Approximate Ball Knowledge

I'd better not give any signals till I know what I'm signalling.

[heedra]

animal control to major tom

[heedra]

animal control to major tom

[heedra]

grab the cage and find out where that wombat's gone

[sunrays12]

Sapphic af

(The Countess and Cherubino in “The Marriage Of Figaro” by Mozart)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: How to fold a paper bat plane with flappable wings (cr到车请故意，唛大叔)

[triviallytrue]

Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca

In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think

this is so funny

"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"

"fuck you. ultradense housing that bypasses your stupid zoning rules"

[st-just]

Predictably, not everyone has been happy about it. Critics have included local planners, politicians and, especially, residents of Kitsilano Point, a rarified beachfront neighbourhood bordering the reserve. And there’s been an extra edge to their critiques that’s gone beyond standard-issue NIMBYism about too-tall buildings and preserving neighbourhood character. There’s also been a persistent sense of disbelief that Indigenous people could be responsible for this futuristic version of urban living. In 2022, Gordon Price, a prominent Vancouver urban planner and a former city councillor, told Gitksan reporter Angela Sterritt, “When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building.” 

okay but literally.

[seren-starlight]

The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop : Planet Money

LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when al

Update on this story (the update really being that the towers are nearly complete and they start renting units this summer!)

[sabellart]

the ladybugs’ sgt pepper’s outfits

[yuniper]

my specialty is liking the same movies that 50-year-old dads like but in a way that would instantly send those dads into cardiac arrest if they heard me talk about them

[funkysafari-deactivated20260131]

Stoats playing- Wales, UK by blackfox wildlife and nature imaging

[catball]

all my haters become cicaders when i enter the summer of success

[littlestpersimmon]

The Sea Foam Dragon

[littlestpersimmon]

The Celestial Dance

[flipchild]

The court jester's curt gesture

[finelythreadedsky]

Just curious but where does the star on cheek motif come from in Ancient Greece? It’s beautiful but I don’t know what it’s called so I can’t google it effectively and ‘star on cheek ancient Greece’ did not net me much. If you have any resources on this I would love to read them!

I'm not sure if there's an actual term for it, but the main (and perhaps only) point of reference that everyone seems to use is this painted plaster head of a woman from Mycenae c. 12th century BCE (National Archaeological Museum Athens inv. 4575). it's a unique and pretty unusual object for the period, but apparently there are a couple of other (less well-preserved or less impressive) examples of women's faces depicted with these red suns/stars/rosettes on their cheeks and chins in Mycenaean art. there's some thought that it might be a representation of some sort of makeup worn by real women in late Bronze Age Mycenae, potentially royalty and/or priestesses in official ritual contexts. alternatively it could be an artistic marker of divinity or non-human status with absolutely no relation to women's appearances in real life, since this head may have belonged to a statue of a goddess or a sphinx. we do have a decent number of Mycenaean wall painting fragments depicting female figures, and I don't believe any of them have these markings on their faces-- the trend of depicting mythic or historical Bronze Age Greek women like this really does seem to all come back to this one object.

[gatheringbones]

“Be it known that you crush heads! Be it known that you devour corpses like a dog! Be it known that your gaze is terrible! Be it known that you lift your terrible gaze! Be it known that you have flashing eyes! Be it known that you are unshakeable and unyielding! Be it known that you always stand triumphant!”

— Enheduanna, excerpt of The Exaltation of Inana (via antigonick)

[motionpicturesource]

A MAGNIFICENT LIFE // MARCEL ET MONSIEUR PAGNOL (2025) - Directed by Sylvain Chomet

[the-rainbow-of-doom]

David Hockney Bigger Trees Nearer Warter, Summer 2008 / Bigger Trees Nearer Warter, Winter 2008

[str-ngeloop]

it's called the whether because it depends

[str-ngeloop]

@quatregats okay....!

[aurpiment]

He’s always doing puns and malapropisms and getting sayings wrong and laughing at his own jokes

[playwrongs]

Vase by Émile Gallé, c. 1895 - 1900. Blown glass. In the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. What are you snickering at?