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Andrea (she/they) | Artist blog | focused on scenery, starscapes, spaceships | Space Fiction nerd

[startrekuniverse]

LOWER DECKS

4x10 Old Friends, New Planets

[amikoroyaiart]

Some Jedi ladies from phase 2 of The High Republic 🥰

[applebugg]

Heart shaped teapot 🫀

[angstyastro]

Pre shakarios shitpost be upon ye

[dyleeart]

kataang yuri for the soul

[into-the-weeds]

Researchers "Translate" Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot

A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they

They found that the bat noises are not just random, as previously thought, reports Skibba. They were able to classify 60 percent of the calls into four categories. One of the call types indicates the bats are arguing about food. Another indicates a dispute about their positions within the sleeping cluster. A third call is reserved for males making unwanted mating advances and the fourth happens when a bat argues with another bat sitting too close. In fact, the bats make slightly different versions of the calls when speaking to different individuals within the group, similar to a human using a different tone of voice when talking to different people. Skibba points out that besides humans, only dolphins and a handful of other species are known to address individuals rather than making broad communication sounds. The research appears in the journal Scientific Reports.

[aroundmeblackbats]

forty arguing bats

[hevcrap]

[wiggerbeefer]

Bats be like

[gaybuckybarnesss]

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER CHAVEZ Grotesquerie 1.03

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 2024 - Day 18 - Drive

Shepard's legendary driving. I have a head cannon that the mako was a decent vehicle - Shepard just drives it like a bumper car.

[last-sprout]

Don't recall if it's been asked already but would you be able to share who you work for? Like private sector, government, academia?

Oh, I just assumed you folk, whoever you are, already knew. I, like most anything these days, am a part of the CRADLE initiative.

More specifically, the bio division. And yeah, government, academia, it’s all kind of a mishmash. I went through their education program so this role has been pretty streamlined my whole life.

[last-sprout]

you said "cost me an arm and a leg"

i realise it's a 99% idiom (yes?), but you posted your selfie and you like have some exoskeleton on your legs????? it's a tool for a work or for a health reason?

OH haha yes should clarify just speaking in metaphor! and that’s my EXO unit - I was getting out as I took that picture, so still had the bottom half on. Those big legs are super fun to stomp around in!

^^ very stuffy in there

and it’s just to fight the elements, as well as granting some enhanced speed and (particularly useful) strength. If there’s some heavy lifting that needs to be done I’ll usually hop in one of these.

[rpfofficial]

before you speak, THINK:

is it TRANSSEXUAL?

is it HERESY?

is it INCONSIDERATE?

is it NEURODIVERGENT?

is it KILLING SOMEONE?

[beggars-opera]

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

[apardonablemonomania-deactivate]

[randobambo]

[dedededededededededededededenne]

I hate that you photoshopped out the right arm of the dog to enhance the realism

[sabaccsniper]

-we will never be the heroes in this story

[laurenschooley]

Twin Suns 💫 

A happy birthday to Carrie Fisher and a happy finish to working on this between other projects for multiple months!

[regal-bones]

SWORDTEMBER DAY 16: CLOWN

Petit Méfait, of bright lights and crimson canvas 🤡🎪 In a wooden crate, nailed shut, is a black case. Three chains are held with padlocks, keeping the case shut. Each padlock is locked with a different key, and each key hidden somewhere across the continent. In the crate, in the case, in a brightly coloured sheath, is the sword. Some who hold the blade say they see something sat upon its hilt - a small metal clown. Sometimes juggling, sometimes cartwheeling, it might be holding a pie or riding a unicycle. Those people are never the same after they meet Petit Méfait, and the story always ends the same way. With a great show, a great mess, and a dirtied, bloodied blade. 

Paired with Le Joyeux Bouffonne from last year! Clown swords!!

Yesterday’s sword!

You can support me on Patreon for £1 and help me make stuff like this!

[willows-grow]

[heaveninawildflower]

'Two Birds and the Moon' (Japan, 1799 - 1823) by Shinsai Ryūryūkyo.

Surimono woodblock print.

Museum of New Zealand. Te Papa.