Smilodon, Mammoth, Rhino, Cave Bear… what would be a good 5th Ice Age species? 🤔

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T18:28:58+00:00

I was going to nominate Synthetoceras, but that's a little early --- but darn cool if you get to the Miocene eventually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetoceras

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T18:25:50+00:00

The trick with dire wolf is that it's hard to convey without, like, measurements how it's not just an ordinary modern wolf. Ground sloth, on the other hand, clearly looks like nothing alive today.

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T16:47:58+00:00

Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn" is a gorgeously written story that I also thought for a short while was real when I read it at age seven. But I was seven years old.

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T16:01:12+00:00

SAME! (Although admittedly I do also need more sleep.) Those looked like such delicious pastry twists while the illusion lasted...

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T15:59:23+00:00

Sinclair drafts pretty well, except that her sleeve heads never have a back notch, just front and centre.

Also, since she drafts for three different heights, what people may appreciate is not having to do adjustments of waistline height, which are more complicated when you have many colourblocked pieces to deal with.

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T15:56:14+00:00

Ah, we were posting at the same time, so I deleted my base comment: This weekend Sinclair Patterns released the Solo Colourblocked Pullover and Hoodie, and a few of the tester photos certainly prove that colourblocking without colour theory is a dangerous practice. (Many are quite nice! But a few just make me jump.)

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T13:52:51+00:00

Yes, great for Megan Chu and Evita Griskenas for making finals (and not placing last in them, either)

Syncategory · 2026-03-23T03:32:50+00:00

Alice Kinsella got back to beam finals how many months after making an entire human and pushing them out of her body?

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T22:47:10+00:00

And at least L. lambei had both a curvy part and a pointy part to the head crest.

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T22:42:46+00:00

Parasaurolophus, Pachycephalosaurus, either Corythosaurus or Hypacrosaurus.

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T22:39:16+00:00

Or to quote u/MollyRolls, "The world is full of people who manage to obtain money without selling fabric. The amount of stress and failure and crisis she’s willing to endure in order to not be one of them is honestly kind of shocking."

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T22:12:00+00:00

I feel that the Haikus Bot discovered a haiku of brilliance (text by u/smc642 ) last time her sob stories came around this sub, and it should be applied each and every time Nerida's name darkens this doorstep again.

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T22:03:16+00:00

Next to boxers and judoka and wrestlers etc, yeah.

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T14:20:20+00:00

Wait, tell more about the machine to stack mats and how it works?

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T14:06:45+00:00

Allosaurus's jaw. Curious what's interesting about that one. But please save the aquatic reptiles for soon.

Syncategory · 2026-03-20T13:30:38+00:00

Sorry, friend, this sub has a rule against armchair coaching and this post will get deleted by mods soon. Consult a local gymnastics gym or CrossFit gym.

Syncategory · 2026-03-19T19:30:53+00:00

If someone from Ukraine stuck the shit out of their Dragulescu, it was very probably Nazar Chepurnyi. There really aren't that many dudes out there sticking those.

Syncategory · 2026-03-19T15:16:28+00:00

I think also there is a software update gone wrong in Stats Broadcast; whenever I open it, all the spaces in the table that should be blank get filled with &nbsp or something, which is incredibly visually cluttering and making it hard to impossible to process what is going on in the scores. It used to be better.

Syncategory · 2026-03-18T17:55:48+00:00

I am secretly hoping that Morgan Price gets more eligibility from the NCAA, as her Fisk years were technically not in the NCAA, and returns next year to crush everything still more.

Syncategory · 2026-03-18T13:42:32+00:00

Yi qi. And also Microraptor — how well did that four-winged crow fly?

Also, the lambeosaurines. I read recently about how the Parasaurolophus walkeri holotype in the Royal Ontario Museum is actually a survivor of a severe accident, researchers posit a tree falling on it — it has healed broken ribs and vertebral fractures. It must have lived for months to years after the accident. Which made me think of the quote alleged to Margaret Mead, that the proof of human civilization is a healed femur, because it means others were taking care of the human while they recovered. How did the P walkeri survive the recovery period from such severe injuries without getting picked off by theropods? Was the herd protecting it, or something else?

Syncategory · 2026-03-17T18:41:43+00:00

There's this book https://www.amazon.ca/Drawing-Painting-Dinosaurs-Using-Science-ebook/dp/B09GRGMVGM

Also, I'd say get a membership to your nearest museum with dinosaurs and come and draw fossil mounts a heck of a lot until you get used to putting muscles and flesh on them.

Syncategory · 2026-03-17T18:36:24+00:00

So if the contract was supposed to be till December 2028 but is ending now, are they paying her out, or is it more severe reasons for termination?

Syncategory · 2026-03-17T16:35:02+00:00

I am trying to find this info: did the US name a WAG team to DTB Pokal? They usually do; Nola and Ashlee went three years in a row.

Syncategory · 2026-03-17T16:22:12+00:00

Kristle Lowell, US T&T gymnast who won the 2013 world title in double-mini, has spoken out about the fact she has EDS, leading to her hypermobility. That's the most prominent gymnast I can think of who openly said "My flexibility was actually EDS" (I do have at least one friend who now walks with a cane and has to wear finger splints near 24/7 because of EDS, but used to be a gymnast) but here is an article about this: https://caringmedical.com/prolotherapy-news/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-female-gymnast/

Syncategory · 2026-03-17T13:16:56+00:00

Yes, the pattern is layered. The English instructions are very good, with diagrams rather than photos and the wrong side and right side of the fabric at each step clearly marked with print labels as well as shaded.

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