shut up

I like things and other stuff.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Some insect-based patterns from Insect World v.13 (1909).

Full text here.

[dansedan]

Their dynamic is stupidly fucking mushy compared to every other pasta couple so I went kinda Whole Hog On The Disney Princess Cutesyness even though they’re like… definitely not this mushy in the OG film lmao. I just…. had A Need To Fulfill for fluffy cowboys. 

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Lil Pumpkin is visiting the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic!

In Boscastle, in Cornwall, England.

This is photo number 90 of 365.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

Romana in her halo-hat from City of Death feat. 13th TARDIS because I feel like she would appreciate the upgrade

[id: two images of a painting of romana ii. she wears her city of death outfit, smiling to the right at someone out of view. she holds a brown box with both hands, and her hat is shown as a yellow halo behind her head. behind her is the console of the thirteenth doctor's tardis, and the rest of the background is composed of orange structures, also a part of the tardis. the first image is a completed version and the second is a photo of the artwork in a sketchpad, with two tubes of paint to its left. /end id]

[jstor]

you have a massive library that i'm sure has plenty of scholarly articles about dissemination of information and the evils of capitalism based knowledge restrictions and yet you hide it all behind paywalls? weird hypocrisy

Hi, this is a question that we hear every so often. The thing, as you can probably gather, is much more complicated than that. I wouldn't say JSTOR hides content behind paywalls - we actually work to get the content to the people who need it. We get content from publishers, and we have to pay those publishers. Institutional subscriptions provide the money for us to pay them, as well as for digitizing, cataloging, preserving, hosting, and serving that content for millions of users around the world. Also, you should know that we are a not-for-profit. JSTOR hasn't raised its fees for higher-ed institutions even once since we launched in 1997, and we now bring them more content than ever. We also provide free access to all educational institutions in Africa, and near-free access to institutions in low-income countries. And we now provide free reading access to 100 articles per month to everyone, no matter if they're connected to an institution or not. And we are working hard to increase the amount of open access content we provide.

You can find out more about all these points here: https://about.jstor.org/5things/

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Applejack is visiting the apple orchards of Cotehele.

In Cornwall, England.

This is photo 365 of 365.

Here is Applejack finally becoming one with the apple.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Silver Glow has a festive greeting written in alphabetti spaghetti.

[fuckingfreud]

Postcards, ca. 1908 

[reflauta]

They’re Charlie and Frank.

[sovietpostcards]

Thirst. Photo by Yakov Khalip (USSR, 1964).

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Seaspray is swimming in a lily pond.

In Tessier Gardens, in St Marychurch, in Devon, England.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

An illustration from George Dawson Rowley‘s Ornithological miscellany v.2 (1877), captioned “Mother Carey and her chickens.” According to Wikipedia, Mother Carey is a personification of the dangers of the sea. Storm Petrels, birds thought by sailors to be harbingers of storms, are sometimes referred to as “Mother Carey’s chickens”.

The full text is available here.

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Trixie Lulamoon is at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic.

In Boscastle, in Cornwall, England.

Trixie Lulamoon is looking at a home protection charm.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A diagram of two Asian monitor lizard engaged in combat (though to the untrained eye it may look like they’re hugging it out) from Revue suisse de zoologie t.69 (1962).

Full text available here.

[mbari-blog]

Effective and elegant—new research reveals the swimming mechanics of gossamer worms.⁠

⁠Unlike its bottom-dwelling kin, the gossamer worm (Tomopteris sp.) lives in constant motion. This graceful swimmer “dances” through the midwater with the rhythmic paddling of its swimming legs. A new study published in Integrative and Comparative Biology this summer from MBARI researchers Joost Daniels and Kakani Katija, with collaborators Karen Osborn and her team @smithsonian​​, has revealed the swimming behavior of gossamer worms in fine detail.⁠

⁠A flexible body plan allows Tomopteris to combine multiple modes of propulsion to achieve effective—and elegant—swimming. This makes the gossamer worm’s anatomy and swimming mechanics interesting for engineers. In the future, this worm could inspire new designs for everything from underwater propulsion to medical technology.⁠ Learn more about this incredible intersection of engineering and biology on our website.

[montereybayaquarium]

Veni, Vidi, Vermi

[shittynewyorkercartooncaptions]

[historical-nonfiction]

France Made Already-Free Slaves Pay For Their Freedom

When Haiti’s slaves fought for their independence (and won) against France, France required its former colony to pay “reparations” to the French government and French slaveholders for the “theft” of their slaves. Costing billions of dollars in today’s money, it was financed by French banks and the American Citibank. The debt was only paid off in 1947. Having to continually send money out of the country has been a major factor in maintaining Haitian poverty over the past two centuries.

France, by the way, continues to refuse considering repaying the reparations back to Haiti.

[howdoigetback-deactivated201903]

“Hedgehog in the Fog” dir. Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975

“In the evenings, the little Hedgehog went to the Bear Cub to count stars. They would sit on the log and sip tea, gazing at the starry sky. It hung on the roof, just behind the chimney. To the right of the chimney were the Bear Cub’s stars and the stars to the left were the Hedgehog’s.”