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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is not the writing of a healthy or safe man.

Chris Packard's cited article where he's just being weird as fuck about Sarah Goodridge's depiction of her own self portrait and her self portrait of just her breasts

SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hold up @wikipedia.org, why do my mobile and web versions of the homepage have a different version of the featured article thumbnail??

Mobile version of Wikipedia front page with the featured article, Beauty Revealed, pictured clearly enough to inform the viewer that behind a text box, there is an incredibly well done painting of breasts.

The web version of the featured article where the image of the portrait in question is replaced with a different, more traditional portrait of the artist's face, and no visible breasts :(

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Best I can do is this graffiti near where I live in Canberra

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have to know if @mattielubchansky.com's elementary school library the novel Sasquatch by Roland Smith, wherein the protagonist finds out D.B. Cooper was nursed back to health by a family of bigfeet after he parachuted out of that plane? Because mine sure did.

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is how I know I've surrounded myself with the best people

@thrillhouse.bsky.social making an Indiana Jones reference in a reply

@armadilldough making a reference to the same Indiana Jones seen in a fully separate reply chain

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'd love to know what got her banned from Ravelry

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When I have to attend a baroque garden party in the morning and a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 tournament in the afternoon

The cuntiest Converse high tops that have ever existed with a shitty little heel and insanely pointy toes

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Making slides for a tutorial on science communication via podcasts. I'm using @maintenancephase.bsky.social as a good example of how to format show notes and source lists, and using @nogodsnomayors.com because the students deserve to see Pavarotti in ice

Episode notes from the T. Dan Smith episode of No Gods, No Mayors featuring the stature of Pavarotti surrounded by an ice rink

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Skyward Sword is the worst LoZ game but it has the best sky whale.

Levias, a big old sky whale covered in giant Barnacles and also he has a mustache for some reason.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's little things like this that make me fall in love with @wikipedia.org a little more every day

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]

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

You freaking kidding me right now? This rules!

Wikigacha card for the article on saccopharynx, a type of deep sea eel

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Obviously, the main story is this innocent child getting back home with his family But can we also appreciate this incredible painting???

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Rosellas have never once thought about AI slop or crypto currency.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

What Big Motivational Poster doesn't want you to know is that we can just make out own masterpieces using ms paint

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also, you get to spend the entire piece imagining centaurs fighting reverse centaurs, which is fun.

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.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Finally, something on this expedition for me. (they let me touch the eldritch goop)

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Who knew scientific ocean drilling could be so photogenic

A very large wrench with anime eyes and blush marks.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"and that's why the ocean cleanup project is a Thiel founded grift for techno optimist babies"

Toad standing on a stone, one hand raised and pointing towards the heavens, the other holding aloft a book of poems

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Sometimes Ravelry has exactly the thing I didn't know I needed

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I'm not much one for having specific career goals outside of "have one" but I think living the kind of life that results in a Wikipedia portrait like this now a priority for me

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

mfw any of my little dudes in Silksong are being attacked.

the artist Cavetown performing Boys Will Be Bugs with the lyrics "I'll fuck you up if you're mean to bugs" superimposed

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"suspected" is doing at least as much work as all those fake ass fascist runes

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

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

What is this Rollerball ass riot gear from the Melbourne cops??

Reddit post from u/away-organization166 featuring cops in riot gear supporting fascists in Melbourne

Close up of a cop in riot gear that looks like it was made for budget in the fucking 80s, looks like spray painted whiffle balls and someone's knock off Nerf gun. Dude looks like his second job is teaching algebra to 8th graders who he constantly yells at for not respecting him during class

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

For all the pointing fingers and leering (justifiably) at the US, Australians could and should be doing a lot more to avoid falling into the exact same pit

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.

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SJ; Not a Marine Biologist @barnaclebtch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I'm at a bit concerned at how confidently you lean into the idea that the internet inherently polarises us and that all of this polarisation is artificial and negative. Research is increasingly showing that this framing is simply not true.

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.

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