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Ye olde Windows screen savers.

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There are probably kids on this website who are so fucking young they’ve never seen these in the wild

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tiny doomcookie 90′s me refused to change it from the creepy house. i liked space and mazes well enough, but creepy house

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Those pipes were my childhood

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I just went back 15 years ago

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Our elementary schools had these screensavers. Could never pay attention to the teacher because I was hypnotized by the screensaver.

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I remember

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We went to the mall and paid $25 for a CD-ROM with this screensaver on it in 1991. That’s $61.51 in today’s money. A few years later they came out with a version that had flying toilets but I don’t remember if we were ever able to convince Mom to let us have that one.

#i was there gandalf...

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‘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

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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.

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#funny

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Jester Pepita, Dreaming of the Blue Tiger

#art

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@elodieunderglass - This made me think of you.

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Thank you so much for this

#give the horse cake!

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Attacked by very sudden torrential downpour and went to check the weather radar and then remembered this image

#my dad

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#i would say something #about needing to get regular porn back on this website #but frankly i'm enjoying this too much #WOW #art

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I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.

#thank you mr rogers

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this is making me emotional

#space is awesome

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The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

#art

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Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

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@chandaniyan

#words

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i love you women

#art

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Square Bloom

quilt by Jo Wollschlaeger

2nd place in American Patchwork & Quilting Transparency Quilting Challenge, QuiltCon 2025

this challenge focused on the illusion of transparency in quilting.

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So I noticed this was second place in a contest.

So I looked up first place:

This is "Light Me Up" by Lindsey Berres. Closeups here.

Here is the (partial?) gallery of entrants on the QuiltCon website, but the image files are so large that I literally can't load them so have a selection of much lower quality screengrabs from this video tour instead...