Echo

26,000 spiders in a human suit.

[thisbibliomaniac]

Gatekeeping is so good and important

[msburgundy]

[kirkendauhl-v2]

What's she saying in the photo

[thisbibliomaniac]

[helpmepleaseicantfindaname]

[fiollaigean]

[animentality]

[minecraft]

[canoncanidae]

[neopet-euthanization]

[drdaanvondutch]

an old con gag that will always be funny is someone cosplaying spy from tf2 in a group of people and they've got a different cosplay taped to their face to blend in

[imgonnaeatthatglitter]

[memecucker]

Apparently one type of deer hunting practiced in the Middle Ages was using “stalking horses” which involves crouching behind horse in a forest and slowly guiding it towards a deer that’s been tracked because deer are not frightened by the sight of other tall quadrupeds and I like how “horses as a form of camouflage” is belongs to the list of uses for domestic horses

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @chiropteracupola ! “Stalking horse” is still a phrase and one whose meaning is easy to remember, I think

[hexbugswallower]

Ants have the most badass lives of anything in the animal kingdom, life as an ant is like warhammer

[hexbugswallower]

Wake up in enormous underground cyberpunk metropolis

Venture outside with your ant buddies to forage scraps from an incomprehensible civilization of alien gods (each one several times larger than the city you've spent most of your life inside) for the glory of your GodMomEmpress

Get attacked by a platoon of soldiers from a rival megacity, they're an offshoot of your species except like twice as big (basically orks) and like 10% of them are genetically modified supersoldiers with wings

Luckily, you've been engineered from birth to spit acid so you and your antfriends successfully defeat the rival ants and their winged miniboss

Die from getting stuck on a jolly rancher

[tilthat]

TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

[armedandgayngerous]

that was the Devil

[general-thinks]

I mean they wanted rain

[northerlygale-deactivated202307]

His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions

[prokopetz]

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.

[mrbrainrot]

the council refused to pay him, because the rains had also caused $3.5 million in damages. if they paid him, he would be admitting he was responsible, and would be liable for the damages. he sued them, but the courts ruled that no money would change hands because the rain had been an act of god, meaning he was not responsible.

what an insane series of facts

[the-big-mood]

Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.

[ruinedchildhood]

[gradienty]

Screamin’ Green Pastel (#3af769 to #4fec91)

[cassettepony]

bart stop giving the horse cigarettes [commission]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

machine uses image recognition to detect lice on fish and then uses laser to blast the parasites.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

[angelasscribbles]

[minosbull]

Opinion | The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US — Guardian US

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not s

[plavoptice]

“The irony is that the Olympics themselves are built around the idea that sport can exist alongside political tension without pretending it does not exist. The International Olympic Committee’s own language – athletes should not be punished for governments’ actions – implicitly acknowledges that governments are part of the Olympic theater whether organizers like it or not.

“Friday night illustrated that perfectly. American athletes were cheered, their enormous contingent given one of the most full-throated receptions of the night. The political emissaries were not universally welcomed. Both things can be true at once.”

[iamnmbr3]

#thank you for loving our athletes and hating our politicians#thank you everyone who cheered for our athletes and booed for Vance#all the athletes from all countries should be celebrated

[prince-says-lay-her]

[thoodleoo]

i think maybe my new favorite category of roman intaglio art is "insects doing human things" because it's so indicative of the human need for whimsy. now take a look at this 1st century BC/AD intaglio of a grasshopper in a chariot pulled by butterflies