Could fall into wonderland if I'm not careful #Canberra #JamisonShops
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James Wilmot
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
This gig goes alright.
It's a beautiful day and I'm being serenaded by the National Carillon.
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And now for something completely different.
Kinda transfixed by the concept of a 'now' page:
"Personal websites often have a link that says 'now' that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. It’s called a 'now page'."
Very lazily working my way through Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars at Daughters. It's a beautiful day.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESIt's not weird for some species to incorporate toxins from their diet as defenses: poison dart frogs, monarch butterflies, sea slugs, etc
But let's get weird and circuitous with it
#Nicotine was developed by plants to kill insects. As a quirk of #neurochemistry, humans use it addictively, so cigarette butts are everywhere
Birds have figured out they can use them in their nests to repel insect parasites
The original intention of nicotine
Weird!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347226000011
