Puzzle Art
Vancouver-based artist Tim Klein makes puzzle montages from different puzzles using the same die cut pattern.

shark vs the universe
noise dept.
tumblr dot com
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
styofa doing anything
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

Product Placement
occasionally subtle

roma★
Cosmic Funnies
RMH
trying on a metaphor

oozey mess
Not today Justin
cherry valley forever

Kiana Khansmith
art blog(derogatory)
$LAYYYTER

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@troubledsigh
Puzzle Art
Vancouver-based artist Tim Klein makes puzzle montages from different puzzles using the same die cut pattern.
TED DANSON BEING TAUGHT HOW TO DO THE FLOSS IS THE GREATEST THING YOU’LL EVER WATCH.
THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE VERSION JAMEELA POSTED 🙀🙀🙀and I didn’t think that was possible
this is funny
like really, really funny
You sly bugger. That took me a while.
I have googled my life away. I have read bible verses. I have studied the ohilosophical meaning behind the numbers. I have become a modern Gallup trying to ask people to help me figure this out. What the FUCK does it mean.
Reblog when you get it…
THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY WHAT DOES IT MEAN
LMAO STOP
worth watching for the end
yo what tHE FUCK ¡
Interesting fact these two are playing but they are using play behaviors of their own species so they dont really “match up”!
Dog - is “bowing” and using open mouth “bites” as forms of play
“Play fight with me!”
Cat - is giving the little paw bats they use when playing with kittens
“Cute kittens get booped!”
They are both trying to engage the other in a playful way but not understanding the others responce.
The dog is like “you smack so no play? but not hard smack and no bad noise so not angry?”
The cat is like “why you jump around? open mouth but no chomp? no hiss so is okay?”
And then they sort of settle with a kind of communal grooming gesture they both understand!
Dog: no play? okay i lay… we calm now friend!
Cat: sad? no play? is ok i luv u weird kitten!
sdjaslkdjaskldjaskldja this is the most adorable thing
On Liking Stuff (or not)
So, back when Ancillary Justice was essentially sweeping that year’s SF awards, there was some talk from certain quarters about it not really being all that, people only claimed to like it because Politics and SJWs and PC points and Affirmative Action and nobody was really reading the book and if they were they didn’t really enjoy it, they just claimed they did so they could seem cool and woke.
My feelings were so hurt that I wept bitter, miserable tears every time I drove to the bank with my royalty checks. I mean, those people must be right, it’s totally typical for non-fans who don’t actually like a book to write fanfic or draw fan art, totally boringly normal for students to choose to write papers about a book that just isn’t really very good or interesting, and for professors to use that boringly not-very-good book in their courses, and for that book to continue to sell steadily five years after it came out. I totally did not laugh out loud whenever I came across such assertions, because they were absolutely not ridiculous Sour Grape Vineyards tended by folks who, for the most part, hadn’t even read the book.
Now I am sorry–but not surprised–to see some folks making similar assertions about N.K. Jemisin’s historic (and entirely deserved) Hugo Threepeat. Most of them haven’t read the books in question.
But some of them have. Some of them have indeed read the books and not understood why so many people are so excited by them.
Now, Nora doesn’t need me to defend her, and she doesn’t need lessons from me about the best way to dry a tear-soaked award-dusting cloth, or the best brands of chocolate ice cream to fortify yourself for that arduous trip to the bank. Actually, she could probably give me some pointers.
But I have some thoughts about the idea that, because you (generic you) didn’t like a work, that must mean folks who say they did like it are Lying Liars Who Lie to Look Cool.
So, in order to believe this, one has to believe that A) one’s own taste is infallible and objective and thus universally shared and B) people who openly don’t share your taste are characterless sheep who will do anything to seem cool.
But the fact is, one doesn’t like or dislike things without context. We are all of us judging things from our own point of view, not some disembodied perfectly objective nowhere. It’s really easy to assume that our context is The Context–to not even see that there’s a context at all, it’s just How Things Are. But you are always seeing things from the perspective of your experiences, your biases, your expectations of how things work. Those may not match other people’s.
Of course, if you’re in a certain category–if you’re a guy, if you’re White, if you’re straight, if you’re cis–our society is set up to make that invisible, to encourage you in the assumption that the way you see things is objective and right, and not just a product of that very society. Nearly all of the readily available entertainment is catering to you, nearly all of it accepts and reinforces the status quo. If you’ve never questioned that, it can seem utterly baffling that people can claim to enjoy things that you see no value in. You’ll maybe think it makes sense to assume that such people are only pretending to like those things, or only like them for reasons you consider unworthy. It might not ever occur to you that some folks are just reading from a different context–sometimes slightly different, sometimes radically different, but even a small difference can be enough to make a work seem strange or bafflingly flat.
Now, I’m sure that there are people somewhere at some time who have in fact claimed to like a thing they didn’t, just for cool points. People will on occasion do all kinds of ill-advised or bananapants things. But enough of them to show up on every SF award shortlist that year? Enough to vote for a historic, record-breaking three Hugos in a row? Really?
Stop and think about what you’re saying when you say this. Stop and think about who you’re not saying it about.
You might not have the context to see what a writer is doing. When you don’t have the context, so much is invisible. You can only see patterns that match what you already know.*
Of course, you’re not a helpless victim of your context–you can change it, by reading other things and listening to various conversations. Maybe you don’t want to do that work, which, ok? But maybe a lot of other folks have indeed been doing that, and their context, the position they’re reading stories from, has shifted over the last several years. It’s a thing that can happen.
Stop and think–you’ve gotten as far as “everyone must be kind of like me” and stepped over into “therefore they can’t really like what they say they like because I don’t like those things.” Try on “therefore they must really mean it when they say they like something, because I mean it when I say it.” It’s funny, isn’t it, that so many folks step into the one and not the other. Maybe ask yourself why that is.
This also applies to “pretentious” writing. “That writer is only trying to look smart! Readers who say they like it are only trying to look smarter that me, a genuine,honest person, who only likes down-to-earth plain solid storytelling.” Friend, your claims to be a better and more honest person because of your distaste for “pretentious” writing is pretension itself, and says far more about you than the work you criticize this way. You are exactly the sort of snob you decry, and you have just announced this to the world.
Like or don’t like. No worries. It’s not a contest, there’s no moral value attached to liking or not liking a thing. Hell, there are highly-regarded things I dislike, or don’t see the appeal of! There are things I love that lots of other folks don’t like at all. That’s life.
And sure, if you want to, talk about why you do or don’t like a thing. That’s super interesting, and thoughtful criticism is good for art.
But think twice before you sneer at what other folks like, think three times before you declare that no one could really like a thing so it must be political correctness, or pretension, or whatever. Consider the possibility that whatever it is is just not your thing. Consider the possibility that it might be all right if not everything is aimed at you. Consider that you might not actually be the center of the universe, and your opinions and tastes might not be the product of your utterly rational objective view of the world. Consider the possibility that a given work might not have been written just for you, but for a bunch of other people who’ve been waiting for it, maybe for a long time, and that might just possibly be okay.
____ *Kind of like the way some folks insist my Ancillary trilogy is obviously strongly influenced by Iain Banks (who I’d read very little of, and that after AJ was already under way) and very few critics bring up the influence of C.J. Cherryh (definitely there, deliberate, and there are several explicit hat tips to her work in the text). Those folks have read Banks, but they haven’t read Cherryh. They see something that isn’t there, and don’t see what is there, because they don’t have the same reading history I do. It’s interesting to me how many folks assume I must have the same reading history as they do. It’s interesting to me how sure they are of their conclusions.
(Crossposted from https://www.annleckie.com/2018/08/27/on-liking-stuff-or-not/)
This is awesome. I kinda did need somebody else to say this, because a) I’m so jaded that I wasn’t going to bother, having assumed that the arguments themselves are too disingenuous (and projection-y) to waste energy rebutting, but happily b) @annleckie is always brilliant so why wouldn’t I enjoy seeing her wax eloquent on this? Anyway, what she said. Except it would be Ample Hills Salted Crack Caramel instead of chocolate ice cream, thanks. I’m lactose intolerant, so if I’m gonna suffer, I only suffer for organic, expensive, locally-made hipster ice cream. Off to the bank!
Wildlife Bridges
Also known as green bridges, land bridges, or ecoducts, these are created to allow wildlife a safe way to cross major roads. Allowing free movement stops species populations from becoming isolated, and helps prevent animals from walking onto busy roads.
Wildlife bridges were pioneered in the Netherlands, where almost 50 have been built since 1988. Since then, the idea has been adopted across the world, by countries including Canada, Singapore, Australia, and various countries in the EU.
(I was reminded of these by a comment from @aspiringwarriorlibrarian about the effects of roads on wildlife.)
Trump started an anti-immigrant hotline. People are trolling it with tales of aliens.
On Wednesday, Trump administration launched the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office.
With the launch of VOICE also came the opening of VOICE’s official hotline, which fields calls from those who allege they are the victim of a crime carried out by a immigrant.
According to BuzzFeed, since the hotline’s launch, the phone lines have been tied up with calls about undocumented aliens — from outer space.
Given that the launch of the hotline coincided with Alien Day, people put two and two together and launched a plan to inundate the hotline with stories of alien abductions. Read more (4/27/17 10 AM)
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I love how activists are fucking with this supremely racist idea. Don’t forget that the Nazis set up similar programs encouraging people to report alleged crimes by Jews. Trump is a fucking racist and a vulgar affront to everything that is good about America.
Cats with expressive little faces… reblog if you agree….
i think you forgot one
I am such a fool.
I forgot judgementsl cat too
But let’s not forget. (I’m low key scared…)
Hnoly shit
Ok but how could you forget
Oh my god why did I forget him
Keep ‘em comin
Just thought that everyone should see this
Can I add?
Some favourites from my dumb kid
:D
HOW ARE CATS REAL
how do animals this ridiculous genuinely exist look at them
They are perfect!
THE BESTEST LITTLE FLOOFS :D
@brinnanza @grumpyfaceurn @only-hurts-when-i-breathe
how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay?
none of them ever did any laundry at all
The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters.
Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.
Black women made the majority of the Black panther party
Women of the revolution: More than 50% of the Black Panther Party were women and carried guns
I really think there should be an ALL female focused Black Panther Party biopic film
Here is a list of 10 important/Notable Black Panther Party members(listed by essence)
Kathleen Cleaver
Fredricka Newton
Charlotte Hill O'Neal
Elaine Brown
Rosemari Mealy
Assata Shakur
Ericka Huggins
Barbara Easley Cox
Afeni Shakur
Chaka Khan
so for the all female focused film, Imma need the fantastic Danai Gurira to reprise her role in “All Eyez On Me” as Afeni Shakur, one of the Panther 21
I would also cast Kerry Washington as Elaine Brown, The first and only female chief
I would further cast Britne Oldford to play Kathleen Cleaver, The first woman of the party’s decision making cabinet
throw in a scene of a young woman from Chicago, named Chaka…insisting on joining the party
Ericka huggins joined the Black Panther Party aged only 20 years old. I would cast Zendaya to play her
Nicole Beharie as Assata Shakur, the revolutionary that found her way to liberation to Cuba
If this moment isnt in the movie then what is even the point
the definition of raw power
you guys there’s a new nancy cartoonist and she’s amazing
this art style with modern references is the most jarring thing I’ve ever seen
it’s so raw and I love it
40 y/o white guy: Hey kid, ever hear about Rage Against the Machine? They really told it like it is! Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!
me: Zack de la Rocha is Mexican Tom Morello is black Brad Wilk is jewish
40 y/o white guy: blue lives matter
RATM: Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
40 y/o white guy that claims he likes RATM: blue lives matter
Was it Paul Ryan that claimed to be a RATM fan? Like, nationally? In public? On TV? And then RATM came out and shut him down?
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Also I totally remembered this exchange:
GET FUCKING REKT
Being afraid of everything means you learn nothing.
A perfect duet.
You will never escape this video as long as I am alive.
Janelle Monáe has announced a new album: It’s called Dirty Computer and will mark her first album since 2013’s The Electric Lady. While a release date has not been set for the album, a trailer for the project, which includes an accompanying “film narrative,” will air in select theaters before screenings of Marvel’s Black Panther, which is now showing. (She’s calling the project an “emotion picture.”) Today, Monáe has shared the first online teaser for the project, in which she stars alongside Tessa Thompson and others. [x]
NEW ALBUM ALERT