in her mind's eye, all the doors were red

It's mostly reblogged artsy stuff, random nerdery and dumb jokes on here, with a sprinkling of cute cats.

[galedekarios]

urgent help: lias

again, i want to preface this again by saying i don't normally make posts like this, but i want to help make these two poor little souls visible to as many people as i can.

i want to thank everyone for sharing jax's post already. it means a lot.

there is another sweet floof in a very similiar position to jax, whose sad, scared eyes have touched me very deeply.

his name is lias:

like jax, he is located in a state-run kill shelter in minsk.

the tierhilfe belarus (link 1 / link 2) is trying to help find lias, jax and others urgently a new home. otherwise they are euthanised.

if you are located in germany and wish to adopt a cat, please consider lias.

lias is:

1-2 years old

timid and shy, but he already allows human touch once he feels safe

cat-friendly

contact: [email protected]

please contact them, let them know you're interested.

once approved for adoption, he will travel directly to germany fully vaccinated, microchipped, neutered, and tested for fiv/felv. there is an adoption fee to help support the costs and the work the volunteers do.

just like with jax, i'm willing to help with the adoption fee if there is true interest in adopting him. i just want to help so they can have a life they deserve.

please share if you cannot help directly.

[ibikus]

AfD: We are not Nazis :)

Also AfD: Let's organize our 2026 Party Conference on the same day and in the same area as the NSDAP did theirs in 1926, 100 years later haha!

AfD voter type 1: Oh, that's just a coincidence, you're just trying to discredit them!!!! *conveniently forgets the party chairman in that state is a history teacher*

AfD voter type 2: *Hitler salute*

[circumgutter]

[paperandpencilsandskips]

The Magnanimous Airplane

[kawuli]

well, the ears dropped

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Oh, was könnte zu steigenden Krankenständen geführt haben nach der Pandemie, die Leute sind wohl einfach faul geworden durch das Home Office und äh-

wie war das?

[majchic]

[unfug-bilder]

Jagd auf alte Bücher - KI-Firmen kaufen Antiquariate leer – und vernichten die Bücher

Palettenweise wandern alte Bücher aus Europa in die USA. Dahinter stecken mutmasslich KI-Unternehmen – mit System.

Vor Jahren schrieb ich einige Male:

Was im Rahmen der Digitalisierung passieren kann, WIRD passieren. Sehr viel ist schon passiert, sehr viel mehr wissen wir noch gar nicht. An AI hatte ich damals noch gar nicht gedacht.

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[bookshelfdreams]

Erinnert ihr euch noch an die Spendensammlung für das AfD-Gutachten aus dem letzten Jahr? Die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte wollte untersuchen, ob die AfD als verfassungsfeindlich eingestuft werden kann, und welche Erfolgschancen ein Verbotsverfahren hätte.

Nun. Das Gutachten ist jetzt da. Es ist 1500 Seiten lang, aber um es kurz zusammenzufassen: Es sieht nicht gut aus.

Die AfD richtet sich klar gegen die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung. Menschenfeindliche Äußerungen sind keine verbalen Ausrutscher einzelner, sondern haben in der Partei System. Radikale Kräfte haben sich klar durchgesetzt.

Hier gibt es eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Erkenntnisse:

Das AfD-Gutachten der Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte

Das AfD-Gutachten ist die bislang umfassendste und juristisch anspruchsvollste Untersuchung der AfD. Lesen Sie jetzt, warum ein Verbotsverfa

Und jetzt?

Auf der Website gibt es einen Link, über den man das Gutachten an seine:n Abgeordnete:n schicken kann. Die E-Mail ist vorgegeben und kann nicht angepasst werden; wer lieber persönlich was formulieren möchte, findet wie immer hier die entsprechenden Kontaktdaten.

Natürlich wird auch das niemanden sofort überzeugen. Aber steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein, und ich denke schon, dass gerade rechtskonservative CDU'ler sich die AfD sehr schönreden.

[libraford]

An incomplete list of

Potions of Hydration!

Earlier this week I mentioned putting pickle juice in my water to replenish electrolytes. I work outside in a very hot and humid area, so it was very necessary.

Since then, a LOT of people have chimed in with their favorite hot weather drinks. I want to try... all of them. I've only had a few. Many of them are similar, but I still think its cool how many variations there are for 'its fucking hot out here and I don't want to die.'

So here is the incomplete list.

ORS (oral rehydration solution) (link has several recipes)

Shrub (sharaab)

Agua de pepino

Switchel

Posca

Ayran

Straight up drinking pickle juice (small doses)

Agua fresca

Sekanjabin

Pickle lemonade

Lebanese lemonade

Salted watermelon

Jamaica/hibiscus tea

Lebu pani

Ayuvedic gatorade

Soda chanh muôi

Suero

Aam paan

Sharbat

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These ones were given to me without names, and were just lists of ingredients, to taste:

- water and umezu

- diluted apple juice with lemon and salt

-watermelon, lime juice, mint

- sparkling water, mint leaves, lemon or lime juice, cucumber

-coconut water, lime juice, salt

-salt, lemon juice, water

-orange juice, salt, sugar, water, lime or lemon juice

-elderflower syrup and lime juice in water.

There are probably more! Hydrate or die straight!

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[bookshelfdreams]

Wenn der Wetterbericht wieder eine Lüge ist und die Hitze nächste Woche so weitergeht, fahre ich persönlich nach Berlin und opfere Katherina Reiche an die Regengötter

[victusinveritas]

There's worse to come, folks. Strap in and stay strapped.

[just7frogsinapeoplesuit]

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

[anarchistmemedistro]

[04k96]

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[jessicas-pi]

when I started The Count of Monte Cristo I was like "holy cow, this book is so big! the plot must be REALLY complicated!" and i've learned that while the plot is, indeed, complicated, a significant contributing factor is that alexandre dumas literally could not stop going on narrational sidequests