Just a den for my likes

[incisedwound]

i wish my organs had windows i can feel terrible things going on down there and i want to watch

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

The Dragon's Eye

Looking down on a Icelandic geothermal pool gives a view into a dragon’s eye in this drone image by photographer Miki Spitzer.  (Image credit: M. Spitzer/WNPA; via Colossal)

[missmonstermel]

Space Gremlin blank cast preorder has now opened!! This is a preorder for a BLANK mask that will ship June through August. All info you need including tutorials can be found in the listing in my online s h o p linked in my bio. Limited numbers are offered as I am one person making these 👍 not a 3d print! This video is an example of what can be made with these casts, this will take a lot of work to finish...but it's worth it to be a skrunkly lil critter!

missmonster

missmonster

[anarchistmemedistro]

[i-am-a-fish]

I want everyone to have universal basic income please

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just had an argument with someone who was like “why would we settle for food stamps when we could have universal basic income?”

And it’s just like. People need food right now you know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.

And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.

And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?

Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.

[amnhnyc]

It's time for Fossil Friday! Meet Cryptocleidus oxoniensis, a short-necked plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles that lived from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. The plesiosaurs had extensive modifications to the shoulder and pelvic girdles: these elements form large, flat sheets of bone, presumably for the attachment of swimming muscles. Cryptocleidus' trunk was very rigid and short, and the short tail could only function as a rudder, leaving the limbs as its main organ of propulsion.

Photo: © AMNH 

See this prehistoric critter, and more, at the Museum! Plan your visit.

[korybing]

completely unserious animal

[pi-slices]

Ridges.

[sandersstudies]

People who are good at stuff are not always good at teaching that stuff to others. Often, in fact, as someone becomes an expert at something, they have trouble viewing the first steps from the metaphorical seventh floor landing.

Try reaching a four-year-old to read “cat” or what 2+2 is and you’ll realize that things that you “just do” are actually a series of difficult steps for a beginner. In much the same way, experts “just do” play an instrument, play a sport, solve an equation, or create art.

Some of the worst teachers I ever had were geniuses, but they had trouble getting into the minds of their students, much like the xkcd comic (“silicate chemistry is second nature to us…”). Teaching is a skill; in fact, it’s a dozen skills stacked on top of each other. Thank your local educator today: the current administration continues to underfund education and the current society underappreciates teaching as a skill (and I haven’t even touched on the classroom management, lesson planning, and social skills required by most educators).

[unhinged-soapbox]

My mama works at an elementary school and one of the main hurdles they have with student teachers is they've been taught how to teach by college professors who have not actually interacted with a child in decades. So these young adults are coming in theoretically knowing how to teach but actually have no idea how to get on the level of an 8 year old and connect with them meaningfully. Yeah, teaching is so many skills and it kind of scares me that some education students are not adequately prepared or given the tools to build those skills.

[annabelle--cane]

love when an absolute nightmare of a character is introduced and all you can think is "jesus christ buddy what the hell is your problem" and the narrative gives you a hot minute to stew before explaining Exactly what is Their Problem. and you just sorta sit back in your metaphorical rocking chair and think "huh. yeah okay fair. that would do this to a person, yes."

[reddesart]

Commander Miria. Pathfinder wotr.

[theudonlord]

REVENGE on @krowfaced !!

Had SO much fun drawing this dude! I made him a little wormy in terms of anatomy, sorry i just wanted to push the pose—his design calls for movement!!! XD

I hope you like :>>

[thequietedge]

📍Istanbul, October 2025

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 / XC15-45mm

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M The Bridge Across the Strait / 海峡を渡る橋 #2

[vraska-theunseen]

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

[vraska-theunseen]

i have no defense against this. you've got me

[xeemaee]

I love that half of the anti senshi propaganda is “he’s too conventionally attractive to be tumblr sexyman” and half “he’s so ugly how did he make it this far”

He really contains multitudes

[idkitsartman]

This is very stupid but it’s genuinely what I think about every time I consider skipping dinner after work