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Cake day: January 18th, 2024

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  • The false belief that systemic racism is in the past is widely perpetuated, and (aside from the blatantly obvious police problem) many do not realize we are still very much a country which operates on white supremacy.

    The most powerful book in transforming and informing my position on racism was DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.” I highly recommend this to everyone.

    Some other great books are “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram Kendi and “Privilege, Power, and Difference” by Johnson.




  • Yeah they are so incredible!

    One of the biggest hindrances for their species is the lack of social learning. The mother starves and dies protecting the eggs, so all octopuses have to learn for themselves over their short lifespans.

    And that is a testament to their cunning intellect and problem-solving capability. They learn so much and so quickly.

    I’ve wondered what would happen in an experiment where a mother octopus was hooked up to machines to deliver nutrients to prevent her from starving to death while guarding her eggs. What kind of social dynamic would then follow once they hatched? Would she teach her young?






  • I do agree with your sentiment. I think it should be a more gradual shift to madness. That makes a lot more sense to me, and it’s how I always imagined it.

    I liked that they are saying their name trying to maintain that last shred of humanity, but they present as more rabid extreme shifts. Like the ghoul that’s killed and cannibalized going from having fluent conversations and vivid recollections to screaming his name is a bit much…

    I think they should be in a confused and disoriented state like in dementia, and they should be near totally nonverbal by the point they’re trying to remember who they even are. If it’s caused by an irradiated brain essentially rotting away, then they shouldn’t be able to articulate and be reminiscing at that point…