this is my blog

i am rick

[robobee]

does anyone want to do thisbwith me

[senysti]

had to draw them

[markhors-menagerie]

White-faced saki (Pithecia pithecia)

This is a highly omnivorous saki found in several countries in the north of South America. They are very active and a group of sakis will sometimes mob predators to scare them away. They are highly sexually dimorphic, females being smaller and grey, while males are large and sport the species’ characteristic white face.

[jeebusfujj]

anybody got that post where everyone’s talking about how bizarre this animal looks

[robotpussy]

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

[robotpussy]

the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

[rottenbrainstuff]

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

[siphersaysstuff]

BONUS: They weren't beholden to Who Owns What IP Right Now. They got videos from everyone. You didn't have to pay separately for the rights to rent from the Disney Shelves and the WB Shelves and bler bler bler, and they only STOPPED having those movies when the tapes broke or someone never returned 'em.

[pepperoni-oni]

friendly reminder that your local library will have lots of physical media and if they don't have what you're looking for you can most likely ask them to purchase it or order it from another library through interlibrary loan

[bogappreciation]

Shoutout to Scarecrow Video- they have over 148,000 titles, most of which you can rent by mail. Rentals have been down in the last few years so they're asking for support!

[funny-tik-toks]

[thegenderal]

[viralfrog]

[nerd-bastard]

#two senseis of different forms meeting in a forest and exchanging weapons in a show of trust and respect for the others mastery

[dsmsix]

thought I was muted and just had this exchange with a coworker on a zoom call

[exai]

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

[jacobtheloofah]

i want people to do less for more money and im NOT kidding

[sayruq]

[determinate-negation]

american aid and american bombs

[arabellacrowe-deactivated202302]

[domina-honoribila]

For the curious, this chap is processing flax, then spinning it into cordage, then twisting those cords into rope.

[anew-jackson]

when you’re at the end of your rope but must carry on regardless

[nightfuryqueen]

This is from Eugenio Monesma, a man who has dedicated his life to making documentaries about all the living traditions and craftsmen that still live in Spain, is not the first time I’ve seen his stuff uncredited on Tik Tok, which is a shame because he has over 20 years worth of videos of his work for free on his channel.

Even if you don’t understand Spanish do give it a look please, very interesting stuff, you’re sure to find something interesting across his 1000+ videos.

Luckyly this video comes with subtitles so please enjoy seeing the process more in depth

[sayruq]

[inkyxward]

It REALLY is fucking funny how there is genuinely a distinct third faction in AI discourse on this site that is not "Pro-AI" but "The anti-AI crowd is talking about divine sparks of creativity and shit and I'm not about that"

[mysteriouslypleasantcat]

me

[carlyraejepsans]

[depsidase]

[deep-state-partisan]

[fallout-lou-begas]

[squeakitties]

[thyrell]

[woosh-floosh]

[silliest--billiest]

[jealous-side-hoe]

[pro-prin-prinny]

[0v9]

[0v9]

[oddarette]

This here is a ketchup lava lamp :)

[jeebusfujj]

if you open the lid, does the ascending ketchup just keep going up

[evilvillain123456789]

Can I please have a cappuccino but with oat milk and a big pump of sugarfree chocolate syrup and... Lol I remember your stupid ass from 2,300 years ago. We were living in seleucis on the tigris river during the same span of summers... do you rememver a red ibis bird with beautiful plumes? Yeah U were a sort of dull brown goat that didn't train and dint make milk or kids. Yeah? No? Eventually the Zoroastrian homesteaders who owned you started feeding you contaminated barley to try and kill you lol. Maybe you remember the ergotism? Anyway. also I want one of these 🫵stupid little breads in the case

[centrally-unplanned]

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

[brady-like-the-bunch]

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

[brady-like-the-bunch]

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

[baronfulmen]