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.

Very nice, thanks. Love the sound of the cymbals.

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

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

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.

It’s amazing how rich and ancient China’s literary history is. I should make more of an effort to get into Chinese writing, all I’ve read is Shi Naian’s Water Margin which was great fun. Maybe Confucius’ Analects would be a good place to start with the really old stuff.

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 🤢

The word ‘quietly’ seems to be in every other headline lately, it really bugs me.

Government / company x quietly does y.

Do you have pet isopods?

I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second

Complaining about the neighbours maybe? They sure have a lot of them.

They sound absolutely fantastic:

https://ebird.org/species/commur

It’s more boreal in distribution, so you might be a tad too far south. Usually it grows in bogs and heathlands. You can check iNaturalist for a map and to see if it’s been reported near you:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/53041-Kalmia-angustifolia

Kalmia angustifolia

Happy music making (:

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.

Are you familiar with yabridge? It can take a windows vst (.DLL) and create a Linux counterpart (.so) that daws can scan and open normally.

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

In my experience, it works pretty much perfectly about 80% of the time, and the remaining 20% are buggy but useable, or rarely completely broken. I don’t have Arturia’s V Collection, but I have Analog Lab 5 and that runs without bugs. If they are built with similar technology, then you might expect V Collection to work as well.