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A blackbird sings and sings....

Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

Photographs by Randy Shipley

egberts

the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭

sator-the-wanderer

Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have

daughterofsarenrae

To really put it in perspective

flootzavut

Immediately I love him

thegikitiki

Home Design, 1979

thegikitiki

Source: The Giki Tiki Archives

wormlizarding

Choerosaurus dejageri, the permian therocephalian with a funny face.

I watched the first episode of surviving earth and that led me down a rabbit hole on permian therapsids and my new favorite extinct animal. It's a funny dog. I didn't know much about therocephalians and they're a lot more diverse than I thought! The bosses on Choerosaurus' skull is thought to be for display as they're too fragile for headbutting.

kiisaes

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

#I love vegetables but I've been flaring up recently #I have to be careful about how much fiber I eat until it's under control #the last vegetable I ate was onions

trickstarbrave

BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU

herpsandbirds

Kea (Nestor notabilis), juvenile, family Strigopidae, order Psittaciformes, South Island, New Zealand

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Markus Koljonen

a-dinosaur-a-day

I know this is literally impossible without making the Patagotitan/Argentinosaurus huge or the Bee Hummingbird smaller than a lego stud, but I still dream of an accurate dinosaur toy line that includes birds where everything is to scale with each other. it's the dream, okay. I want to put a tiny lego stud sized bee hummingbird toy on top of a titanosaur head. it's the damn dream.

a-dinosaur-a-day

like. I'm aware of the problem in my idea. I'm very aware. I want it anyway. I desire the chaos. I desire the educational tool this would be. I demand the insanity.

delgado-master

If a bee hummingbird is 5mm, argentinosaurus would be 3 meters big :)

a-dinosaur-a-day

I do not in fact see a problem with this

fightingbymoonlight

Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Youdidn'twriteit.Youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.

beemovieerotica

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

beemovieerotica

REAL AND TRUE. my newest normie steve does 40 mile bike rides on a whim and excels at outdoor rock climbing. i will always hype him up.

prokopetz

Trailer for a sci-fi horror movie set in a derelict underwater research facility where the bassline's thumping orchestral bombast is almost but not quite successful at distracting from the fact that the film's title track appears to be a minor key arrangement of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine".

t00thpasteface

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

cannibalcaprine2

masaotheheckindog

I worry that it threatens certain game genres if they get lumped into 'cozy'.

I can only speak to the farming game genre because that used to mean something specific. A kind of game that has a specific gameplay loop divided into days. Heavy on time and energy management that should ideally be at least a little unforgiving, especially at the beginning. More or less divided into three stages of gameplay: uphill battle at the beginning, optimizing in the middle, and automating towards the end.

Not all, but the earliest of these games have a pretty harsh time limit of a few years. Even Stardew Valley, which started life as a Harvest Moon SNES fangame, has a reference to this in the form of Grandpa rating your farm at the end of the second year.

My worry is that as farming games get lumped into 'cozy games', you see anything and everything with any degree of gardening called a farming game (particularly life sims or Animal Crossing-type games that have a very different gameplay loop). I don't think that it's a bad thing for farming to be a secondary mechanic of other types of games. Hell, I love Core Keeper. But I do worry that the Farming Game as a genre may cease to exist.

In some ways, I wonder if that's inevitable. It's always been a pretty niche genre and Stardew Valley brought a lot of popularity to it. The conflict I see is that "cozy" implies ease and relaxation, while farming games are varying degrees of unforgiving. There seems to be a lot of pressure to make farming games that don't have that feeling of an uphill battle at the beginning and overwhelming gold sinks.

I've heard even Stardew Valley, which I consider to be one of the more forgiving farming games, called 'toxic' in its gameplay loop.

I want for games to be accessible, but I also hope the farming game genre continues to exist, as a challenging time/energy management game that feels fairly unforgiving especially at the start.