the whimsical boy genius has been hanging out by the monolith outside town too much and now all his charming inventions are made out of jagged black iron and animal carcasses

dukat i forgot to put on here

Urgent Help:

Hello everyone, thank you for taking a moment to read our story.

I am Hazem Shawish, and I am trying to save my family from this war.

We live in Gaza, where we face significant challenges due to the current situation.

My family consists of 11 members, including my mother, two daughters, four sons, and three children.

Noosciocircus Zooble’s avatar. Forms on their body constantly fluctuate in proportion and position. They have no designated head, limb, top, or bottom, and are constantly disoriented from needing to consciously mentally assign their front and ‘limbs.’

They avoid adventures in favor of sitting quietly still in their darkened room, minimizing the mental strain. It’s been over a year and their mind is beginning to adapt. Days trend toward getting easier but sometimes it’s hell.

Zooble doesn’t have a “default” state, but, as they calm, their offshoots decrease in size and complexity until they are a lightly distorting center piece.

They can’t directly control the offshoots’ fluctuation, but they can allow them to intensify in a desired direction. This is how they “roll” for forms that could be useful for manipulating or hitting something. When Jax bothers them, they readily impale him. (Jax’ avatar makes the level of pain and injury he experiences difficult to ascertain to others and himself.)

sicky magazine

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

In 2022 I worked with McIlroy et al on a new reconstruction of Haootia (Stauroza), from the Late Ediacaran (550 Ma). The Haootia fossils from Newfoundland, Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue.

The first gains 💪

Mauro Ariel Koliva — MAGSELF (gel ink on canvas, 2024)

file this one next to "socratian poetry" under "tumblr users trying to sound smart by using specific language and revealing they don't know what they're talking about"

400+ people were killed in gaza last night.

my friend tarek has been doing some amazing community organizing in palestine — he’s been teaching classes for children with my other friend farah AND distributing water and providing iftar meals during ramadan throughout rafah! his brother just had a major orthopedic surgery he had to wait about a year for and since food and water is incredibly scarce he can’t properly recover. please donate to their efforts!!!

donate to tarek’s family

donate to provide iftar meals

donate to the water initiative

donate to the challenge classes

quick reminder: tarek isn’t just a word on your screen, he is my friend.

he’s 21, the same age as me. before the war he was studying to be a translator and he dreamt of voice acting, just like so many of you reading this. (he’s pretty good too actually.) he would probably not call himself a poet but every few days he posts something so beautifully worded that he might as well be a poet laureate. he recently wrote: “gaza is sick of being praised by anyone. gaza is tired that its image is on satellite tv. gaza is sick of its name in the sad poems. gaza is tired of the repeated endings.” the message is clear — sentiments are not enough, his people need HELP.

every day i tell him im doing everything i can. and it’s true, i am, but its barely anything, as i’m disabled and bedridden. i’ve kept that fact from him out of shame because i see what he has to endure each day, but i feel SO POWERLESS. every time an announcement breaks that more bombs have dropped in the night or more innocent people were gunned down in broad daylight, my heart sinks with terror and i wonder if i’ve lost my friend. it really would mean so much — not just to him, to me — if you could donate anything you can spare to tarek and his family. he deserves the whole world and more.

yesterday tarek almost got on a water distribution truck that was targeted with bombs. the day before his neighbors had their house bombed (during Eid) and that whole family died. please help my friend

I apologized in advance to the cashier for getting these at the same time. They couldn't stop laughing. From a Goodwill

Items that convince you to assassinate the rest of the Beatles

The Lecher in the Tie

*very suspicious squinting*

Skepticism activated

So it's not a dire wolf (which are not very related to gray wolves at all), it's a gray wolf with 14 modified genes.

Like yes, the technology is cool and the advances impressive, but these claims of de-extinction are so fucking overhyped and in this case an outright lie that it makes me want to bite something

From their own comments on reddit, they consider phenotype alterations to be the same as recreating a species. So their gray wolf with 14 modified genes out of tens of thousands "is" a direwolf because it looks a little different from a typical gray wolf.

"Recent" being 1.3 to 1.6 million years ago, with many specialized adaptations on the part of polar bears...

But also, how do they *know* they act like dire wolves????

So yeah, they've lost all my respect at this time.

You know who has their boot on the throat of the economy? Big Paint. No matter where you are, people need to buy paint, and it's always expensive. Used to be, paint was three bucks a can. Then they got six buck cans. Now it's twenty-two dollars for a spray can, and an instalment plan to get enough to turn your baseboards Landlord White again. Last week, my cousin thought of the colour purple in a positive light, and someone from Cloverdale showed up at his house to ask him for eight dollars.

It's really bad, because I've got all these things I want to be cool new colours. Unfortunately, none of them are worth me spending the money to make them those cool new colours. Auto body shop technicians know all too well the pain of fogging a $250 Honda with $600 in Bondo on it with $800 in paint. Especially when they screw up a pass, and have to throw another hundo or so into the roaring fire.

Usually, my instinct with this kind of thing is to make my own paint. Screw those know-nothing big-brain corporate types. Grinding up pine cones, twigs, bushes, and expired pudding did make a colour, but it wasn't very appealing. Intern called it "Baby Shit Brown." We only sent a couple thousand gallons of that to Home Depot, before they asked us to stop leaving it in their store and driving away real fast.

There is hope, though. I've been paying attention to the highway repair schedule, and if you drive real close to the trucks, you can at least get a little bit of yellow or white splashed off of the road when they are painting it. Sure, that makes everyone working on the job site mad, but we're all suffering under Big Paint's cruel yoke. Don't get angry at me: get angry at Home Depot for not throwing the returned cans away in their unlocked dumpster. Y'all owe me for all those unpaid invoices for Baby Shit Brown that we've been sending to your headquarters with other companies' names on the top.

Ola reached out to me again to help her, I want to share some things that she told me & encourage you to share this post/d0nate, every share and every $ counts! 🙏 [LINK TO FUNDRAISER]

You may be thinking, why does she need so much, haven't we helped enough yet? While we complain about, let's say, the ever-rising price of eggs - 2€ here, $10 in the US - how much might these same eggs cost for Ola, in a country where all production is stopped & barely any food can be imported? Well, for Ola and her family, every single food item & necessity has prices comparable to what one would normally only spend on perhaps a trip or even rent - each egg, or fruit, or vegetable, is like a luxury item, and meat is out of the question entirely. On top of that, Ola is unable to work or earn any money, so she & her family are completely dependent on this campaign for basic survival. In this art piece, I wanted to portray Ola's dreams that were crushed by the current situation, where she can barely survive.

The campaign has been vetted by @90-ghost here, @northgazaupdates here, @el-shab-hussein, and @nabulsi 's spreadsheet of vetted campaigns #205.

Love some miserable Elon in the morning

normally stuff like this feels performative because anyone can talk shit online to someone and most normal people would just ignore it and block you but in this instance its the funniest thing in the world because you know for a fact its getting to him