#NewSpecies!
New poison frog from #peru just jumped in:

Ameerega kuriinti

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C2B49-FFE9-FFEE-E9D6-AF56FD48FD8C
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5759.3.4
#Zootaxa #AmeeregaKuriinti

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs #poisonfrogs

At the turn of the 20th century, everyone believed that radium, a radioactive substance, was a miracle medical treatment and beauty aid. Manufacturers shoved radium into fucking everything. People's jaws fell off and there were tons of cancer deaths.

In the 2020s, all you shitheads believed that Gen AI, a super environmentally destructive scam that simply imitates words, images, and sounds with zero understanding of meaning, was a great technology. Manufacturers and tech vendors shoved Gen AI into fucking everything. People were told to kill themselves, people followed deadly advice, deadly accidents in operating rooms, factories, and highways proliferated, and the environmental destruction was so bad that only a small zone in New Zealand could sustain humanity by 2040.

Stop Gen AI! https://stopgenai.com

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories