Ever-Shrinking Internet Niche Space

[damphexagon]

Content from the Galway City Museum (Galway, Ireland) that I thought someone here might find relatable.

[muppetshow2026]

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A PENGUIN? A SUCCULENT ADÉLIE PENGUIN?

[foxsnails]

Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!

I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly

[mollybeenoel]

“What’s the most impressive and stressful thing you’ve seen?”

Me:

Source

[damphexagon]

If your church isn't willing to do this, do they even really believe in God?

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[alexaloraetheris]

In the ye olde days, when technology allowed phones to become small but there was no general concensus on what a phone should/ought to look like, it was like the wild west of phone design. The crazier it was, the higher the prestige. Phones back then did two things and they did them with flamboyance.

And then Steve Jobs ruined everything.

[damphexagon]

This is the shit I want a phone to do. Not a screen that folds in the middle where the flex-point will destroy the screen in under a year. Not something as thin as a business card with a half-hour of battery life. Give me a keyboard that comes out like a switchblade. Give me a camera that expands out like a Psycho-Pass Dominator. I'm going to be stuck with my OnePlus 7 Pro for the rest of my life just for the stupid little pop-up camera. Phones should DO STUFF.

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[arahir]

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

[damphexagon]

:(

[pngblog]

[hurglewurm]

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

[homeboygirl]

i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders

[homeboygirl]

"i want to show my friends the media i enjoy but its not considered good so i wont" is such a bad thought process. i once made my friends watch my favourite childhood movie with me which has a 1% rating on rotten tomatoes and i cackled with glee as they groaned in agony for an hour and a half. but yknow what? thats what friends are for.

[damphexagon]

I have been referring to media this way for a long time. In general, I think of something "good" as having some combination of a meaningful message, historical value, or innovative premise, plus effective execution by the cast and crew. Something "enjoyable" likely has big robots, lasers, maybe a talking cat, that sort of thing. The best movies are obviously both good and enjoyable, while the worst movies are neither. Movies that are good but not enjoyable are often "Oscar bait" or important classics you need to watch once but probably wouldn't watch again. Enjoyable but not good are the junk-food movies that you watch for an escape and laugh the whole time. There's a place for all of these (even, I'd argue, the Bad/Unenjoyable, though only occasionally).

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

[lakevida]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

[damphexagon]

A friend of Robert Reich? Or perhaps, an enemy?

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

Italian Nirvana

[damphexagon]

Finally perfecting my spiritual consciousness so I can access the Akashic Records, and then just searching "bomb-ass pasta sauce".

[nyancrimew]

[damphexagon]

This is what I imagine it's like when left-handed people use tools designed for right-handed people. Just like a 10-15% chance of spontaneous detonation.

[montereybayaquarium]

Make like a nudibranch and slooow down in our latest installment of Krill Waves Radio! 🎧

Settle in with some spectacular sea slugs as they sway to soothing lo-fi beats.

The mesmerizing video includes footage of nudibranchs on exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium and sightings filmed by divers in the wild. 

🔎 Can you spot the difference?

[damphexagon]

Let's fuckin' gooooooooo

[yoshitaka-koga]

ヤツガシラ

[damphexagon]

I'd love to see one of these guys in Ireland someday. Apparently they show up occasionally, digging for worms and generally acting weird.

[theconcealedweapon]

[damphexagon]

What's that? Having to take the time, money, and effort to convert all those office towers into housing would be inconvenient for you? Really disruptive to your work-life balance? Wow, that's rough, guess you'd better die about it.

[bowelfly]

Brother Ignatz trying to get out of dish duty by pretending to be a stand of reeds. again.

[bowelfly]

when its fish night at the monastery

[damphexagon]

Me when I see drawings of herons (et al.).