Andrew D Thaler

Does anyone else count the number of emails they have to respond to first thing in the morning and then draw a little status bar in their notebook to fill out throughout the day as you approach 100%?

No? Just me?

🐟 Fish

🐠🐠 Fish

🐟🐠🐡 Fishes

🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish

🦈 Gristle Fish

🦫 Fish (Lent)

🐝 Fish (California)

Bees are legally fish in California, court rules. Here’s why and what led to it A 1970 act explicitly protected “fish.” Now, it includes bees.

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South America has Catholics.

Great code is extremely well structured.
Great writing challenges conventional structure to create something new.

Also nutria, muskrat, and capybara.

Nothing will every surpass the pure unhinged chaos of California declaring "fuck it, honeybees are fish".

🐟 Fish

🐠🐠 Fish

🐟🐠🐡 Fishes

🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish

🦈 Gristle Fish

🦫 Fish (Lent)

🐝 Fish (California)

The fights will need to be rebalanced, but yes! Though probably not if your players are lobbing level 9 spells.

My favorite thing to do in the Feywild is be completely normal and let the party tie themselves into knots trying to figure out The Twist.

It’s D&D night, and the party has been invited to the Feywild to hunt the Jabberwock, courtesy of @drandrewthaler.bsky.social’s campaign module, The Last Hunt For The Jabberwock. There’s a limit to what I can say, because spoilers, but the party is deeply suspicious.

Yes, hello. Same question. We need more details about Waffles.

FYSA, you don't need DDR5 RAM to play Dungeons & Dragons.

CORRECT. Also we can just hang out. It's not like DC and St Mikes are all that far.

You are not ready for the geopolitical ramifications of the Cod Wars.

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What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Also, you cannot underestimate the value of stability. Knowing that you'll be in the same place for 5 years makes a huge difference.

A bookworm (louse) smashed between the pages of a book.

Page from the Arcturus Adventure with a bookworm burrow.

Page from the Arcturus Adventure with a bookworm burrow.

Wanna see something cool? I'm rereading The Arcturus Adventure and my 100-year-old first edition has a genuine bookworm in it, complete with burrow traces.

There's Natural History in my Natural History book!

One of my friends had a fallout shelter in the back yard and a 'fun' game we played was at any moment, someone could yell "bomb!" and we would see how quickly we could make it to the shelter from anywhere else in the neighborhood.

#molluscmonday

My conspiracy theory is that a significant contribution to the Ivermectin craze is that these identity groups that refuse to wash their hands or wear a mask, but chug raw milk, eat bear road kill, and snort cocaine off of toilet seats, actually did have worms and Ivermectin made them feel better.

I watched the whole 2 minutes and change and it was a truly terrible, bland, pile of nothing.

The Maine Primary is not until June 9. There are 7 dem candidates registered, including the woman who Collins called the cops on for writing messages in sidewalk chalk, a former USAID worker who work for the Dept. of the Environment, and several veterans.

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Yeah. Even in the worst moments, the "vibe" on my timeline is generally good. Not necessary "positive" but proactive and knowledgeable and non-reactionary in a way that's actually valuable.

YouTube video by Temporal Investigations The One With The Whales

We take a break from the constant deep-sea mining drumbeat to talk about Star Trek, Science Fiction, and Space Whales with @temporalinvestigations.com @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social and @chadkirchner.com!

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I'm not sure how people are convincing themselves that Platner is the heir-apparent to Collin's seat. This dude's so undisciplined that his popular support is going to steadily collapse. Better before the primary than after.

Also, he had a straight up Nazi tattoo.

I got to talk about space whales with @chadkirchner.com and @drandrewthaler.bsky.social on this episode of the Star Trek podcast Temporal Investigations. It was a blast!

I'm also extremely proud of this episode, where @drandrewthaler.bsky.social and @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social join me to talk about the ocean... IN SPACE. I'm still getting my podcasting sea legs, so to speak, but don't hold that against this episode. It's so very good.

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For our second launch day release of the podcast, @chadkirchner.com is joined by @huntingbenjamin.bsky.social and @drandrewthaler.bsky.social to talk about the ocean in #StarTrek (more specifically, the whales). Why do whales seem so commonplace in space? Is it because of Moby Dick?