fresh

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

*takes deep breath*

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Cute couple drawing ideas :)
#art #furryart

I cannot emphasize enough that every few thousand years in the Holocene, some person in Afro-Eurasia looks at a large bovid and decides to reinvent the cow.

You start learning about cattle domestication and they’re all from different local events.

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

Marco Rubio rn

“Unleash Chiang,” as in the rallying cry of John Birchers in the 1950s, who urged the United States to arm Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader of Taiwan, so he could retake Red China from Mao. “Unleash Chiang,” which later morphed into sports trash talk in the Bush family, like when George H.W. would warn from the baseline that he was about to “unleash Chiang” with his next serve.

Now I'm not sure why Politico uses "Chang" there because the next sentence clarifies.

2019 journal article from the Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production, titled “The Camel - A Short Communication on Classification and Attributes” by Faraz et al. Abstract “Camels have a fascinated mankind which are very well adapted to their native environment and can sustain life in hot, harsh and hostile environments like deserts. The dromedary camel is a best source of milk and meat especially for those areas where production performance of other animals is adversely affected by harsh environmental conditions. This is due to its unique physiological characteristics that enable to tolerate higher temperatures, solar radiations, water scarcity, poor vegetation and rough topography. Camel has no competition with any domestic specie regarding feed and performance. They are browsers, their tall as well as long neck and legs enable them to browse efficiently. And due to these specified attributes they can browse that feed material which is beyond the approach of other livestock species. In fact camel has the ability to transfer those poor products into valuable food which can’t be consumed by other livestock species. Camels are of great importance, their virtues should be given ample consideration and it will definitely be an important addition to the food chain which will play its role in the food security of the world.”

This may be my favorite abstract. Truly camels have a fascinated mankind and their virtues should be given ample consideration.

The whole article has this vibe, by the way. It is full of nothing but love and whimsy for our most marvelous friends the camels.

Inshallah we will crush the Confederacy one last final time

Gonna post one my "tutorial" here as well, just to keep it

a meme with two hands holding words : "the deep desire to be creative" vs "the inherent need to recover my energy from surviving reality"

I feel seen

A typical cuirass from around AD 1400

I feel like a lot of bad takes on this platform could be reduced if people just worked a little harder to deconstruct their American exceptionalism.

A lot of the “it could never happen here” shock and surprise feels like people don’t realize most countries have constitutions when it happens there.

Hey guys here's a cool account to block before they call you an "emploid"(???)

Count me in too!

ChatGPT is soooo 2022 anyways.
But fr tho
Don't use that filth ever.

One thing I really do very strongly believe about TTRPGs is that you as a DM have basically no right to punish your players for inadequacies they have but their character wouldn't. If they can't figure out a solution to a problem, just let them roll to see if their character can tbh

Today is a wonderful day to explain to Redditors that Genghis Khan killing a ton of people did not cause the Little Ice Age.

The study that started the idea reported 700 million tons of CO2 saved over the entire Mongol conquests of the 1200s and 1300s.

To compare, we put out 40 billion annually.

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

artistic depiction of the superficially wolf-like hoofed predator pakicetus, depicted with a sparse covering of hair

a skeletal mount of pakicetus

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is pakicetus, an early cetacean from eocene south asia. as the basal-most cetacean currently known, pakicetus was ambulatory on land, though its bone density, dental microwear, and position of the eyes could indicate semiaquatic habits
(art by sergio perez)

artistic depiction of the neotenic crab callichimaera

a photograph of two fossilised callichimaera

happy #fossilfriday! this is callichimaera, a crab from the cretaceous of colombia and the united states. despite possessing several juvenile traits, other features indicate that the specimens were adults, retaining larval features into adulthood via heterochrony
(art by oksana vernygora)

New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

In which I provide a few thoughts on the new Spinosaurus species, S. mirabilis.

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

I also stressed the deep connections between one of the study authors - Nathan Myhrvold - and Geoffrey Epstein to New Scientist. They didn't mention it, neither has anyone else.

if you see buddha on the road, kill his ass

i do think if completely seriously the chiefest underlying theme of tolkien is a banal anti-imperialism of the extremely ordinary "fuck off and stop taking shit that's not yours" subtype

MAGA Congressman Makes Sick Post About Muslims and Dogs Republican Representative Randy Fine twisted a harmless joke into a racist attack on Muslims—just days before Ramadan.

Continually disgusted not only by the blatant Islamophobia and racism, but also by the Republican Party’s embrace of Fine and his views.

Utterly disqualifying in a United States Congressman, as it would be in any job.
newrepublic.com/post/206611/...

Jesus visits a fantasy world

I propose my alt-history Hearts of Iron IV mod called Sterilized Earth.

It takes place after a nearby supernova in 1935 wipes out humanity.

There are no playable factions.

Maybe go outside for a bit.

I want it on the record of history that artists realized the harm immediately and were (and continue to be) loud bitches trying to stop the idiots who are out of their minds.