Latest Posts by dilong-paradoxus - Page 3
I just went and filled this out, long distance rail is a critical service for getting people around in the US and we need to expand and improve it!
Today is the last day of the survey so act quick!
https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1765391777580912958?s=20
PLEASE GD IF YOU LOVE AND WANT TRAINS
This reminds me of how photogrammetry software sometimes includes chunks of the sky or foliage in the picture and maps the texture of the object you wanted to capture onto those extra things, I've never seen pixel art (or really any other art) that captures that effect and it's blowing my mind
Pixel art Color Caricature from a while back
cats have pointy ears that look like this ^. .^ and they hold them up all day long and they're so brave for that. we shouls all thank them for.their little triangle ears....
i hate whenim telling someone about my cool immortal robot body and theyre like "all men will one day die" well im a GIRL !!!! fucker!!!!!!!!!
This stuff always fucked me up when I was doing my Geology degree. Like, you'd be out there at field camper or whatever and you'd see a bunch of rocks and whatever, like they're cool rocks and there's a lot to learn about them but they're rocks very detached from any kind of normal experience.
But then once in a while you'd come across something that looks like it was buried yesterday and suddenly you're transported a billion years ago to a calm stream creating ripples in the soft mud of its bed. Or a reef from the Jurassic with hundreds of shelled animals just chilling. Or the cobbles on the side of a river that was flowing 10 thousand years ago. And there were animals and plants and bacteria just chilling there, doing their thing, just like you're doing today in the same spot (which may have been on the other side of the planet to the degree locations have any meaning in geologic time).
It's amazing we have any record of these periods of time, let alone enough to actually have a pretty good idea about what they were like! So cool
ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr
In the library I have been reading lots of books about pesticides and related topics. The library's physical print collection skews toward older books, so there are lots of books over 50 years old.
I will share the findings in subsequent reblogs, but for now I'll say this: Filmmakers and novelists working in the most gory, nauseating crevices of the horror genre could never dream something more twisted, disgusting and absolutely blood-curdling as a book about Turfgrass Lawns from the 1960's.
*sweating, whole body shaking while I stare at a google doc* would he fucking say that????
there’s a new potent drug called “the bed” out on the streets. just one hit of the damn thing and you’re passed out cold, tucked in, multiple blankies, honking and shooing for hours. scary stuff.
Absolutely barbaric and immoral that US states are still carrying out the death penalty (and apparently the federal government is considering bringing it back?). Hi yes, we're going to punish someone for (allegedly, they get the wrong person waaaaay too often) killing someone by killing them. Fuck.
I've been against the death penalty since I was a kid, and the more I learn about how every part of the process is carried out the more horrified I get. They don't let doctors be involved with the process because the Hippocratic oath bars them from harming patients, so most executions are a kind of gruesome shitshow.
And then I go on the internet and find pages of people who think the punishment didn't go far enough? Like, you want to be drawing and quartering people for your enjoyment? Bonkers.
This is more venting than trying to actually convince anyone, but if you want a better set of arguments I can't recommend Jacob Geller's YouTube video on the subject enough.
hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app
this scene really highlights one of the most impressive parts of yotsuba to me, which is how effectively its able to recreate for an adult audience the sense of wonder that very young children have towards the world, giving us a taste of just how strange and interesting seemingly normal things are to someone as young as yotsuba. the way the geese are quietly built up to through strange sound effects, and how the camera shows their approach in detail, how it lingers on yotsubas reaction and lets us take in just how new and exciting this is to her, before hitting us with a double page spread of that same thing on an overwhelming scale... its masterful
reluctant friend: puppy dog city is a myth, we should turn back
grizzled mercenary: it's getting dark, keep moving
puppygirl: puppy dog city's real. it's a city full of puppy dogs, a place i'll belong & fit in, it's home. i saw it
eccentric scientist: the implications are astounding
This is so wholesome
Hiroshi Yoshida - Mount Rainier, color woodblock print, from the series The United States, 1925.
Happy new year!! May it be full of joy and cats!
2000-2005
cats have pointy ears that look like this ^. .^ and they hold them up all day long and they're so brave for that. we shouls all thank them for.their little triangle ears....
reblog to be eaten by this thing
Haven't tried this yet but looks pretty useful! It's built in HTML so as far as I can tell it's not just for neocities!
have you heard about the rarebit webcomic template on neocities? it might be useful for some of your followers who want to self host
I hadn't but this sounds AWESOME, thank you for the suggestion! Go make some websites!!
https://rarebit.neocities.org
no i don’t have an “astigmatism” i can just see the halos of the angels that live in car head lights that you losers are too spiritually closed off to see
Royal Space Force : Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Mechanical designs from the movie