Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

another "what about this job appeals to you?" question answered with "This would be an opportunity to build on my current skillset" rather than "I do not want to live then die under an I-5 onramp."

"Hear that, Mister Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. That is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson."

"My name is... SHAKE ZULA! THA MIC RULA, THA OLD SKOOLA! YOU WANT A TRIP I'LL BRING IT TO YA!"

@Daojoan just in case I was able to track down the original paper, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

through Dr. Wall-Scheffler's site at https://wallscheffler.wordpress.com/

@Ylfingr I fenced for a couple of years in high school and it quite literally may have saved my life, if I can help kids get that it'd be even better than working for a nonprofit. The last time I fenced anyone was 5 years ago but I won that match.

WHOA BLACK BETTY BAM BA LAM
WHOA BLACK BETTY BAM BA LAM
OUR VOICES ARE AS QUIET AND MEANINGLESS AS DRY GRASS
OR RATS FEET OVER BROKEN GLASS
IN OUR DRY CELLAR
BAM BA LAM

dude DUDE a fencing school locally is hiring a front desk person

I don't actively want many jobs I come across, mostly I need to pay bills and rent. I want this job more than I want to do accounting if this gives you any idea.

of course listening to "Mona Lisa Overdrive" leads to the thematically similar "Alech Taadi," "Black Betty" and "Jesus Built My Hotrod."

@frost not included, but THE thing about orcas is matriarchy - orcas are one of the few other species out there to experience menopause, but post-menopausal cows still basically direct where their pods go (and if you're an orca, by definition you're hunting). So this is REALLY exciting to me, because that means that pattern shows up elsewhere in social animals! Now I really really want to find this study and read it.

dude DUDE check this out https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184894580/ancient-women-were-hunters-and-grandmas-were-the-most-skilled-ones-study-suggest

a straight up comparison between humans and orcas this is awesome

@Daojoan oh wow a straight up human analogy to orcas this is so COOOOOOOOL

*Morpheus voice*

Look around you, what do you see? Hyper herm skunktaurs. Muscle doberwomen. Fat samoyed furs wearing only very smelly socks. The very people we are trying to save. But most of these people do not want to be unplugged from the Matrix. Neo, were you paying attention or were you looking at that hyena in the prominently bulged red skirt?

@frost prehistoric DIRE SABERTOOTH coyote *puts in obvious plastic vampire fangs*

oh geez Trent, put a fucking sock in it

your midichlorian count has to be as high as Master Yoda's

wait, this is about the same point where I got completely sick of "Pretty Hate Machine" and went off to listen to something else the last time, isn't it?

switching to Lords of Acid, that's very 90s too.

I know it's my standard joke but for DECADES now I keep forgetting how the first songs on this album are about anger, abuse and chronic psych problems, and then BOOM abruptly into whining like Anakin about getting laid

how many years will you take, you've TAKEN EVERYTHING.
my head is filled with disease, my skin is begging you,
I'm on my hands and knees, I want so much to believe.

#SongLyrics #Bleepy #aaaaaangst

also; Peturbator came out with a new album in 2021? This one new track sounds so NIN like I now need to listen to Pretty Hate Machine again, and I will try very hard not to get distracted from job hunting, by drawing little doodles of people doing backflips while firing twin mini-Uzis etc.

@rey 💙​💙​💙​

the good news is I have a video interview tomorrow as follow up to Monday's phone interview, the REALLY good news is I have a legit excuse to duck out on spending tomorrow with my Dad, the bad news is I zipped outside to be polite about talking on my phone and it is NOT WARM out there. brrr brr brrr

I suddenly realized there are D&D players who'd need healing surges, bloodied, and minions explained to them the same way there are D&D players who'd need THACO or non weapon proficiencies explained to them, and this made me feel old enough that my bad knee is acting up.

@LilahTovMoon wait, the vacuum cleaner is NOT actually a dyson sphere? booooooring