Mantis Bones

Expect a lot of gross interesting art, biology photos, and any other art things that interest me. Also maybe 5% feminism related things. I most likely won't tag anything, but you get the gist that it's mostly gross and creepy.

[rambrandt-the-painter]

reference sheet for for @sneksnladders

[synthient]

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[koukorndog-deactivated20260108]

ml wombat core ^-^

[prokopetz]

It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.

[prokopetz]

Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!

[nattousan]

it was not on wheat...

[nattousan]

[rfpreiwaphase]

not willing to risk doing an image description, sorry y'all

all the times i've said illiteracy is helping fash?

and that plenty of you are, in fact, functionally illiterate?

and that the corrupt state helped you along to this condition on purpose?

the nonzero number of notes from people who did not instantly clock this comic as an allegory: behold.

when you have no idea what a door is, or what a key is, or what glasses are, then you are effectively identical to this clean-faced dude.

and fash absolutely loves what you're doing with the place. sitting there not asking questions, or looking things up, or paying attention to context.

the authoritarian state thrives on a diet of such clowns.

[sasha-on-the-side]

Been talking about this with friends so I present to you, the cursed spectrum of media literacy

[i-might-be-vanny]

Added a Y axis from the notes

[wordfather]

do you fuck with my unwritten story

[wordfather]

do you fuck with the weird guy i made

[theonion]

Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State University suggests that dinosaurs had quinceañeras. “As we examined fossilized footprints in a traditional waltz pattern at dig sites across multiple continents, it became clear that dinosaurs did in fact throw lavish 15th birthday parties for their female offspring, usually with friends and extended family members present,” said paleontologist Edwin Scanlon, who cited the prevalence of petrified las últimas muñecas in sedimentary rock layers and observed that the practice of holding a Catholic mass to mark the 15-year-old’s emergence into Mesozoic society appears to have been common among tyrannosaurs, diplodocuses, and other dinosaurs.

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[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[strawbbykisses]

one thing that impcore citizens, especially usamericans, forget is that imperial core citizenship itself is a privilege. you can be oppressed in countless ways but you will still benefit materially from living in the imperial core. every other axis of oppression exists alongside of that. a homeless person in the us, while they’re still marginalized and discriminated against, are in fact less marginalized than a homeless person in the global south. a racialized person in the impcore can still hold privileges over a racialized individual in the periphery because they benefit from imperialism in ways the person from the periphery does not. a woman in the global north still has benefits and privileges women in the global south do not. that privilege doesn’t disappear because you are oppressed in other ways.

and even by making this post i know many will still fail to understand that there are material advantages to living in the imperial core, to living in the us and being a citizen. this site can barely grasp the concept that men hold a position of privilege despite being oppressed in various other forms, they can barely grasp the idea that a queer person can be marginalized and still privileged due to being white. but regardless of that i think it’s still important to bring up as a reminder

[evilvillain123456789]

When you reblog from me, you are DIRECTLY harming a US veteran.

[funstyle]

ppl complain abt everyone being so boring/inauthentic/detached these days but the second u have interests they deem unusual theyll be like "waitttt thats giving neurodivergent..." like damn its so awesome that were pathologising giving a fuck about anything they dont sell at a tj maxx

[slocotion]

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[prokopetz]

You're a really annoying soulslike monster. How do you lurk?

I perch like a gargoyle on some high vantage, glowering down at the world

I submerge myself in noisome muck with only my eyes poking above the surface

I wait behind a trap door or breakable wall, then burst out like BLAAARG

I look exactly like a pile of trash, debris, and/or bones until I stand up

I dwell in a deep and narrow hole and bite you when you try to look inside

I snipe you at range from a direction you wouldn't intuitively think to look

I come flying in from outside the camera's draw distance at Mach Fuck

I resemble some harmless environmental feature, forcing you to smash them all

I go invisible under certain conditions; can't go wrong with the classics!

I don't "lurk", as such, I just have a really bullshit spawn trigger

Other (specify)

Cheese sandwich

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[polishwave]

[savyir-genesizz-the-wizard]

[Polish. A red writing on the wall saying "no smoking" changed to "beating meat compulsory" with a black sharpie]

[sixthrock]

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[thegroovyarchives]

Vegetables With Glamour From the 1958 "wonderful ways with soups...from Campbell's" Cookbook