Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, Jeffrey!⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  PSA, 2 security vendors on VirusTotal flag this site as phishing and 1 as suspicious. It might literally just be because it’s a Gmail clone and nothing else, but I don’t know enough to evaluate it further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My baby gay ass reading this at 10: 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fashion trend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The story is real, the image isn’t. If you look at the study none of the OP images are in it, and the only image it shows of the behavior is of a chimp using a single grass straw, not a fist-sized wad shoved up its ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grampa when NYC elects a socialist mayor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so incredibly funny in light of how the ADL launched a “Mamdani Monitor” project immediately after he was elected

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Takei (TOS), Rebecca Romijn (SNW), Tig Notaro (DIS, SA) and Karim Diané (SA)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re already putting up stadium seating for the parade along the roads in Pasadena, it’s pretty wild. Dunno if I want to battle the winter weather, I’ve lived in LA 12+ years and never done the Rose Parade, but the Trek stars make it tempting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did yours also get fucked up in the microwave but still used for food anyway? That thing’s gotta be at least 50% of the microplastics in my brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw your zodiac sign, tell me..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One grandma had 4 and the other had 7. My parents kept a chaotic mix of whatever was on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossil record just puked up a new pterosaur.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothin’ much, what’s up with you?

  (It’s slang for vomit)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r u human?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s play ‘was this a fucked up sample or did someone completely botch the amount of buffer added to the gel’!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not impressed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most annoying part of that is that cats and dogs both eat meat! He thinks there are more cats and dogs than the chickens and cows (etc) we feed them? What demented food web did they teach him in elementary school biology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair, sorry if my earlier reply was too flippant. It’s just very frustrating to see people (not you specifically, but others in the thread) defending it as not classist at all, or classism that’s okay because it’s aimed at shitty people. I think a lot of the comments I see on the fediverse aren’t doing it intentionally, but seem to have the mentality that people who are living or have lived in poverty aren’t also here and participating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s ignore that low income people are more likely to vote for Democrats, or the underlying classism inherent in using the size and value of someone’s home when it comes to determining if their arguments are worth listening to. Somewhere there’s a guy like that, so let’s just make him the symbol of all of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But being poor is how you know they’re wrong! 😑

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fragile masculinity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad’s credit score plummeted after he paid off the house 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oxford sells abridged dictionaries for under $10. 99% of people aren’t using it for 20 encyclopedias worth of etymological research, they’re using it to figure out how to spell a word or what it means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t under any obligation to provide the fruit of their labour free of charge.

  Maybe the £8.7 billion endowment university that employs them should make sure they’re adequately compensated for their work, and not people who want to know how to spell a word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most offensive part is the monthly price point. What goo between the ears business idiot convinced these people they could charge more than a Netflix (+ ads) subscription for *the dictionary *? You could literally buy a brand new one and set it on fire every month for that cost. Fucking leeches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Fisher is at risk of head crabs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘California Academy of Sciences’ sounds like a professional organization, but it’s actually a museum open to the public. I went over a decade ago but it’s one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. They have an indoor, 4 story rainforest greenhouse dome thing filled with plants, free flying birds, and a bunch of other animals. They’ve also got a nice planetarium and natural history exhibits. Their green roof was great when we saw it, it’s just my ideal fantasy solar punk building.

  TL;DR: Lots of pics here. Go to the California Academy of Sciences if you’re ever in San Francisco, because it’s at the Golden Gate Park and you’re probably going to want to go there anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plastics made from petroleum aren’t the same thing as heated up vegetable oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of punctuation is to make communication clearer. But over-adherence to prescriptivism inhibits communication. IDIC includes people who don’t punctuate worth a damn 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep opening your mouth and proving you’re the worst story teller to have anything to do with Trek, Ricky. I’m including whoever wrote the Spock’s Brain episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sunday update from the Prime Radiant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, Hari Seldon, very cool 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably why he’s saying it, lol. I doubt J&J wants a stupid, expensive lawsuit with the government over this, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve been in private talks to get them to walk it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t drink 2 week old milk in the name of not wasting food. It’s not worth the hospital visit. Just adjust your purchasing if you always have milk you’re tossing out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pronouns history⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a He-Man can take something that big up the butt!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The humanity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People talk about opportunity being a major factor in suicides (ex: the removal of coal gas stoves from homes dropping the suicide rate), but man, I would bet my life that so is being hungry. I never want to fucking die quite so much as if I drop or ruin food right before eating it. If I was already on the edge I’m not saying I would kill myself over it, but I totally get why someone would, considering the impulsive nature of suicide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ornithologists do something similar when they have to handle a small bird in the field or in a lab: the ice cream cone grip

  “Shayla Cochran: Picture from my Ornithology class showing the difference in size between a Cooper's Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk. They don't look thrilled to be held like ice cream cones, but it's their own damn fault for being ice cream cone-shaped.” A photo of two hawks, both small enough to be held with a single hand restraining the lower part of their folded wings and their legs to gently immobilize them. This grip results in the majority of their body sticking up like a goofy bird-shaped ice cream cone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad we’re out of the obligatory mustache era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every day I want to live more like this:

  @PPathole: Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨snail lyfe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in the Bible Belt and churches in my hometown would put up homophobic messages on those outdoor notice boards that you see as you drive by. Not every single one, but not none of them, either. This was going on until the late 2000s at least, I’ve heard it’s marginally improved.