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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We have color variants in Steatoda triangulosa! Next we have to find out why: genetics or environment.

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• Three spiders with differences in color. (remote)

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:

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• Screenshot of a tweet by @McDivergence: the "Book Will Turn Your Kids Trans" crowd really need to start explaining why I am not, in fact, a very hungry caterpillar. (remote)

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InternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🎨") wrote:

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• Portrait of Shivers, from Disco Elysium. It is a red outline of a humanoid figure with an unnaturally large cranium shot through with arcing white lightning that travels up the spine. (remote)
• Detail pic of the spine, showing the gathering electric charge. The background is black (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Oh cool. Danny Elfman does a "What's In My Bag?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fakf59txf7k

I love the story he tells about his influences.

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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah... Maybe I'm gonna need some bayesian filtering on my timelines... This keyword stuff's just not cuttin' it. 🤔

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

My stepson reminded me of this song yesterday. Seems like a good time to revisit it. Poor Man's Poison's "Feed the Machine":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HVJvTGbkc

Him: Have you heard of a band names Poor Man's Poison?

Me: ... 🤔 ... I don't think so?

Him: Well, they have this song called "Feed the Machine"...

Me: [interrupting] Oh yeah! I do know 'em. That's a great track!

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ThorsdaysChild@mastodon.nz ("Square Peg") wrote:

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

"frog on the floor" has proven to be a very surprising entry point into the music of 100 gecs

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emilygorcenski@indieweb.social wrote:

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• Boardroom meme. Boss: tiktok is harvesting user data, we need ideas to stop them! Employee 1: impose government control on speech Employee 2: Sinophobia Employee 3: pass a consumer data protection law like GDPR Employee 3 defenestrated by angry boss (remote)

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kylealden@toot.cafe ("Kyle Pflug") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

A book I ordered over a year ago arrived yesterday. The second volume of Van Burnham's "Supercade", which complements my first volume nicely.

(I stumbled on the first volume years ago when I used to regularly wander around bookstores.)

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• The cover of Supercade 1985-2001, which shows a row of arcade machines receding into the distance in a darkened arcade. (remote)
• The cover of Supercade 1971-1984 which shows an arcade through a convex reflection of some sort of metal and neon decoration. (remote)

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vaurora@wandering.shop ("Valerie Aurora") wrote:

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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

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• Corrected version of a scare headline about a potential asteroid impact, reflecting the actual scientific uncertainty.

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GurdeepPandher@mstdn.ca ("Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon") wrote:

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• 1220425ad001e368.jpeg (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"It turns out that EEG neurofeedback has real but limited usefulness, and using it to map consciousness is akin to sitting on Neahkahnie Mountain and attempting to map the ocean floor by looking at the waves—useful, yes, but extremely limited."

https://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/march2015/articles/letters/BrainWaves.html

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hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

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• Man wearing goggles, looking at camera, holding a device with one wire leadint to his head and the other to an electroencephalograph next to an oscilloscope.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy Birthday to ya, Harry

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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Parshas Vayikra

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Construction of New York subway system begins, 1900

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Emanuel Haupt ehaupt@FreeBSD.org born in Zurich, Switzerland, 1979

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Marcel Moolenaar marcel@FreeBSD.org born in Hilversum, the Netherlands, 1968

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Harry Houdini born, 1874

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

'Ron DeSantis has reversed his position on Ukraine, after facing widespread criticism for calling the Russian invasion a “territorial dispute”... the Florida governor and probable contender for the Republican presidential nomination said his “territorial dispute” remark had been “mischaracterised”.'

hah! right.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/23/ron-desantis-ukraine-war-russia-territorial-dispute

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Also, I know this scene before it has some stereotypes, but I have absolutely experienced these characters in real life before, and perhaps even been one of them at some point. *ahem*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJJk7i0NTk

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Watching this montage of the 80s equivalent of "googling" and feeling strangely nostalgic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkdkkTne5mo

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Me: [smiling] I'm on Team Miyazaki!

Them: ... 🤔