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I fear a lot of people learned to take good care of library books as children and instead of internalizing "leave shared community items as you found them as much as possible, because other people will use them too" they internalized "printing and binding a book imbues it with sacred energy and if you dog-ear a mass-market paperback you're desecrating the entire concept of written language"
Tylosaurus skull embroidery! I tried to be as accurate with the anatomy as I could but it was really hard on such a small scale (it’s about as long as my pointer finger). The pterygoid teeth are there but really hard to see and the premaxilla is too pointy but I’m still satisfied with it
Also this is a couple of months old I just forgot to ever post it oops
nature knows no god, there is divinity within the wild
…also why do some ppl think fossils were put there by god to test faith ?? like huh? sybau leave my sarco alone !!! shes real!
Flying Colors Ep. 4
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Comic redraw I gave up on finishing (I have the lineart done but I don’t like it so yall don’t get to see it)
one of the biggest american copes to me is that our right wing essentially runs on the idea that it's gay and cucked to want a better life for anyone including yourself. this is the biggest cope in the entire world. other countries are worse because they're gay and cucked. higher life expectancies are gay and cucked. higher literacy rates are gay and cucked. public transportation is gay and cucked. education is gay and cucked and so on and so forth
If you're thinking about moving on from Spotify, I can't recommend enough getting into modern MP3 players (more properly called digital audio players, or DAPs, since they play more filetypes than just MP3) and building your own music library.
There's been a massive amount of innovation in the lower end of DAPs, and you can get a lot for under $100. Here are the main ones I recommend:
Snowsky Echo Mini - This is the most affordable one, at only $65 CAD (I think it's even less in the US) and the one that I ended up buying. Designed to look like a cassette player. The main drawback is that the interface is slightly unintuitive and it doesn't have a touch screen, but I've been delighted with mine.
Hiby R1 - This goes for $85 USD, and is the most widely recommended of the bunch for its good UI and wide range of utilities. Has a touchscreen and buttons.
Tempotec V1 - Similar to the Hiby R1, although the specific features are slightly different. Also has a touchscreen and buttons.
Innioasis R1 (honourable mention) - Designed to look nearly identical to an iPod Classic, including a fully functional clickwheel The sound quality on this is notably worse than the other DAPs I listed above, and the Bluetooth is widely reported to be unreliable, but I have to include it for people who desperately want an iPod again (and don't want to shell out $300+ for a modernized Classic) and because it has an extremely active modding scene.
You will need to buy a microSD card to upgrade the storage of most of these, although these days you can get 250GB for under $20.
I can't speak for the others, but the Hiby also has an aux/headphones jack port.
Tbh, I find its UI rather dodgy, it needs a "back" button instead of just "next" and "pause", and the volume doesn't go nearly as loud as it should (even outside of headphones mode), but it's still a solid unit. Plus, I love being able to use folders, ala my ancient PJB-100.
trying to come back from the dead 😮💨
Annoying that dairy products are demonized as Unnatural and Disgusting when it's actually kinda neat that humans figured out a way to fulfill omnivorous nutritional requirements without killing any animals (and populations historically dependent on dairy even evolved lactase persistence!). This is biopunk to me
I've seen weird memes and stuff like "Milk is BODILY FLUID that came from a COW" and the fact that people exist that would find this distressing concerns me.
Y'all are not going to like learning what fruits are...
A fruit is an OVARY that because SWOLLEN AND ENLARGED after PLANT GENITALS were rubbed in PLANT SPERM by a BUG
we have got to stop acting like we’re better than nature. we drink animal fluids and eat flesh and it’s gross because being alive is gross work and that’s so fine. we’re part of the ecosystem, and this “humans are a disease on earth we shouldn’t be interfering with animals at all” mindset that some people have is so oppositional to all the people who don’t live a first-world type life.
#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.
“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”
Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.
I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance
please try this on for size:
there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present
My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.
My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.
Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary. And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to participate in this system. If that means I go to Hell, so be it. Going to Hell now.”
(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.” Interesting guy. Sorry for the long parenthetical.)
Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.
And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.
mother is not proud
When you're an undiagnosed neurodivergent and ask your neurodivergent friend if it's normal to think this way.
Art by me (Ukiyoebirds). Script by @krazycat6167. Who is just so good at writing soft poignant moments that stab me in the heart.
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I ❤️ my cat
average starscream activity
Me on a friday night
“The power’s out because what.”
Makes sense, that area’s made for boning
it’s giving “my bisexual wife”
It is vital to ward your power lines or bury them so unfathomable (unphatantasmable?) terrors of the night don’t get stuck in them. This has been a growing problem as urban sprawl moves people an infrastructure into their usual haunts.
ROOOOXXXXXXXXANNE!
WARNING: MICRO-CANNIBALS IN YOUR AREA
You might look upon this little creature with fondness BUT DO NOT BE DECEIVED!!!!
They are venomous and dangerous cannibals who would eat even their own young. I too used to be enraptured by their little legs and weevil-like snout, but after an intensive google search 5 minutes ago I learned the truth.
Shrews follow the trend of all cute animals, the more cute aggression they cause— the more they hold inside themselves.
thank you.
