I went by “Paul Blart, fish artist” and these were my fish https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753156177812_2x0vsroru

no one liked the one that was just shaped like a big rectangle

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yeah, I never saw the edit. I thought you objected to the brevity and non-technical language of the video. As for the content, I’ve only read the abstract and I don’t know that much about this field, so I can’t really object on scientific grounds.

@hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net @Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net

Belated response, and I hope this is not oversharing — thanks for your replies in the last megathread. They turned out to be helpful. Although I don’t think what I’m experiencing is just the standard human condition, because of some other issues I didn’t mention, your responses got me to imagine and consider that I’m at least on the same spectrum as other people and not fundamentally fucked up. That turned out to be important and led to some epiphanies. Anyway thanks for your comments.

Hmm.

Keep in mind there’s a delay, you have to start typing the name and then wait a moment — as in, @Lemm [pause]. Also, make sure you type two or more letters, it won’t show up if you just type @L.

If that doesn’t help… are you using a different lemmy client than default hexbear?

After that I’m stumped. Maybe a browser setting or extension is interfering with it?

Btw if you just saw that in your inbox and replied, someone above me was trying to ping you lol

You gotta do it like this to ping someone: @Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net

The syntax is [@Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net] (https://hexbear.net/u/Lemmygradwontallowme) but without the space between the brackets ] (

It’s easiest to just type @Lemm… and start typing the name, a little menu will pop up listing people you can ping, and if you click one it’ll do the syntax automatically

I don’t think this is that bad. The video content basically follows the content of the abstract of the paper, and he promotes a longer deep-dive video he apparently has elsewhere in his channel, I haven’t gone looking. Part of science communication is being able to summarize the core narrative of the research, sometimes to an audience who are not experts in that field. This is crucial if you want interdisciplinary collaboration, if you want cross-pollination of findings between fields, and if you want the public to care about what you are doing and support funding you.

That said, this guy needs to link the research in the description.

Here’s the summary the University of Rochester put out https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/why-dont-bats-get-cancer

And here’s the non-paywalled paper in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59403-z

Sell it on ebay

lmao, if it ends the way the show ended, I hope he never writes it

not trying to get too serious in the megathread, but,

therapy goers, is there a therapist word (that I can google) for not having a coherent identity? as in, “be yourself,” “I can’t, that person straight up doesn’t exist.” it’s not depersonalization, and I don’t think it’s dissociation. it just feels like a huge chunk of me is inexpressible and scrambled even to myself.

*if no word immediately comes to mind, there’s no need to dig for one, I’m not using hexbear as an unpaid therapist

Even if you resolve this issue, you should consider writing down the tracks in your favorite playlists. No internet service is forever, but the songs themselves won’t cease to exist, so you could potentially recreate these playlists outside spotify in the future.

sleep loss can have an insidious corrosive effect on your mental health, if you have any struggles there. And if that starts to affect your sleep it can become a vicious cycle where you feel like shit so you sleep like shit and then you keep feeling like shit.

do any of you follow Palestinian journalists who are stil active?

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Yeah I definitely think they’re gonna try

the USSR was a highly sophisticated economy with enormous resources that was effectively blockaded

My understanding is that they never had a high trade volume, though. With China, the cat’s already out of the bag. They’re a fixture of the global economy. A blockade of China would mean rolling that back, disrupting the status quo, and damaging many economies around the world. Regular people would feel the hit.

Maybe I’m coping, or ignorant (very possible), but a long-term blockade of China seems unlikely to succeed? Even if they manage to militarily and diplomatically lock down all the possible land routes for the BRI—and, looking at a map, there seem to be a lot of them, at least to reach Turkey—and block Chinese shipping, either through naked force or through most of the world refusing trade, how long could that last? Can they really give China the USSR treatment? China is already massively integrated into the global economy. They have ten times the population of Russia, they have an enormous industrial base, their technology is highly advanced, and they are generating profits for a lot of capitalists worldwide. It seems like most of the world would want to continue to trade with them, and it would require an enormous and sustained global capitulation to prevent that for the decades it would take to collapse the socialist project in China, all while the crumbling and increasingly fascist US is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the world, with US- and Israel-aligned governments becoming increasingly unpopular.

Is this cope?

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*they stopped

Yo, you’re getting spammed with swastika fish rn

mostly by this guy https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753227680435_gx5v1qn5m