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It was in the reign of George II that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
This sounds like a silly test but the hypothesis it provides evidence for is an interesting one: that *any* neutral but unexpected event tends to make observers more pro-social and sociable towards strangers, because it disrupts their routine and makes them pay closer attention to those around them.
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This sounds like a silly test but the hypothesis it provides evidence for is an interesting one: that *any* neutral but unexpected event tends to make observers more pro-social and sociable towards strangers, because it disrupts their routine and makes them pay closer attention to those around them.
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🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🚨🦜🐧Cover reveal! Thrilled to show off the cover of my upcoming book: The Story of Birds!
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
Coming April 28. The whole history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to colossal extinct penguins & terror birds, to the 10,000+ species today. From @marinerbooks.bsky.social
Preorder 👇
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Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
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NEW BLOG POST! I should probably have written this three years ago when it first came out, but Kate Beaton's DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS is a genuine masterpiece and you should all read it.
BOOK REVIEW: Ducks
TITLE: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands AUTHOR: Kate Beaton PUBLISHER: Drawn and Quarterly DATE: 2022 I don’t usually review graphic novels on here, and I’m pretty sure I’ve neve…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
NEW BLOG POST! I should probably have written this three years ago when it first came out, but Kate Beaton's DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS is a genuine masterpiece and you should all read it.
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Happy World Anteater Day from me and my pal Sneef
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Happy World Anteater Day from me and my pal Sneef
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March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
May 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An old-ish drawing of a Chinese Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
I very rarely run pre-written TTRPG adventures but I just finished 4 sessions GMing 'Deluge At Drizzle Distillery' by @munkao.bsky.social and we had an absolute blast. Cannot recommend it more for fun, imagination, or gameability, and the puzzle systems really engage the players' lateral thinking.
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I very rarely run pre-written TTRPG adventures but I just finished 4 sessions GMing 'Deluge At Drizzle Distillery' by @munkao.bsky.social and we had an absolute blast. Cannot recommend it more for fun, imagination, or gameability, and the puzzle systems really engage the players' lateral thinking.
If people want to read an actual adaptation of the Frankenstein novel that adds a lot of interesting material while keeping true to the essential themes, scope, and flow of the original you should absolutely read Junji Ito's manga adaptation.
November 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If people want to read an actual adaptation of the Frankenstein novel that adds a lot of interesting material while keeping true to the essential themes, scope, and flow of the original you should absolutely read Junji Ito's manga adaptation.
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anyway this artist Charles McKim is really cool and I'd never heard of him, yeah don't bother making any prints or anything though. continue to sell chocolate and socks
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
anyway this artist Charles McKim is really cool and I'd never heard of him, yeah don't bother making any prints or anything though. continue to sell chocolate and socks
I was trying to find the source of the "The hottest thing a man can do is be fictional" meme and, I swear, the fifth result on Google was the wikipedia page for scaphism
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I was trying to find the source of the "The hottest thing a man can do is be fictional" meme and, I swear, the fifth result on Google was the wikipedia page for scaphism
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Is Steven Spielberg on bluesky?
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Is Steven Spielberg on bluesky?
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Most people, particularly in Europe, don't imagine #wombats (or any Australian #mammals!) in the snow, so it's cool that the #wombat diorama at @nhmwien.bsky.social depicts a snowy habitat. Snow wombats are common in #Tasmania - like the live one above. #taxidermy
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Most people, particularly in Europe, don't imagine #wombats (or any Australian #mammals!) in the snow, so it's cool that the #wombat diorama at @nhmwien.bsky.social depicts a snowy habitat. Snow wombats are common in #Tasmania - like the live one above. #taxidermy
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Up in the Tasmanian highlands, a little #wombat grazes in the driving snow, braced against the wind.
#WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombats #WildOz
#WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombats #WildOz
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Up in the Tasmanian highlands, a little #wombat grazes in the driving snow, braced against the wind.
#WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombats #WildOz
#WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #wombats #WildOz
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There's a 2007 New Yorker piece on Joel Surnow, "24" (the show he created) & how it popularised the erroneous efficacy of torture. In one bit, after mentioning torture experts warning him about the impact of promoting torture on tv, he goes "They say torture doesn’t work. But I don’t believe that."
This is the perfect encapsulation of the fact that facts are not enough to persuade people.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There's a 2007 New Yorker piece on Joel Surnow, "24" (the show he created) & how it popularised the erroneous efficacy of torture. In one bit, after mentioning torture experts warning him about the impact of promoting torture on tv, he goes "They say torture doesn’t work. But I don’t believe that."
Really did not like the Del Toro Frankenstein. The novel is too good for me to have any appreciation for a film which is both too reverential to take on its own terms and too full of GDT's personal interjections to work as a straight adaptation of the novel.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Really did not like the Del Toro Frankenstein. The novel is too good for me to have any appreciation for a film which is both too reverential to take on its own terms and too full of GDT's personal interjections to work as a straight adaptation of the novel.
Had a dream where I was watching the upcoming Prehistoric Planet season but my brain was just making up new species from Antarctica:Unatus, a flat-faced hominid adapted for marine foraging that was 'the most complete fossil ever found in Antarctica' and Odobenotitan, the largest seal that ever lived
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Had a dream where I was watching the upcoming Prehistoric Planet season but my brain was just making up new species from Antarctica:Unatus, a flat-faced hominid adapted for marine foraging that was 'the most complete fossil ever found in Antarctica' and Odobenotitan, the largest seal that ever lived
This always felt like a tit-for-tat reaction to censorious wholesomeness merchants. Problem was it didn't really move past viewing artistic taste as a proxy for moral development, and just inverted the conventional associations instead to portray bleak media as more moral (because ++ mature/honest)
I went really hard on the “bad vibes only” thing a couple years ago and in retrospect it was such poser shit. Sure, I like a lot of bleak media, but honestly without some beauty or tenderness or a spark of the sublime, here and then what’s the point? All bummers all the time sucks
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This always felt like a tit-for-tat reaction to censorious wholesomeness merchants. Problem was it didn't really move past viewing artistic taste as a proxy for moral development, and just inverted the conventional associations instead to portray bleak media as more moral (because ++ mature/honest)
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On December 1st, get ready for a different kind of ghost story for Christmas.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL premieres on YouTube at 10AM GMT.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL premieres on YouTube at 10AM GMT.
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On December 1st, get ready for a different kind of ghost story for Christmas.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL premieres on YouTube at 10AM GMT.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL premieres on YouTube at 10AM GMT.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
Watching Phantom Thread and it is genuinely very funny to set up your film as a Serious Prestige Genre and then have the couple meet by having Vicky Krieps do the 'embarrassed clumsy romance heroine thing' right off the bat as soon within five seconds of being on screen.
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Watching Phantom Thread and it is genuinely very funny to set up your film as a Serious Prestige Genre and then have the couple meet by having Vicky Krieps do the 'embarrassed clumsy romance heroine thing' right off the bat as soon within five seconds of being on screen.
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Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
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The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)