Victoria

LEGAL RELEASE FORM: You agree to let us film you
ME: Seems OK
FORM: We own your face forever
ME: Ummm
FORM: We own your face via technologies that haven’t been invented yet
ME:
FORM: in other galaxies
ME: OK hold on
FORM: If we kill you during filming you’re not allowed to scream

Infrastructure changes are just always so friction-y

Seriously though, donate to Wikipedia, one of the enduring bastions of the Olde Internet

You see, I'm not "staying up disastrously late because I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole", I am Doing My Part to resist the robot apocalypse 😤

Seriously what's going on at ORD. They're routing all taxiing the looooong way around

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Once again, I'm out on a walk as unofficial town sorcerer. I'm on the lookout for crows, omens, and a missing cat named Moo. I've brought my trusty bag of unsalted peanuts and my hand-embroidered cap. My lower back is in pain, which is also an important part of being an unofficial town sorcerer.

Bookmarks. Huge timesaver. No more printing out our favorite Bluesky posts and taping them to the walls like some kind lower-tier Batman villain that gets defeated in the opening pages but kicks off a larger more important and emotionally satisfying story.

LET SHE WHO HAS NEVER NUKED TOSTITOS QUESO AND EATEN IT STRAIGHT FROM THE JARVWITH CHEAP ASS TORTILLA CHIPS DURING A DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CAST THE FIRST STONE

Honorary library cards are 1000x better than honorary doctorates. What can you even do with an honorary doctorate? Not like you can go do a heart bypass surgery. A library card still gets you books, honorary or no.

The root cause of disease is embodiment. Hope this helps

Pies are actually giant dumplings. I will not be taking questions

All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue.

Death hangs out with a cup of a tea at a kotatsu table with the Hound Knight and their crow companion. The caption reads (in Latin and then English) Quiesce ut vivas - Rest is not a reward. It is life.

Grim Reaper [ 2 ]
Part 5 or 5.

Headline: A star may have survived partial black hole spaghettification

we’ve all worked on this codebase

increasingly want to see an exhibition that is just "lil' guys from history"

One like, one opinion about dogs.

(Will stop if I run out of good opinions.)

If I were a moth I would simply conquer the flame, possess and consume it, take it into my soul and live forever

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I encourage you both to enjoy this lively discussion, but not in my mentions, since I am not a participant in it.

yes hello

Breakfast at a coffee shop. As I eat, a dog is making unceasing eye contact with my food. Incredible communication skills, recommended for promotion and also increased snack benefits

I think we should probably be pushing for state and local level legislation that actively bans “posting vital information only on Facebook or Twitter, where a lot of people without accounts will never see it.”

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

Do any of the birds eat flies? Maybe it's just kind of gross free bird food?

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.

In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.

And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

[2025 internet]

Me: [chanting] webrings, webrings-

Other nerds: webrings, WEBRINGS

Everyone: [pounding their keyboards] WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS!

DEATH TO SQUASH BUGS