It Is My Own Invention

Hey, I'm Ricki and this blog is made up of whatever catches my attention for .5 seconds. I like to think I'm pretty punk rock but I'm really just a complete nerd.

[anostalgicnerd]

This was one of the most baffling things of my whole childhood.

(From the show The Big Comfy Couch!)

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[chelstone]

[deletingthisblog44-deactivated2]

I’ll never get over how great this joke is.

[marcy-playground]

This is how all rape trials should go. Especially those of people who work in the sex industry because, unfortunately, some people take their profession as consent.  

[yuirhapsody]

[shyriadracnoir-deactivated20181]

How much damage does this do if I hit someone with it

[segadreamcatcher]

they beat Jesus with that

[roach-works]

congratulations to promethazines for making a phrase so good that years later i still remark ‘they beat jesus with that’ upon seeing any kind of lumpy mess

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[petermorwood]

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)

This is Leo Tolstoy, author of “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”.

Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara…

…and his Minister of the Interior.

A Type B-15 steam locomotive…

Another of those peasant girls with guest-gifts of berries…

The Church of St John the Baptist at Staraya Ladoga…

…and a Sergei Prokudin-Gorskiy self-portrait.

Unlike some current selfies ;-> he’s not dominating the image, so here’s a closer shot.

Nice hat…

[aloetech]

[etirabys]

oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

[argumate]

hello, fellow apes

[snark-n-snack]

The “hey guys,come look at this idiot” instinct is older than our species.

[thyrell]

can you imagine if we shared this planet with a much more powerful and intelligent species n one day you caught one trying to climb your stairs to see what you’re cooking, except they keep trippin and falling down the stairs for like 30 mins? bet your ass the whole neighborhood is gonna be watching

[howlpendraig]

The assassin you sent after me is part of my found family now

[eye-co]

[catchymemes]

[is-the-owl-vid-cute]

Is the owl video cute?

Rating: CUTE

This owl is performing a behavior known as a rouse! Birds do this only when comfortable as it creates noise and motion, making their position obvious to potential predators. It releases tension and shakes loose feathers, dust, and dander off of their bodies

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

ethically sourced wiggles

[goodnightfriendsitsbeenfun-deac]

Jim Henson called and he needs him back please.

[fakethenip-deactivated20220809]

me as a mom

[blairwitchapologist]

i feel like it needs to be said that this is a quote from carly rae jepsen

[raychleadele]

So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

[ampervadasz]

[andy-kandy]

These are what pranks should be….

[queenstravelingdarling]

My heart would have came out my chest!!!

[biglawbear]

That was CLEVER

[belalugosishreds]

me: I'm literally begging you to do the one task you need to do

my brain:

[sameoldshit]

peak doctor who was the end of season 4 when the entire cast of the previous series turned up and it was just bitchin one liners from everyone without a coherent plot thanks rtd you legend

[imfallingthroughtime]

That title sequence though

[imfallingthroughtime]

[unfollower-deactivated20260220]

who are we defending pop punk from. who is on the offensive side of this war

[snakeriverconspiracy]

this town is

[guerrillatech]

[citrineghost]

This is the same reason why cis people putting pronouns in their bio is fantastic! It normalizes it and acts as a shield against people immediately knowing you're trans because you put pronouns in your bio