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I should update this profile. But then why should anyone care who I am?
I saw a Youtube video on this and came over here to see if you'd written on it. I remember _someone_ with a SB dinosaur blog speculating on sauropod colour years ago, not sure if it was you or someone else, but the gist was adult sauropods were so huge there'd be no point even trying to camouflage.
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I saw a Youtube video on this and came over here to see if you'd written on it. I remember _someone_ with a SB dinosaur blog speculating on sauropod colour years ago, not sure if it was you or someone else, but the gist was adult sauropods were so huge there'd be no point even trying to camouflage.
This answers a question I was going to ask. Whether it's "rest merrily" or "rest until merry". Turns out it's option three.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This answers a question I was going to ask. Whether it's "rest merrily" or "rest until merry". Turns out it's option three.
I'm not. I try to scroll back to where I was on the timeline last session, and if people self repost it makes me lose my place and miss things. I think I've seen that post before therefore I must have read everything since yesterday.
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm not. I try to scroll back to where I was on the timeline last session, and if people self repost it makes me lose my place and miss things. I think I've seen that post before therefore I must have read everything since yesterday.
Abundant yet easily overlooked, while other birds steal the limelight. That's the emotion connected with that memory, the realisation that a bird I'd never even noticed could be hiding in plain sight on a daily basis.
December 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Abundant yet easily overlooked, while other birds steal the limelight. That's the emotion connected with that memory, the realisation that a bird I'd never even noticed could be hiding in plain sight on a daily basis.
Prompted a memory: the principal at my school once visited the classroom to talk about bird watching. I recall almost nothing and never knew why this was arranged, but it was my introduction to honey eaters. They were in the tree outside the window if my memory isn't totally distorted. (It may be.)
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Prompted a memory: the principal at my school once visited the classroom to talk about bird watching. I recall almost nothing and never knew why this was arranged, but it was my introduction to honey eaters. They were in the tree outside the window if my memory isn't totally distorted. (It may be.)
Which one do you eat?
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Which one do you eat?
That is a common myth and I'm very surprised if you haven't heard it before, but it's not entirely true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2v...
COW vs BEEF Busting the Biggest Myth in Linguistic History
YouTube video by LetThemTalkTV
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November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
That is a common myth and I'm very surprised if you haven't heard it before, but it's not entirely true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL2v...
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Do you have thoughts on this? ↑ My honest impression is that the article exaggerates the importance of its subject matter and I don't think conventional wisdom ever rested upon the pillar of that particular UFO cult. But I'd welcome a second opinion.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Do you have thoughts on this? ↑ My honest impression is that the article exaggerates the importance of its subject matter and I don't think conventional wisdom ever rested upon the pillar of that particular UFO cult. But I'd welcome a second opinion.
I'm Australian, so my perception of American things are an outsider's, but it seemed to me the Harris campaign pushed the "weird" line as hard as they could up to the Dem Convention, and then dropped it, which seemed reminiscent of a product marketing campaign with planned phases. Is that fair?
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I'm Australian, so my perception of American things are an outsider's, but it seemed to me the Harris campaign pushed the "weird" line as hard as they could up to the Dem Convention, and then dropped it, which seemed reminiscent of a product marketing campaign with planned phases. Is that fair?
Of course it's just a bit of playful whimsy (call it facetious if you like); of course you're missing the joke.
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Of course it's just a bit of playful whimsy (call it facetious if you like); of course you're missing the joke.
I was in the Australian Doctor Who Fan Club for a couple of years either side of 1990, and there was definitely no Sylvester hate then. Sylvester was embraced (in contrast to Colin) and shortcomings of his era were blamed on JN-T.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I was in the Australian Doctor Who Fan Club for a couple of years either side of 1990, and there was definitely no Sylvester hate then. Sylvester was embraced (in contrast to Colin) and shortcomings of his era were blamed on JN-T.
I saw this post earlier and couldn't respond, but it definitely prompted a reaction. I think guilt about thoughts is a people thing not a "men" thing, and it's reinforced by society. But it's an interesting thought that the same phenonemon could also be behind the minimisation of perceived harm.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I saw this post earlier and couldn't respond, but it definitely prompted a reaction. I think guilt about thoughts is a people thing not a "men" thing, and it's reinforced by society. But it's an interesting thought that the same phenonemon could also be behind the minimisation of perceived harm.
I could point you to some other favourites from the same channel but I know your time is precious.
A teacher at my school wrote his own musicals, and his first big production in 1988 was about dinosaurs. I was in it. Good times.
A teacher at my school wrote his own musicals, and his first big production in 1988 was about dinosaurs. I was in it. Good times.
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I could point you to some other favourites from the same channel but I know your time is precious.
A teacher at my school wrote his own musicals, and his first big production in 1988 was about dinosaurs. I was in it. Good times.
A teacher at my school wrote his own musicals, and his first big production in 1988 was about dinosaurs. I was in it. Good times.
You'd need to make sure kids don't use the last line (where Pluto and its peers reject the planets for being too fat) as an excuse to be cruel, and for privacy reasons I'd ask teachers to create their own handouts rather than use the original web links. But otherwise I'd be delighted!
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You'd need to make sure kids don't use the last line (where Pluto and its peers reject the planets for being too fat) as an excuse to be cruel, and for privacy reasons I'd ask teachers to create their own handouts rather than use the original web links. But otherwise I'd be delighted!
And then there's the one I wrote outerhoard.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... with commentary at cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofa... — it's no masterpiece but I'd like to think it has a place in the science music ecosystem.
outerhoard.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
And then there's the one I wrote outerhoard.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... with commentary at cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofa... — it's no masterpiece but I'd like to think it has a place in the science music ecosystem.
I'm kind of surprised I haven't heard of her, especially given that she was born in Adelaide. Bring on the science music, in every style from that to www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqR...
Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science
YouTube video by acapellascience
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November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm kind of surprised I haven't heard of her, especially given that she was born in Adelaide. Bring on the science music, in every style from that to www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqR...
That is just . . . I'm imagining trying to unpack all the false and misleading claims in that, whether explicit or implicit . . . like every sentence is pure propaganda of the most brazen type.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
That is just . . . I'm imagining trying to unpack all the false and misleading claims in that, whether explicit or implicit . . . like every sentence is pure propaganda of the most brazen type.
Am curious about how that classic Australian movie came to be on your mind. I understand it did not do well on the international market but it would be nice to see some sort of nostalgic revival in the age of Youtube first time watching movie reactions.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Am curious about how that classic Australian movie came to be on your mind. I understand it did not do well on the international market but it would be nice to see some sort of nostalgic revival in the age of Youtube first time watching movie reactions.
Related, I'd be interested if anyone could offer some thoughts on the (very long) video essay below. I've watched it more than once, and I think it's good, but there's a lot I don't have the expertise to analyse properly and I feel a second opinion would be helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb3...
Boromir and our Relapse into Fascism
YouTube video by svensplaining
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Related, I'd be interested if anyone could offer some thoughts on the (very long) video essay below. I've watched it more than once, and I think it's good, but there's a lot I don't have the expertise to analyse properly and I feel a second opinion would be helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb3...
In my timeline I've got Leah McElrath's quote tweet right after yours and yeah can't argue.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In my timeline I've got Leah McElrath's quote tweet right after yours and yeah can't argue.
I think this relates to a key point. Of the various things that the adjective "fascist" can apply to (ideology, government, state, etc), different definitions of fascism regard one as primary, and the others as derivative from it, but it seems to me there's a dichotomy in which choice is made.
October 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I think this relates to a key point. Of the various things that the adjective "fascist" can apply to (ideology, government, state, etc), different definitions of fascism regard one as primary, and the others as derivative from it, but it seems to me there's a dichotomy in which choice is made.
Yeah, this is where the term "reactionary centrist" is helpful to denote the bad kind specifically. An intelligent centrism suspicious of "when all you have is a hammer" approaches to politics is one thing, but in reactionary centrism, compromise *is* the hammer. One must ask, "the centre of what?".
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Yeah, this is where the term "reactionary centrist" is helpful to denote the bad kind specifically. An intelligent centrism suspicious of "when all you have is a hammer" approaches to politics is one thing, but in reactionary centrism, compromise *is* the hammer. One must ask, "the centre of what?".