I suck at making decisions

I don't know what to put here

[birthdaylobotomy]

maybe if we, as a society, spent more time in gardens things wouldn’t be like this

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[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[lamignonette]

@utrecth_nowidea

[imbackwithanewurl]

Oh no

[jpaddey]

[juno-infernal]

i hate oversharing on this blue hellsite but like. what’s my alternative? talking to someone? another human? with words? i don’t fucking think so

[allthingssoulful]

Museum of the Moon in the oldest church in Cluj-Napoca. Artist Luke Jerram.

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

one time i saw a video of a hippo eating a watermelon. they rather funny-looking beasts, aren’t they? it opens its mouth which honestly looks completely non-threatening because it had, like, six teeth, and then the handler just sets the watermelon at the bottom

and then it uses that silly widdle whisker face to absolutely fucking destroy this watermelon like the damn thing’s rind was made of rice paper. turns out, the reason it doesn’t have many teeth is because teeth are for lesser beings that can’t rip through natural obstacles by gumming them to pieces with an inconceivable bite force. and it doesn’t snap or tear into it or anything, it just calmly closes its mouth around the watermelon, pauses for a moment while it assesses just how much of its ridiculous strength it needs to use, and crushes it like one of those chocolate malt balls

you know that feeling that’s, like, when you see something and you think, “this is so far outside of the realm of human experience that any conception i have of this will forever be a mere shadow of its true nature”? i feel that way about a hippo’s strength. one of my distant ancestors likely looked up into the sky at the natural terror of lightning and believed that such a thing could only be the direct influence of a god. i channel that fear, but for hippos

[toadscools]

rt if her sheer power brings you to tears

[ordenna-deactivated20181024]

tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.

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[dankmemeuniversity]

[thescariestface]

modern day greek chorus

[art-woonz]

[marcomartin-deactivated20210925]

at this point you are just showing off.

[sarcasm-is-my-native-tounge]

How? How is it fucking possible to make stone look sheer?

[simonalkenmayer]

I’ve loved some of these for a very long time. I’m glad someone compiled them.

[stimman3000]

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[imbackwithanewurl]

Why are they like this?

[cactuslands]

kim dorland

[imbackwithanewurl]

I'm looking for job offers and it's so annoying I'm not qualified to do anything apparently

[bogleech]

apparently one whale years ago was observed doing this for hours and now more and more whales in the area are seen copying it so we think it’s a whole new behavior and it seems to be a response to shrinking food sources.

Instead of expending any energy actively hunting, the whale just holds its mouth open wherever fish are being hunted by birds. To escape the birds, the fish try to hide in the whale’s mouth because it’s a darker area that looks like shelter. …They’re turning into giant, sea-mammal pitcher plants.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mms.12557?referrer_access_token=bXLTS5BeSw_vlIKHkM0bYIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC654HjreJ8D19K86UreR5JPsSRb0CuGhiJSV1L1ht-N1Gf_K_1a9MREFzQGU9oJDNctsKDin_HXcYEdsLg3EbcTl

[bogleech]

sparklecritter

What is interesting is there is a heron (black heron) that hunts via similar methods (using shade as bait for fish). I do not think it is a learned behavior for them though. Paralel evolution is buck wild. You can reach similar outcomes through wildly different evolutionary methods and paths. Eg - in whales it is their big brains at work - with herons it is instictual - and with pitcher plants it is automatic.

Yeah little creatures love to hide so a number of predators have taken advantage of that and what’s EXTRA fucked up is that another example includes a starfish:

the Ambush Star, pretending to be a shrimp gazebo

[gallusrostromegalus]

THE GAZEBO HUNGERS…