nàdar ach mar phriobadh fann an cuid solais – Is tu riamh an ceann do dhleastanais, mu chòcaireachd, caoraich, leabhraichean; a bheil fios an d’fhuair thu do dhìol airson do dheataim is spàirn is sgìths? O gun lasainn de dh’aighear annad na leigeadh leam d’fhaicinn gu slàn, no chan fhaide thu bhuam nuair a shiùbhlas tu nab ha thu rim thaobh a-nochd.

Mother English translation by Meg Bateman We looked at the stars for a while Before we turned in with the dogs, And you said it was high time You learnt their names properly. But soon you will be among them yourself And I will be the one trying to name you; You whose nature I have seen Only as their faint points of light – As you labour behind duty, Behind house-work, farm-work, books, And who knows if you have your reward For your care and effort and exhaustion. I wish I could kindle a joy in you That would let me see you whole Or you won’t be further when you go Than you were tonight at my side.

Is tu riamh an ceann do dhleastanais,
mu chòcaireachd, caoraich, leabhraichean;
a bheil fios an d’fhuair thu do dhìol
airson do dheataim is spàirn is sgìths?

—Meg Bateman, “Màthair”
from Soirbheas/Fair Wind, Polygon Books 2007
A #Gaelic #poem for #MothersDay

To be fair, hobbies will be hobbies. There is surely an irreplaceable appeal in becoming an elusive Assembly wizard 🪄

In completely other news, I watched a convoluted restoration video on a CP/M microcomputer and it was the most gimmicky, most interesting and sadly uselessly interesting thing occupying my brain space lately. How do you use sRAM based PCs nowadays except for text games?

It has long been clear that this was X’s final destination … as the data generation arm of a slop factory

Spicy take, but my interactions with non-Asian people has sometimes let shine through that they still code East Asian folks and cultures in their minds with veiled, smoky mysticism and the uncanny valley - birthing uncanny techpop dystopias or sneaky dark ninjas in media, with very little nuance.

Is it just me or are videogames having an era of obsession with feudal Japan? Also, virtually all of them have something with "shadows" in their title? I think it's a Freudian slip that Japan still gets stereotypically associated with ninjas. Beats me. Japan in Japanese is literally land of the sun.

throwback to this popular piece titled 'incubus'

How am I already 90hrs into Pathfinder: WOTR and haven't even finished 60% of the game, while I've seen reviewers finish the whole story in 70hrs and less? I'm either doing something very wrong... Or very right.

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

Just normal RPG things

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias

Randomly stumbled upon this dating advice for straight men, and I think it's great - However, not for finding a partner, but for keeping them. Literally *every* breakup in my friend circle that was initiated by the woman was when her male bf failed to be a reliable partner in a time of crisis.

My working theory of a lot of NT people is that they are far more rigid than autistic people, because I can generally explain things rationally to an autistic person and we can work out something, but many NT people will cling to rote acceptable behaviour they're not even aware is a choice

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars' Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

the feminine urge to

Thank you so much for the interest, that greatly flatters me. Unfortunately those lectures were event exclusive, but you're making me think I should record it next time 😊

We live in a world controlled by loveless men whose entire life had them believe everything and everyone was transactional in nature, for either money or power. That everything is spoonfed to them. The moment it's not they glitch out and blame everything but themselves for the failure, ad infinitum.

Also, the car is actually powered from the treadmill the runners are put on without their consent.

its just this really strange fundamental misunderstanding of art and expression. the bizarre idea (usually from those without the capacity to find their own inner artist) thinking THE ULTIMATE PAINTER would no longer have to paint but instead have a room full of finished works

ai art is like being a runner and youre excited for a marathon and youre training and then someone comes up and says 'why not use this new 'car tech' it can drive you to the finish line and youll have run the marathon without that pesky running'. then theyre confused when you say no and run instead

By a then 17 y/o high schooler. Wow!
Quick Google search turned up a Dr. Bradford Mott of NC State University who's specialized in Educational Informatics and did his PhD on artificial intelligence. Most importantly, he won GameSpot and IGN awards since then!
Really hoping this is the same guy!

Move beyond ‘publish or perish’ by measuring behaviours that benefit academia A standardized system to measure contributions in mentorship, collaboration and more could bring about systemic change in science.

“Publication-based evaluation has shaped and sometimes distorted academia. The community faces a choice: maintain the status quo, or experiment with new measures that better align with our values,” writes Kelly-Ann Allen in a Nature World View article. #Academicsky 🧪