BEHOLD MY SQUEES

Xenopus laevis have frankly too many chromosomes (they're tetraploid).

Way bigger than you would expect if you're mostly familiar with Xenopus tropicalis and Hymenochirus.

SO SLIPPERY.

Surprisingly good at backing out of tight spaces.

Those legs go so far forward when they need to.

Very dainty claws.

Constantly confused expression.

Weird way to get a pregnancy test done, but okay.

Possible drivers of the global spread of chytrid and thus loss of dozens of amphibian species but that's not their fault. We just really wanted to use them for pregnancy tests and other lab things. It's our fault.

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

Finally read through Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die by @pangur-and-grim on my planes and bus yesterday!

Incredibly funny. Put an incomplete (my phone died) compilation of lines that made me lose my shit in public.

I was really surprised (positively) at how sweet it got in the middle?

Line that almost made me cry but my phone was dead: “Chickens will be the same.”

LOVED the setting and the way it was conveyed. Aspirational worldbuilding. 10/10

Favorite characters (surprising absolutely no one) were Hydna (god the woman that she is) and Lunatic Freak (I <3 Lunatic Freak)

BUT I did also hugely enjoy the way everyone was autistic in there. Best representation since the Stormlight Archive except that I’m reasonably sure that it was on purpose this time, so. Win!!!

10/10, can’t wait to read it again. Hands down one of my favorite of the books I’ve read lately (up there with Gideon the Ninth and Men at Arms)!! Unfortunately I have to say that I do regret reading it because now all three (3!) of my partners won’t stop comparing me to Sir Cameron and frankly I’m not sure how to take it. Like that can’t be good. But I digress.

> realize every screen displays color slightly differently

> realize every camera captures color a little differently

> realize every format and image editor translates color

> realize every printer deposits ink differently

> realize every kind of paper accepts ink differently

> realize colors look completely different under different lighting conditions

> ok I'm going to do everything greyscale now

> black density changes as ink cartridge depletes and depending on viscosity after multiple prints

> "what color white are you using"

-Replacing his vitimens with poision

- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.

- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.

-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?

- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.

Enter my mostly black demon who likes to jump out of dark spaces at me.

Movement out of the corner of your eye? Cat.

Objects moved? Cat.

Inexplicable smells? Cat.

Corpses (small)? Cat.

go away? Nah. They just make

you stop being scared.