Scitah's Page of Stuff

Enjoy my nonsense as I annoy you with the things I enjoy or find interesting!

[celebsofcolor]

SZA attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

[yourstrulys]

Rihanna attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

[midnight-charm]

Alek Wek attends the Heavenly Bodies Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018

[3rdeyechakra]

[felderwin]

So these Christian anti-feminist protestors showed up at my school and were just yelling misogynist things at everyone, when this guy suddenly walks up in front of them mid-rant and just starts…. singing opera

[sick-with-lisztomania]

Chaotic good bard

[haznlou-deactivated20190321]

Priyanka Chopra looks beautiful

[aishwaryaaraiii]

Zendaya as Joan of Arc for Met Gala 2018  (Famous for leading France in its victory against Britian and was honored as a saint)

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  Far too many people have short memories when it comes to the shit their side did.

[afunnyfeminist]

White supremacists and police have never been asked to commit to nonviolence. That’s only ever been asked of victims.

[marandart-deactivated20201102]

This is my new favorite hangout spot. I walked here from home with a cup of tea and my watercolor supplies. A floating dock out of the reach of sun or rain floats underneath the marina. And it has friends. 😍

[quinepeather]

Wow such positive vibes eminating through my screen rn

[pine-and-cavill]

Chris Pine plays kiss, marry and kill. Chrises Edition.

[darksilveraster]

the correct answer now i’m picturing Chris Pine three times widowed wearing his black veil and his fur coat

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

[acceptableduraz]

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green!  Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.) 

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

[squeeful]

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra.  Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo.  These aren’t animals with great color vision.  They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not.  Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it.  Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light.  They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing.  That’s way more useful if you’re prey.  Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red.  This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light.  Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

[thelibrarina]

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

[authoratmidnight]

Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?

[hecate-hollow]

I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture

[authoratmidnight]

Are you, sure about that?

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

“Tigers are fruit colored” is my new favorite phrase.

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

Favorite Photoshoots | Viola Davis photographed by Dewey Nicks for O Magazine (2009)

[bakarilennox]

My other auntie is so gorgeous! 😍

[siriuslycollins-blog]

auntie viola out here looking that fine??

[distantvoices]

‘BODIES’ FOR ALLURE APRIL 2018 BY CATHERINE SERVEL

[iraffiruse]

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

this is probably one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen.

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?

[nyazuline-deactivated20200505]

it’s the thought that counts, right?

[lesbianshepard]

i support robot fucking but not sexbots which might be a weird stance to take overall but im of the firm belief that u shouldnt be in a relationship w/ a robot if it doesn’t have the ability to dump u.