[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[fangirltothefullest]

The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[ymutate]

Zulu Imbenge baskets are woven entirely of recycled telephone wire in the heart of KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa. In the 1990s, Zulu women began repurposing discarded telephone wires, weaving them into intricate patterns to create colorful and durable baskets while preserving traditional weaving techniques.

[simena]

Jette Stoltz

[beemovieerotica]

[zinderant]

Tags from @smallpileofmoss:

#saturation diving!!!#sending some to an from the bottom of the ocean takes forever if you have to acclimate to the pressure and then depressurize every time#so it’s much cheaper and faster to have a handful of very very brave people just stay pressurized for days or weeks straight#and then do a big depressurization at the end#it’s pretty terrifying and to my understanding wildly dangerous but it’s pretty much the only way to maintain#all that critical undersea infrastructure without an actual army of deep sea divers

Terrifying doesn't begin to describe it! I'm sure there are some wild side effects from being at that pressure and breathing heliox, but nevermind that, he said he's been down there for 23 days! How do they eat and sleep?? Do they have a submersible down there with them that allows them to get out of the suit? I can't imagine how you'd do that otherwise.

[biologicalfandomhippo]

I am not an expert but I do know that sometimes they keep them on the surface but in a pressurized habitat, so that they can comfortably decompress slowly, and also so they have a place to live in between dives without depressurizing. Just living in a home that is artificially pressurized to be like the ocean floor, so you can go back to the ocean floor faster with no problems.

Honestly saturation divers (termed is because they keep them at the pressure, so the blood saturations are different) (that's why they are breathing heliox, oxygen behaves differently down there so surface air wouldn't work for oxygenating the blood) are equivalent to astronauts to me. Highly trained, incredibly brave engineers and scientists, living in artificial conditions in places that are supposed to kill them.

[kocalls]

[klimtsonian]

“None of us can choose our destiny, and none of us can escape it.” 🏰🐉✨

[fromthedust]

7,000 bead dress

found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, from a female contemporary of King Khufu (2589-2566 BCE) Egypt, Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty

[random-brushstrokes]

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

[sepublic]

I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).

Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.

He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.

Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.

All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!

So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.

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[itsc]

everyone say happy birthday bear!!!!!! he is SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

happy birthday to my oldman sweetie!!!!!!

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[parakavka]

Today a very friendly Golden Retriever came up to me and I said "hey buddy :D" and the owner asked "do you know each other?" like his dog had a social life he didn't know about

[huariqueje]

Small Silent Nocturne - Alice Dalton Brown , 2024.

American , b. 1939 -

Oil on linen , 30 × 20 cm.