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live laugh love Herbert Ponting's descriptions

“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema — and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.” (I was slack-jawed by the end of this.)

gallusrostromegalus

Absolutely go read this. I was delighted the entire time.

becomedog

the podcast version of the article is great too, for those who’d prefer audio

asoftspotforangels

some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

wizardshark

WOVEN TAPESTRIES???

psychologicalwarclaire

WOVEN TAPESTRIES?!?

violetsandshrikes

Really cool write up that links to the original paper that just came out this year (2025)!

This is a really cool example of foraging innovation.

violetsandshrikes

animal behaviour study can get a little confusing, because a lot of more specific or advanced behaviours tend to be anecdotal or a one off observation (so even if it seems obvious, like birds having preferences, there’s often a lack of actually repeatable data to back the claim up)

food preparation is a behaviour that’s considered more advanced, and it’s divided into a number of categories: soaking the food, cleaning the food, transporting water, etc. in this case, the novel behaviour is specifically flavouring the food, and showing preference for the noodles dunked in the blueberry soy yoghurt (as opposed to the potatoes, the water, the natural yoghurt, or any other combination)

it’s both “shows a preference” combined with “actively takes action (or prepares) the food in accordance with that preference”

almondmilkhunnis

VETTED CAMPAIGN DELETED BY GFM AND NEEDING TO RAISE FUNDS FROM SCRATCH

GFM unjustly terminated Fidaa's @fidaa-family2 campaign and she lost all of the funds she'd raised so far to help evacuate her family. She has to start all over with a new fundraiser.

Fidaa's campaign has been vetted here and here. Please consider donating to her if you have anything at all to give. Small dollar amounts can add up so never think you won't make a difference! If you have enough to buy a cup of coffee, consider skipping it to give to Fidaa instead. Imagine how frustrating it would be after months of fundraising to lose what you've worked hard for. We need to show Fidaa our support now more than ever!

I am Fidaa from Gaza. I am 29 years old. I stand before you as a person trying to preserve his family. I am married and a mother of two chil

You can also donate through Paypal directly.

Please reblog & share this post even if you aren't able to donate. Let's help this fundraiser reach as many people as possible. <3

cantsayidont

Terrible news: Fidaa's GoFundMe campaign, which had raised over $120,000, has been DELETED completely.

Fidaa has a Chuffed campaign, but as of 03:00 GMT on 31 January 2025, it's only up to $8,378 / $100,000.

You can also support her via PayPal directly.

gaycommunist

i am going through a break up and i’m full of many conflicting feelings

maria tzvetaeva “on love” // fiona apple “get gone” // @kermitlesbain // haruki murakami, norwegian wood // sotce // edward munch // @papayajuan2019 // ? // ? // anaïs nin “letters of anaïs nin and henry miller” // @chloeinletters

#me too

girlzero

dreamt clownification was the new big "ironic" kink and no matter what social media you checked it'd all be full of photos of smug clowngirls with superimposed phrases like "throwing pies is all you're good at" "it's not your fault you're so goofy" "everyone can tell you honk it 24/7" "youre gonna be a clooner forever" "normal people don't fit themselves into comically small cars like you"

omegaversereloaded

Goths for Palestine 🖤 Bats for Palestine Bandcamp Album Compilations 🖤🇵🇸🖤

The best subculture comes through once again!

Numerous incredible goth artists like Belgrado, Horror Vacui, Suzi Sabotage, Vision Video, and Zanias have come together and made these two goth albums to support Anera (GOTHS FOR PALESTINE, $7 OR MORE TO BUY - "All proceeds will be donated in full to Anera, who provide humanitarian aid for Palestinians.") and Collectif Palestine Vaincra (BATS FOR PALESTINE, NAME YOUR PRICE TO BUY - "All the benefits out of this compilation will go to Collectif Palestine Vaincra.")

🖤 Thank you for supporting these orgs and thank you to our wonderful goth community for putting so much care and creativity into these tracks. 🖤

conarcoin

i hate how spotify wrapped replaced like all mentions of genres with incoherent tiktok gibberish. anyways you should learn more about music genres, like actually learn about them beyond a basic level. it will seriously improve your enjoyment of music

rateyourmusic's genre tree - super in-depth, each genre has a detailed description, covers niche genres and historical genres

120 genres of edm - good youtube video showing examples of a ton of electronic genres

https://everynoise.com - this is what spotify used for years until the developer got laid off

wikipedia's list of music genres and styles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles