Aidan aka. S. Park

Yeah. I mean if you want REALLY GOOD eggs they do have to have a better diet, but if you want ethical eggs, it's about the treatment first of all. Better quality is often a side effect of true free-range chickens since they can forage insects etc? But it's not the same thing.

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

There’s a wolf in LA for the first time in 100 years. A collared gray wolf entered the mountains of north Los Angeles County yesterday. Known as “BEY03F” she traveled hundreds of miles from her pack in Plumas County crossing highways, mountains, creeks and valleys.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

In much nicer things, my Goober has released her first "real" game content, a #BabaIsYou level pack! No pressure, but if you happen to play Baba is You and want a cute and somewhat different spin on it, feel free to snag it.

bladespark.itch.io/goobers-hope

I do it all the time! They're on my Etsy! For many fandoms copyright isn't even an issue! (Seriously, there are IP holders these days who have explicit fanworks policies that allow for this, and many others have implicit policies. It's totally legal!) Come join the party, it's fun!

A photo collage featuring my new MILF (Man I Love Fossil) sticker. This is a circular sticker design with a tan and brown color palette, featuring various fossils (a T-Rex skull, a trilobite, a fern, and an ammonite fossil) illustrated at the center of the sticker. Brown arching text surrounding the sticker reads MILF and Man I Love Fossils. The background image are pink magnolia flowers growing on a magnolia tree.

Man I Love Fossil stickers are now available!! 🦖🦴💕

find them here! shop.fossilforager.art

#sciart

Amazing.

If you have Stoat I guess...join me? If you don't, other than the 12 hour wait for e-mail verification (they seem busy for some STRANGE reason, lol) getting it set up was trivial.

My mucking around with Discord alternatives has resulted in a Stoat server! It's literally just discord but browner, lol.

stt.gg/Zy1X92br <--server invite link.

Spiffy! My home IRC network is Nightstar, (irc.nightstar.net) and I currently am lurking alone in #sparkstuff though I'm in some other chans on there too. Where are you at? (And I'm not opposed to effort to set up, except it makes it hard to get *customers* in, alas. Playing with Stoat right now?)

I love this! :D

I had a sudden VIVD flashback to the roll-out of 911 when I was quite small, and being dared by a friend to call it. Aaaaaaand then having the cops turn up at my house to lecture me about why we don't do that. Oops.

IRC does in fact work perfectly! :D Just yanno, it is what it is.

I'm on there, my attempt to post info on how yesterday was botched by typos, but if you use IRC I can point you at my room.

Aaaah, juvenile fuzz??? Possibly my favorite thing about the modern reconstructions of T-rex. Fuzzy babies! So cute, so voracious! <3

If they do come for us, I guess I'll just...die. What else can I do? Try not to dwell on it. Try to keep living as long as I can. My leg is in the trap and I don't even have the right teeth to gnaw it off. But for now I'm still alive, and I guess that's something.

But I have nowhere else to go. Pre-abandoning Discord means leaving nearly ALL my friendships. Most of my customer-base too. Means cutting myself off from my most consistent avenues for support and connection.

And they already have my info. I'm trapped here, like I'm trapped in the USA.

My thoughts on the Discord ID fiasco were all over yesterday. They're crystallized today.

TL,DR: Discord pre-complying without being sued means that if the Trump Dictatorship asks, they will cheerfully bundle up my data and hand it to the people finding trannies for the camps.

That's that.

Friend of mine is in the process of moving to Canada right now due to this. Lucky bastard.

And now for something completely different! A little story about Death in the cambrian.

archiveofourown.org/works/79220541

GODS I am so tired.

Discord is shitting itself and I have too much work to do and the world is on fire so what the fuck ever, everything is exhausting all the time.

Also the magnets for the particles aren't strong enough. :(

And I'm out of rum. Why is the rum gone? I DRANK IT because SEE ABOVE.

Yeah, I know there's already some stuff a bit like that around, I've got a friend that's using Discord via...something-something IRC client? But I gather that's a bit of a custom job that she bodged together herself or something.

A thing of beauty.

Yeah, one of the vendor groups I'm in has a Stoat. I'm just really sick of platform hopping, and I know wherever I go I'll lose a lot of people.

QRP With your skull art 💀

(I could swear I've done a cubone, but either I hallucinated that memory or I lost the photos?)

So annoying. I'm going to lose yet another community (series of communities, even) because techbros and lawyers and stupid "save the children!" pearl clutching that's actually about data-mining. Frankly at this point I might just go back to IRC.

So what's the Hot New Thing these days? Is there a fresh, non-stupid option or am I just going back to IRC?

When The Earth Was Green, if you don't already know about it? By Riley Black. The evolution of plants as a series of stories about how animals and plants relate, with a finish of queer joy that I hadn't expected in a non-fiction book but which is so good!

A small cyan blue plush ball with O O eyes staring into your soul. It is held up by a child who is out of focus in the background.

The tachyon is here! If one arrives at your house, please do remember to order one, it breaks causality if you forget to provide the cause for a prior event. :D

I still prefer the Superb Owls, but football has its place.

Oh yeah. If you ever hear a group of *seriously* dedicated football fans they have numbers memorized like lifelong DnD players memorize character sheets, it's really funny. Also I think football rivalries are a healthy outlet for our instinctive monkey tribalism. We can "hate" the rival team safely.

I really love having curated a feed where I see TONS of Superb Owls and almost no Super Bowl.

Honestly I sometimes enjoy football, I've followed the local college team some years. It can be quite a nice "pack bonding" sort of activity with local community.

But owls are infinitely better. :D