Oh—yeah, I probably don’t know much. Admittedly I think I’m a lot less tech savvy than most of the people I interact with here, I don’t even get most of the Linux memes. I just know it’s less toxic than Reddit (not a high bar admittedly) and there seem to be fewer bots. I have an app called “Mlem” on my phone that I got when I was trying to get off Reddit and that’s as much as I know about how I got here >.> I know there’s some related recommended lists but I haven’t converted over to any of them yet. Always open to suggestions though if there’s something you’d particularly like me to check out!

I don’t regret switching This app has been significantly healthier for my mental health. No infinite scroll, just what’s important.

I’ve been playing that and loving it! Is…is it not kid friendly? A lot of the gameplay… seems just cute and simple… Ohno. Anxious now that it might have a dark af ending o-o Guess I’ll see.

This is oddly soothing to think about.

I honestly didn’t know the worth of copper had gone up so much.

Ya know. When I was a kid, I was horrified reading a reveal in a book where the queen was actually a corpse that was being puppeted around to hold off a succession war.

Every once in a while I think about it again

I feel like it’s a potential grey area, but reading the article, it seems like the line was walked well. I wouldn’t want someone pulling out a “church of Satan” card outta someone’s wallet and giving the death penalty for it, but it looks like that isn’t what was going on here. This seems based on art and writings that indulge in violence and violation of consent. As with Christians,“freedom of religion” shouldn’t be used to excuse glorifying harm to others. (Even if our society often does excuse Christians. Still shouldn’t.)

Very valid

I don’t know for sure if there’s more of one than the other, but I will say that ftm folks tend to hang out in different communities than here and Reddit. I find them on tumblr and Bluesky mostly, and especially art communities. I think because those communities are pretty friendly to afab folks exploring other sexualities and expressions, so it feels safe to come out as ftm there. Those communities are generally very supportive and open, I see binder safety advice, passing tips, or just general encouragement roll onto my feed completely unsolicited, and I just follow people for art.

Took me a bit to find anything on these guys other than reposts of this same picture, I wasn’t sure they’re real. The scientific name is reported wrong in some places, it should be Panchlora kozaneki. In case anyone wants to look them up.

I haven’t tried a terrarium without springtails. I can tell you that I struggle to keep moss alive without a very humid enclosed terrarium. You can always give it a shot if you’re really certain you don’t want springtails.

The ideal behind terrariums with springtails is that they should be mostly self-sustaining (minus having to trim back plants when they get too big). So if it’s set up right, you can secure a tight lid that will keep springtails and moisture in. If you don’t add extra food in there they should self-regulate their population. I don’t think I get any springtail escapees. I also keep isopods, and they do escape, so definitely avoid those guys.

Can always give it a shot and then post how it’s going.

I feel like, considering how much Trump keeps stabbing the NPS workers in the knee, at least some of them might.

They did move the National Forest Service headquarters to Utah though. And I guess they “do things differently” around there

It’s comforting to them. It stokes their ego. It’s a way to convince themselves that they don’t need to change. They get to deflect criticism and chill in their happy bubble where they’re perfect. Most importantly, it’s a hall pass to ignore people who are trying to get them to change. At least for a little while.

You’re forgetting our first land ancestor, the fish that decided to come up on land. By certain definitions, all land animals that descended from that ancestor are fish.

It’s an obscure biology joke. Doesn’t play into day-to-day conversations. It is the same logic that causes biologists to say that birds are dinosaurs though—because they descended from dinosaurs. But by the same logic, birds also evolved from lizards, and before that amphibians, and from before that fish, etc. This definition is more like putting all of life into nested boxes. Or perhaps it’s more like the saying “all tigers are felines, but not all felines are tigers”.

This definition is helpful for evolutionary biologists to talk about evolution at grand scale and how we might share certain genes with fish. But it’s admittedly not very helpful for day-to-day conversations that say humans are pretty distant from fish and don’t resemble them much at all now. (Though I admittedly love little biology facts like how our middle ear bones evolved from gills.)

Anyway. I get silly excited about this stuff. Random nerdy rant done.

I heard the JW’s had to hotpatch their lore. Now they just say that there are 144k leaders/elite who will be in charge of the others who get saved. The church membership got too big and the tithing, I’m guessing, was too nice to tell people they’re outta luck.

I’m a trombone fan myself

But when someone can play a good French horn to a melancholy tune, it hits right.

Awww

Artist?

I’d imagine there might be just a bit of under-reporting. People probably try to hide it.

I live near some polygamist colonies where they are pretty… nested. And they definitely don’t talk to the government about it.

This is amazing. I was aware it could happen in other species, I suspected it could happen in humans, but this is the first time I’ve read an article that confirms it.

Ya know. A lot of people working in laboratory science can’t find jobs in the US right now. That’s MAGA’s fault. Now MAGA’s complaining about China pulling ahead in some areas of medical science, like they can’t figure out cause and effect. It’s very painful.