@gilgamesh-eiyu0.bsky.social
Professional Internet Lurker | Generalist Jack of all trades | Master of stumbling down rabbit holes. Occasional reader. Good with Languages & Cultures. I make🧵 More knowledgeable than how I may appear; I like to think of myself as a thinker of good lines
Seeing more posts like this (and I don’t mean to single out Andrea!)
After enthusiasm thanks to rapid progress —> a few months of increasing pain —> giving up
Turns out having a tool that generates code doesn’t remove the need to know how to program to build complex software…
Recently, when SNW did the "z word" episode, people talked about it being the first time Star Trek had done horror, and I strongly disagree. The episode Empok Nor in DS9 is def sci-fi horror.
12.08.2025 01:27 — 👍 145 🔁 9 💬 26 📌 0i think it's a really cool feature of human psychology that knowing you're being insane doesn't provide any real hindrance to the continued pursuit of being insane
11.08.2025 19:10 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0As described in Gene Sharp’s “Waging Nonviolent Struggle” (2005).
www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/wag...
Anna Mazzola @Anna_Mazz It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime. From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978. While they were waiting at a bus stop in Clermiston, Mr and Mrs Daniel Thirsty were threatened by Mr Robert Clear. 'He demanded that I give him my wifes purse, said Mr Thirsty. 'Telling him that the purse was in her basket, I bent down, put my hands up her skirt, detached her artificial leg and hit him over the head with it. It was not my intention to do anything more than frighten him oft, but unhappily for us all, he died? 3:41 AM • 8/18/23 from Earth • 1.7M Views
That took a turn or two
11.08.2025 11:41 — 👍 1825 🔁 442 💬 30 📌 18That and also marriages used to “work” because women couldn’t leave
11.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 486 🔁 49 💬 26 📌 5If your perfectly functional website forcibly redirects mobile users to the app store to download your telemetry-laden app which bypasses all browser-based privacy protections while baldly lying that the app "improves" the user experience, then, sir, you are a cunt.
11.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 292 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 0
This. Honestly this. Regardless of generation, a good book is a good book. We are still enjoying centuries old stories till this day.
Know who your readers are. Recommend to them based on what THEY will like, no matter when it was written or by whom.
Sideeffect: makes you a recommendation master.
Bezos offset every penny earned with losses from side investments & various deductions, like interest expenses on debts & “other expenses.”
In 2011, worth $18b, Bezos filed a tax return reporting he lost money & because, he made so little; he claimed & received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
'With a self-pwn rate of 77m vs 8b total population, which is 1:103', the Aliens would wonder: "could we have sent our toddlers to take over this planet and use it as a vacation home? Those are good odds."
12.08.2025 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can confirm. 'Fram' is still there.
11.08.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ideally, statehood to ALL "possessions" including Puerto Rico.
11.08.2025 20:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New Paper Published. I am incredibly proud of this one. I agreed to this review when I was the branch chief of research and thought I could get the paper done in about 6 months....then multiple job shifts happened and the paper was submitted just over a year and 6 months after I said yes. (1/4)
08.08.2025 17:18 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2For you Venus fans following the #planetaryscience feed. And for you volcanism fans. A review of volcanism on Venus. 👇
08.08.2025 18:14 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Without her we wouldn’t have known
11.08.2025 03:16 — 👍 71 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
The venomous lionfish have no natural predators and reproduce on a massive scale.
To slow the spread, environmentalists are trying to build demand for buying and eating them — emphasizing that, yes, they are delicious fried or in soup.
View of almost the complete mosaic.
Detail of the mosaic: octogon with the image of a bold old man (referee?) with a stick patting a lion. Under the lion's front paw lies the severed head of a donkey.
Detail of the mosaic: octogon with a tiger driving his claws into a horse, blood dripping from the horse's wounds.
Detail of the mosaic with various images of fighting gladiators. In front an octogon with an image of two musicians, a water organ and a horn.
Some impressions from the mosaic in the Roman villa at Nennig for #MosaicMonday. It gives a vivid impression of the spectacles in the amphitheater: gladiators, venatores, animal fights, and even musical accompaniment!
www.roemischevillanennig.de/de/
#AncientBluesky 🏺 #Archaeology
Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?
Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando
11.08.2025 00:28 — 👍 15317 🔁 2295 💬 335 📌 238Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)
10.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 1422 🔁 246 💬 84 📌 42Clicked for the headline, rated for the well written article.
"in a memetic landscape poisoned by irony, absurdity is the point. The dildo isn’t symbolic. Its function is noise.”
Master class in headline writing…
10.08.2025 17:07 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Reupping: How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/h...
Diogenes would yell back at the commenters, naked in a barrel, eating onions.
'Far be it from me to make insults! But I do want to compliment your hair for having abandoned such a worthless head.'
He'd live for this shit.
www.ancient-origins.net/history-famo...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
5) Leprosy in them, mimic human symptoms; making them ideal for testing treatments & understanding nerve damage.
6) Anthroponosis: A colonial-era pathogen jumped species, hid in wildlife & boomeranged centuries later.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse...
www.infectiousscience.org/blog/armadil...
4) In Brazil’s Pará region, where armadillos are hunted & eaten, leprosy rates are high.
Up to 90% of patients show antibodies linked to armadillo exposure.
The bacteria made a full loop—human → armadillo → human.
cvmbs.source.colostate.edu/new-evidence...
3) Why armadillos?
Their low body temperature of 32.2°C (~90°F) creates a perfect environment for the slow-growing M. leprae.
The bacterium is notoriously fragile & dies quickly outside a host & is hard to culture in labs.
Armadillos offer a “Goldilocks” zone: not too hot, not too cold.
2) Armadillos didn’t evolve with leprosy; it’s a relatively recent infection for them, making them accidental reservoirs rather than original hosts: humans.
If armadillos had evolved with the bacteria, we’d expect more genetic divergence.
theconversation.com/leprosy-caus...
Turns out, armadillos didn’t start with leprosy. Humans Gave Leprosy to Armadillos First.🧵 (1/5)
1) Genetic studies show Mycobacterium leprae likely originated in humans & transmitted TO armadillos 400–500y.a, possibly during European colonization of Americas
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
A blockfield, felsenmeer, boulder field or stone field is a surface covered by boulder- or block-sized rocks usually associated with a history of volcanic activity, alpine & subpolar climates & periglaciation.
They are believed to be formed by frost weathering.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockfi...
