@aeranothaur

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Thread of threads: 1) Mustelification xitter.cf/aeranothaur/status/138…
Creature of Culture@aeranothaur10 Apr 2021
We all know about carcinization: shelled creatures with many legs tend to evolve into crabs. But have you heard of mustelification? It's a phenomenon where carnivorans develop slender bodies, short legs and small triangular heads. In other words, they evolve into weasels.
land crab with claws raised

ALT land crab with claws raised

Stoat looking out from beneath a wooden deck

ALT Stoat looking out from beneath a wooden deck

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the mortal mind cannot comprehend this
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maybe the real AI x-risk was the nuclear wars we made along the way.
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what better way to align a nascent advanced AI than to threaten to drop bombs on it.
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motion to set aside the verdict as excessive, your honor?
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but why
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Vantablack Friday
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I scheduled this tweet almost a year ago and totally forgot about it 😅
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Creature of Culture retweeted
Chris Law@Chris_J_Law15 Nov 2021
Excited to share that my paper examining body elongation convergence in carnivorans is published in @systbiol! 1/n 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab0…
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Human Person@radiationmouth25 Oct 2021
Need something to spice up your Monday? Here is a thread of Hoverstoats ™️ #MightyMustelids
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\newcommand{\femb0t}{@__femb0t28 Sep 2021
The mustelization will continue until morale improved
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Alouatta, gentille alouatta, Alouatta, je te hurlerai.
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2) 🦥🦥🦥 xitter.cf/aeranothaur/status/143…
Creature of Culture@aeranothaur14 Sep 2021
The neotropical rain forest is a hostile place. Food is scarce, competition fierce, and death stalks with unparalleled ingenuity. Yet one animal thrives here like no other. You may not like it, but in the jungles of the New World, this is what peak performance looks like:
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The neotropical rain forest is a hostile place. Food is scarce, competition fierce, and death stalks with unparalleled ingenuity. Yet one animal thrives here like no other. You may not like it, but in the jungles of the New World, this is what peak performance looks like:
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[4] Poikilothermism in the Sloth doi.org/10.2307/1374287 [5] Consumption of a maned sloth by a tiger shark sarem.org.ar/notas-sobre-mam… [6] Energetics of Arboreal Folivores, Brian K McNab [7] Sloths Like it Hot doi.org/10.7717/peerj.875
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[8] Impact of Sloths on Neotropical Forest Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88… [9] A Coprophagous Moth That Lives on a Sloth doi.org/10.1126/science.193.… [10] A syndrome of mutualism reinforces the lifestyle of a sloth doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.30…
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