cherry valley forever
The Bowery Presents
$LAYYYTER
JVL
Jules of Nature
bliss lane
noise dept.
KIROKAZE
occasionally subtle
Cosimo Galluzzi
Origami Around
#extradirty
pixel skylines
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Love Begins
Xuebing Du
gracie abrams
Cosmic Funnies
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@zhong-kui-rad
remind me when im not busy with everything to post my favorite custom 3ds themes because i saved a million of them the other day & some of them are so insane.i will share one right now just as a taste
another quickie
Dying Papyrus
im sure you can gather what song this one plays
these two i found which i find pretty funny
this has been my theme for like 2 years. please listen to the audio
Tribes Ascend is/was a game that theoretically looked like this at launch:
lots of ambient lighting, bloom and motion blur out the wazoo, you name it. the issue was that the gameplay was based on flying through the map at speeds literally >100mph, while trying to hit other players moving equally fast, using projectiles that inherit your momentum. the amount of sheer brainpower it takes to connect just one shot is astounding, and doing it with anything less than 60fps is effectively impossible. this was an issue in 2012, so eventually people figured out that you could manually edit a specific .ini file in Notepad to get graphical settings far lower than anything you were allowed to select in-game.
i present: minecraft.ini
Tribes Ascend is also notable for having a really weird death spiral. if you recognized the name "Hi-Rez", you've probably already correctly guessed that they mismanaged it into the ground like they did with every other IP they got their hands on (R.I.P Global Agenda). this is putting it mildly. they released the game in 2012, effectively abandoned it a year later to work on Smite once that got popular, then came back in april 2016 with a patch literally named "Out of the Blue". accompanying the patch was new creative director Sean McBride, who promised to listen to fans and restore Tribes Ascend to its former glory days. he then proceeded to leave abruptly in june of the same year, saying "Hi-Rez and myself are not aligned", and the official servers shut down for good in september.
the fundamental issue Sean and the rest of the dev team ran into was simple: like the devils hole pupfish, the extremely small population of remaining players were all hyperadapted to their environment after being left in complete isolation for eons, and changing anything about that environment after so long would be catastrophic. unlike the devils hole pupfish, however, these players were cracked out of their fucking minds.
Hi-Rez kept trying to promote the game to new players with ad campaigns and double XP weekends, and every single time, these new players would experience the inverse of pubstomping as matchmaking placed them into lobbies full of veterans, who would instagib them before they could even figure out how movement worked. the skill gap between newbies and vets was a yawning chasm, and since there literally weren't enough players to implement skill-based matchmaking, it was on full display every game. this, understandably, was not good for new player retention.
the game is still alive today on private servers; if you're a masochist and want to recreate that experience until you start passively calculating intercept trajectories in your head like a fighter pilot, i found a discord invite to get you started.
also there wasn't a better place to segue into this and i couldn't find sources for it anyway but i swear to God there was this moment in 2016 when Hi-Rez decided to stop hosting their own official Tribes Ascend forums and instead have the page redirect to r/Tribes, which they (Hi-Rez) then declared the New Official Forum without asking/warning the Reddit admins, so they (Reddit admins) banned the Hi-Rez employee(s) who made the announcement lmfao
just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees
They existed *before beetles*
Why is this sad? Why am I sad?
https://xkcd.com/1259/
Bee Orchid
This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.
(my own photos)
Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.
Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.
You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:
Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.
Not just any paper maps, they had textbook sized atlases of the entire delivery area with each street meticulously mapped out.
These were insanely handy and a new edition came out just about every year to stay up to date on construction and road changes. I remember stocking my car with these for any of the cities I tended to travel to because they were the only way to actually get anywhere unless you wanted to call a friend and get very in depth instructions on how to get there.
AAA is now mostly known for roadside assistance, but at one time their primary business was MAPS.
For a few bucks a month you could become a Triple-A member and yeah, roadside assistance was one of the perks. BUT ALSO you could pick up the phone, call their 1-800 number, and tell the human operator who answered that you were planning a road trip.
They'd get your starting and destination address. Ask a few questions: what kinds of hotels you liked, preferred gas stations, any interest in touristy things?
Then in 7 to 10 days you'd get a thick package in the mail of carefully customized maps. Each map was the size of a paperback book cover, perfect for holding in the passenger's or driver's lap. Each was enumerated starting at #1 and ending at #whatever number of minimaps the trip required, with a hand-drawn highlighter path drawn on the map marking the route from one edge to another; entrance & exit points for that section of the route.
Motels, gas stations, and (if requested) tourist traps were indicated in color coded ink -- again, by hand. Sometimes detours were drawn in red marker, overriding the printed map because AAA kept up to date on road closures & regional disasters.
These maps were customized for your particular trip, and were invaluable since GPS did not exist. Unless you were familiar with the local region, the alternative was buying a map at the next gas station and guessing.
GPS is amazing and I wouldn't want to give up the ease & simplicity of Google Maps, but my god the old tech was miraculous too in its own way.
Refidex my beloved - that's the Aussie version, the big book of maps that got my ass everywhere until years after I got my first smartphone. It has a full index of street names in the back with a map and grid reference, so you could flip forward and easily find it.
I was told by a taxi driver that in the old days they had to basically memorise the Refidex to pass the Taxi Licence test, since they weren't allowed to use it during the test.
BUT searching for a picture of the 2023 Refidex led me to this!
Brisbane and environs in 1951! Fully digitised with machine readable text and high quality images! I can buy it for 19.50 - nay, I'm GONNA buy it for 19.50! (Although I wish it was $19.51).
Holy cow, they've also got 1926.
Yoink!
idk where “monkeys like bananas” came from but im so glad its a thing because its so fucking funny for no reason at all
They are both the same color
They’re thinking of Curious George the yellow monkey
Paddington bear wears that yellow ass coat
his name is ted. also, he’s not a monkey
certified iconic post
I didn't realize how disgusting light bulbs were till I had to dump THOUSANDS of them into a gaylord. I am now dingey and smell like grandmas ashes
Pardon me?
i forgor not everyone knows what gaylords r but it's these big bitches watermelons and shit come in, we use em to store paint and bulbs lmao
You mean a box???
I work in a warehouse and have to deal with these all the time. They’re called gaylords because they were popularized by a company called Gaylord iirc. You get used to calling them gaylords but every so often you say it to a person who doesn’t know and it hits you.
One time at work, I texted my boss about an order of them that came in by saying “there’s a 1400lb gaylord in the warehouse. besides me, of course.”
its always fun when we get new ppl at work that get whiplash when they hear us scream across the shop for three gaylords
i … did not know that
via @katyagoncharov
hot tip! if you ever find yourself googling gloryhole in order find a picture to show someone else what it looks like (pictured below btw), REMEMBER TO TACK ON GLASSBLOWING AT THE END
No recent SCP has enchanted me like SCP-4723 and yet there's NO art of it
yuo're moneyy is gone.......
Me reviewing the footage of the bank during the hours when I was a teller knowing I'm about to get swamped by the fucking Men in Black
Ron DeSantis just kidnapped a 13-year old boy.
Earlier this evening, at around 7 PM CT U.S., Rebekah Jones (notably one of DeSantis’ biggest political enemies right now) underwent a raid on her home by state police.
Guns were pointed in the face of her 13-year old son, Jack. They arrested him under the charges of digital terrorism and “on state orders.”
They are refusing to let him go home and they are refusing to let Jones see him.
These are her screenshots recounting the incident from earlier tonight. They were taken at 10:23 PM CT U.S.
Reblog. I don’t care who you are, reblog this. We have to make sure that this doesn’t get buried – it’s already happening.
An update by her. She’s the COVID-19 whistleblower in FL. The scientist that pointed out that FL was covering the real number of cases
Link (x)
who is she and what’s her phone number
The minotaur was designed by Luna’s Puppets.
@wereralph
Welcome to the UK, where the state broadcaster just posted this 🙃
Fuck the UK.
Edit:
Please go sign the open letter to the BBC!
Posting this a day early here.
My pride-themed artwork for June :)
bites you w merlin rabies
fun fact: did you know that raijin is a father 🤗 he has a son named raitaro who was sent to earth to learn about humans… therefore i am legally obligated to use this image to describe him ❤
So you're saying he's a dilf? 👀
It’s raining men. ( @lokiathot come get your boyfriend, he’s turning on all the locals with his rain dance).
Lineart and flat below:
THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING TO GET YOUR MEDS BEFORE THE PHARMACIES CLOSE
they are going to be CLOSED OVER THE HOLIDAYS and so will the DOCTORS WHO SIGN YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS.
if you don't have enough meds to last the next THREE WEEKS, put in for your repeats and refills tomorrow! that's Wednesday! do it! don't go to hospital at New Year because you ran out of stuff!
it's that time of year again! get your meds!
Ordered mine yesterday, get the meds folk
This might be a rural thing only. From my buddy, the knows-their-shit pharmacist:
Yeah, if you live in a small enough town some places might have abbreviated holiday hours? And many doctor's offices will close for a few days, which delays their responses to refill requests, but we're looking at a few days, not three weeks of total service blackout. (The backlog when they reopen is real, though.) It's not a bad idea to get all those things squared away before holidays alter everyone's schedules. If you have any Corporate Drug Store remotely near where you live they're likely to be closed or close early at most 2-3 days.
If you’re concerned? Yeah, call your pharmacist, see what their situation is. But by and large, you should be okay.
Stay safe out there!
losing it over this picture smite’s Twitter just posted
👁 👁
omg they were roommates
They were roooooooooeeeeeewwwwmmates
