Iggy
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So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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1/4 Dust devil on Mars seen by the Perseverance rover
Taken on: May 29, 2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer @martian-observer.art
#Mars #Rover #Perseverance #NASA
Taken on: May 29, 2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer @martian-observer.art
#Mars #Rover #Perseverance #NASA
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
1/4 Dust devil on Mars seen by the Perseverance rover
Taken on: May 29, 2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer @martian-observer.art
#Mars #Rover #Perseverance #NASA
Taken on: May 29, 2025
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Martian-Observer @martian-observer.art
#Mars #Rover #Perseverance #NASA
An amazing gay art studio is probably going to close because Valve is ok with Nazis but not with naked human bodies.
"It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban
You might not immediately recognise the name Santa Ragione, but the independent Italian studio has been creating bounda…
www.eurogamer.net
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
An amazing gay art studio is probably going to close because Valve is ok with Nazis but not with naked human bodies.
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Checking in on MechaHitler
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Checking in on MechaHitler
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Over 200 Rockstar staff have written to management in support of unfairly fired union members.
We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...
We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...
Over 200 Rockstar staff write to management in support of unfairly fired union members - IWGB Game Workers
220 letters signed by staff members at Rockstar, the studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series, were delivered to management at the company last week, demanding that the 31 employees fired are immedia...
www.gameworkers.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Over 200 Rockstar staff have written to management in support of unfairly fired union members.
We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...
We have published more details on our website, although we have not yet released the exact contents of the letter: www.gameworkers.co.uk/rockstar-ope...
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mamdani is gonna implement shakira law. if your hips lie, prepare to be be indicted for perjury in multiple jurisdictions
mamdani is gonna implement shandalar law. if you want to add new cards to your deck, you have to wander the map and look for random wizard duels
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
mamdani is gonna implement shakira law. if your hips lie, prepare to be be indicted for perjury in multiple jurisdictions
I wish I had something snarky and insightful to write here, but I don't, so instead I donate and share. And so should you if you can!
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I wish I had something snarky and insightful to write here, but I don't, so instead I donate and share. And so should you if you can!
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This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Over there sits your childhood stuffed animal slowly losing atoms to chaos. Piece by piece he says goodbye. Piece by piece you join him.
May 17, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Over there sits your childhood stuffed animal slowly losing atoms to chaos. Piece by piece he says goodbye. Piece by piece you join him.
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 5: Voyager
The Saturnian system, based on a montage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November, 1980. Combined with some funky hand-drawn type.
#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
The Saturnian system, based on a montage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November, 1980. Combined with some funky hand-drawn type.
#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 5: Voyager
The Saturnian system, based on a montage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November, 1980. Combined with some funky hand-drawn type.
#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
The Saturnian system, based on a montage of images taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November, 1980. Combined with some funky hand-drawn type.
#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
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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 🧵)
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Genetic mutations in cheese cave fungi have been shown to drive rapid evolutionary changes, offering insights into adaptation, food security, and the development of new cheese varieties.
Cheese cave fungi reveal how genetic mutations drive rapid evolutionary change
Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese cave turned out to be exactly that for Benjamin Wolfe, associate professor of biology, and his colleagues.
phys.org
September 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Genetic mutations in cheese cave fungi have been shown to drive rapid evolutionary changes, offering insights into adaptation, food security, and the development of new cheese varieties.
I do wish ill to JK Rowling on a daily basis too.
Oh, good…
Nice to see how the “new” Bluesky Moderation is being handled.
Nice to see how the “new” Bluesky Moderation is being handled.
August 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I do wish ill to JK Rowling on a daily basis too.
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[seeing all the billionaires on their waiting list]
It’s important that we let this play out
It’s important that we let this play out
A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
[seeing all the billionaires on their waiting list]
It’s important that we let this play out
It’s important that we let this play out
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You know how you sometimes love two things, but they would be awful together, like chocolate and camembert? For me, these two things are "huge dicks" and "tarantulas".
Alas.
phys.org/news/2025-08...
Alas.
phys.org/news/2025-08...
New tarantula species so feisty that males may have evolved record-long genitalia to survive mating
Four new species of tarantulas have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. But these aren't just any tarantulas.
phys.org
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
You know how you sometimes love two things, but they would be awful together, like chocolate and camembert? For me, these two things are "huge dicks" and "tarantulas".
Alas.
phys.org/news/2025-08...
Alas.
phys.org/news/2025-08...
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"I wouldn't be able to look myself in the eye if I toned anything down based on what I thought people's reactions would be."
@mattielubchansky.com talks to ESC about making her visionary—and v horny—new book, "Simplicity," out tomorrow via @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!
www.esckey.co/mattie-lubch...
@mattielubchansky.com talks to ESC about making her visionary—and v horny—new book, "Simplicity," out tomorrow via @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!
www.esckey.co/mattie-lubch...
Mattie Lubchansky tracked every weird thought in a doc, then turned it into the wildest book
For her second graphic novel, “Simplicity,” this acclaimed cartoonist and a former editor at The Nib tried a new approach: save any idea that intuitively seemed to “fit.” She did that for more than a ...
www.esckey.co
July 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"I wouldn't be able to look myself in the eye if I toned anything down based on what I thought people's reactions would be."
@mattielubchansky.com talks to ESC about making her visionary—and v horny—new book, "Simplicity," out tomorrow via @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!
www.esckey.co/mattie-lubch...
@mattielubchansky.com talks to ESC about making her visionary—and v horny—new book, "Simplicity," out tomorrow via @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!
www.esckey.co/mattie-lubch...
Many amazing signs and people at the London trans pride today, but that biology nerd wins all the awards of my heart.
July 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Many amazing signs and people at the London trans pride today, but that biology nerd wins all the awards of my heart.
Mon dieu qui est cette personne quel est son styliste je suis fan.
THEODORA - FASHION DESIGNA
YouTube video by THEODORA
youtu.be
June 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mon dieu qui est cette personne quel est son styliste je suis fan.