SJ; Not a Marine Biologist

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I like whales, but I'm no whale doctor. Natural born HenchThem PhD researcher plumbing the depths of fandom, ethics, and online science Content™️.

Wikipedia app with 98 tabs open because I'm a freak like that
SASQUATCH by Roland Smith Every five or so years I remember this book and am positive it was a fever dream until I find it online
@thrillhouse.bsky.social making an Indiana Jones reference in a reply
The international kilogram prototype stored in a vault in Paris
Webpage for lacy crochet stitches with a banner reading "tired of woke crochet communities? I was too, so I created the Heaven Crochet Club, a peaceful space for crocheters rooted in biblical values" Apparently whoever wrote the copy didn't believe in woke or ending a sentence
An early fly amanita mushroom looking gorgeous
A tiny mushroom with a red orange cap popping up in the barkchips outside my office
Sickos meme
Rona, a perpetually anxious chihuahua, has an uncomfortable exchange with a hospital receptionist that starts with her clarifying that she isn't the patients family, but she is from a family and it goes downhill from there
The cuntiest Converse high tops that have ever existed with a shitty little heel and insanely pointy toes
Episode notes from the T. Dan Smith episode of No Gods, No Mayors featuring the stature of Pavarotti surrounded by an ice rink
Levias, a big old sky whale covered in giant Barnacles and also he has a mustache for some reason.
Except from the Wikipedia page for the "House on the Rock" with starts with the sentence: The House on the Rock's website disputes the legitimacy of Boyum's story,[9] refuting his claims on a page titled "Wikipedia is wrong! There is no connection between Alex Jordan and Frank Lloyd Wright":[5]
Wikigacha card for the article on saccopharynx, a type of deep sea eel
Graphic of total percentage of FOI requests granted in full starting in 2005, highlighting a sudden drop in requests granted the year Anthony Albanese became PM
A large canvas with a painting of an astronaut, covered in decorative blue floral patterns, sitting at a table with a bottle of wine or beer while a mariachi band plays behind them On the table next to the wine is a pouty, blue frog
Photo of the Wheatus logo on the screen behind the band at a concert
A crimson rosella in a tree feeding their rather large chick "baby bird style"
Graffiti in a culvert which reads "BUSH DID 67"
Classic black border and mismatched Gothic font style motivational poster featuring a bearded and sunglasses wearing David Lynch with the text GREAT GOOD LUCK (then in smaller, different font) WITH YOUR PROJECTS
One imagining of a reverse centaur featuring a horse head attached to a pair of human legs. While not the most traditional or technically correct approach, it is the funniest.
Sunset lighting on a connex box labeled "the deep sea scientific drilling vessel CHIKYU"
Goblin affirmations
Sun rising behind the drill derrick of the DV Chikyu
Toughened glass. Etched on a ship's window, with the sea and sky out of focus in the background
Sunset behind the D/V Chikyu
A very large wrench with anime eyes and blush marks.
Toad standing on a stone, one hand raised and pointing towards the heavens, the other holding aloft a book of poems
Cheekface's album Empathically no.
A screen featuring a snippet of Roger eberts review of Army of Darkness alongside the movie poster
headline from 1938 Adelaide Chronicle article titled "Gay Crocheted Clown Is Easily Made" Lede reads: Any small child would be thrilled to find this gay clown in her Christmas stocking. The toy is easily and quickly made from wool in a simple crochet stitch. Either the body or 'head portions could be used separately for soft balls for the baby.
Ravelry post of a pattern for a "Gay Crocheted Clown" with a black and white illustration of a sort of crocheted snowman style 'clown', a small sphere for a head attached to a larger sphere body
From wikipedia caption: Dr. Darold Treffert poses at the Treffert Center in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, holding a puppet created in his likenss by his colleagues, circa 2019
the artist Cavetown performing Boys Will Be Bugs with the lyrics "I'll fuck you up if you're mean to bugs" superimposed
"most people rejected his message. They hated pixelated boat because he told the truth"
Self-belief causes meritocrats to act stupidly. I don’t mean this to be pejorative. They say and do stupid things not because they lack intelligence but because they are inattentive to their own shortcomings. They are stupid to the harm that they cause others. This is a type of stupidity, then, that is not intellectual. It’s moral.
Ask R U OK?
Saturday Paper article titled inside the Australian National Universitys leadership crisis. First paragraphs read: " Amid mounting scandals and a loss of confidence in her management, the Australian National University vice-chancellor is negotiating an exit from her role. By Jason Koutsoukis. In a meeting this week, the deans of the Australian National University’s six academic colleges advised Chancellor Julie Bishop that they had lost confidence in Genevieve Bell. The vice-chancellor is understood to be negotiating the terms of her transition out of the university, including a substantial payout. "
Photo of an MP using an incredibly neo Nordic fascist themed megaphone held by a guy who could not look more like a neo nazi if he tried
Prince Phillip looking like an actual DnD ghoul who's seen better days in the back of a car right before he officially carked it
Reddit post from u/away-organization166 featuring cops in riot gear supporting fascists in Melbourne
After the Melbourne march, the neo-Nazi group NSN boasted a surge in membership, meaning it was on track to overtake the Liberal Party membership within 18 months. And of course, we cannot forget it is just six years since an Australian white supremacist massacred 51 people and injured 80 others during Friday prayers at mosques in Christchurch. Australia never bothered with much public introspection into how it produced this terrorist.
Summary of Chapter 2 from the Handbook of Social and Political Conflict Polarization (Vilkins, Bruns, Svegaard, Choucair, and Esau): Polarization is now a key focal concept across disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, with a recent boom in research attention. However, for the most part, the concept remains ill-defined: several core types (issue-based, ideological, and affective polarization) have been identified in political science and media and communication literature. These, in turn, may lead to further patterns of polarized action and interaction (group, perceived, and interpretative polarization), but not all such polarization dynamics necessarily have negative and destructive effects. Rather some can indeed be positive and productive of greater clarity on policy options. Supporting future work in the field of conflict studies, this chapter provides a systematic review of the major types of polarization that have emerged in the current literature; exemplifies their distinctions and interrelations through a brief case study of the Brexit debate in the United Kingdom; and challenges the view of polarization as inherently problematic by introducing a distinction between productive and destructive levels of polarization.
A bright red bloom among verdant green leaves and closed flower buds
People at a protest in Canberra, three Palestinian flags fly in the breeze
Bright yellow Wattle blooms looking lovely
A medium large magic image poster titled "calypso reef"
Tiles featuring a closed flower bud design in pink, red, and green against a red stained wood frame
A particularly annoying looking mime against a black background
Daniel Craig in a vodka ad looking like your favorite chain smoking gay aunt
Stanley Yelnats (Shia lebouf) in the movie adaptation of Louis Sacher's Holes with several water dragons painted to have yellow spots just chilling on his shoulders
Tom Holland looking cunty as hell performing Umbrella for a lip sync battle
Meme with pastor labeled "Australia" and caption reading "Jesus, I see what you've done for American people, and I want for me"
Another quirk of my defectuous gray matter is often misinterpreted as competitiveness, which it does manifest as in some circumstances, but it’s actually more of a general spirit of opposition. If you tell me I can’t defuse that bomb, there is no force on Earth that’s gonna keep me out of the Hurt Locker.
Headline from news article: Erin Patterson mushroom trial TV series: ABC to dramatise beef wellington, death cap poisoning saga
Fox news screen showing a very normal and affable looking Zohran Mamdani next to a series of his platform proposals that just sort of rip even if you aren't a crazy leftist.
Edgar Allen Poe with a speech bubble implying that he is the original poster.