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And to think that I'm only seeing this post today due to @the-haiku-bot. Truly a Tumblr heritage post event.

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Just @the-haiku-bot memorializing @petermorwood #RIP.

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Can confirm mycologists (particularly the amateur sort) are totally like this. Results with professionals may vary.

everybody is drooling for the blond guy from dungeon meshi. that guy is 100% real and I know like six of him, what you are looking for is a marine biologist

1. spends a long amount of time doing something weird far away from society

2. will not stop talking about their animal

3. has definitely eaten their animal and has strong opinions on how to cook it best

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Ghod, how I miss Taral.

Midnight Pals: Worldcon Drama

Hugo Gernsback: hey everyone its me, hugo gernsback Gernsback: editor of Amazing Stories and namesake of the hugo awards Gernsback: perhaps you've heard of them? Clive Barker: oh buddy Barker: buddy Barker: we've heard all about them ha ha

Gernsback: ah yes my precious hugo awards! Gernsback: the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy! Gernsback: a place for serious business Gernsback: certainly no room for shenanigans here Gernsback: no room for tomfoolery Gernsback: no room for clownish buffoonery

Gernsback: ugh, it's so hard to read all these panel proposals for worldcon Gernsback: where we do the hugo awards Gernsback: there's got to be a better way L Ron Hubbard: there is, my friend, there is! Hubbard: just sit right back and let your old pal Honest Ron tell you all about the exciting world of Hubbard: AI

Hubbard: see, all you do is Hubbard: you put the choicest cuts of science fiction and fantasy right here into this hopper Hubbard: you let the AI do its work Hubbard: and presto! [AI vomits gray slurry] Gernsback: Hubbard: trust me, your readers won't know the difference

Gernsback: why, this AI is great! Gernsback: if we had it back in my day, we never would have had to pay any of the writers we published in Amazing Stories! Lovecraft: you still haven't paid me! Gernsback: quiet, you

Gernsback: using advanced AI, we'll construct the perfect list of panelists for worldcon 2025! AI: you know you can use glue for pizza sauce Gernsback: eh, good enough for government work! Barker: yeah, literally

Gernsback: hey AI, using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Gernsback: Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud AI: ok Gernsback: this will work great because the AI is notably not build reflecting dominant attitudes of homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud

Gernsback: great news, everyone! we used AI to Barker: BOOOOOO! Gernsback: to Barker: BOOOOOOO! Barker: come on guys, say it with me Koontz: Boo! Barker: that's the spirit Gernsback: jeez who would have though these writers didn't like the AI

Bitter Karella: you know this all could have been avoided Karella: if only they had nominated bitter karella for another fan hugo Gernsback: how would that have affected anything Karella: quiet, you

Karella: in fact, the fact that bitter karella was NOT nominated is surely the biggest miscarriage of justice of all Karella: i put the blame squarely where it belongs Karella: on YOU, the reader Karella: how could you let me down like this Karella: LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING

Barker: why? are you trying to secure a fourth straight loss? Karella: i Karella: Karella: shut up i don't like when you make fun of me Barker: ha ha

Karella: it's ok i didn't want a hugo anyway Karella: i hear that award sucks Barker: ha ha Poe: clive be nice Poe: he's very sensitive Barker: clearly Karella: i just wanted to beat taral Wayne's record :(

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A recent New Scientist cartoon 🍄 #fungi

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You're not only going to lose the occasional calf, you're also going to have the occasional cow with a prolapsed uterus, where you're only option will be to have the animal "put down." Not only are you going to have to be good with the ugly business of dead calves, but you may actually have to kill that beloved milk cow. Don't ask me how I know this, other than yes, I worked with cattle. I also picked strawberries. Given the choice, I'd choose strawberries, but be prepared to hire a LARGE crew to do the harvest.

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That's really a "Why would anyone do that?" these days. Manually partitioning a drive may have been the only option back in say, 1973, but you're just inflicting self-harm now.

"I love manually partitioning drives" said nobody ever

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The poor-quality capacitors found in many older computers (the ones with the catastrophic failure mode (particularly after periods of disuse)) were made by SWEDISH manufacturer Radioindustrins Fabrik Aktiebolag (RIFA). NOT CHINESE. RIFA, even after being sold by parent company Ericsson, continued to manufacture capacitors in Sweden until 2003, when they shifted to a factory in Portugal. Sweden is the source of your retro-repair woes, specifically capacitors used across mains power, mostly built in the 70s and 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB5FL3vziko That the racism is badly misplaced almost goes without saying.

Man I wish it was easier to be a fan of DIY electronics/electronics repair without being racist to Chinese people

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Why can't we do this in America?

Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:

1) a Parliamentary system

2) a Funkadelicary system

In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze

In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation

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Ooo! Ooo! Baeospora myosura.

On EASTERN WHITE PINE cones.

Okay, not exclusively on Eastern White Pine. It also can be found on Sitka Spruce, Norway Spruce, and Douglas Fir. It's quite a cosmopolitan little fungus. The visually-similar Strobiluris species are more restricted in their habitat, tending to grow more exclusively on Douglas Fir, leaving habitat as one of the primary ways of telling Baeospora myosura apart absent a microscope and some chemical tests (but note that there's some overlap. Baeospora shows up on Douglas Fir. The big give-away is that you will find Baeospora in places where there are no native Doug Fir).

Tiny growing fungi on this pinecone.

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So this is definitely a case of "we did not expect Harvard to fight back and we forgot they have billions of dollars and the best lawyers"

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Another meme for the Nazi Punch of the Day.

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one trek headcanon I have is that plomeek soup is a chai tea situation. plomeek is just the vulcan word for soup, actually. on the first enterprise, having to make do with mostly earth ingredients, t'pol hashed together a simplified version of a comforting soup native to her region of vulcan and one thing led to another and now that regional variation of a single soup recipe is called soup soup by the federation

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Doctor McCoy, as the ship's medical officer should have known AT A MINIMUM. Frankly, this episode is one great big HR disaster, exacerbated by a huge failure of Starfleet's medical system. But then Vulcans as a whole were shown to be impossibly tight-lipped about the situation.

I haven't watched Amok Time in a while, so remind me:

was there an explaination given in episode why Spock didn't just have his 7-year heat cycle on a 24th century period-tracker app?

Like it seems like the kind of thing you'd want to take time off work for, and I'm sure Starfleet has medical leave.

Even if he didn't want to tell them, surely he could have just asked for time away ahead of time and not explained why?

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So, @sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog is both the actual fr John Green, and a gimmick blog that sells coffee. Because, why not?

Are you actually fr John Green or is this a gimmick blog??

¿por qué no los dos?