Doug Jones
#extradirty
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TMBGareOK. The Official They Might Be Giants tumblr
Today's Document
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One Nice Bug Per Day
if i look back, i am lost
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@theartofmadeline
shark vs the universe
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@cephalopod-demigod
Just found 2 copies of a 19th century naturalism magazine and LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE ICON
[ID: Ink drawing of a snail using its eye stalks to look into a microscope. End ID.]
@here-be-worms @galvanic-ghoul this is the most important image ever
how dare you not tag me
i'm on a lot of nyquil right now
"Nobody is coming to save you" WRONG! I am running late. I DO NOT have a HORSE!
Nikon AF600, Fuji 400, Rhinog Fawr, Cymru by rabbet on bsky
occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?
egg
i drew it
hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg
i also painted the egg hope that's ok
i heard we were painting egg?
I love how this shows how real artists drawing a thing aren't just representing the thing, but showing you what THEY found beautiful in it.
hope I'm not too late to paint egg! watercolors :)
i too have drawn the egg
heres my egg
Love every single one of these eggs. No yeah of course it's still okay to write your vampire story or whatever, even if a thousand people have done it before you. Your art will still be uniquely yours and people will find something fresh in your perspective. Paint your egg.
i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.
as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”
small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.
i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.
gouache study of beautiful ancient artifacts !
Betty Busby, "Diatom Parade" (2022), quilt [52 in x 68 in]
Please Note:
QUILT
The best shot of the year
Those in the notes worried about this being AI, it's not - her name is Pan Xiaoting and she's a badass billiards pro
Paul Evans
It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles
The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.
The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.
These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.
The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.
He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.
Immensely cool dude. He's been a personal hero since I learned about him.
This is very important and you all need to see it right now
SHIMP
Throw the pixel shrimp upon thee
I also got a tad bit hungry and ate a few pixels, sorry guys
I didn't think it was possible to shorten words verbally without removing syllables but sailors managed.
boatswain -> bosun main sail -> mains'l tree nail -> trunnel etc. etc. etc.
May I add a few more?
coxswain - coxsun
crossjack - crojik
forecastle - fo'c'sle - folksil
gunwale - gunnel
mast- mist
sail- sill
schooner - skunner
tackle - taykull
topgallant mast - t'garns'l mist
topgallant sail - t'garns'l sill
based on the research i've done (and lived experience) of nautical linguistics- the syllables are the most important part of the word! for every command- historically and on modern tall ships, the command must be repeated by the crew exactly is it was heard: no conjugation, no changing of word order, nothing (referred to as a "call-back"). so it makes sense that these words are shortened in this manner.
boats are big, the ocean is loud, and there's a lot of stuff that gets in the way of words traveling coherently across the deck. it's also so rare to get a command when you aren't already entrenched in something else, and so may not be able to turn your head before acknowledging that you've heard. i've linked an NPR article from 2015 about how words travel in different environments, but basically the big takeaway for this scenario is: consonants get lost easily in windy or obstructed environments. there's been many a time (even in fair weather) where i'm having a conversation, on the opposite side of the boat, or even down below when an order is given, where i just hear the cadence of a command i'm familiar with and know immediately what i'm supposed to be doing.
on particularly well-practiced crews, i notice that even the tonal pattern of the officer giving the command is repeated. even without the tonal match, it's critical for the officer to have immediate feedback AND immediate response. when you get an order, you lay into it with urgency; therefore, if you repeat just as you head to your station, redirection can be given swiftly if an incorrect order has been transmitted, BUT if you heard it right the first time there's no delay in the task.
People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp Engl
quick example (callback italicized):
"haul away!" "haul away" clear! exactly the same! i know they heard and the sail is doing the thing!
"haul away" "hauling" sounds an awful lot like holding.. is something wrong? did we forget something? was someone not ready? oh the sail is going up they said HAULing
also explains @ltwilliammowett 's example of "topgallant sail - t'garns'l sill" ... in "gallant" and "garns'l," less than half the consonant sounds are the same but the SYLLABLES match. its just the representation of what the garbled mess that comes across the deck usually sounds like for that Specific Thing!!!
Merging these versions because they're both really interesting!
Since I’m running so late Huevember days 16-18 is also dipping into Deep Sea December prompt list by @montereybayaquarium with day 7 - fish, for one of my favorite fish.
💜🤩 Stunning!
Deep-Sea-cember: Can you fathom how much joy seeing an oarfish brings?
For @montereybayaquarium's Deep Sea December
Unfathomable joy! 🥹❤️
