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[penandinkprincess]

they're putting ai in litterboxes now???

[penandinkprincess]

ai that requires a subSCRIPTION FOR A LITTERBOX

[penandinkprincess]

them advertising that you're also potentially going to be getting prolonged eye contact from your cat really is. something.

[penandinkprincess]

THE CHEAPEST PLAN IS $120 A YEAR????? I BEG YOUR *FINEST* PARDON????

[talesfromtreatment]

What. The actual. Fuck.

[raafhart]

'Highlight reel' of your cat shitting?!

[talesfromtreatment]

"This is my cattle dog"

Did you mean your rat terrier or fox terrier mix?

"This is my German shepherd"

Did you mean your brindle bully breed mix?

"This is my maine coon"

Did you mean your morbidly obese long haired tabby?

Wonder what else we're going to get...

[talesfromtreatment]

Great way to truly irritate those people is to call their silver lab a weimaraner mix XD "it's pure lab!!!!" Not with that head shape, and enormous pendulous ears it isn't

Honorable mentions go to describing himalayans as "colorpoint persians" and exotic shorthairs as "short-haired persians"... even though it's also absolutely true.

[raafhart]

But was IS the difference between a pointed persian and a himalayan cat? I'm asking because in my country himalayan is not a recognized breed, but we do have pointed persian cats (from registered breeders). And himalayans really do look like pointed persians.

[traditional-latin-math]

*shaking movie directors by the shoulders* NIGHTTIME AND OTHER FORMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS CAN BE IMPLIED WITHOUT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THE FUCKING MOVIE

[yetizeus]

I always think of that conversation on the set of lotr where the cinematographer was asked where all the light was supposed to be coming from in scenes like the battle of helms deep, and he just responded that it comes from the same place as the soundtrack does. sometimes you need to be a little unrealistic to make your work better and actually watchable

[thesplendidsnout]

This, incidentally, is why "NOPE" had such spectacular and clear night scenes: master cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema just plain didn't shoot at night.

Instead, they strapped a regular camera and an infrared camera together, coordinated them with lasers...

...combined them, used the naturally black sky created by the infrared as a blank canvas, added a new digital cloud line and various other effects to create a gorgeously lit night scene.

This is a ground-breaking new technique, and Jordan Peele is correct to say it could make movies better.

Good night footage is possible.

You just have to shoot it during the day.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

I'd disagree slightly by saying good night footage is possible, but I feel like it has more to do with the intention behind how it's done rather than just shooting during the day. Day-for-night shooting is done all the time, the issue is it's often dimmed wayyyy down so it looks "dark" and loses so much of its colour and detail. House of the Dragon, for example, shot night scenes in the day that ended up barely legible:

The reason Nope and other movies with beautiful day-for-night like Mad Max: Fury Road look so good is because the filmmakers shot the night scenes during the day with deliberate intention and a vision of how they wanted the eventual night to look and how that would serve the film.

Fury Road's night scenes feel like they belong to another reality, less like night and more like the movie has suddenly entered The Blue Dimension, which I didn't like when I saw it initially but now I feel like it lends the scenes a surreal quality that really works, plus everything is totally readable. The cinematography and colour all through Fury Road create a sense of heightened reality beyond our normal senses, so the bright saturated blue night fits right in.

Nope, on the other hand, is probably the closest thing I've seen to capturing what it feels like to be outside in the country on a bright night. It's brighter than most nights really are so that it's readable, but the way the filmmakers edited the daytime footage and the addition of the infrared camera create the right kind of look to recreate how it feels once your eyes adjust to the dark.

Even though they're both very different, I'd say they both work because the way the daytime footage was adjusted to night with deliberate intent to create an effect that would work for their respective films.

[raafhart]

My screen is at max brightness and sky is cloudy (so no direct sunlight, also I'm indoors) and I still can't see more than some kind of dark blobs in those House of the Dragon screenshots. Is it mountains? People? Animals? Houses? Dragons?

If your show is so dark it's impossible to tell what's on the screen then maybe you should just do a radio show instead.

[meangirlnurse]

tbh i think a lot of people who claim to value animal welfare really don’t want dog homelessness to end – i think a lot of people are really hungry to feel that they “rescued” their dog. for many people, a “rescue dog” is a commodity that confers social capital

[meangirlnurse]

case in point: people “rescuing” the purebred dogs of their choice “from China” (i.e. buying dogs from overseas puppy mills)

[meangirlnurse]

someone on one of my papillon rehoming groups (largely for breeders to post available puppies) announced that they would “like to rescue a papipoo,” as though small designer breed dogs are just languishing in shelters rn

like you don’t really want to rescue a dog, you just want to be able to buy whatever “rescuing a dog” makes you feel about yourself

[raafhart]

I remember once readig about an American dog rescue that specialised in rescuing French Bulldogs raised for meat in China. Like. Those dogs can barely breathe, mate, or give birth. No one is raising them for their meat, that would be very expensive with all vet bills and you wouldn’t even get that much meat from those.

[barksbog]

leon hearing the village church bell

[barksbog]

he got a viper!

[raafhart]

My friends relatives used to have similar puppy dog but with longer hair, her name was Fanny! She was so nice little fluffball

[amnhnyc]

Whatever you do, don’t greet this baby with a handshake! To mark its territory and improve its grip, the Senegal bush baby urinates on its own hands—leaving its aroma behind as it moves through the trees.

Also known as the Northern lesser galago (Galago senegalensis), this diminutive critter only weighs up to 0.7 lbs (0.3 kg). It’s nocturnal, typically spending daylight hours snoozing in hollow trees or abandoned birds’ nests. By night, it’s an active omnivore, using its large eyes and ears to find food. Its diet includes seeds, eggs, and insects. On solid ground, the bush baby moves by hopping, but in the trees it prefers to leap and climb. It can be found in parts of Africa including Ethiopia and Senegal.

Photo:Petr Hamerník, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Alt: A photo of a Senegal bush baby. It is standing on its hind limbs, facing away from the viewer. Its fur is gray, its eyes are large and brown.

#animals #amazinganimals #biodiversity #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CoulqQxLBxy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[raafhart]

Tbh a lot of men also piss on their hands and don’t wash them before leaving the restroom

[charlesoberonn]

That's not how demographics work.

[steakplissken]

It could be if we’re all brave enough

[wizlor4]

Reblog to turn everybody gay by 2047

[memecucker]

[raafhart]

Future where everyone is gay Elvis impersonator

[guerrillatech]

[shadyufo]

That Coyote Peterson dude has lost his damn mind.

He made a Facebook post about finding a ‘mysterious primate skull’ in British Columbia. In the original post he claimed he “smuggled it out past customs and the TSA” but he has since removed that bit of the post. 

You can’t see much detail in the photos but from everything I can make out it looks like a replica gorilla skull. Teeth appear to be made into the skull rather than separate from it and the texture of the bone looks off as well. It also shares a few unique features with one of the resin gorilla skulls currently available for sale online.

I dunno what his goal is with this (other than drumming up interest and traffic) but at best it’s a dumb prank and he loses any credibility he had or at worst he’s gonna be in deep shit for wildlife trafficking—again I don’t think it’s a real skull but on the very slim chance it is a legit gorilla skull then Fish & Game are gonna be all over that.

I love Bigfoot and other cryptids as much as anyone but this is just ridiculous.

[galacticbreaker]

It’s for T-Shirts, unsurprisingly. Dude is a film grad who’s convinced he’s an expert on wildlife.

Edit forgot the screenshot

[raptorcivilization]

It was for T-SHIRTS?!?

[raafhart]

WTF?  (At first I thought he found like a piece of skull and my first thought was that what if it is from a human, like a muder victim or something and he just took it...)

[dingdongyouarewrong]

not to be an edgelord but sometimes i see tags like this and i wonder if i'm some kind of fucked up joker guy. like this is for real and not a bit? the hunger games was too dark for y'all at 12-16? at the target audience age it was written for? seriously?

[dingdongyouarewrong]

maybe i'm just being edgy or something but i think getting to read some fucked up murder shit as a kid is good for you and i think adults trying as hard as they can to keep that stuff as far away from kids as possible are lame

[raafhart]

Reminds me of that time in the early 2000s when tv channel Nelonen began broadcasting Powerpuff Girls (called ’Tehotytöt’ in Finnish) as part of it’s early weekday morning kids shows and soon there was an article in tv guide magazine about how Powerpuff Girls is so violent it shoud be rated K-18 (=not suitable for people under 18).

And no, the rating was not changed. And it kept it’s place in Thursday and Friday mornings with other children’s shows.

[jackoshadows]

[raafhart]

I’m just wondering if that type of person watches a documentary about lions, do they complain when lions are showed doing things that are not ‘killing zebras’ or ‘getting some lion puss’? Or is it diffenrent because lions are still living with us and Tyrannosaurus is more like ‘cool fantasy monster’?

[radiofreederry]

What the fuck

[sexhaver]

[jmtorres]

i had no idea and now i want this map for the rest of the world

but also lol iceland now hanging out by france like alaska and hawaii in a US map

[oarfjsh]

i want to contest romania being "usually yes" bc in my personal experience, it does not matter if you are just visiting for 15 minutes at 10 in the morning - you Will be offered a 3 course meal and you Will be asked 6 times if you are Sure you Really dont want Anything, and Do you want bread with it? a coffee at least? avem si tuica, nu vrei? uite, am cozonac proaspat -

someone insert the sarmale flowchart please

[raafhart]

I’m from Finland and yes you should give your guest something to eat and drink! It’s incredibly rude if you eat and give nothing to your guest!

[voistly-remade]

do you think the obsession with ‘style consistency’ in online art communities is mostly caused by this idea that your art style needs to be easily marketable & recognizable as a brand (especially when you’re working as a freelancer). i see the /least/ amount of progress in my art whenever i try to aim for style consistency. i don’t know exactly where i’m going with this but i think there’s some sort of connection between trying to monetize/market your art & limiting your growth as an artist. and i think it’s very sad.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Absolutely, I have like 15 completely different art styles that I play around with and the freedom of being able to just do whatever kind of style that I’m feeling in the moment is so much nicer! I can’t imagine having to restrict myself to one single style of art, I think it’d get boring extremely quickly.

I also don’t really see a point in limiting yourself for the sake of Your Brand or whatever, like if you have a lot of stylistic variation surely that has the potential to draw more people who might be interested in different styles of yours?

[raafhart]

That’s what almost completely killed my interest in drawing, I just can’t keep my style consistent=marketable which led me to think that I’m doing something wrong, I should be able to pick a unique style for all my drawings but every drawing I make is completely different from the previous one = I’m bad at art

Back when social media wasn’t a thing lots of people had websites made with Freewebs and even I had one and posting my art there was really fun way of showing the world what I can do and there was no way for me to know how many people actually saw my art/visited my site. But with social media there’s likes and comment and reblogs and retweets which your art must get in order to be seen by people and I guess that’s why nowadays your art should be marketable instead of something you do simply because it’s fun.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

What’s the scientific name that irrationally upsets you to look at. I don’t mean names you dislike for valid reasons, I mean like what names just give off Awful Vibes.

Mine is Rhamphorhynchus, why are there four letter/H combos in there. Bad

[death-and-ruin]

Phytophthora has no reason to have that many Hs in it. I always have to double check whether I spelled it correctly, and I work with one species, so I have to spell it a lot :|

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Oh man and that one has the double hit combo of “phth”, I’m so sorry that you have to be regularly exposed to that

[raafhart]

Lutra lutra (otter), it sounds like a joke because in Finnish ‘lutrata’ means to splash (water) like ‘saukko lutraa järvessä’ (’otter is spalshing at lake’) it sounds like a made up name by a Finnish kid

Also Yi, when you say it sounds like the rest of the word is missing, there should be more letters after the i why isn’t there more letters?! Why is it so short?!

[beardedmrbean]

[honted]

i love how they could have easily cleaned off this sharpie but game stores love keeping relics like these on their used games

[atreefullofstars]

So look. I agree there should be more queer folks involved in the creation of media, particularly mainstream media. (Other groups too but I’m speaking on queer folks right now.) Queer people are underrepresented and shoved to the side and poorly portrayed and that sucks, and there should be more of us involved, particularly when it comes to telling our stories.

HOWEVER

Nothing good comes of the idea that ONLY queer folks should tell queer stories or portray queer characters, or that it’s okay to critique and harass straight folks purely for telling queer stories.

Why?

1. Segregation is not going to work in our favor. We know how “well make your own, then” plays out when the other group has the resources and institutional power. Especially if there’s no one even making them pay lip service to “separate but equal.” It’s not going to be any better if the segregation is self-imposed.

2. Saying straight folks can’t make queer media gives them a convenient excuse to simply not include any queer characters at all in the majority of stories, and I thought we hated that? I thought that was explicitly a bad thing? We WANT straight creators to be doing their best to write us well so we’ll be represented in a full range of mainstream media. Saying they can’t do it right and shouldn’t try lets them off the hook.

3. It puts closeted queer creators in a bind. Either they stay closeted and be harassed by angry queer folks, they come out and expose themselves to harassment from bigots, or they simply never tell queer stories, their own stories. The world gets worse for some subset of queer folks and fewer authentic queer stories get told. Net loss.

4. It makes the small pool of out queer creators the arbiters of queer narratives, which sucks for people who don’t see themselves well represented. There is no single definitive queer narrative and the smaller the pool of Approved Creators the more we risk instating a false one.

5. It opens the door to further divisions within the community. If a straight person can’t possibly understand a trans person well enough to write about or act them, can a cis gay person? So should a cis gay man ONLY write characters who are cis gay men? Ridiculous. No, all queer people are not alike and do not have the same experiences. So either we need to overcome that to learn about and empathize with other people and stand in solidarity, or we’re all going to splinter off into our own little bubbles which, again, is explicitly bad for both our real-life community and our fiction.

We want people to write about others who aren’t like them. We want people to write about others who aren’t like them. We also want people like us to have the opportunity to tell our stories but making it an exclusive privilege can only backfire.