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Happy New Year! Let's hope this one is better than the last...
I've wanted to animate a lion dance fight sequence for some time but I've been stretched pretty thin and this was all I've managed to put out in time. I can absolutely imagine Tintin and Chang getting up to Shenanigans with a lion costume.
Tag yourself and learn about your bees🐝
I drew 100 bees, but there are over 20000 species of bees! Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests.
Search for your favorite bees to find photos and information!
Fun facts about immigration in the US you might want to share with friends and relatives for no particular reason
The United States actually had open borders until 1924. There was no cap on immigration, and people were only denied access based on race and disability. (x)
The Immigration Act of 1924 had an overall negative impact on the economy (x) (x) and foreign relations with Asia, but Hitler praised it (x), because it was just blatant eugenics (x).
ICE didn't exist until 2003 (x)
Being undocumented is not actually classified as a crime (x). If it was, cases would be handled by the judicial branch, and defendants would receive the benefits of due process. But because it isn't, it is handled by the executive branch, and defendants do not get due process. That means no lawyers, no jury, and no real judge.
Immigration "judges," who are not required to have nearly as much experience or education in law as real judges (x), face no consequences for wrongful deportation, they are only really evaluated based on how many people they process.
While it's difficult to pin down an exact number, there have been an estimated 4,000 wrongful detention/deportations by 2010 alone (x - this one suggests a possible 20,000) (x - this one confirms over a thousand), with several reported on in mainstream media (Mark Lyttle, Pedro Guzman, Roberto Dominquez, Andres Gonzalez, Esteban Tiznado-Reyna).
In April 2025, there were several more confirmed wrongful deportations, including a 2-year-old citizen deported to Honduras (x) (x), a 10-year-old with brain cancer on her way to a medical appointment (x), and a 7-year-old and her 4-year-old brother with stage 4 cancer (x).
There were more deaths in ICE concentration camps in 2025 than almost any year prior, tying for first place with 2003 (x). If nothing is done about it, that number will increase in 2026.
Hi guys, in the interest of accuracy, if you reblogged before, please reblog this version, with all the sources and corrections.
Fragments of the spectacular marine mosaics from the baths of a Roman townhouse excavated on Via Panisperna in 1888.
This is Frederick the crow. He was my friend when I was a little boy. My family raised him, and taught him to fly. He liked cat food and cigarettes. This is the only picture we have of him.
Remembering Frederick
The complete set of 12 stickers featuring Tintin characters and Citroen vehicles throughout the years. Art by Bob de Moor, 1984.
Spirit, Body, Organs, Bones
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
My friend works at a doggy daycare, and on a number of occasions I have personally witnessed him greeting a dog out on the street by name, and the dogs act all excited and familiar. The owners always respond with complete befuddlement, like, how does this random man have a personal relationship with Julep?!
I want to order a bigger kettlebell and I keep thinking damn the guys who deliver weights must be jacked
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
forklift certified? babe he doesn't even need one
When I was a teen, I won an ebay auction for a 110 pound anvil. Some time later, an exasperated UPS drive showed up on our doorstep. "Kid," he said, "you'd better be feeling strong today... and have a good excuse." We then crab walked between us a nondescript package not much larger than a shoe box up two flights of stairs. He thought it was hilarious when I told him what it was. "Like the coyote in the cartoons," he laughed.
I can't remember if it was here or somewhere else, but I once wrote about discovering that "isekai" (異世界) doesn't translate the way I thought it did. The common gloss is "Other World", but while sekai for world is straightforward (ish*), 異 doesn't mean "other" in the sense of alternative. Kanji dictionaries give definitions like "strange, fantastical, uncommon, queer, [etc]".
Going by the kanji, it should be translated more like otherly world. An isekai tensei (reincarnation) or portal story should specifically be in a fantasy world of some sort. (Minor in practice right, since that rules out, what? A tiny handful of alt-history reincarnation/portals? But still funny because it was unexpected.)
But of course, words mean what they're used to mean. Even (and I've had my arguments with otaku who didn't get this one) in other languages.
Every Japanese-English dictionary I checked for the actual definition of "isekai" said things like, "Alternative dimension," or "Parallel universe."
*: 世界's kanji on their own mean society/public and boundary; while "world" is good, based on a handful of dictionaries, it'd be weird to use it on its own about a "planet", and the sense "area of activity or influence" or "subsection of society" that would be very metaphorical in English is a primary sense in Japanese
**: Consider "kung fu". It's original meaning in Chinese is about growth through time and effort, it doesn't refer to martial arts. Except it does! For centuries, starting with romantic novels about the kung fu of martial artists, Mandarin speakers have also made this conflation! It's just that they're also aware they're also aware of the kung fu of tea ceremonies, dance, flower arrangement, etc. (For the curious: wushu literally means martial art, and quanfa means fist sport.)
I am reminded of the Japanese word for Kitchen Knife, Hocho/Bocho rendered in kanji as 包丁. But those two kanji together don't mean anything like kitchen knife. The origins come from the Chinese idiom 庖丁解牛 Páo Dīng Jiě Niú, which means to be highly skilled at your trade/craft. The idiom itself is derived from an ancient Taoist parable about a skilled butcher named Ding who describes to a regional lord how after many many years of working his trade, he makes it look effortless. But only through great familiarity with the animals he butchers, and a high level of concentration and muscle memory does it appear to be so easy. He explains to the lord that a novice butcher will go through a knife in only a month, having abused it by unskillfully hacking at the bones. A good butcher can make a knife last a year or so. But the legendary knife Butcher Ding is using "庖丁刀" is decades old. So when we say Hocho in Japanese, we are actually saying the name of a butcher from over two thousand years ago.
My roommate thought she hated cooking and then she moved in with me and started using knives that were actually sharp and realized cooking is fun. Sometimes I wonder how many other situations are like this. It's not you, or your skills. It's just the lack of correct tools. Everyone knows you need a knife in the kitchen but no one mentions a sharpening stone.
Also you should probably sharpen your knife.
Speaking less metaphorically I literally do wonder how many people would realize Cooking Doesn't Suck if only they had sharper knives. Cutting vegetables is not supposed to be a workout. You're not supposed to apply force when you press down. If you have to force the knife down then the knife is dull! This is a fixable problem!
As a professional kitchen knife sharpener and cooking enthusiast, I approve of this message. People are constantly astonished at what a difference it makes to sharpen even their bargain bin chef knife they bought at Sears, and then flabbergasted when they invest in something nicer. Cooking doesn't have to be a burden, and in fact can be quite fun.
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that's just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there's this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn't afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
"The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn't fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick's joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles." - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.
There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!
This is his art.
You can't forget this, the first art made in space.
March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.
Oh my goodness, the woodpecker 😆 (other two are Oriole and female Grosbeak)
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this is a magical interaction. the grosbeak’s face is everything
The fact that he’s not actually struggling but just learned a habit from watching his human buddy snap bamboo is so precious.
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U ever have any container or appliance that you only ever put water inside you catch yourself thinking 'i only put water in this so I won't need to clean it very often'. That is the devil talking. Clean it. Or you will summon the Ooze.
“Summon[ing] the Ooze” is very pertinent to my work water bottle
