Andrew D Thaler

Two views of a wingèd creature with a long neck and a moon-shaped, owl-like face. It’s made from gold sculpey and isn’t perfect and doesn’t need to be.

The Silly Little Guy is a keystone species of any social network.

silly quilt (there’s a printed panel with unicorns and fairies that is part of this)

Three Warhammer Gobbapalooza miniatures, painted for the tabletop.

I sincerely believe that in order to keep this here social network viable, we have to also share our silly little guys. 3/5 of the way through painting the Gobbapalooza.

What are you working on?

White Island. Tarvurvur. Eyjafjallajökull.

Cotopaxi did not erupt.

2019 Whakaari / White Island eruption - Wikipedia

What he didn’t mention is one of those includes me. We missed this eruption by days that killed 22 people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Wh...

I am 3 for 4 in visiting volcanoes that immediately erupted after I left.

There's more skill checks overall, it changes the way surprise works to give you advantage/disadvantage on initiative rather than missing a turn, some fun rules for traveling.

Rolling a d4 - annoying to pick up, feels bad in the hand, barely tumbles when you roll it. Sad.

Spinning a Dreidel - Satisfying twirl. Turns the tabletop into a Beyblade arena. Lands with a good thud.

Replace all your d4s with Dreidels.

D&D 5e is a social roleplaying game with an extremely restrictive tactical combat mini-game built in.

The d20 + advantage/disadvantage system is great, actually, and 5.5e does it even better.

CON saving throw (DC18). Take 12d6 acid damage + 4d4 force damage on a failed save and be pushed back 10 feet.

The single tiny grogger ties it all together.

A big-hearted iron snail is the first deep-sea species to be declared endangered due to seabed mining. [Note: this article originally appeared on the Deep-sea Mining Observer. It is republished here with permission.] In 2001, on an expedition to hydrothermal vent fields in the Indian Ocean, research…

Big-hearted Iron Snail that rusts when you bring it up from the deep: www.southernfriedscience.com/a-big-hearte...

I guess I need to call Oda.

youtu.be/O9M1UMj-vwE?...

Eiichiro Oda Reveals the One Piece Secret Is Hidden at Bottom of Sea For the first time, Eiichiro Oda has put to page the long-speculated secret of the One Piece, the treasure left behind by Gol D. Roger.

I picked a hell of a year to be writing a book about the Use and Misuse of the Deep Sea.

www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

🐟 Fish

🐠🐠 Fish

🐟🐠🐡 Fishes

🦑🦀🦪 Also, somehow, Fish

🦈 Gristle Fish

🦫 Fish (Lent)

🐝 Fish (California)

I’m very proud of the Drawdown Explorer. In only six months, we have created the world’s go to resource for climate solutions.

And it’s only getting better! Check it out.

Letter: Navarro's fisheries claims just don't hold water By Miriam Goldstein | March 2, 2026 Navarro’s fisheries claims just don’t hold water To the Editor: As an ocean scientist and Manchester native, I read with interest Peter Navarro’s op-ed on Donald Trump’s fisheries policy (“Fish ban lifted to lower cost,” Feb. 23). Unfortunately, his op-ed suffers from poor geography and worse economics — no doubt he would have been better off had he also attended Central High School. First, Navarro seems unaware of where the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument actually is. Located 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, the monument is so far offshore that it comprises less than 1% of historic fishing grounds. While it protects rare deep-sea corals and underwater canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon, data on vessel movements show the monument has had little to no economic impact on commercial fisheries — unlike Trump’s tariff policy, which cost the average U.S. household $1,000 last year. Second, Navarro seems to have confused New Hampshire with New York. He addresses “New York families” and localities such as Montauk and Fulton Fish Market. New Hampshire readers deserve better than warmed-over New York leavings, particularly because of New Hampshire’s proud tradition of stewardship. Indeed, a 2022 poll of 3,500 New Englanders found more than 80% favor permanently protected marine areas. While Navarro touts his fishing bona fides, the administration he represents is moving to open over 1.27 billion acres of public waters to offshore oil and gas drilling, expanding deep-sea mining into key fishing grounds, and raising electricity prices at twice the rate of inflation. That isn’t just poor geography — it’s deliberate misdirection. Dr. Miriam Goldstein is the Executive Director of the National Ocean Protection Coalition and a graduate of the Central High School class of 1999.

Peter Navarro tried to explain Trump's fisheries policy in my hometown newspaper, but it turns out his geography is worse than his economics policies. You know what the Granite State loves? Getting mixed up with New York!

Anyway, I fixed his homework for him. ⬇️
www.unionleader.com/opinion/lett...

Language evolves. Boop the fish.

Vibe Warmongering.

Verification might make it go down to 19.

I'm in conservation technology. Code is neat but, 99% of the actual engineering challenge is just making sure the computer doesn't get wet.

I was invited to lead an paper on teaching ocean science using Dungeons & Dragons for a Folklore journal, with my podcast crew, and it is by far the most fun I've had writing an academic paper, ever.

I cannot wait for you to read it.

Ah, see, my goal isn't Inbox 0, my goal is to flag the important ones that have to be responded to that day and then walk away, guilt free, with my little status bar full up.

Best I can do is a cartoon drawing robot that frees you up to sort your own socks.

Boops boops has entered the chat.

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?

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.

www.sacbee.com/news/califor...

South America has Catholics.

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