Do you have pet isopods?

90s demo tapes hit different though. The crustiness really enhances the overall atmosphere of certain genres.

Ysigim - Ain Soph Or (1994) is a personal favorite. They did a digital rerelease recently and it's too clean, I don't like it.

Merriam Webster has this definition for liquidate: To do away with especially by killing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquidate

Those are mites, or more specifically Mesostigmatid mites. They are hitchhikers frequently found on insects associated with dung or carrion. These resources tend to be very patchy in the environment and mites are so tiny they can't disperse well by themselves, so they take advantage of beetles, flies, millipedes etc. to get there faster. These mites are predators that feed on worms or other small critters, they're not parasites.

Looks like your beetle has at least two mite species on it: the lighter ones with two separate dorsal shields likely belong to the genus Poecilochirus, and the darker ones with undivided dorsal shields are unfamiliar to me. They might belong in the family Macrochelidae.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_mansoni

Yes and I will judge anyone who doesn't recommend me their favorite demo tape

I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second

I'm curious what piqued your interest in this book. Was it an engaging read?

My most expensive is probably Dindal's Soil Biology Guide (1990), which cost around $300 as well. The print quality is pathetically bad given the price I paid, the spine came off only a few months after buying. Wiley Blackwell 🤢

Is that remarkable? The authors make the prevalence of parasites as the big takeaway from their study, but bizarrely they don't cite any other papers of typical parasite load in this fish species or others. I need a frame of reference.

They sound absolutely fantastic:

https://ebird.org/species/commur

Just looked it up on YouTube and someone in the comments called it "magick metal". I've been out of the metal scene for a while now but I see the tradition of inventing goofy names for subgenres is still going strong lol

I bet anime pulls a lot of its visual inspiration from games especially JRPGs. Can't think of any examples off the top of my head but I've definitely played games where a magic circle appears at the feet of the caster.

There's also a magic circle in the background of the original Dark Magician card in Yu-Gi-Oh!, which I think goes back to the late 90s. There's also a magic circle in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! anime in the seal of orichalcos season which would have been the early 2000s.

So I recently reinstalled Linux on my machine but hadn't bothered to reinstall Analog Lab, so I just did that now to confirm it still works. It was really easy.

From their website I got the installer, and ran Analog Lab V Setup.exe with Wine. I went through the setup wizard just like you would on Windows, and then manually moved the vst file from the Wine directories into my normal vst location (~/.vst). After this, I generated the .so file with yabridge. This is also a really simple process. If you are using yabridge for the first time, you need to tell it where your plugins are:

$ yabridgectl add path/to/vst

After that, generate the .so files:

$ yabridgectl sync

Once this is done, your DAW of choice should be able to find and open the plugin. For me, Analog Lab V opened without issue and prompted me for my account info. Here's Analog Lab V on my machine:

Edit: I forgot to mention my copy is legit and it activated no problem.

I like all these goofy guys you post. Does the pointy nose perform a function or is it just stylish?

This is really bugging me. The article claims the fungus is an edible mushroom, but Pestalotiopsis (the spores on the right) is an endophytic, microscopic ascomycete. Not a mushroom and certainly not edible. So why is there a picture of Pluteus on the left? I can only imagine the author googled "Pestalotiopsis mushroom" and grabbed the first picture that came up.

The colors are striking in among the flowers like that. Great shot

Neat. Another paper reviewing fungal bioluminescence just came out on New year's eve, and according to which there are 132 bioluminescent species known to date. More than I realized!

Link to the (open access) paper for anyone curious: https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/11/1/19

The Latin name is fun though.

Both the generic name Lamium and the specific epithet galeobdolon were used by Pliny the Elder in the first century AD.[43] The name galeobdolon has several possible origins.[44] It may come from the Latin words galeo meaning "to cover with a helmet" and dolon meaning "a fly's sting", or it may come from the Greek words γαλέη (galéē) "weasel; marten; polecat", and βδόλος (bdólos) "foetid smell", an allusion to the smell of the leaves. The latter interpretation is likely the source of the old common name 'yellow weasel-snout'.[45]

Source: Wikipedia

Native Linux audio plugins are frustratingly uncommon. I'm gradually trying to replace my Windows plugins with Linux native ones but it's hard to do sometimes. My thing lately has been building my own replacements with plugdata.

Interesting instrument, thanks for sharing. Apparently Haydn wrote a whopping 175 pieces for the baryton, which have all been recorded by the Esterházy Ensemble. This will keep me occupied for a while!