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Sometimes when I see a toot with an image I like but it doesn't have a description, I reply with a description. Here's why, if you're curious about that!

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2019/01/09/image-descriptions-on-mastodon/

(It got too long for toots.)

I like Peter Watts' fiction, but I'm getting the feeling that he conflates "conscious" and "conscience" way too much.

Pro tip: You can avoid static cling by waiting 3 weeks to fold your clean laundry!

Apparently we breathe out about 900 g of CO2 per day, or (and check my math here) the carbon equivalent of a stick of graphite 1 m in length and 1 cm wide and thick.

It's neat that plants are mostly built of air (by mass).

But it's also kind of neat that, correspondingly, us animals dissipate a good portion of the food we eat as air.

s/Suddenly, /No one:\n/g

Very pleased with myself for doing a substitute of garlic and fried cabbage in place of onion for this recipe.

(Also almond milk, butter, and sharp cheddar in place of milk and sour cream.)

I would like to see more games made based on overly literal interpretations of Bible quotes.

Relatedly, a friend of mine made a roguelike out of the story of the scapegoat and the sacrificial goat: The sacrificial goat (you) escapes, and the sins of the people follow you around as you try to find the other goat: https://subalterngames.itch.io/azazel

If you're confused, it's a reference to Bible verse Hosea 8:7, where Yahweh is—as usual—angry and making threats. Sometimes you'll hear politicians use "they shall reap the whirlwind" as a threat.

But taken literally, how cool would it be as a video game? It would be fun to work out how to depict wind and its lifecycle (?), and work up some farming game mechanics with a twist.

Game idea:

You are but a simple breeze farmer. But with cleverness, perseverance, and a bit of luck, one day you'll be able to...

Reap The Whirlwind

"Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses and shrimp films for vision study" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/08/scientists-play-shrimp-films-to-cuttlefish-in-3d-vision-study (there's a cute photo of a cuttlefish wearing red/blue stereo glasses, which turns out to work)

Quote: « “A lot of people said it wasn’t going to work,” Wardill said. “They said they’d rip the glasses off. They said there’d be ink in the tank.” »

Translation: "Fools! We showed them all!"

Intriguing typos seen today while browsing Freecycle:

- WANTED: eternal DVD player
- WANTED: unbrellas
- OFFER: Sofà frame

I also enjoyed this listing:

OFFER: Functional Microwave: Sits on a counter. Tells time. Warms food. We got it on a freecycle 12 years ago, and now we offer it back into the wild.