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Alan | Sometimes I do art. Sometimes. When I'm not asleep. Very occasionally I might write something. | British comp sci student. | My art is tagged “my art”.

[arti-squid]

Idk felt like drawing the poster from the wall

[chloematis]

“That’s true! I did! I crinkled this!“ A painting of my favorite post from @straycatj I hope my rendition of this dastardly crime did it justice

[straycatj]

Why do you reveal my naughty past… although it’s a good art…but…but…but…

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I don’t believe it. Thanks, I hate it.

[therobotmonster]

Okay, here’s what the headline doesn’t tell you:

It was made by a single industrial design student as a project.

It’s mainly intended to provide a larger scale demonstration of how bees pollinate because actual bees are tiny and you can’t see what’s going on when they do it. It’s primarily an educational tool.

But aside that, if you ever wonder why scientists work on all these little patch solutions for large, systemic problems, its because the people doing science research are not the people deciding how national and international policy is made.

Every time a scientist talks about how they’re working on something like de-extinction projects or artificial albedo creation there’s the inevitable sneering about how “we should just not let the animals go extinct in the first place” or “we should cut back on carbon emissions” as if those were not decisions being made by governments and oligarchs.

An industrial design student’s authority in his society stops at “make a cute robot”.

And also, this is your daily reminder that “headlines are lies designed to make you mad and/or get you to read the article.”

[chilewithcarnage]

[artmonia]

The strange and surreal furniture by Korean designer/artist Lila Jang.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

imagine you saw an alien spacecraft and your first reaction was to critique its flat color palette and unimaginative lines

[truestoriesaboutme]

The Truth is Out There and It Has Bad Aesthetics

[doux-amer]

Because context actually makes the already great headline even greater:

“I know this is horrible,” del Toro continues. “You sound like a complete lunatic, but I saw a UFO. I didn’t want to see a UFO. It was horribly designed. I was with a friend. We bought a six-pack. We didn’t consume it, and there was a place called Cerro del Cuatro, “Mountain of the Four,” on the periphery of Guadalajara. We said, ‘Let’s go to the highway.’ We sit down to watch the stars and have the beer and talk. We were the only guys by the freeway. And we saw a light on the horizon going super-fast, not linear. And I said, ‘Honk and flash the lights.’ And we started honking.”

The UFO, says del Toro, “Went from 1,000 meters away [to much closer] in less than a second — and it was so crappy. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights [blinking]. It’s so sad: I wish I could reveal they’re not what you think they are. They are what you think they are. And the fear we felt was so primal. I have never been that scared in my life. We jumped in the car, drove really fast. It was following us, and then I looked back and it was gone.”

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[hashtagloveloses]

the same man that made a movie about making giant robots to fight aliens SAW SOME ALIENS, INSULTED THEIR AESTHETIC, and RAN AWAY SCREAMING

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“there is intelligent life out there but it’s really fuckin tacky”

[botherbug]

moss balls in da jellyfish tank. source

[bat-demon]

o to be a mossball in the worshin machine

[la-laborista-republiko]

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

Balloon Dog anatomical model, designed by Jason Freeny, produced by Famemaster Toys

[pyronoid-d-deactivated20181217]

im fucking crying this is so funny

[thebadchoicemachine]

Is your dog the bull from the last unicorn

[william-snekspeare]

the second panel was originally going to have words but I decided it was better without them

[intj-confessions]

See, JK? Sometimes less is more.

[william-snekspeare]

hi this is so FUCKING funny

[death-420]

funny AI gets assigned a humansona

[leoreturns-deactivated20110811]

I have been waiting all year to post this.

[tumboner]

omg

[merspers]

This has been in my queue for months.

[mcgooglykins]

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

[thatsoundsprettynice]

YES

[xbstnmnr-deactivated20241116]

omg i didnt reblog this last year!

[stormclouds-chainmail]

[Image description

Two stills from Miss Congeniality.

The host is asking Miss Rhode Island questions.

The host says, “Describe your perfect date.”

Miss Rhode Island responds with, “That’s a tough one. I’d have to say April 25th. Because it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.”

End description]

[wumbo-calling-deactivated202512]

Guys look it's Roger the wall

[saintthat-deactivated20250428]

let’s see paul allen’s concept album

[tommypw]

[ladyshinga]

pay up emerald boy

[sandandglass]

[analvolcano]

What I think is funny is so altered that this post glitched on my dash and I just assumed 200k people thought it was funny as I did