🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

I think part of the reason I favor integrative models in biology is that the way I've learned to understand complex things is through syntactically complex linked structures like program code that, in a (somewhat loose) sense, recapitulate the structure of what they describe. The way I've learned biology up to this point is by linking together, in my head, a variety of narrative descriptions and figures that I have to integrate in a loosely structured manner. An integrated, multi-level model (a schema, perhaps) seems like an effective alternative, though it may ultimately only be legible to the person who creates it.

@Sheril

for those interested, here's where I first heard about this: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/how-horseshoe-crabs-probably-saved-your-life/

@Sheril It's unsustainable because their population is in decline, not because the practice significantly contributes to that decline, correct? My understanding is that typically the animals recover from the bloodletting and are released afterwards.

this is now my #Windows hate-thread. welcome in.

I *hate* how #Microsoft actively coddles its users. They even redirect away from features explicitly asked for. It's so stupide.

12 Sept Date announced for Blender Studio's short film:
https://studio.blender.org/blog/wing-it-premiere-date/?utm_medium=homepage

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pig
War history is wild

@designthinkingcomic
this one? https://www.amazon.com/Disrupt-Think-Unthinkable-Transformation-Business/dp/0137025149
@trollball @impactology

I'm not sure if olfactory perception is weird or just the whole rest of the senses are weird

minor update. probably last for the year. I think the main family has moved. I did see another chick briefly, but stopped seeing it sooner than I think it could have developed to a fledgling. (Can adults fly their chicks elsewhere?) I saw a couple swallows just now leave, but couldn't tell if they were using the nest or just the shade

@GuyDudeman I'd never heard of Exploding Dog. It's sorta sweet in an absurdist fashion. I like this one: http://explodingdog.com/title/imallgrownupnow.html It's giving Iron Giant vibes.

> it was my touchstone. I identified with that comic so much. Early college years.

I totally get that. Did you move away to college? In my early college years, I was lonely in ways I didn't even realize until years later, but I learned to make a home from what was available (friends, places around campus, and, yes, web comics). Familiar things.