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At least 4 people have told me they achieved Bingo within the first hour 😆

Or watched as a group for cat spotting, wineglass counting, and a bite tally.

So that’s working as intended.

Look, it's Friday night here and time to unwind, so please allow me to present 2 hours of me speculating on the biology, anatomy and physiology of Omegaverse. Done as seriously as I can manage.

And because it is a Friday night and everybody deserves a little fun, I have made you some Bingo cards to play along with it.

If you enjoyed my previous Fantasy Biology series, you sort of know what you're in for, but this was one heck of a topic. So I hope at least half a dozen people get some benefit or ideas from it.

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Look, it's Friday night here and time to unwind, so please allow me to present 2 hours of me speculating on the biology, anatomy and physiology of Omegaverse. Done as seriously as I can manage.

And because it is a Friday night and everybody deserves a little fun, I have made you some Bingo cards to play along with it.

If you enjoyed my previous Fantasy Biology series, you sort of know what you're in for, but this was one heck of a topic. So I hope at least half a dozen people get some benefit or ideas from it.

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So doing manual YouTube captions (for the Omegaverse anatomy video) and YouTube definitely tried to make its own captions. But it really struggles with some scientific words. For example, it consistently gets these word wrong:

Gamete

Pheromones

Phallus

Worldbuilding

Musculocavernous

Baculum

But it also apparently self-censors because the auto-generated captions write ‘cocks’ as:

(_____)

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So the darling child (age 5) is in a superhero phase and really, really likes Miraculous Ladybug. So they drew this.

Apparently the villain is also in the background but he’s invisible.

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The Ecology is in shambles.

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So I watched The Edge of Sleep (on Tubi, because it’s free and I’m in Australia) and it’s actually pretty good.

The supernatural & surreal elements are suitably creepy. The existential dread works very well. The gore is not particularly realistic but not overdone. It’s an enjoyable short horror series.

*But the theme tune won’t get out of my head*.

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… not a crossfire.

“caught in the crossfire” is crazy work when it’s your own reporter and it’s a video where you can just watch the cop aim directly at her and shoot her completely 100% on purpose with your own two eyes

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For those keeping track, I promise I am still working on the Omegaverse biology video in the background. After some cutting the first round of editing is town to just over 2 hours.

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Do you like body horror? Medical horror? Overthinking impossible biology or just morbidly curious?

Then lets discuss the existential dread that is Pupillosarcoma, the malignant pupil, in the art of @valdevia

(And also appreciating human created art in general)

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My pet theory was that they are actually a Golden Retriever. They’ve got allergies, got worms by eating poop at the park, are cancer-prone at the best of times, can overheat easily then got mauled at the dog park.

whoever's body this is that these cells live in

what the fuck is happening to this person that they sustain nearly every virus, cancer, and a goddamn head injury so severe they almost died of blood loss

jesus christ this person's body

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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Today's Doonesbury cartoon.

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Skeletonin is a portmanteau between skeleton and serotonin.

I hope this loads.

Do you like body horror? Do you like dinosaurs? Do you like speculative biology or cryptobiology?

Then do I have a treat for you.

The Cave Brachiosaurus, a creature designed by @crabdominalpain

I just think she’s neat

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It’s always nice when we’ve convinced the dog we are, in fact, a snacks dispensing clinic and not a needles dispensing clinic. ☺️

Cap really loves the vet. No, really. He gets SO EXCITED to go see all of his friends.

If we drive down in that direction but DON'T go to the vet, he throws a fit.

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In other news that Omegaverse biology video I said I’d do… the script is finally finished and it’s 16443 words long.