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DrHyde

@DrHyde@fosstodon.org

Cricket umpire, rugby fan (both codes), finder of bugs, perpetrator of programming abominations, mostly recovered sysadmin. BSc (third class (Hons)) in Talking Bollocks On Social Media. I like my music metallic or baroque, or ideally both. Time traveller at the rate of one second per second. To follow me, have actual content and a human-looking profile.

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futurebird , to random
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It's gonna be OK.
(From "The Secret World Of Arrietty")

Part of an animated cartoon. Huge pill bug curls up like a cat on a girl's hand.

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird as much as i like real creepy-crawlies, when they get to that size KILL IT WITH NUCLEAR FIRE. Sorry.

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird cancel the launch. I repeat, cancel the launch. Armageddon is postponed.

futurebird , to random
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Why do I have to have a cat clinging to my butt behind me in my chair????why?

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird @mike @BLTpizza what about a cat treating a human with disdain?

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Without looking it up what is closest to 8oz?

(Curious how well the relation between oz and metric is generally known.)

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird none of the above because ounces are mass and ml are volume (I know what you mean really, and I have no clue off the top of my head, does doing sums in my head count as looking it up?)

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@futurebird the sum i would do is that there are 20 fl oz in a pint, and 1.76 pints (or 35 fl oz) in a litre, so 1 fl oz is a bit under 30 ml, so 8 fl oz is a bit under 240 ml, so the answer is 250.

futurebird , to random
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There were once giant aquatic sloths, like seacows... but sloths. (Thalassocnus)

And they lived in fear of the toothy teethed whale dolphins (Acrophyseter) who are the scariest things I've ever seen.

Miocene is one giant uncanny valley. I don't know why it doesn't get more attention for the sheer creep out factor.

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird @llewelly @sjuvonen I’d read that.

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At the Role-Playing Games club today, a fun debate. The whole campaign is on this ice-locked ship in the arctic: the DM introduced the possibility of sirens.

One player declares their character is ace and therefore immune to romantic seduction.

Not so, says DM these sirens call out with "whatever you desire most" ... another player wonders if, since their character is monk seeking enlightenment and the death of all worldly desires are they immune?

Apparently the sirens do enlightenment too.

DrHyde ,
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@futurebird the BBC had an interesting documentary about monks recently. With some vigorous hand waving, monking is about trying to abandon the world while knowing that you will ALWAYS be tempted. Always.

futurebird , to random
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Whenever complementing someone's pet I like to use the category that includes their pet along with ants.

Pet Bees "adorable hymenopterans!"
Pet Beetle "what a lovely insect"
Pet Crab "what a cute arthropod"
Pet dog "Such a charming bilaterian!"

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@futurebird @llewelly Pet ghost! Pet Thursday!

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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Gold ring with quartz intaglio depicting an ant. Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

I wonder who wore this ring. Why did they choose an ant as their symbol? It's interesting to me that the depiction is specific enough that it can't be written off as a general "bug" the mandibles, and body plan make this explicitly an ant.

The ant motif appears on garnets in other rings.

This is up in New Haven at the Yale University Art Collection and I am absolutely not contemplating becoming a cat burglar.

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@futurebird obviously not. You need to train ant burglars.

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    DrHyde ,
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    @vampiress what's a "crosswalk"? None of those squares look anything like the stations of the cross in my church. I'm confused.

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