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ren | 30s | queer gnc | anticapitalist

[depsidase]

[just-another-regular-dude]

[buried-in-stardust]

Making wontons

[herpsandbirds]

I recently learned about the penis snake, a caecilian that is the world's largest lungless tetrapod. Do you have any examples of lovely caecilians to share?

Yes this is one of my fav groups of animals!

Herps and Birds (and More) — Eiselt's Caecilian aka "Penis Snake" Caecilian...

Ringed Caecilian (Siphonops annulatus), family Siphonopidae, widely distributed in South America, east of the Andes

Caecilians are amphibians, like frogs and salamanders. (They are not worms, nor are the snakes).

Most species are fossorial (burrowing), but many are also aquatic or semi-aquatic.

photograph by Carlos Jared

Kaup’s Caecilian (Potomotyphlus kaupii), family Typhlonectidae, found in northern South America

This species is aquatic.

photograph by Dante Fenolio

Beddome’s Caecilian (Ichthyophis beddomei), family Ichthyophiidae, western India

photograph by Girish Gowda

Magdalena Valley Caecilian (Caecilia subnigricans), family Caeciliiidae, San Jacinto, Bolivar, Colombia

photograph by José Gabriel Julio Guzmán 

São Tomé Caecilian (Schistometopum thomense), family Dermophiidae, endemic to São Tomé and Ilhéu das Rolas (Africa)

photographs by m_burger

[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.

[mothmiso]

白石川堤 一目千本櫻 (2) (3) (4) by C.H Lam Photography

Via Flickr:

Shiraishi River Embankment: A Thousand Cherry Trees at a Glance     

[miamaimania]

“The Greek Garden” ギリシャ庭園 ≋ Peter Skov

[glavilio]

Auguste Jean Baptiste Roubille for Le Rire #20, June 20, 1903 (via umn.edu)

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[artofmaquenda]

I love how color can tell a story. In this case, it reflects the way I tend to see colors within colors, layers unfolding into more layers, endlessly connected, just like life and the universe itself. Everything contains something else, and every small detail is part of a much larger story.

Maybe that’s also why childhood memories feel so vivid to me. As a child, the world is experienced through all lenses at once, with fewer filters and less judgement and a heightened sense of awareness. Sounds, smells, colors, textures, and sensations are all felt more intensely, not necessarily because they carry a specific meaning, but because they are so immediate and alive.

[mysharona1987]

[roooooosssssse-deactivated20260]

peggy oki // original z-boys

[jetix]

2021-06-04

[interlockingpatches]

Crustacean Cocktail Party, interlocking crochet (patterns)

[expressions-of-nature]

by Roman Heger

[byjove]

Pictish drip was insane. Look at this choker:

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Chances are thats going to be the only thing a Pict warrior is wearing as he charges at you naked covered in blue paint and screaming with a sword in hand

[byjove]

Loveee that illustration on the left with the chain on. Definitely worn by the sexiest bitch above the Antonine Wall circa 400 AD.

[jessalrynn]

Question. Did they really not wear clothes or was that an outsider trying to make them seem subhuman creating a fake reason? (Source: Julius Caesar making impossible shit up about at least one island in the Mediterranean and two in the Atlantic)

[byjove]

They wore clothes but fought naked, generally speaking. They were a people of northern Scotland and they farmed sheep so I assume they dressed warmly and in a lot of wool though depictions of their clothing are scant. They made very beautiful brooches/cloak pins. Fighting naked was an intimidation tactic practiced by many Celtic cultures. The reason Picts are usually depicted as naked and painted is because that was how they went into battle and generally speaking, that was the only time outsiders saw them.

(Detail of a Pictish brooch and a recreation of the piece available on Etsy.)

[byjove]

Right, like Celtic tribes were viewed as barbaric and uncivilized and uncultured for fighting naked but it was genuinely a very effective intimidation tactic, especially in the late Iron Age. Even though the Celts of Anglesey weren’t the same culture as the Picts we have descriptions from Roman sources of Roman soldiers suffering heavy casualties because they were frozen in terror and unable to move at the sight of Celtic soldiers running at them naked and screaming and seemingly without fear. Because when an armed individual runs at you in a murderous frenzy wearing only jewelry, it’s scary as fuck. And it would be in the modern day too.

[emptysurface]

Clothes would also have been incredibly valuable, and this way, none of it got ruined while fighting

[byjove]

Yeah, I believe there is a Roman source that says the Celts abruptly and violently removed their clothes right before going into battle (instead of like. walking there with their dick out.) so it might have also been a way of keeping their clothes from being damaged and/or keeping clothing fibers from getting in their wounds. Or it could have been a “fuck this, these are getting in my way” type instinct. Many advantages to going to battle nude in the late Iron Age. And they did carry large shields so it’s not like they had absolutely zero protection on the battlefield.

[theartofmadeline]

two pictish ladies

inspired by some engravings from 1590 that are very historically inaccurate