[huariqueje]

Park in the Dark - Isobel Scott-Malden , 2024.

British , b. 1998 -

Oil on board , 40 x 40 cm.

[b0nkcreat]

Random stinging pain in my neck 👀

[creepymutelilbugger]

atacked by my #MindWasp

[b0nkcreat]

Can you put those things on a leash please

[creepymutelilbugger]

Yeah. a really Long one so they can still get u tho

[b0nkcreat]

Commentary on: Society

[larval-tear]

you called my favorite media… slop? like… for a pig? is that what you think i am? *gets on all fours* is this what i am to you? *snorts* you think i’m a pig? *snorts* *starts sniffing the ground* you think this is funny? huh? *starts squealing* WEEE WEEE WEEEEEEE… you like this? huh? huh? WEEEEEEEEEE *gets up* whatever. just forget it. i don’t care anymore.

[philcollinsenjoyer]

explained to an 8 year old that once a fruit is ripe you only have so much time until it rots so you have to eat it soon and she said so i'll never be able to keep it perfect like this forever? no and there are about a million pieces of art for you unrelatedly

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[glorious-spoon]

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[liebelesbe]

I love emoji reactions so much. Don't know what to say but don't want to ignore whoever texted you? Boom. Lizard reaction 🦎

[beaft]

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

[beaft]

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

[beaft]

important additions!!!!

[crabussy]

"dolphins are completely evil" I actually don't think we should assign human morality to animals with no concept of law or civilisation with an intelligence roughly equating to that of a toddler

[crabussy]

bottlenose dolphins use "baby talk" when communicating to their babies and smile at each other like humans do when they play. be nicies to them

[autisticexpression2]

"Dolphins are evil" is just a reactionary backlash to years of earnestly believing dolphins were all benevolence and rescuing sailors only to find out they can be dangerous and violent like any other large wild animal.

"Sharks are nice" is a similar phenomenon in the opposite direction. Pop culture portrays sharks as malevolant killing machines who crave human flesh, so when people realize they're just animals who don't attack people any more than other predators, they overcompensate into thinking you can just swim with great whites with no danger.

The reality, of course, is that both dolphins and sharks are large wild animals who should be approached with caution and respect if at all. It's probably best for you and the animal to admire them from a safe distance.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Same goes for chimpanzees and pandas btw.

Chimpanzees are not unhinged vicious monsters, they are complex social animals that are capable of treating each other with love and tenderness as well as shocking violence, just like humans do. Humans also have a track record of treating chimps terribly and putting them in high stress situations where they can respond violently. Human encroachment on chimp habitat is also forcing them into closer proximity to each other, leading to heightened territorial violence over dwindling resources.

Pandas are not useless evolutionary failures that should be allowed to die off and frankly the attitude people take towards them is unsettling from both a conservation standpoint and because it's like one step removed from eugenicist logic. Pandas are adapted just fine to life in an environment that is rapidly being destroyed by human activity, and their use as ambassador animals for conservation generates money that also goes towards conservation of species with less mass appeal.

[excessively-english-jd]

People honestly need to get comfortable with the fact that there are many things our societies have designated as negative, evil, or wrong that are in fact normal parts of life, particularly complex, social life.

Animals kill other animals to eat them. The act of killing for food is not evil. The process of death is not bad. Death is morally neutral.

Violence is one of many tools animals use to navigate social disputes. Horses use violence. Ants use violence. And yes, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and humans use violence. Violent impulses and reactions are natural occurrences.

Laziness does not exist. Minimising energy expenditure is a good survival strategy and can be taken to the extreme - like pandas, sloths, and a variety of other species. That does not make them 'useless' or 'failures'.

Nature is messy. Animals can show behaviors we have decided are 'bad' - but also things we classify as 'good', such as altruism. It is hard to quantify non-human intelligences, and at the end of the day, we don't *know* what a non-human animal is thinking. We have to be careful about assigning human moral judgements outside of human moral frameworks. And maybe we also need to rethink how our morality systems judge various things.

[fallingtowers]

"grackle" really is a perfect name for a bird. knocked it out of the park w/ that one

[creekfiend]

they should invent something that reduces the amount of pain you are experiencing.

[ryebreadedd]

im a protected species you fucking asshole

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[worrywyrms]

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[captain-price-returns]

The death of credible government is darkly hilarious in a cosmic sort of way. Obviously, the FDA is useless now. Therefore, we must place our trust in more credible institutions, such as Taco Bell, which has been far more transparent and proactive in handling this parasite business.