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[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]

akumeoy

a reasonable society would base their entire economy around this

boyswillbeboxes

I need everyone to see this ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE

milk5-deactivated20260704

what the fuck

Two cats won’t give up on trying to enter a Japanese Art Museum, the war has been going on for 2 years now.

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vespertinecat

You guys are missing the best part: THE CATS HAVE THEIR OWN MUSEUM MERCH.

maddiebiscuits

oh so they’ll CAPITALIZE on their suffering but won’t LET THEM IN THE MUSEUM

LET THEM IN!!!!

gengarite

he disconnected immediately afterwards

foxy-sierra

DEMOLISHED.

ipromiseyouiwilldosomething

swords-machine

babyanimalgifs

A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale)

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j-liz

fucko

crplpunkklavier

i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it

6qubed

that was like watching someone very skillfully assembling a stained-glass window just to watch someone else dropkick it

xeansicemane

People sing Brennan Lee Mulligan’s praises back and forth but his collaborators are all deeply skilled improvisors as well, Zac Oyama has an utterly killer sense of comedic timing.

brandonlees

Life is difficult, but you are loved.

THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE. (2022), dir. Charlie Mackesy & Peter Baynton

fullcravings

Boston Pumpkin Cream Donuts

rederiswrites

Actually, ancient glass, having been rather neglected by archaeology for decades, is a pretty exciting topic in scholarship right now. The main thing is that glass persists–it’s very stable. After fabric rots and metal turns to a scrap of rust, there will lie a necklace, still scattered across a chest that itself has turned mostly to earth.

Bead typologies, for example (that is, the classification of different styles/shapes/decorative motifs/colors) can allow scholars to trace trade routes, as they study the distributions of different bead types over time and geography. Glass production is kinda industrial in nature, not like spinning or beer that make good cottage industries. It was often produced in one place, and then sold on to artisans elsewhere, and then the beads themselves were traded across entire continents.

Chemical analysis of the glass can do even more to trace routes, since different compositions and incidence of different mineral contaminants can allow archaeologists to trace glass production to individual sites, thousands of years after the fact. It’s dizzying, really.

The downside is that for a long time, archaeologists regarded beads as unimportant trinkets, and antiquities dealers understood that they were easy to take and easy to move. So an awful lot of the most exceptional beads we have from the distant past spent time in private collections or uncategorized drawers somewhere in a museum back room, so they’ve lost much of what we could have learned from their original provenance. Maybe we’ll be able to turn new analytical tools on some of these to reconstruct more of their past.

rederiswrites

This is one of the nerdiest posts I’ve made on this site; why does it have notes? I love you. What the fuck.

hootenanie

if two men have sex with each other, is that feminist because no women are being sexualized, or anti-feminist because it doesn't pass the bechdel test

hootenanie

mortimermcmirestinks

since all of these terms could easily be used to describe you, which do you most closely identify with

hot

handsome

pretty

beautiful

gorgeous

sexy

majestic

cute

fetching

attractive

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2023

mortimermcmirestinks

#im so bad at taking compliments wheres the none button

THERE ISN'T ONE MOTHERFUCKER

PICK AN OPTION

ruffboi-mags

OP this is the sweetest and most lovely thing I've seen in a while. You're just plowing forward past the "but I'm not--" arguments and right into just letting them to be full and happy. A+

tilthat

TIL the first known case of “dying from laughing” involved the greek man called Chrysippus, who, after giving figs to his donkey, cried out “Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs”, had a fit of laughter afterwards and died.

via reddit.com

honted

pretty funny i guess

pastabot

had to be there

llamallover

Translation is always tricky, but I remember this slightly different:

Figs were an imported delicacy at the time, and the donkey just managed to eat them (without being given any on purpose). Seeing a donkey eating several times their own value in figs, the philosopher looked to his servant who might have been standing there either in shock, despair, or both, and said something along the lines of “Oh don’t just stand there. Get him some (undiluted) wine to wash the figs down with”. With (undiluted) wine also being an expensive drink.

I feel like that context makes it funnier. Basically like standing in front of your burning mansion with a butler, meeting their eyes, and telling them that you still feel a little chilly and ask them if they could put on an extra log or two.

commandtower-solring-go

idk what’s funnier, the burning house situation, or being the butler as you watch your master laugh so hard at his own joke that he fully fucking dies.