🦠 Phage

Happy Valentine's Day
(For tomorrow)

YouTube video by The Guild The Guild - Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

Watch it do it remember how good we had it youtube.com/watch?v=urNy...

Aaaaaw, back when the internet was fun and not actively cataloging our downfall.

...I haven't been to uni in 20 years.

I keep getting trapped in these nightmares where I flunked some of my modules and have to go back for another year.

Have you seen Titane?

That was pretty epic though. I love your work.

That mana cost tho...

Every day I login to Bluesky and become more fervent that libbing-out is the only path forward

What do these corporations have in common?

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Home Depot
-Microsoft
-Palantir

They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine.

Always follow the money.

Can we just tell all of the "Signal is an op" guys that all of the real high-opsec organizing is being done on some Telegram channel so they can all go there and cosplay at each other?

That introductory sequence though...

And the flamethrower guy track from Junkie XL 🔥

Trump has lost his mind. His speeches are insane, misspelled ravings about the 2020 election, filled with bad grammar and shotgun caps. If this guy were a mayor in Anytown, USA, he would be told politely but firmly to surrender the gavel and get medical help.

I found the whole lady heads with wigs, strapped to their backs so unsettling as a kid.

Maybe even now, as an adult.
(My parents let me do whatever as a kid)

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests something else is going on

This is a fascinating bit of research diving into why some octopuses have larger brains than others. #science #intelligence #evolution
It was great talking to @michael.muthukrishna.com, @pkatz.bsky.social and Robin Dunbar about this for @newscientist.com
🧪 🦑 🧠

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...

Climate change as a driver of fungal infections Every year, I set a small reading goal and track my progress in one of those reading apps. I started using Storygraph last year and set a goal of 12 books. Small for some, but I met last year’…

The first book I read this year was Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. I came across a concept that was new to me: the "thermal barrier" that have kept fungi from infecting humans. I was curious about this and dug up some details for my blog. #Fungi

microbialmenagerie.com/climate-chan...

She is just getting it everywhere, which is completely on-brand.

"Depict a middle aged woman wearing too much make up wearing clothes intended for someone half her age. She has an expression of exuberant joy bordering on mania. Spraying herself with a bottle of yellow perfume.

The perfume can be seen visibly dripping off of her"

You might be waiting a while so I'll share with you the one and only time I have used GenAI.

After seeing yet another cooker talking about urine therapy I saw a business opportunity for a product called Effluvia:

You will be disappointed.

But then wondering... why did that never happen before?

I haven't watched it since it first came out on VHS!

I remember the twist and big bad reveal at the end and thinking how cool it was that they were throwing a shadow that belies their nature as a cosmic horror.

The incompetence of these fucks is staggering

Not only were people able to open up the Epstein files on the DOJ website by highlighting the redacted text, copying it & pasting it but they did it using adobe acrobat 🤣

Don't even plan, let fate decide without any record.

No way! Teach us how!!?