@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Update: First test print looks to be about 30% faster off the jump, with no config tweaks.
Update: needs lots of tweaks, but works a treat.
*y-axis
If I can get this working, my next step is going to be rebuilding the entire x-axis assembly so I can sling the bed at ludicrous speed.
Am I trying to install Klipper on my ridiculously modified original Ender-3 that's basically Frankenstein's Printer? Yes.
Is it going to work? Who knows.
Will it print a Benchy in under 12 parsecs? Only physics can judge me.
This is the quote that should forever turn you away from sports gambling:
"Is it possible to be emasculated by Nate Silver? Apparently, yes."
That was such a good pun.
Like, in real life? If I saw a live sperm whale with upper jaw teeth I would re-evaluate my preconceived notions of cetacean morphology.
Live action One Piece is fantastically fun, but as the world's foremost ocean stickler, I do have to point out that Sperm Whales do not have teeth in their upper jaw.
Just put wheels on the boats. Duh.
So, it's like a My Little Pony thing where adults like it because it's so wholesome?
We're debating on the funniest possible family costume for AwesomeCon and we are leaning toward the kiddo going as Niffty from Hazbin Hotel and my wife and I going as entirely normal parents who very obviously think Hazbin is a show for kids and making random Hazbin cosplayers try to explain it.
Finally, the "urgency" for these seabed minerals simply does not exist right now. Read deep sea ecologist's @drandrewthaler.bsky.social recent congressional testimony expertly dismantling the industry narrative. We need evidence. 4/4 www.southernfriedscience.com/the-urgency-...
But this opposition is also fundamentally about the science. If you want to understand the sheer ecological stakes of mining one of the earth's least understood ecosystems, you need to read @deepseadawn.bsky.social's fantastic recent op-ed. 3/4 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
As the rush to mine the seafloor accelerates, communities in Pacific territories are forced onto the front lines without voting representation in Congress. I was very pleased to see @npr.org giving this major equity and sovereignty issue national attention yesterday. www.npr.org/2026/03/10/n... 2/4
The Trump administration’s aggressive push for deep-sea mining is rapidly shaping up to be the defining ocean policy issue of this second term. I put a little primer over at LinkedIn, but here's a thread so you don't have to click through. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... 🧵 1/4
You can dig forever into the depths of Omeros, buts it's also just so lovely written that you can simply enjoy the prose and still get a ton out of it.
And in true rough draft fashion, I totally had eye-sockets on the brain when talking about pygmy elephants and cyclopses. It's not the elephants eye sockets that were mistaken for one giant eye, it's their sinus cavities.
Don't worry, they won't all be about deep sea mining.
To keep me on track, I'm checking in with @andrewlewin.bsky.social to share some of the fun stories that I've uncovered during the research. Including this neat little anecdote about how the domestication of cats is connected to copper mines in Cyprus that were once ancient hydrothermal vents.
A fun new project from me and Andrew Lewin. I have a contract to write a book this year on the many ways that humans use and misuse the deep sea.
open.spotify.com/episode/1q4F...
Melville's Moby Dick and Derek Walcott's Omeros are the two books that I couldn't tell you how many times I've read them because it is just a continuous ongoing process.
They are apparently pretty well adapted to the cold.
*putting, even
I want to thank @craken-maccraic.bsky.social for potting me in a position where I can spend the rest of the day researching Snallygaster instead of *gestures at world*.
Looking forward to @maddow.bsky.social's eventual follow-up to Bag Man, Shoe Bois.
Plus they're all so 4chan brained that they give bigger shoe sizes when asked so Trump doesn't make fun of them.
That seems to be the rumor.
Ok, I take it back. This is, in fact, the best response:
www.businessinsider.com/florsheim-tr...
Seems bad. Also, not only do they not seem to have anything to do with MAGA, they are currently suing the administration for tariff relief.
