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Great photo honestly, the gentle absurdity of it makes it feel extra real somehow
Reminder that the mythical rainbow serpent might have been essentially the result of a media campaign constructed by a bunch of collaborating tribes to make a shared symbol that would encourage villages to take in refugees after a major flooding disaster
There’s a great Shogun-esque novel waiting to be written about Yasuke, with the same appeal of imagining the political intrigue surrounding a person who literally has nowhere else to go in the world (since he would return to being a slave)
Credit where credit is due, the goofy Nioh series of games had Yasuke
You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day–you give a man a rat, and you satisfy his rat desire
Very tall Bart isnt just the best leftist ytp channel, it’s the best overall
My brain keeps a permanent spot for “Dennis Prager: Hated by many, loved by few”
I talked with a researcher who bluntly called whiptails “a bunch of lesbos” and he wasn’t even being funny, they still sorta kinda have sex to stimulate egg production.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556411/
That study has a great diagram:
Observe the science man presiding over the lizards and their inscrutable hormones
It’s a good article that showcases the way AAA games are basically hollow. They wear a lot of art, incredibly elaborate, expensive, art, but none of it comes together to make the experience it promises. Everything is built in separate pieces and stuck together later, and its boring gameplay that shows no interest in being art of its own is the glue. I remember Yahtzee did a video about the first Destiny that made this same point, about how the environmental art in a few areas was fascinating and clearly full of effort, but the gameplay was a slog that lacked the same ambition.
The entire album Symbol by Susumu Yokota might hit the right nerve, though it’s heavier on the dreamlike side and doesn’t have lyrics. I use it for driving, writing, anything that needs a kind of hypnotized but functional state of mind.
Judging by all those babies on her back, that’s probably a wolf spider just trying to make it as a single mom. They are harmless in case you didn’t know.
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“Veteran of the Psychic Wars” seems like it’s about a Vietnam vet at first, and then it seems like it’s about more general trauma/PTSD, and then it seems like it’s about addiction
Then you find out the whole album is inspired by a damn fantasy series about a radical centrist
Yeah the real issue in a way is that there’s just so much evidence of evolution happening that it’s hard to find a single shared pattern to study
Sometimes ants can’t smell ants either and you get supercolonies
Nobody goes nutting any more huh
Aussie magpies are ridiculously smart, love them as an example of convergent evolution since they are not corvids but rather songbirds that have evolved to be more crow-like to fill a similar niche to corvids
Studio Ghibli vibes
love me some land crustaceans
Unfortunately I heard this on a museum tour, so I can’t actually confirm it from something I read. I know there’s a pretty famous book by Bruce Chatwin about the topic but it’s old enough that I’m sure research on the topic has progressed past it.