A Wemblin' Fool

Ace I will block porn blogs who try to follow me. Terfs, Exclusionists, Bernie Bros and MAGAts can get bent. And apparently a screenshot of this is a sick burn on me, somehow.

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Clip of Lucy Dacus on the Las Culturistas podcast.

[jaubaius]

Dog complaining to mom for not going to the park 😂😂Sound on

[elizabethgraves]

Love this goofy ass dog!

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

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Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[tonygregori]

Batwoman

[juliedillon]

A watercolor painting of a swimmer encoutering some sapphic mermaids, edited slightly for tumblr. (The titty-out version is over on my bluesky at juliedillon.bsky.social )

[why-i-love-comics]

Justice League: Dream Girls: A DC Pride Event #3 (2026) variant by Oscar Vega

[morinaka-hajime]

[thundergrace]

Rest in peace. 😢

[newtonpermetersquare]

So that’s basically how it went down

[tricornking]

I resent just how fucking accurate this shitpost is, congratulations OP, you effectively illustrated how Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public using a FUCKING MUPPETS MEME, here is your A+, get the hell out of my office

[mossworm]

I feel like "trump wants to throw away literal dinosaur fossils" would really turn heads if we actually had a functional opposition party in this country to get messages out, but I guess I'll just have to get a paint pen and write it on my car. fine, I'll do it.

[mossworm]

Trump and friends are trying to get rid of IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Science, USA Federal agency). Everyone is on leave/in admin limbo while the DOGE kids do whatever and lock people out of their emails. Already-awarded federal grants (that's how I get paid) for museums and libraries are now being terminated early via executive order. Museums are already closing (to be fair it has been bad for decades) and a lot of large and delicate fossil material will need new homes with space and funding, which almost no one has. It's bad. I don't know what to do except to keep working and occasionally scream into the internet.

[mossworm]

Not trying to be a bummer, but this is pretty much the only thing anyone at my job can think about right now. I can only speak for museums, but specimens need periodical tending or they will decay or get lost. Grant funding is how we do everything: it's how temporary workers get paid, how we get access to subscription-based software, and it's how we buy new label paper for cripes' sake. We are still fighting, but everyone is honestly loopy with stress all the time now. People should know what they are destroying.

[mossworm]

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave Monday morning, following a meeting between IML

[orpheuslament]

terrifying when you watch a movie or a show or whatever & youre like that was fun but it felt a little redundant they didnt need to hammer the point home that much & then you go online & theres thousands of people going that was so weird i did not get it what did that mean google.com ending explained please?

[progressivepower]

Yup http://news.usaunify.org/TSNwpQ

[stra-tek]

What happens to the TOS crew in the novels?

(Okay so there are lots of novels and they tend to contradict a lot, but these are the most fun outcomes)

Kirk: Writes a book called Risk is Our Buisness. Reunites his old crew 2 or 3 times for "one last mission" between Star Trek VI and Generations. Blows up the Enterprise-A in one of them. Bangs a cadet in another. It turns out one of his nephews is involved with the Orion Syndicate in yet another. After dying in Star Trek: Generations, the Borg and Romulans work together to resurrect him. They try and use him to kill Picard but it doesn't work, and instead they team up and blow up the Borg homeworld. Later he stops a Mirror Universe invasion, solves the mystery of the Preservers (and life in the galaxy) and ends up on a decked-out private space yacht with Old Spock, Old McCoy and Scotty going on adventures. Oh yeah, and he marries a Klingon/Romulan hybrid named Teilani and they have a child named Joseph (born intersex but identifies as male), who goes on to save the entire galaxy. At age 6.

Spock: After Star Trek VI, becomes captain of the USS Intrepid II with Uhura as his first officer. Marries Saavik which is kinda gross since he was basically her father figure in a previous novel. Moves to Romulus and becomes a pacifist. Although he's dedicated the rest of his life to Romulan/Vulcan reunification he leaves Romulus a bunch of times to go on adventures. Fakes his death by assassination one time.

McCoy: Kirk misses McCoy so much on the Borg Homeworld-destroying mission he goes on so he modifies an Emergency Medical Hologram to look and act just like him. The real McCoy is old as fuck, probably 50% cloned organs but doesn't let it stop him. He reunites with Kirk for adventures with Spock and Scotty. Is last seen helping out on some ruined planet in the wake of the Borg's final invasion in 2381.

Scotty: After his Next-Gen era resurrection from being stuck in a transporter, he misses Kirk so badly he goes back in time to rescue him, but in doing so creates a bizarro alternate present where the Borg have taken over the galaxy (because if Kirk isn't there to help Picard in Generations, Picard dies and the Borg assimilate everything in First Contact). Luckily he and Kirk undo it and nobody remembers. Shows up in a bunch of seedy bars in the New Frontier novels and hangs out with those weirdos. Goes on a few crazy adventures with surviving old crewmates. Ends up captain of the USS Challenger and commands a crew of engineering geniuses until Starfleet remembers he's really old and fat and insist he give up command. He does so to Geordi who immediately hires him as the ship's top civilian consultant so nothing really changes. The Challenger explodes with him on it, but he was transwarp beaming himself off as it happened so although there was a funeral and everyone grieved, I'm sure he's fine.

Uhura: After STVI, retires and starts working for a civillian communications company on a space station somewhere between Earth and Mars. Comes back to Starfleet to be Spock's first officer on the USS Intrepid II, then succeeds him as captain when he resigns to become a diplomat. Transfers to command the USS Hermes and ultimately ends up an Admiral running Starfleet Intelligence, a job she holds at least until the end of the Dominion War.

Sulu: Is captain of the USS Excelsior for awhile and goes on adventures, later becomes president of the United Federation of Planets for four terms. Writes his memoirs.

Chekov: Joins Sulu on the Excelsior as his first officer, and goes on to command the Potemkin and USS Cydonia. Much later in the Next Gen era, he ends up the Grand Admiral of Starfleet and has a statue on the Starfleet Academy grounds.

Rand: This gets dark. After "The Enemy Within" Janice leaves the Enterprise. Why? Evil Transporter Duplicate Kirk did actually rape her, and she was pregnant. She didn't want Kirk to know and raised baby Annie alone. But Annie was a sickly child and died only 2 years old, probably because her father was a weird incomplete transporter id monster. She returned to Starfleet as seen in the movies and becomes communications officer on the USS Excelsior with Captain Sulu and first officer Chekov.

Chapel: Writes a cook book.

[everyonestearoom]

This is such a pretty panel!

[mindblowingscience]

Spacetime 'Crystals' Could Collapse Into Tiny Black Holes, Wild Paper Explains

Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar.

Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This is where familiar physics can become unnervingly strange, and understanding how cosmic processes play out often requires more esoteric math and creative solutions. Now, physicists have mathematically described, for the first time, a quirk of spacetime geometry at the black hole formation threshold.

Continue Reading.

[demifiendrsa]

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