put down the ducky if you wanna play the saxophone

bridget, 31, lisa frank art nouveau science hippy goob. she/her me & mine | it started as an anagram blog runs on queue 🍯

[catchymemes]

[text-mode]

Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a saltwater clam that makes cellular automata-style patterns in some kind of hieroglyphical or cuneiform way. Also see the textile cone, the lioconcha castrensis and the nature tag here.

[buttpoems]

[robertreich]

Poverty is a policy choice. A broken healthcare system is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

[dogpuppy]

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[hellenicgoddess]

Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

[mmagpye]

Bioregional Quiz

[nationalisons-orleans-express]

“Where You At – A Bioregional Quiz” by Leonard Charles, Jim Dodge, Lynn Milliman and Victoria Stockley, first published in Winter 1981 issue of Coevolution Quarterly

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[crowboy-bebop]

mysterious stick appears out of thin air............

(hellgate osprey livestream)

[matchagirl]

[homura]

[tiktoksformyfriends]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Guy who has a non-research degree in a field that never studies human subjects: Here are my opinions on what needs to be done for me to respect this field I've decided to become a denier of.

[Extreme breach of scientific ethics]

[Violent abuse of power]

[Method that actually doesn't obtain any information]

[Controlled double-blind studies of phenomena where that is literally impossible]

[Seeking empirical proof that a word has the meaning that it's defined as]

[Study that would have a dropoff rate of 100%]

Additionally, how do we know that [best currently available theory] is true, and not [dominant theory from 100 years ago that repeatedly failed in the face of evidence]? I have found some minor methodological flaws in [studies that were not designed to prove the best available theory, but rather examine edge cases within that theory], so we should really consider [nonsense with no evidence backing it whatsoever].

[flavorcountry]

Lots of little kids love construction trucks. My older kid went through a whole phase as a toddler; couldn't get enough of 'em. During lockdown, one of the best out-of-the-house distractions was to go find a construction site and watch the backhoes and whatnot at work. (my private theory is that construction machinery pushes the same brain buttons as dinosaurs for little kids: huge and powerful, but you can also name and catalog them)

Something I always wanted to have, though, was a map that would let people report:

Where the construction is

Which machines are in use

Whether there's a good view

Ideally, it would also let me search and filter based on those parameters, so if my kid wanted to just see a concrete mixer or a crane truck, we could find one.

Well, now that site exists, because I built it.

The trouble is, it's only any good if people actually use it and report construction sites! Please go take a look and if you know where there's a construction site, add it -- if you don't, that's fine, just reblog and spread the word? If it starts to get some uptake, I might spring for a real URL, but right now I just want to prove the concept. You like concepts, right?

I also added a layer for a few cities that populates all the construction permit data they publish, filterable by cost: if you filter down to like $1000, you see everybody's bathroom remodel, which isn't very useful, but if you go the other direction and see the $200M+ permits, you can probably infer there's serious machinery working on a skyscraper or something. Hell yeah??

[arinewman7]

Art Nouveau Brooch

Henri-Auguste Solié

gold, opal and diamond, c. 1900

[getbird]

LOVE to have car trouble, go on youtube, and see that a middle aged man has uploaded a video to help me solve my exact problem. this is one of the most productive things middle aged men have ever done for society

[getbird]

"pink Himalayan sea salt" bestie it's been hundreds of millions of years since any kind of sea was involved in the Himalayas I think at this point we have to admit that is rock salt