…so basically Metal Gear Solid with fewer steps and some comic relief.

A version of the Matrix where Neo is a pigeon.

I can’t decide if the ass in question outputs low frequency sounds or fish. Either way, you’re bound to cause a ruckus.

Amplexus, fuck yeah.

Oh hey, I have this too! Except it doesn’t feel like “just sometimes”

Yeah I switched to lawn chair a few months ago because I kept seeing these stories about Nova’s parent company. I like it just fine—i haven’t had the issues you have (thankfully)—but there are a few features I miss from nova. Oh well, I’d rather have the peace of mind than the minor feature.

Every stick is pointy when it’s travelling fast enough

Perform what though?

• “this fucking pipeline finally works” beer
• “Congratulations on the acceptance of your manuscript…” Beer
• Post Dark Souls/Elden Ring boss kill beer
• Dark Souls/Elden Ring boss killed me beer
• post 10k, “I EARNED THIS” beer

Yes, I think it’s okay to enjoy whatever it is you enjoy so long as doing so doesn’t harm others or yourself. I also think it’s important to be mindful what it is that makes you feel like there’s a moral quandary, and it’s also worth considering if the media you’re consuming is the work of a group of people or a single individual.

For example, I really enjoy the movie Chinatown, but Roman Polanski is a piece of shit. I don’t think his shitness diminishes the quality of the movie because it was acted well by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway; the writing is incredible as is the cinematography; and credit where credit is due, Polanski directed the movie masterfully. He’s still a child rapist piece of shit though.

I’m happy with the work I do—I find it rewarding personally and the inkling of a possibility that it might be useful one day for any number of biological applications is exciting.

Unfortunately, I am entirely replaceable, compensation is meh for the level of education, and society as a whole does not place much value in basic sciences so career prospects are bleak (and this was BEFORE the current administration).

So, this line-up suggests there’s room for a cross-over story where the football squad wearing the color changing dress pounds the main character’s ass.

Edit. Apparently it’s a squad of unicorns that play football. Pardon my lack of attention to detail.

Ooooof I forgot how great Newsroom was. I also really enjoyed West Wing.

How many are there for the newest Hulu seasons? A little part of me wants to see the new ones, but the end of the comedy central reboot was so cathartic I don’t want to spoil it.

• Futurama all the way up to the end of the comedy central reboot; I haven’t seen the newest ones.
• 30 Rock
• Fargo
• Derry girls
• The Last of Us
• Broadchurch
• Slow horses
• True Detective S1, 3, and 4.
• Rome

Edit:my original format was awful. Sorry about that :/

“become” implies it was something else to begin with. it started as a cess pool when it allowed slavery to persist past the declaration of independence.

Thanks for joining penis and intermittent organ facts.

Did you know that the “tail” of the male coastal tailed frog is actually an extension of the cloaca effectively acting as an intermittent organ?

Reply ‘more cock’ for more facts about penises and intermittent organs.

Hemipenes (and penis/intermittent organs) are really diverse in terms of size and shape. A lot of lizards and snakes have little nodules and barbs that vary from species to species. Not sure what the ornaments do, but it’s interesting. Also interesting is that having two (i.e. one on each side) potentially means that there’s a handedness in terms of the preferred side used for mating.

Other fun facts about penises and other intermittent organs: cats and other felids have barbed penises that force ovulation in the female. Tangentially related are the pseudo penises of female hyenas.

More fun facts: damselfly males have intermittent organs that are spoon shaped so they scrape out the sperm of rival males.

Respond ‘cock facts’ to learn more about penises and intermittent organs.

Respond ‘stop’ if you don’t want to learn cool shit.

I took an astronomy class when I was an undergrad. We had a scene-by-scene breakdown of all the stupid shit in this movie.

I’m a biologist/bioinformatician—a lot of my presentations require some schematic representation of the analysis or pipeline.

I tend to build simple pipelines with PowerPoint and add animations (makes it easier for me to talk through step by step). If it’s complex, I build parts in some other thing (R, illustrator/Photoshop), and animate the PDF/PNG in.

Equations I try to avoid because most of my audience tends to gloss over them. On the occasion that I’m talking to more computational folks, I’ll build the equation elsewhere, export it as an image, and animate it in with annotations.

Again, I’m a biologist and present mostly to biologists, so some of this may seem stupid or nonsensical to folks in other fields.