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2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

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Bryony (left) is the same size as Aster (right) when Aster isn’t pregnant. Aster is normally 39 grams, she’s currently 65 grams, girl it’s time to release the hostages.

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Having a rough day at work so enjoy 5 of the 7 babies from the B team.

Betelgeuse, Beid, Biham, Botein and Bellatrix.

Beemin and Baten got directly to the hoppiest of hopper stages and won’t let me hold them but they’re doing swell.

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Dahlia loves the babies. 12 days old now.

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A week old now and doing well. I think I have three girls, four boys! (BryonyxForest)

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Nugests

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Look I live in an apartment with mediocre lighting at best (converted century townhouse) and I don’t even know where my actual camera is right now, but… baby mice.

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Freshly molted cicadas are unreal

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America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

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It's not common, but every so often I run across a baby mouse that has crawled into a discarded peanut shell. It's usually body armor but sometimes it can be headgear also.

I call them Peanut Knights. This fuzzy has a quite stylish open-face helmet!

Here she is without her helmet:

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Ancient Roman Bronze Mice c.2nd century AD

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The onion absolutely skewering AI tech bros.

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Nice, stirring? It’s more likely than you think!

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ok so i watch a lot of youtube videos about chess despite barely knowing how to play and something really funny happened on chess.com which is the site people go to to play chess online

basically they have a bunch of chess bots you can choose to play against at various different power levels (~100 is total noob, ~2500 is like, mega grandmaster). and recently they released a bunch of…cat themed bots?

but the noteworthy one is the cosmic horror known as Mittens.

Mittens has a listed power level of 1. However, that is a deception. Mittens is actually incredibly powerful, defeating top players with ease, and actually holding his own against the most powerful chess bots in existence.

also he sends you these weird messages like

absolutely wild

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please I wanna see your fake names or words or other in the tags