darine
@darine.bsky.social
Books, cats, fungi, and Magic: The Gathering.
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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A Marmot’s Guide to Yawning. Your yawn should start at the hind end, traveling up to your head and culminating in a dramatic silent scream. Complete with lip smacking to communicate how deeply satisfying this was. Strike a dramatic pose while receiving yawning admiration from onlookers.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A Marmot’s Guide to Yawning. Your yawn should start at the hind end, traveling up to your head and culminating in a dramatic silent scream. Complete with lip smacking to communicate how deeply satisfying this was. Strike a dramatic pose while receiving yawning admiration from onlookers.
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PSA for Python 17Lands users - you need to update the client or the data won't upload - you wouldn't want to miss the early avatar drafts, would you? This is how your Event History would look like if you need an update:
Please share generously to reach as many as possible.
Please share generously to reach as many as possible.
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
PSA for Python 17Lands users - you need to update the client or the data won't upload - you wouldn't want to miss the early avatar drafts, would you? This is how your Event History would look like if you need an update:
Please share generously to reach as many as possible.
Please share generously to reach as many as possible.
TROGDOR!
The Washington State University Cougar Marching Band freakin' played Trogdor at their halftime show this weekend! And made ME! My husky head finally gets its due! 50 freakin' yards high man!
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
TROGDOR!
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#StickOfTheWeek Xylaria hypoxylon & a single Mycena.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#StickOfTheWeek Xylaria hypoxylon & a single Mycena.
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The lesson learned here is dont point a supposedly knackered foam extinguisher at someone’s face squeeze the trigger and shout money shot unless you are absolutely sure it’s knackered.
Giving someone a bollocking for doing something you found hilarious is the worse part of work.
August 8, 2024 at 11:18 PM
The lesson learned here is dont point a supposedly knackered foam extinguisher at someone’s face squeeze the trigger and shout money shot unless you are absolutely sure it’s knackered.
I thought you might like to see this different take on Y'shtola @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I thought you might like to see this different take on Y'shtola @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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I simply want the thing I bought to remain the way I bought it unless I agree to the changes. Nobody is allowed to break into my home and put extra scratchy labels in all my clothes or rearrange my kitchen so why is this fuckaboutery ok?
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I simply want the thing I bought to remain the way I bought it unless I agree to the changes. Nobody is allowed to break into my home and put extra scratchy labels in all my clothes or rearrange my kitchen so why is this fuckaboutery ok?
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
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🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
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the National Trust said it’s an unprecedented year for acorns and I love this for him
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
the National Trust said it’s an unprecedented year for acorns and I love this for him
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Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
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The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
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So many Russulas about #FungiFriends
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So many Russulas about #FungiFriends
Sneaky, might have to give this a try.
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Sneaky, might have to give this a try.
A day late, because I was busy all day yesterday, but here are some photos from today for UK Fungus Day #FungiFriends
October 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A day late, because I was busy all day yesterday, but here are some photos from today for UK Fungus Day #FungiFriends
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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
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Let's do this.
If you take away nothing else, take this:
Even the most advanced LLM is human-driven.
They're all the George Carlin AI. The Wizard of Oz. Mechanical Turks.
Just some guy.
Except it's thousands of guys.
Let's talk about a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Let's go.
🧵
If you take away nothing else, take this:
Even the most advanced LLM is human-driven.
They're all the George Carlin AI. The Wizard of Oz. Mechanical Turks.
Just some guy.
Except it's thousands of guys.
Let's talk about a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Let's go.
🧵
Would y'all be interested in a thread on the data drought in the field of large language models, and why the current standard for LLM algorithms is 100% a dead end as far as both human-level language use and AGI, and doomed to ever-more-expensive and consumptive failure?
February 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Let's do this.
If you take away nothing else, take this:
Even the most advanced LLM is human-driven.
They're all the George Carlin AI. The Wizard of Oz. Mechanical Turks.
Just some guy.
Except it's thousands of guys.
Let's talk about a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Let's go.
🧵
If you take away nothing else, take this:
Even the most advanced LLM is human-driven.
They're all the George Carlin AI. The Wizard of Oz. Mechanical Turks.
Just some guy.
Except it's thousands of guys.
Let's talk about a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
Let's go.
🧵
Halp. My cat has gone rectangular #ProofOfCat
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Halp. My cat has gone rectangular #ProofOfCat
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)