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“A lot of modern scientists—even some paleontologists—insist on saying that fossils are misleading. ‘Dead bones don’t metabolize, so how can physiology in dinosaurs be discussed?’

Ecologists who study the Serengeti Plain or the rain forests of Burma are impressed by the complex ways animal species interact with each other and with their habitats: ‘How can a few spare bones capture all the organic subtlety of long-extinct systems?’

Many people dismiss the record of the rocks as an incomplete and nearly unreadable document. Darwin himself did that; he didn’t trust fossils to indicate the entire truth. But these views are wrongheaded. The Book of Job—oldest in the Bible—admonishes, ‘Speak to the Earth and it will teach thee.’ If we look and listen carefully, the record of the rocks can unlock the richly textured story of the dinosaurs and their ways."

-Dr. Robert Bakker, PhD, in his book The Dinosaur Heresies, 1986 Art by John Conway

lisamarie-vee

The fucked up part is when I’m feeling this way I can’t just call him up and be like “you’d never rape me right” because he will just burst into tears every time. Can’t even fault him for that, no. But the question permeates my mind unwillingly. I wake up scared at night sleeping next to that beast. Does it ever get easier? Why does it feel like being wrenched open and cut in to.

#and then he clicked post

heatherwitch

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

#reading

There is a mosquito bite on my ass my ass my ass my ass

ditherrehtib

Tetra Pak print on paper 17x17 cm

youhadsomuchpotential

I don’t like kissing my boyfriend how terrible is that

youhadsomuchpotential

Sometimes it’s fine other times it’s like this genuinely repulsive thing I can’t control

I don’t like kissing my boyfriend how terrible is that

hagiomoto

Holy shit the US Military tested an experimental GPS jammer and caused a civilian plane crash that kills everyone on board in May.

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

When the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic to El Paso Airport earlier this year, nobody could have guessed than an experimental high-energy laser weapon was the cause. After days of chaos and speculation, it was revealed that Customs and Border Patrol officials had fired off a laser volley from a US Army base adjacent the El Paso Airport. Though the trigger-happy Border Patrol grunts evidently thought they were firing at drug-smuggling drones, their real target turned out to be a kids’ party balloon. Regardless, it was later reported that the cutting-edge weapon was taken for a test-drive a week before FAA and Pentagon officials had a chance to discuss how to safely implement the laser device, making it a small miracle that nobody in the air was killed. Not every use of an experimental aerospace weapon goes off without a hitch, however.

New bombshell reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer resulted in a medical plane crashing into the side of a mountain.

If I took someone’s pants off and they were clean shaved I would just throw up