Why? Fuck you, that's why!

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

“I wish I was more powerful, like you guys. Even casting fireball takes it right out of me some days.”

holy shit

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

People: exposure to the fae realms makes you weak and sickly. Because of the fae

im a big fan of how entering "homo" into BLAST's organism-specific search field will show you every way a scientist has ever typo'd homo sapiens

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Fish in the great lake being like

I will add, the 'if you can't care for it properly don't get it' goes doubly for fish. So many think of them as easy pets and they are NOT. They're really, really not. And unless you wanna dedicate space to setting up a large tank, and the time to keeping it clean and shit, you should probably avoid fish (aquatic plants tho, i think those probably are easier).

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.