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Tristan Stevens

@tristanstevens.bsky.social

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Aussie nerd for games that promise to waste thousands of hours or make me cry. Will fawn over almost any animal. Currently annoying all my friends with a years-long guitar phase. My rarely-updated vegan icecream recipe site: https://thechurningbush.com/

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 1m

I appreciate the detail where he is wearing the oxygen mask like he's an anti-vaxxer being forced to mask up during the COVID lockdowns.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

grok is this true

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 1d

Cops have also been known to scrape metadata from phone signals at protests, so you can turn it off while you're there.

Also this:

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, never mind then.

The little sidebar for cattle on wikipedia which I changed to put cattle in Reptilia

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Erm NCBI this does not match my current understanding of Bovine taxonomy

a blast I did which was restricted to reptiles and somehow returned cows as a top result

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Will never get tired of seeing the sorts of paper names that you get from hedgehog proteins.

Paper title: Sonic Hedgehog and Tiggy-Winkle Hedgehog Cooperatively Induce Zebrafish Branchiomotor Neurons, authors: Stephanie Bingham, Aidas Nasevicius, Stephen C Ekker, Anand Chandrasekhar

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 2d

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

But yeah, to me fascism presupposes that men are becoming less masculine and women are becoming less feminine and small creatures from alpha centauri are less centurian etc, all this stuff about soy, testosterone and sperm count is just supporting a preexisting belief imho.

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Also it seems like a pretty poor metric of fertility anyway, as my understanding it's sperm count per ejaculation, and the biggest determiner of how much sperm is in an ejaculate for an individual is how frequently they ejaculate, so people could just be ejaculating more frequently. For reasons.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Probably more the latter I'd imagine, for anyone not already a little too obsessed with the idea of masculinity it's obvious sperm counts don't matter until they drop low enough they impact fertility, and they are obviously not the rate limiting step to conception.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's easy to do. Here's a useful chart.

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

"Life Begins Here". "A New Breed of Town". "Fertile with opportunity".

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

Decided I wanna learn some Newfoundland trivia and learned there is a place there called Conception Bay and its motto is "Bright Town, Bright Future". I admire their optimism (it looked overcast in half the pictures) and their restraint for not using any of the immature jokes I would have.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

I asked my partner this and she said any really large model of truck, when asked about the cybertruck in particular she said as she's never seen one in person she feels like they don't count. More a meme then a vehicle over here in Australia.

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like if you polled a thousand women what is the least attractive vehicle for someone to drive, the only women who don't say 'cybertruck' are the ones lucky enough to somehow not be aware of their existence.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

I missed this, was it Eric Adams? Because I feel like he doesn't count.

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

You know I was curious and I think right now might be the time of day where there are the fewest people currently at a trivia night. The timezones that are currently in the 5-8pm range, peak Trivia Time, are all in the Atlantic Ocean. So I hope anyone in Reykjavik who reads this wins at trivia.

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

It's always trivia night somewhere!

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

But here you go anyway

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

It's still cheating at trivia when you ask people on Bluesky even if you're not technically googling it yourself!

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 3d

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

You should do it! :D

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds cool! I've just been becoming yet another basic guitarist myself :D

Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

What have you been learning to play on it? :)

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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 3d

I've had this conversation with people who alternatively got quite good as a kid but then couldn't maintain a similar practice schedule, but like half an hour to an hour a day for 5 days a week can get you quite far! Frequency is more important then overall time.

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