This pride month I'm going apeshit and purposefully misgendering transphobes until they take the hint
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4th century CE Roman amber pins, found in 2020 at the feet of an individual who was buried in a large sarcophagus at a necropolis in the French city of Autun.
These are stunning pins, crafted with exquisite attention to detail and symmetry…but what’s even more clever about them is the material they are made out of.
Amber is ever so slightly “sticky” as a surface (which makes sense, since it’s age-hardened sap / resin). It can be polished until it’s virtuall glass-smooth, but when tucked into hair, or into the fibers of a woven garment, it will have just a tiny bit more friction, causing them to have that much more of a chance to remain in place. As a material for securing things, they are slightly better than metal and bone, if not quite as good as wood (which has a great deal of microscopic texture for hair, etc, to catch on and cling to).
Most forms of amber are very clouded from inclusions when it was still sap, and fractal from the pressures it underwent as it hardened over the aeons. To be able to find pieces as large and clear as these are makes them all the more rare. Unlike metal or bone (and somewhat like wood) these pins would feel warmer to the touch, and be more comfortable and comforting for the owner, while being less fragile than wood. And lastly, amber does have a faint scent as it warms up, making them a natural perfume source.
These are not cheap throwaway objects, folks. These are indeed treasured posessions, just as much for their functionality & multi-use offerings as for their rarity and beauty.
Every Zelda game ever: Link: I’m a hero let me help Kings: Link who? Never heard of him
Breath of the Wild: Kings: You’re a hero help us Link: Link who? Never heard of him
Oo, I get to talk about an absolute CLASSIC marine ecology story!
This is not a story about AI being trained to pick plastic out of the ocean, but picking out something else that's harmful to the ocean: The Crown of Thorns Starfish. (Also yes, that name DOES go incredibly hard.)
The COTS is a species of venomous starfish found on the barrier reef, and they feed on corals. They aren't invasive, but they don't have many natural predators either, so large outbreaks in their population can descercate huge portions of the reef at a time. That's where this guy comes in:
This is Rangerbot. It's a "cots bot" equipped with trained AI to recognize inditidual COTS. It then injects the COTS with bile, which is toxic to the COTS but harmless for the environment. This was effectively used to keep the COTS population in check, so the coral of the barrier reef had time to grow.
There's an episode of Bizarre Beasts about the COTS (hosted by Hank Green himself) which I think is pretty cool and explains the whole situation in a fun way.
So, yeah! If an AI can be trained to recognize a species of starfish with %99 accuracy and effectively get rid of them, I think it is PERFECTLY reasonable to train AI to recognize trash in the oceans, at least in areas close to the shore, and have them clean it up.
stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.
"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess
my favorite work memory from this store will always be “hey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?”
my life is a joke
hey everyone new question are there any songs that freak you the hell out so bad that you can never listen to them again. like i mean songs that just fuck with your mind. mines hamburger lady by throbbing gristle i physically cant listen to that song without getting terrible paranoia. i’m really curious 2 hear peoples input on this since people always talk about disturbing movies and games but not a lot about scary MUSIC and i think we should talk about scary music MORE🗣️
i myself would not recommend you listen to hamburger lady of your own accord just bc of how messed up it is but i have to admit it’s a little funny to see all the people in the tag like “hamburger lady? what’s that” and then they listen to it and come back and go “nevermind. i get it. what the fuck was that”
I would be the worst companion for the Doctor. He’d be like “all of time and space” and I’d go “dinosaurs. Straight up. Show me the dinos. Walk me though each time period. I want to see the herds. I want to know what colors they were. I want to HEAR them. Just pick me up and drop me off so I can draw them and memorize everything I can.” Like I’d be so boring to him but I’d THRIVE
no but you wouldn't be boring to him!! the Doctor lives through his companions, he's so bored of life and he needs his companions to make everything fresh and new again - your love and admiration of the dinosaurs, scientifically or not, would make the trip worthwhile to him and he'd enjoy watching you study them as much as you would enjoy seeing them! And then you'd get into wacky hijinks with a t-rex and time poachers or something this is doctor who after all
This made my day oh my god I love it so much
He'd probably be thrilled to finally get someone who didn't just ask to see early 2000s Cardiff.
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the only actually funny part of having a post blow up is when your beloved mutuals find it and they say hi in the tags. sort of like if we were hanging out and then they saw a clone of me getting dragged behind a horde of raving strangers in the streets and they were like
snuck in 4 burgers to creed 3. Couldve easily done more
6 burgers into John Wick 4. still could've done more
12 burgers into Dungeons and Dragons. Still could've done more
Oh so the plural of surgeon general is surgeons general, huh? Well what about bunnies rabbit. Puppies dog. KITTIES CAT. Did you ever think of that, you sillies goose?
