Eldritch Mlems

There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

https://explainxkcd.com/3010/

It’s so hard! And it’s good to find good help as well. Always makes me feel so anxious

In the words of C3PO, "I have decided that we shall stay here."

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/19037262

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I'm thinking of taking my dosage of 6mg a day down to 4mg a day so I can stockpile 2mg each day in case of an emergency. Or maybe every other day to stockpile 1mg each day.

I'm worried though about it negatively affecting me mentally, but I also know that if I do run out and don't have a stockpile, it'll be much worse.

Or maybe I could ask my doctor to prescribe me extra so I can stockpile without reducing my dosage?

Anyways, what are your thoughts on doing this? I know Erin Reed recently put out an article which mentioned it being done (which is what inspired me to make this post).

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In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s reelection, advocates for transgender people in Illinois are scrambling to strengthen the state protections they’ve created, while some trans Midwesterners consider moving to states with shield laws for safe harbor.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy told the Sun-Times there has been a coalition effort of state lawmakers to protect trans and reproductive health care access since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked in 2022.

Now, they’re looking closely at Project 2025 — a conservative policy playbook created by the Heritage Foundation — and Trump policy proposals and “evaluating what further protections we can enact in the coming months,” a spokesperson for Gov. JB Pritzker said.

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Protections for reproductive rights and gender-affirming care were enshrined in state law in January 2023, putting Illinois on the side of people who risk prosecution by traveling to the state for treatment and also protecting the licenses of Illinois doctors who provide care that’s illegal elsewhere. The Illinois Human Rights Act also protects against discrimination based on gender identity.

As a little side project I've illustrated 120 tokens for VTT and print and play use in RPG adventures, you can check them out here: https://coen-balkestein.itch.io/rpg-token-pack

I really enjoy illustrating these in my free time, so if you have any suggestions of tokens to add I'm curious to hear!

Currently the pack includes:

• Aristocrat female
• Bard female
• Beholder
• Big dragon
• Bird
• Black knight
• Bear
• Bom
• Book
• Carpet
• Cobra
• Cat
• Cleric female
• Cleric male
• Chicken
• Construct
• Chest
• Crab
• Cube of jelly
• Clouds
• Cyborg
• Cultist
• Dog
• Demon
• Diplomat male
• Dragonborn male 1
• Dragonborn female 2
• Druid
• Dwarf male 1
• Dwarf male 2
• Dwarf male 3
• Elf male 1
• Elf female 1
• Elf female 2
• Emperor
• Ent
• Fairy
• Fighter female
• Fire elemental
• Fish
• Flaming skull
• Goblin male
• Goblin female
• Goblin witch
• Golem
• Griffin
• Grey face alien
• Giant fly
• Ghost
• Hobbit female
• Hooded figure
• Horse
• Human male
• Human female
• Jester male
• Jester female
• King
• Knight male
• Knight female
• Key
• Lich king
• Lion
• Little dragon
• Liquid
• Lizard cultist
• Masked female
• Mermaid female
• Merchant male
• Minotaur
• Mimic
• Monk male
• Mummy
• Mushroom
• Ninja
• Ogre (two heads)
• Orc male 1
• Orc male 2
• Orc male 3
• Orc female
• Orb
• Pirate captain
• Pirate male
• Pirate female
• Plant creature
• Queen
• Rat
• Robot
• Satyr male
• Scientist male
• Scientist female
• Seaweed
• Skeleton
• Snake
• Spider
• Sword
• Tall neck female human
• Tentacle
• Observer
• Tiefling female
• Tiefling male
• Torch
• Tree
• Unicorn
• Vampire lord
• Water elemental
• White knight
• Witch
• Wizard male 1
• Wizard male 2
• Wizard male 3
• Wizard female 1
• Wizard female 2
• Wolf
• Worm
• Yeti
• Zombie

I'm Loki and this week I have:

Knocked the remote control on the floor for no reason. Stolen food out of the food bin twice. Refused to eat the "boring" biscuits. Tipped salt on the floor. Got under daddy's feet while he was walking down the stairs. Drank the water out of mummy's foot bath. Clawed the wallpaper. Chased Jack, my step brother, around the house.

Little Bitty doesn't respond to catnip, but apparently gall fruit is her jam!

She says hey

"When you elect a president of one party, often, states of the party that oppose that president have enormous ability to try to block or push back on directions that the president might want to go, especially if Congress can't function or pass legislation," said Barry Rabe, a public policy professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.