I write and draw and code. 本を書く。絵を描く。ソフトを作る。Post-Canadian living in Japan, failing to do most of the things I put in my bio. 日本語でもOK。Still not a DJ.
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Colin Peters
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Coelacanths are my heroes - absolute weirdoes who took the niche Nature gave them (deep reef and underwater volcanic slope habitats) and stealth thrived so hard we didn’t know about them until the 30s.
www.patreon.com/c/beastieand...
#coelacanth #livingfossil #paleoart #natureinspired #sciart
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
It’s so weird to think that it’s somehow really natural for monkeys to go around stealing and drinking the mother’s milk of other species of mammals.
Definitely the kind of thing that DOGE would defund resulting in massive crop failures and a plague of locusts.
“We don’t need to use modern technology like hand washing or pasteurization! Humans lived for thousands of years without them!”
Why yes, and people used to have a dozen kids because that way a couple of them might survive until adulthood, too.
We humans didn’t have a clue how to prevent diseases for most of our time on Earth and some of us survived! Yay!
In case you missed this 2024 story:
Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen.
Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it.
Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.
For context, this is one hundred ninety-two thousand, five-year biomedical research grants.
More than five years of complete funding for the entirety of the NIH for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, blindness, epilepsy, infectious diseases, etc…
An entire generation of scientists.
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
