Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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*thinks for hours about the ontological implications of sentient artifacts in magical settings*
Result: "What if you could handfeed your companion weapon treats.."
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wario and waluigi are mario and luigi's dads
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Aha, I have got two people interested in reading Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota books now~
They are very, very good near-future-ish SF, written as a chronicle of then-recent events by an unreliable narrator. A lot more focus on the social and cultural aspects than a lotta SF.
There is shiny technology, but there's far more well-written radical changes to things like government/state structure, standards of living, taboos and gender, and how the people percieve the past.
(also um, All The CWs)
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This is a satellite image showing Mount Taranaki on Te Ika-a-Māui (New Zealand's North island). The dark green circle surrounding the mountain is the border of a conservation area, which is helping the mountain become green again.
#EarthDay
Credit: NASA Landsat 8
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This swirling shape in the sea, off the coast of Iceland, is a bloom of phytoplankton. They usually happen when water from the deep sea is dredged up to the surface, where there's enough light to support photosynthesis.
Phytoplankton are a major part of Earth's carbon cycle, accounting for about half of all photosynthesis on the planet.
#EarthDay
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
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This flower is called a bat-face cuphea. Happy #baturday.
Image via Needleloca@flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/needleloca/4866780794
Human Nature Debates, Snarking
There's this whole meta/pseudo scientific debate that's got that "can't look away from this awful thing" fascination on a cultural level, of
"Only humans do X! Human Nature is totally a scientific fact now!"
"Not all humans do that..? Also: This animal does."
"..Well only humans do Y! We found Human Nature!"
Like, the past 30 years of:
"Language is what makes Humans special! No other animal can do that. It's Human Nature!"
"Actually, we found a bunch of animals that can use language in the exact way you specified."
"Yeah. Well. Like. They don't.. Uh, ask questions! So it doesn't count."
"The parrot just asked what it looks like."
"..I hate that parrot."
I look forward to this reaching more & more abstract levels. Like, by 2050 having:
"Yeah well.. Humans uh.. Make Acid Trance EDM! No other animal does that!"
"Actually, there's a Bonobo that just released an album.."
"Pff, that's just normal Trance, it doesn't count."
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*points to office chair* that's my executive chair *points to lounge sofa* and that's my executive dysfunction chair
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gameing shitpost
what? oh, no, you misheard me. this is the "Bosch fight." the part where you fight every figure in a Hieronymis Bosch painting all at once.
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Yeen Facts: Medieval Edition [CW: mention of eating, corpses, vomit]
"This is an animal called the Yena [Hyena], which is accustomed to living in the sepulchres of the dead and devouring their bodies. Its nature is that at one moment it is masculine and at another moment feminine, and hence it is a dirty brute.
It is unable to turn round, except by a complete reversal of its body, because its spine is rigid and is all in one piece.
It frequents the sheepfolds of shepherds and walks round the houses of a night and studies the tone of voice of those inside with careful ear, for it is able to do imitations of the human voice. In order that it may prey upon men called out at night by this ruse, it copies the sound of human vomiting.
Such dogs as it has called out like this, it gobbles up with hypocritical sobs. And if by chance sporting dogs should cross its shadow while they are hunting it, they lose their voices and cannot give tongue.
This beast has a stone in its eye, also called a yena, which is believed to make a person able to foresee the future if he keeps it under his tongue. It is true that if a yena walks round any animal three times, the animal cannot move. For this reason they affirm that it has some sort of magic skill."
- "A Medieval Bestiary", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986 (text compiled from various sources, I think)
[full book at: http://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/A_Medieval_Bestiary_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_Bulletin_v_44_no_1_Summer_1986.pdf ]
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the first geological time period is called the Hadean (as in hades). We wasted all the good names early and by the time complex life showed up we had to name it after wales (the cambrian)
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I have somehow through sleepy pooptooting managed to extract a solemn promise from K that he'll read the entirity of the Foucault & Chomsky 1971 debate transcript to me in his Redwall Villainous Rat Voices
He has not seen the length of it, but I intend to hold him to this absolutely
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me: *in the middle of a fight scene* this isn't even my final form!
my bitter enemy: SHOW ME
me: *goes to bed*
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