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Have you ever seen a white Common Raven (Corvus corax)? No, this isn’t a new species… or a ghost. 👻 This Raven’s striking pale plumage is the result of the genetic mutations leucism or albinism. Leucism is a reduction in all types of pigmentation, including melanin. Albinism is the inability to produce or distribute melanin. One hint to tell the difference? Individuals affected by leucism often have blue eyes, while individuals with albinism have pink eyes. White Common Ravens are rare. An estimated 1 in 30,000 individuals is born without this species’ signature black plumage.

Photo: Cos van Wermeskerken, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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I saw this earlier today and keep coming back to it and I thought you guys would enjoy it too

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Every now and then you also need to do a bit of gymnastics...

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Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti

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I made a video about the northern pike :]c

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Mfs really trying to put Wheatley in charge of the facility

got a major pest problem this year actually

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I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

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Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

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Dogs have had many jobs throughout history, in this case: Revenge.

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art history nerd here! when the notre dame burned a few years ago, the most damaged area was the roof. y'know who has a very extensive 3D model of the roof? ubisoft, for assassin's creed! ubisoft has been very involved in the restoration of the notre dame, pledging over half a million euros in support. so yep, that is most likely an assassin's creed dude carrying the olympic torch!

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Meet my children, Gibby, Soap, Obama, and Fallen-Kingdom.

Thinking back on when millennials used to get mad shit for naming their kids “Raven” or “Ash” or whatever normal shit and like. What do u think our generations version of that will be.

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this is so sad can i get an f in the chat

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Carjacking serial killer

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Just want to share Dr. Geoff Lindsey on youtube for more cool linguistics videos in case some people haven't seen him before.

have you watched any of tom scott's linguistics videos? they were my first introduction to linguistics!

yeah, i used to assign those as fun extra viewing for my intro lx students! i think @allthingslinguistic worked on (some of) them?

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So today I made 2 discoveries!

#1: There exists an "emotional support" rubber chicken, complete with removable vest:

#2: My bearded dragon, Saffron, is approximately the size of a rubber chicken:

I have done a Thing™ with this information.

BEHOLD! A MAN CHICKEN