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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 2d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 3d

This one was so good.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 3d

I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 3d

@baronvonurchin.bsky.social

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 3d

For my algae heads: happy spooky season!

(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)

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The bulbous ends of two pieces of bull kelp (Nerocystis luetkiana) carved into grinning jack o lanterns. They are on a rocky beach and you can see waves in the background.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 6d

There won’t *not* be a certain amount of schadenfreude when service members suddenly have to start paying actual Hawai’i grocery prices like the rest of us…

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 13d

More than once I've brought up the lack of data in review (in spite of journal data accessibility policies) and the paper went on to be published without data anyway.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 13d

I think it's often the case that neither the editor/journal staff nor reviewer checks or cares if a given manuscript meets the data policy. I've reviewed multiple manuscripts where data availability was a condition of submission but it got to me anyway...

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 16d

*I did not take any photos of the Très Riches Heures so I have gifted you this axe-wielding beast rider from a completely different and unrelated manuscript. The "astrological man" page is a scanned image from the internet.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 16d

Everything else sucks, but these things I got to do in 2025 have truly helped me keep my head above water:

1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.

h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display

An underwater photo of a nautilus at a slightly oblique angle with its feeding tentacles extended and pointing down and to the left. It's red and white with swirly stripes on its shell. We're not 100% certain what species is. It looks a lot like Nautilus vanuatuensis but given where we observed it and some of its characteristics, it may actually be undescribed.

An illumination from a medieval manuscript of a guy in a blue robe holding an axe and apparently riding some sort of beast. It's not clear what sort of thing it is but I think it might be a boar. There seem to be artichokes in there too?

The famous "astrological/anotomical man" leaf from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berrry. It shows a nude man facing us covered with astrological symbols. Behind him is a nude woman(?) facing away. Around the outside is an astrological calendar showing all the signs and presumably when in the year they become relevant. There's a lot of glorious blue pigment used in the illumination, which is all made from lapis-lazuli. It's spectacular.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 16d

I never imagined a bird could look like an elephant seal, but this one kind of looks like an elephant seal.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly, same

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 18d

I would love to see more lavish costumed historical dramas set in the Pacific (and filmed in their languages): Fijians in conflict with the Tuʻi Tonga Empire, first contact between Rapa Nui and the mainland of South America, the story of Tupaia the navigator…

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 19d

I'd love to be added as well! (tho I admittedly haven't been posting much science lately)

dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 22d

"what do you want them to do?"

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 25d

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 26d

I am once again* begging Michael Hobbes to include a screenshot of the byline

*the first time in actuality but the zillionth time in intention

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28d

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 28d

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · 28d

This stuff sucks but I feel extremely confident that this sort of thing will never threaten the actual craft of tattooing.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was going to say this would make an excellent Culture ship name, hah.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hard agree for Rozz Williams, I was a very emotional teen when he died. The two other big ones for me were Jason Molina and Jhonn Balance. Both were towering talents and their deaths were deeply tragic and eminently preventable.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · Sep 6

Which rock deaths messed you up? My parents didn’t tell me when Lennon died because I was a toddler. I found out in 1st grade and I cried a ton.
Rozz Williams death was really awful because of how he died and lonely because I was away at an activist training & no one else had a clue who he was.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

It’s wild how people never really think through that the two-state solution is basically in the same genre as the outcome if the South had been allowed to secede.

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dr. mykle hoban @thefishbotherer.bsky.social · Aug 23

Happy to add some!

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