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[shailion]

Fixed a wasp meme :)

[sycamorality]

did you know you can rename everything on your pc

[headspace-hotel]

my brother and I get on bandcamp and click on songs from the live updating list of albums that are selling and we listen to 30 seconds or so of a song and if we like it we add it to a playlist. and we call this "foraging for music."

anyways one of terminology we have coined to talk about music is "Knee Music" which is derived from the fact that album covers that show a person's knees tend to sound the same as each other. It's kind of a sleepy, grungy indie folk pop sound with youthful-sounding, vocals that affect a candid and vulnerable feeling.

or anyway we found multiple album covers with knees in quick succession, and they all sounded the same, hence "Knee Music"

but it doesn't have to be knees to be Knee Music. any kind of blurry, candid-looking photos that include skinny white people is likely to be knee music

[headspace-hotel]

My other brother's method of foraging for music is slightly more complicated: he gets on everynoise and uses random number generators to get a random genre, a random artist, and then a random song from that artist.

For a while, his method was slightly different, instead choosing a random genre and listening to it until he found a song from that genre that he liked.

However, this could be very time-consuming. once he became trapped for a long time in "geek rap" which was mostly a lot of people rapping in potentially spanish or portuguese (?) about Five Nights at Freddy's

[headspace-hotel]

My brother and I have a rating system where we rate songs on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 is absolute dogshit and 7 is the best song ever.

The challenge in this is that even if a song isn't particularly pleasant to listen to, novelty will increase the rating, because it's something interesting we haven't heard before. So, it's incredibly difficult for a song to get the lowest rating, because a song that is outstandingly bad has something different about it to make it bad, which paradoxically makes it good.

We had a very hard time rating this song, Burial Etiquette- Ivy Staircase in Ruin. We both disliked it, but we had never disliked a song in this way. The harsh vocals are so far to the background and relatively quiet that it's like, a kind of generic song but there's a guy screaming incoherently somewhere in the next room

We didn't like the harsh vocals, but we also thought they should raise the rating of the song because they made it weirder. We ultimately didn't settle on a rating at all for it.

[headspace-hotel]

We both agree that the best random song we found is Butcher Brown- No Way Around It. It is groovy and makes you want to dance, with a unique style.

The genre is Funk, so we looked into funk some more, but it turns out that funk is not very popular anymore and it was popular mostly in the 1970s.

Only one other random song we rated with a 7, which is Thrailkill- Cattywampus.

Those are the two songs we rated with a 7. I haven't counted up how many songs we rated yet, but the ratings suggest that an excellent song is hard to find...

[headspace-hotel]

The random songs we rated with a 6 are these. a 6 rating means it is a really good song that we would listen to again and again but not the most excellent song possible

Benny Bleu- Five Miles from Town

Death Threat Cassette- Use Your Delusion

[headspace-hotel]

@red-naxe

(Regarding the song Burial Etiquette- Ivy Staircase in Ruin)

exactly! weird art has a charm and fascination to it.

[ankle-beez]

[oziminie]

Baby 😭

DON’T LIKE WASPS? DON’T TALK TO ME! IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE, KINDLY ✨SHUT UP✨

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Saw and handled many many wasps today to get both them and people out of danger. Mainly these

But also this larger one

I also saw one Vespula rufa but I couldn't get a photo :( flew off. Happens... but they look so so so cool !!!

[0c34n1c-4byss]

Evil ass blackberry thief

Lovely little evil thief.. /silly

[oughhhhhyeeeoowwchhh]

Hello ma'am do you need something?

[razehider]

i truly wish i could direct your attention to the way this Eupelmus is cleaning her face - insects invariably look absurdly cute when grooming themselves, and it gives a little speck like her a ton of personality - but i can't, because all the attention is drawn to those stupid little cartoon fairy wings. if you had normal wings i'd be complimenting your little face washing motions, but you don't, so i'm making fun of you. good job

(August 10th, 2025)

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes

[atii-uqaulahaluanngilutit]

Thank you for this post, I will be showing it to every boomer who ever complains about how the kids these days are butchering the language.

[myriapoda-1306]

Sister and brother looking at each other

[thenixkat]

third time having a quick time event with a swarm of paper wasps at work and yet again coming out unscathed

I must reiterate that in spite of what arrogant people who hate wasps for having the audacity to be willing to defend themselves,

Wasps very much would rather not risk their lives fighting a kaiju to the death every time one gets close to their home and their babies. Their first response is to hover at your eye level and assess whether or not you just happen to be passing through or if you are going after their nest.

Do not panic or attack (ie swat at them), panicking is the behavior of a kaiju clearly there to eat their babies. Move away slowly from the location till they stop hovering watching you and go back to their nest area. They will keep watching you while perched around their nest.

If you have to pass back through where their nest is, give them as much space as you can and move slowly.

That is how you pass the wasp vibe check.

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[birdybro]

Weird hummingbird

[bob-artist]

Pleeease I'm watching PBS Nova's Bird Brain documentary and I need you to join me in making fun of this goose

precious cube child

[shailion]

Gorgeous little lady preordering a sunflower

[witnessings]

happy last day of pride to the gay snails who hug and kiss for hours without mating

[brick3621]

[melancholygirls]

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

[stillalittlekid]

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

[christ-with-a-why]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: a a t t a tatt a at t ag ca tgt t a c a t a ca AG T A T/TATT ATT A G C TTA AG T TAT T CT T ac tt!

Closest match: Hottonia palustris genome assembly, chromosome: 9 Common name: Water Violet

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