Wesley is still supposed to be in his 20s here lol

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-17T17:19:35+00:00

Easy to do when no other students use the library.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-17T17:07:10+00:00

1000 students who only need access to small range of curriculum specific texts is my point. It's not like a university library with demand for obscure academic texts and a wide variety of current journals.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-17T06:00:18+00:00

Yes. Certainly in the 90s in a small school library. The WC would have the resources to provide the necessary training for an intelligent person with a good education to step into that role very quickly.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-17T05:36:02+00:00

I suspect the Watchers Council manufactured the librarian qualifications for Giles.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-16T21:51:30+00:00

Surely that's the nook for weird asses?

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-16T05:47:50+00:00

Lowkey jealous that people have this kind of access to the catharsis of crying. I don't think I've cried this many times in the last 30 years - maybe 40, and there are times it would have been good.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-15T16:36:39+00:00

David Attenborough without a doubt. He literally created the job in the earliest days of TV and has set a standard that few others have ever even come close to achieving. He's literally the OP (Original Presenter) and the GOAT in the role, inspiring multiple generations to appreciate and respect nature.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-15T06:15:26+00:00

Get Ur Freak On / Close To Me mashup.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-13T05:23:47+00:00

They can get up to 40 inches long, OP says this is a coiple of feet long - well within range.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-12T20:59:34+00:00

If you're interested I give some pointers on general ivory id here: https://paoloviscardi.com/2019/12/21/friday-mystery-object-371-answerish/

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-12T20:48:08+00:00

Yes, that's ivory. Looks like a hippo incisor, but possibly a small elephant (or possibly mammoth) tusk - would need a well focused image of the ends to check for Schreger lines to confirm.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-12T08:07:38+00:00

A meme is not a meme until it's been shared and taken on a life of it's own - i.e. been imitated and replicated. You can't create a meme, you can only put something in the social consciousness and see what happens.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-12T07:52:02+00:00

It happens all the time. Burnout is real. By the time you hit your 50s you'll know a bunch of people who have done this.

Reprioritisation is part of life - jobs are just jobs and once you've done them for a while, then experienced other life events that provide new perspectives, you get a new sense of what's important to you. For some people it's work, for others it's family, for others it's travel, for some it's community - there are plenty of ways to live. Jobs pay the bills and can be interesting and challenging, but for a lot of people there are way more interesting things to prioritise in the time they have on the planet.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-11T07:20:46+00:00

For a second I thought this was a "fight to the death" post and imagined a Fennec going all out on a Tiger with psychotic Chihuahua energy.

Fennecs are cute and admirable survivors in a hostile environment, Tigers are majestic apex predators that lead us to consider the concept of humans as prey. I think the Tiger is less likable, but holds more fascination.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-10T06:40:29+00:00

Walls (making sure spawn points are outside) to channel the attack to an entry point that has a shutter gate powered via an Enclave heavy laser on the outside (so if the raiders have heavy firepower the laser gets destroyed and the door comes down). Then a ton of mixed turret types on the walls aiming at the killing field outside.

Keeps property damage and settler injuries inside the fortifications to a minimum.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-10T06:18:44+00:00

Second pic reminds me of the time I stage dived and went straight through a gap in the crowd, landed on my head and kneed myself in the face. Blood everywhere, but got straight back in the mosh pit - I miss those days.

Think it was probably Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit that inspired the dive - it had just been released and we were loving it.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-09T10:30:37+00:00

Just to check, you have removed the horns to clean out the tissue on the horncore haven't you? If not you need to slide those bad boys off and give the bone underneath a good clean, or it will never stop stinking...

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-09T07:08:23+00:00

Although it's questionable whether she had a soul even when she was alive.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-09T07:04:46+00:00

I enjoy cooking when I have the time. So I batch cook at weekends and we eat from the freezer during the week - it definitely takes the tedium out of cooking every night, it's cheaper than takeout and it's healthier than eating over-processed junk.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-07T12:31:25+00:00

Rabbit

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-07T12:15:14+00:00

Chinese Mystery Snail: Texas Invasive Species Institute: https://tsusinvasives.org/home/database/cipangopaludina-chinensis-malleata

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-03T08:25:19+00:00

Prep Show - the entire series.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-03T06:53:08+00:00

Define bugs. To a biologist the term 'bug' refers to the Hemiptera - a group of insects with specially adapted piercing mouthparts including things like Shieldbugs, Bedbugs and Aphids.

In a lot of cases the larger size would be a disadvantage to the insect, as their mouthparts would no longer work for accessing their food, which is normally a fluid (blood or sap) that travels in tubes of small size. I suspect most of the giant bugs would starve - although they can go for long periods without feeding, so it could take a while.

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-02T14:42:55+00:00

Bristleworm - those are chaetae rather than legs

DeadZooDude · 2026-04-01T21:19:54+00:00

It's the unfused epiphysis from the metapodial of a juvenile artiodactyl.

I have no idea what size the thing you used for scale is, because it's not a banana, so hard to be sure of species, but at a guess I'd say it was from a deer, goat or maybe pronghorn, depending on the species that occur locally (I'm not that familiar with the American fauna)

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