wilhelm DM screen @maenad@cthonic.club

here's a pretty (and touching) dance with a moderate display of flesh https://vimeo.com/305451498?fbclid=IwAR2fvClR32ftcMOll7lWlKVjVQlKJ0CjA1axHD7BYh7ULWbRz9nk4IG0cW8

(not lewd, not nude)

@Lumb "Mark like.... you're an easy mark haha"

I am pretty sure the person's who nickname in my new irl-games discord is Jason is actually named Mark irl

but that's not a mistake I wanna risk

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@matilde (realized it was an album, sorry, brain is broken)

@matilde yeah I realized after I said that I listened to it on my walk home so I had no concept of time/length (I zone out pretty hard, it's 2.3 miles)

Hey @matilde I like your EP

Came home to excellent presents from @HereticSoul

@r4v5 having taken that exact megabus several times, it's real

Run simulations independently - 3 minutes each

Tell R to run 10 consecutively - R.exe is not responding (more or less, it's actually more of a butt about it than that)

HELP I DO NOT UNDERSTAND COMPUTER.

@a_breakin_glass oh

he insisted we already had classes and ended the talk advocating for gender roles so not quite the same >.<

@a_breakin_glass I don't think I do, actually, although I concede that there's a lot of dystopian fiction it mirrors

I was thinking in particular of "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

I still think about this talk.

At the time I, a non-man in a male dominated field**, took it as a slap in the face of all non-men in science.

Now I go "wow talk about a weird justification for capitalist bullshit", "holy shit does anyone actually think this justifies ****ism?", and "wait do fascists think we should be like ants?"

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**"male dominated" in that the rich old professors are male, but actually, non-men dominate the lower ranks

Fact: eusocial hymenopterans make up a huge proportion of biomass relatively, and are a hugely diverse and successful clade.

His theory: this comes down to the efficiency of eusociality. One reason eusociality is efficient is because individuals are divided into classes at birth, and given jobs according to their class as they develop.

His conclusion: we should do the same to people.

What kind of Animal Farm SHIT.

EO Wilson visited my grad university during my PhD and gave a talk.

He's one of the namesakes of Island Biogeography, a body of theory that has super informed a lot of conservation efforts.

However, like many aging theoreticians, he got super into ants, and that's what his talk was about. Theories about ants.

It was... bad and insensitive.

@ink_slinger I feel bad everytime I throw something away

but like, I know, rationally, that I also live a pretty green life

I use LED bulbs

I walk or take the bus

I recycle as much as possible, bring my own bags to the store (even produce bags), order in bulk where possible to reduce waste

I wish it was enough

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I KNOW most pollution/emissions are billionaires and corporations but it just feels so fucked up

This is why i keep a blanket in my work bag