thanks to superchatter reecer0508 for giving the art idea, which i could then forward to the artist resulting in, well, this
(took 1h 2mins from notif to finished sketch btw, i timed it, idk what karian is made of)

my favourite discovery in the wake of tadc episode 6 was stumbling on this comment @gooseworx.bsky.social left on a lukewarm review of the pilot, and seeing the review's title being changed because of the last episode

you did it
you got him hooked

considering moroccanoil (y'know, that logo that gets plastered on every esc video and broadcast as their official sponsor) is in fact israeli, i had 0 hope it will ever go away
i made my peace with that

i'm just relieved that, as a friend on discord put it:

For further comtext, here's a video of Francis consoling the son of a dead atheist:
youtu.be/bRbUTfSds0U?...

And in a pic below we can see a top comment by a snake, not unlike that of the Garden of Eden, "just expressing beliefs".

me: "man real life is just exhausting as shit right now, lemme go watch some youtube to unwind"
my youtube homepage:

thank you for being so quick with the source ^^

the study in question is interesting, but it does point out it only determined that certain gene variants are present in both gut disease and psychiatric diseases

being unable to determine the role of gut microbiome is even listed as a limitation:

no clue what tf my duolingo is on right now but i want some

funny how at the beginning of the year, i didn't even know who phisnom was
now i can say i'm part of a community which can casually break into the top 5 donors of thankmas 2024 in <6 hours
praise be the toxic cesspit

also go donate for mental health, as little as a dollar helps
tilt.fyi/OpNTuUlbbB

they say a picture's worth a thousand words, so here's a side-by-side graph of the 2013-14 measles outbreak in the netherlands vs their mmr vaccination rates

people kinda act shocked when i tell them i love studying, but like i'm sorry, when this is the material, how can i not

yep got hit with this one too
obv didn't bother following back (i mean "phiisnom", really?) but the guy was persistent, 1.2k followed at time of screenshot
probably went after the whole list of public followers

They also post links to their website which, when inspected, result in glowing red "Phishing" signs on VirusTotal.

THIS SITE IS POTENTIALLY MALICIOUS. DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE, OR ANYTHING THIS ACCOUNT SENDS.
They also mislead you via AI-generated images of space, as pointed out by @hankgreen.bsky.social among others.
Nip misinfo on Bsky in the bud.

why are cookie run kingdom players like this

took this pic of frost earlier this morning and ngl the frozen drops of water are just too cool-looking (pardon the pun) not to share

i didn't know that whole "tyson vs jake paul" boxing match was even happening, and by all accounts that apparently makes me the only real winner bc even the audience fucking lost

scrolling through my screenshots and wanna give a quick shoutout to this guy for making me reconsider talking about what i study irl ever again

I see hiking/nature pics are being popular over here (thankfully), so I guess here are some older pics I took in the hillsides of Budapest.
Nothing special; took them with a Galaxy A14's back camera. No special settings either.
But they're mine, and I adore them. Hope y'all like 'em too.