Liking Pretty Things...oooo, shiny!

Enjoying all that life has to offer, from the simple beauty of the outdoors to all the things people create that makes us say, "me likey."

[70sscifiart]

Bruce Pennington

[wilwheaton]

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[memewhore]

[wilwheaton]

“Republicans are following an old playbook, one that would have been completely familiar to, say, czarist-era instigators of pogroms. When the people are suffering, you don’t try to solve their problems; instead, you distract them by giving them someone to hate.”

—

 Republicans Say, ‘Let Them Eat Hate’ 

I wish all Republicans a very happy Go Fuck Yourself.

[epochartgallery]

‘r2tag2 - troops out’ by RYCA

RYCA is a young artist from the east end of London who has taken a less than orthodox route into the art world… he eschewed the traditional university fine art training of his contemporaries opting instead to stay at home and watch Only Fools and Horses on video. Having trained as a sign writer and maker you will probably have seen his handiwork without even knowing it outside many of Londons’ pubs. RYCA divides his artistic activities between making his increasingly sought after print editions and his paintings, multimedia works and various one off pieces. Initially influenced by stencil graffiti and pop culture icons he is increasingly exploring new ways to expand his ideas and incorporate his sign making skills into his artwork.

For image information, pricing and prints from RYCA and other artists, click here…

[kindaokmemes]

It’s that time of the year again :)

[verycoolpics-deactivated2019041]

Very cool looking Field of Wheat next to Lavender 

[docgold13]

still more Star Wars concept art

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[augustdementhe]

COOL. 

[varkarrus-deactivated20200511]

just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, “Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,” which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[recoverystuff-deactivated202108]

You're going to realise this one day -

happiness was never about your grades, or your job. it was never about how many friends you had, or how many parties you got invited to. it was never about the amount of money you earned, or how much everyone liked you.

one day, you are going to see that happiness was all about the self discovery, and the hope. it was always about being kinder to yourself, and doing something better than you did the day before. happiness was always about finding yourself and becoming who you wanted to be. happiness was always about you.

[wilwheaton]

I doubt very much that anyone who needs to hear this is following me, but just in case... this is something I wish I'd known when I was younger. It would have saved me a lot of heartache.

[zandraart]

styx station

[whitepeopletwitter]

[vbartilucci]

Let’s all wish him luck.

[draculasswife-deactivated202212]

Mountain Stream in the Moonlight (1905) - Albert Rieger.

[truestarvoyager]

from scifi_explorers

[30-minute-memes]

I will have what she is having

[soravagemecrazy]

She enunicated this SO PERFECTLY and completely in a single tweet. A whole informed essay in a single tweet. Your fave could never!

[fantaboy91]

Same problem we have with cops. Police are more likely to have certain characteristics and personality flaws not because becoming a cop makes you that way, although that may amplify the effects, but rather, men with these problems gravitate to the position. That’s why so many bullies end up becoming cops

[kaleighbytheway]

You pointing out the cops means I need to point out; Female bullies tend to go into nursing! A position that puts them in power, and gives them control over people. If you knew a girl in highschool who was just an awful human being but thought she was great? Chances are she went into nursing.

[blatant-phishing-attempt-bot-de]

The Alarming Nurse Culture of Bullying and Hazing

It's not only threatening the profession, it's putting patients' lives at risk.

[wilwheaton]