Chapotraphouse

Also sick

Unlike most snakes, garter snakes are semi social and brumate together.

reticulated pythons are the only snakes known to have eaten people.

A lot of lizards bob their head to assert dominance, but bearded dragons are known for doing it all the time

Most lizards have trouble running and breathing at the same time, however monitor lizards have evolved special muscles that let them force air into their lungs using their throat while running (gular pumping).

Honestly have fallen a bit out of the loop on climate stuff the last few months. James Hansen recently put out some temp predictions for the next couple years which I thought was interesting, I'll find it. All mailings

From the latest mailing:

Global temperature in 2025 declined 0.1°C from its El Nino-spurred maximum in 2024, making 2025 the second warmest year. The 2023-2025 mean is +1.5°C relative to 1880-1920. The 12-month running-mean temperature should decline for the next few months, reaching a minimum about +1.4°C. Later in 2026, we expect the 12-month running-mean temperature to begin to rise, as dynamical models show development of an El Nino. We project a global temperature record of +1.7°C in 2027, which will provide further confirmation of the recent global warming acceleration

1.7c in less then two years, wild.

I just want to not be homeless

tell me something interesting

Leaf Sheep are the only known animals to photosynthesize, and they're cool little dudes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasiella_kuroshimae

Malaysia, some of the visible land might be Indonesia.

I take a lot of pictures but it looks like very few are clouds. They're beautiful but I think pretty much everyone takes them for granted. If a cloud came around at something like eclipse frequency, hotels for miles around would be booked for months ahead of the event.

Why do you want to work at this company?

Well, most of all because I’m hoping to power through and see tomorrow (and the day after too), and unfortunately if I don’t make any money at some point that all falls apart.

Have you ever had any encounters with […] cryptids?

Dunno if this counts, but the day I finished reading The Kaiju Preservation Society I found myself visiting someone else’s house, and what do I find in the bathroom? A painting of Godzilla. To this day, I wonder how they knew to put it there.

Have you read any books on the climate crisis that you particularly enjoyed, or that gave you good insight?

I should really revisit it with a different lens, because all I remember at this point is that I finished it quickly and “eat the rich” is a good step 1, but Birnam Wood has at least some tangential themes.

a nice picture of a cloud

Sorry, I don’t have nice pictures of the cloud, but here’s one:

tell me something interesting

There are frogs with claws!

Extraterrestrials? I think I count as one. I even wanted to blow up this stinking planet once before that deadbeat kakarot and his meddling rascals stopped me.

It appears I'm unable to reply to people's comments? What up with that

I've had quite a few experiences where I was in a spaceship overlooking the earth. It was always bittersweet.

Anyways here a picture of the sun looking directly south through some clouds on Winter Solstice.

Have you read any books on the climate crisis that you particularly enjoyed, or that gave you good insight?

I wouldn't say reading about climate collapse is enjoyable, but the Windup Girl was good

I'm watching Retro Pals Request Gauntlet of them very amusingly trying out weird and cool video games 11 minutes at a time.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7FeQXy7t0k
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtnXIJk7eFs

Like 20+ hours of stuff that requires pretty low concentration. Their other recent-ish video on electro-mechanical arcade machines was super-fun too.

if you think you have covid i read a thing a long time ago about how CBD could potentially 1) competitively inhibit spike protein binding (or something i don't remember ugh) and 2) upregulate internal cellular processes that help prevent replication if infected (not just by covid, necessarily) and I've never seen anyone talk about it ever since (iirc i did see a follow up that somewhat confirmed it, but no national "hey guys CBD might actually be a panacea for one thing!" (i know panacea would imply it works on everything but you know what I mean gosh))

Why do you want to work at this company?

I want to dominate my enemies, of course

Tell me something interesting

Sickle Cell Anaemia is a recessive expression of a gene that aids in surviving malaria, when the trait is heterozygous sickle cells (which cannot host malaria) are produced when stressed, but not all the time. When carriers of the gene are homozygous in sickle-cell or 'normal'-cell it provides zero or worse protection from malaria, but the heterozygous expression is pretty nice so it stuck around

CW: CSA

This is probably not at all what you meant but I went down the Pizzagate rabbit hole earlier today thanks to this thread: https://hexbear.net/comment/6766995

It's extremely disturbing, but I can't say that it's not morbidly fascinating to peel back too (even if you're not convinced, as the details really are numerous). This is assuming you're like me and never really gave it much stock before (it's in a new light post-Epstein).

So if you find conspiracies interesting, it'll likely eat up a few hours of your life at least. But again, CW: CSA