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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Queen's Theif Series by one Megan Walen Turner

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My Nine Books for today, would change if I did it tomorrow

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ukraine and Ansar Allah are the only people who Read Theory these days

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They saw my sport posts and knew I commune with dark powers on the regular

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finneas has always been a lib, but this harebrained shit is probably how we begin rebuilding with low trust voters

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The specific cadence of "listening, learning, not just a moment" forcibly transported me to 2017, I was astonished

You have my commitment that this will not be a moment that passes,” Mr. Kotlikoff said, adding: “We are listening, we are learning, we are committed to communicating more openly, and where we can do better, we will.”

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can technically diagram this horrible fucking sentence. Had thw writer done so they would have realized that they needed to write a different sentence.

You *can* diagram the sentence in the screen shot, but you probably *shouldn't*.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really, something must be done about the republican party

Recently, a most unlikely canvasser knocked on Mason’s door: Susan Sorrells, wife of Phil Sorrells, the Tarrant County district attorney who prosecuted Mason and was running for reelection. Suddenly, Mason found herself face to face with a woman asking her to vote for the man who sought to take her vote away.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the circumstances in which a a group of people give a very drunk person ketamine and then have "group sex" with them doesn't count as rape as it is commonly understood are very very narrow, but i am not part of the prep school frat milieu, where apparently that's fine

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He's destroying the thing because it wouldn't be called by his name, is that so?

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The devil was Marjorie Cameron, superior to aella as Cameron could absolutely organize and diagram an orgy but Aella couldn't draw this

Peyote Vision, 1955, ink, paint on paper, 17 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.
almost forgot lten woman artists has a page of her work at the link below

https://www.almostforgottenwomenartists.org/marjorie-cameron-artwork

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The epicurean idea of small invisible particles would later dominate genetics. The idea that inheritance is something to be studied and not a mystery of the gods is another useful greek. He lists questions that the Greeks ask about inheritance- answering or refining them lays foundation for genetics

(1) What is the nature of fertilization? What is transmitted during copulation that is responsible for conception?

(2) Can living beings originate spontaneously, or is a sexual union always necessary for the production of new individuals?

(3) What are the respective contributions to the characteristics of a child made by the father and mother? Does the mother make a (we would now say "genetic") contribution in addition to serving as the nurse of the developing embryo?

(4) Where is the male semen formed—in a special organ, or throughout the body?

(5) How is the sex of the offspring determined?

(6) To what extent are the heritable characters affected by use or disuse, the environment, or other factors?

These and many other questions had to be answered—in fact, they had to be first formulated properly—before a science of genetics was possible.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We've tried to explain variation within species and the tendency for children to resemble parents with a wide variety of wrong ideas. Mayr lists some and later notes that people would often simultaneously hold ideas that contradicted each other and goes over hippocrates and Aristotle in some detail

(1) that a parental pneuma, rather than a transfer of gross physical substance, is the agent of inheritance;

(2) that only one of the parents transmits the genetic elements (opposed by Buffon and Kölreuter);

(3) that the contribution made by the father is quantitatively and qualitatively different from that of the mother (from Aristotle to Linnaeus);

(4) that the environment and the activities of the body (use and disuse) have a strong determining influence on the genetic material (inheritance of acquired characters);

(5) that there are two sharply distinguished kinds of inheritable properties, those that vary discontinuously (by saltation) and those that vary continuously by infinitesimally small gradations;

(6) that the characters (properties) themselves are directly inherited, rather than the potential for their formation (in the form of the genetic program);

(7) that the genetic contributions of both parents fuse in the offspring (blending inheritance).

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

He notes thatvin 1871 Darwin would speculate about something like a primordial soup theory of origins, but ultimately gives credit to a botanist, Schleiden for first proposing something like the idea in 1863

as well think of the origin of matter." But then, of course, being the inveterate speculator that he was, he mused in 1871: "It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc. present, that a proteine compound was formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed" (L.L.D., III: 18).⁴

The reason why the problem of the origin of life in-

b thought of the earth as having supernatural conditions either environmen-tal conditions had remained constant throughout all geological ages. These assumptions had to be thoroughly revised. The bota-nist Schleiden (1863) was apparently the first to suggest that an origin of life, "a first cell," might have been possible under the entirely different atmospheric conditions of the young earth. This

has now been thoroughly substantiated. The young earth is now believed to have had a reducing atmosphere, consisting mostly of water vapor, methane, and ammonia. Free oxygen, which would oxidize and thus destroy any possible precursors of life, was virtually absent at the time when life originated on earth (about 3.5–3.8 billion years ago). The oxygen which, from about 1.9 billion years ago on, began to accumulate on earth was produced by the photosynthetic organisms which had evolved by then.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Because Mayr (rightfully!) has a bone to pick with people who attempt to inpose mental habits from the physical sciences where they do not fit he's kinder to romanticism than I am and he's clear that they were essentialist cranks who's theories lack explanatory power

Ernst Mayr, Growth of Biological Thought: Germany from Herder to the 1840s passed through an exuberant period of romanticism. This was an optimistic movement, seeing development and im-provement everywhere, a striving toward higher levels of perfec-tion, thus fostering ideas derived from the *scala naturae* and from the concept of progress so popular among the philosophers of the Enlightenment. [This movement gave rise to a special branch of philosophy, *Naturphilosophie*. It is perhaps still not yet fully appre-ciated to what an extent various romantic movements, particularly *Naturphilosophie*, were a rebellion against the reductionism and mechanization of Newtonianism. No one has made this clearer than Goethe in his many writings, particularly in his *Farbenlehre*. To reduce every phenomenon and process in the organic world to movements and forces, or to heat and gravity was, quite rightly, unacceptable to most naturalists, who posited numerous alterna-tives. For instance, they could fall back on natural theology and explain everything in terms of creation and design. Those who did not want to invoke God to explain everything in nature elab-orated a new view of nature, strongly influenced by Leibniz, which stressed quality, development, uniqueness, and usually a finalistic component. The *excesses* of Schelling and Oken could not have been received with such enthusiasm if it had not been for the prevailing disgust with the "heartless" mechanization of Newton-ianism. *Naturphilosophie* was largely a backlash against a naive mechanistic interpretation of complex organic phenomena, quite in-accessible to such a simple-minded physicalist interpretation. Since all the best-known representatives of *Naturphilosophie*—Schelling, Oken, and Carus—ultimately were essentialists, they were quite unable to develop a theory of common descent. Yet, they all talked

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Eventually you get can explain the unity of all life and Darwin was kind of romantic about this

in the last sentence of the Origin: "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that . . . from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Notes that Darwin felt that extinction was concomitant with evolution and the strongest evidence for his theory. Closes this section with a summary of Darwin's conclusions regarding the fossil record and evolution

It is only in the last twelve pages of chapter X that Darwin presents the decisive evidence on evolution as revealed by the study of the fossil record. His conclusions can be summarized in a number of broad generalizations:

(1) All fossil forms can be fitted "into one grand natural system," even such extinct types as the ammonites (which are cephalopods) or the trilobites (which are arthropods).

(2) As a general rule, the more ancient a form is, the more it differs from living forms.

(3) Fossils from any two consecutive formations are far more closely related to each other than are the fossils of two remote formations.

(4) The extinct forms on any given continent are closely related to the living forms of that continent, as in Australia where the extinct Tertiary mammals, like the living ones, are mostly marsupials; and in South America, where the extinct Quaternary fauna prominently contains armadillos and sloths, like the modern fauna. To this phenomenon Darwin gave the term "the law of succession of types."

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That one Zendaya Odyssey press tour dress where she had angel wings? Someone should make a version with peacock feathers

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You couldn't live with your failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me.

Savonarola was an italian friar who preached against corruption and exploitation and also did some other things, don't worry about it.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

re: That one company is still blanketing San Francisco with "Don't Hire Humans" billboards.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Make Dario Argento direct the Oresteia as a horror film, I am no longer asking

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Fwiw, the placement is vain, immodest and scandalous to me

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No, but genetecists spend all this time stressing the genetic unity of a species and our favorite pundit boys decide to not only retread the errors of the field but declare that the error is true and there's a woke conspiracy to hide it.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The biological understanding of species is only nailed down between the 1920s and 1940s, and its a culmination of 3 conceptual shifts that took centuries.

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

From 1830 - 1850s darwin will change his mind. He starts believing that species are delimited by reproductive isolation, but during this time he'll hang out with botanist alot and frankly a theory of common descent is an incentive to downplay division. So he's saying shit like this:

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He also succeeded in creating many natural genera despite a plainly artificial method because he would frequently just look at the plant. He recognized groups by visual inspection and defined the essences later lol

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French states plainly " to know a plant is to know how to name it by its structure" and proposes a definition of Genus that is more or less what modern taxonmist use (later linnaeus will propose an essentialist definition, but we'll get to him)

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He notes that the physical sciences stressed uniform and universal laws, which the organic world obviously defied and that this was taken as proof of the divine

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Yorubarbie presents the ArtJock experience @caladaley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also Germany in particular loved mechanic views of physiology, 1869 Helmhotz says this

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