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I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

I made a little comic of Levi, Sunny, Echo, and @soraiku's OC, Felix -- Sunny and Echo will show up in vol 3, and Felix is from an RPG we're playing set in the Sunset Apocalypse 'verse. They remarked when they saw Levi in my recent sketch dump that they could see Felix staring at Levi's hair and Echo misunderstanding it as a crush, when all Felix wants is that same haircut. Anyway, the idea tickled me so much (especially since Sunny is right, everyone always falls for Levi XD) that I needed to turn it into a little comic.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Thanks for the tag, @vsnotresponding. I mentioned I had an idea for an Oz ghost story, so a peek at the ending.

And then they moved aside, revealing a third figure.

They appeared to be a teenager, dressed in equally worn purple clothes, except for what appeared to be one of the guards’ coats. It looked oversized on their scrawny frame, nearly slipping off their shoulders. A brown newspaper boy’s cap allowed dark curls to leak out.

Then they stepped closer and looked up.

Emerald green, matching the emerald streaks that framed their face, matching the emeralds of the city they stood in, looked up.

Scarecrow froze.

I love my moots who are never online and I haven't heard from them in months

I love my moots who are constantly changing their blog and URL never stays the same

I love my moots who's blog theme and URL haven't changed since the day they made it

I love my moots who are super energetic

I love my moots who are super mellow

I love my moots who I just made and still have so much to learn about them

I love my moots who I've known for so long and we're super comfortable with each other

I love my moots. All my moots.

🎉*throws confetti because @tabswrites tagged me eons ago and I can finally crank out more mediocre memes to share with you*

Thank you for the tag, dearie, in return I've got old drawings (Lewis, Velia, and Antonio) and meh memes that I had a lot of fun making :D

I'll tag @space-writes @reneesbooks @sleepyowlwrites @aziz-reads @chauceryfairytales @mysticstarlightduck and also my entire neglected tag list for this WIP -- go wild, everyone, and tag me so I can laugh!

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.