Laughter and Nerdery

So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!

THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL! 

Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,

Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.

Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.

That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up

Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail

Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else

ROC is going to be at the WGA strike in Hollywood, CA!

Oh I didn’t post this but hello yearly xena drawing

The hardest part of making this was choosing which picture of Kit to use

Also while we’re here I want everyone to appreciate that This

This wild, wonderful, beautifully animated and heartfelt queer story started here

Here, on tumblr, by an art student who was wrestling with his identity, mental health, and religious trauma

Tell your stories, kids, you never know how many people will thank you for it

Actually, let's clarify this one, a little more. They are obviously a couple, and were always written to be a couple. What else would they be? (No, they aren't sisters, they have different names.)

"We never married, so we're undivorceable," they sang in the Stephin Merritt musical of Coraline...

(They were based on my long ago elocution teacher and her partner.)

Yet another. I appear to have answered this one many many times on Tumblr alone (and on Twitter, alav ha-shalom, and even on my blog, before that).

And what I find oddest about it, is if it had been an elderly man and an elderly woman as neighbours, who had been living in the flat downstairs for the past thirty years or more, you'd just assume they were a couple, and would not be writing to the author to find out if they were a brother and sister or perhaps roommates.

COMMISSIONS OPEN

Ok since you all know, the cinema I worked in closed and everyone was let go. So I’m out of work.

I decided I wanted to try my hand at living from my art and just doing what I love. So I invested in new equipment and everything, I’m really excited.

Well for that reason I had to up the prices a little bit, but just a bit! So here are the new prices ♥️

As always. These are the no no

No mecha

No nsfw (I might, but not super explicit)

No Ethan Ramsey

No furry business

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I also have a kofi if someone wants to help out. Thank you all for your support. ♥️♥️

COMMISSIONS OPEN FOR JULY!

i think i downloaded some kind of computer virus

Oh dear. Are you just getting annoying popup ads, or is it worse than that?

Much worse.

Gremlin.exe is super hard to uninstall i hear. Good luck!

It's spreading, evolving--

Modern problems require ancient solutions.

I have given the viruses a stick.

subtitles should be on automatically. people who don’t want them should have to turn them off

Years ago I overheard (eavesdropped upon) a telephone conversation between a public parks official and a golf course owner.

Parks Official: No sir, you cannot

Parks Official: No. They are a protected species

Parks Official: You CANNOT shoot them

Parks Official: Or poison them, no. Or trap them

Parks Official: If you like, we can-- no, I'm it. I'm the ranking official here. There's nobody above me. My boss? You mean... the governor's office? Sure, I guess. Okay bye

After he hung up, he gave me this thousand-yard stare before answering my unvoiced question.

"There's a flock of flamingos at the 9th green disrupting golfers. He wanted permission to go out there with a shotgun and take care of matters, but sensed there might be... legal ramifications. So he called us."

I laughed. "Does that happen often?"

"Oh, we get calls like that a couple times a month."

Country clubs should be burned to the ground and their golf courses turned into community gardens i am 10000% serious

Was golf created for the sole purpose of hoarding ridiculously large amounts of land just to brag about how little they use it?

Yes, literally.

Composers in the 1700s and 1800s be like “I’m not gonna give this piece a distinct and memorable title”

Composers be like “This piece is titled ‘Symphony no. [insert # here]’ and if you can’t remember which one it is that’s on you :/”

so the Spouse and I like to have a lot of verbal discussions about the universe where the asteroid didn't hit. mainly spec evo stuff. what would evolve into what, that kind of thing. we know we're not alone in that.

we maintain that humans evolved alongside some pretty terrifying mammalian megafauna, so why not dinosaurian? so what would a realistic sapient ape in a dinosaur world be?

it's taken some thinking, but:

wookies.

we'd be wookies.

Here's a thing to consider. It is highly likely that we would not exist without elephants.

There is strong evidence and a growing belief that our ancestors specifically used the trails that were laid down by elephant ancestors, and that's what allowed us to come down from the trees permanently and become bipedal.

Let's take humans off the table, and go with "us." I agree that with dinosaurs on the table, we would not be human. The events and multiple key species that allowed us to evolve as humans would not have happened.

And it was the KT Extinction event that allowed mammals to climb up and become more diverse than rodent and possum like creatures.

Now the question is, would simian-like creatures still evolve, with dinosaurs? It's probable, because it's not a huge anatomical leap to get from a possum to a monkey. And I could see simians being very successful in a dinosaur world, and even out competing some raptors occupying similar niches.

Now, going back to elephants, ceratopsians and hadrosaurs occupied similar niches to elephants, and were similar in size. They would have blazed the same trails that our ancestors used to come down from the trees.

And I don't think the dinosaurs would be inherently more dangerous than the megafauna our ancestors faced. The giant theropods would likely prefer to take larger creatures than us. Medium to small theropods would prey on us, but hell... So did lions and tigers and short-faced bears. So did wolves. And we survived that.

It would be in our advantage to stay small, make weapons, and burrow. We wouldn't be bigfoot wookies, we'd be Hobbits.

I completely agree with all of this and I think it's a coin flip whether we'd get tree dwelling wookies (because the predators were just Too Much to come down) or hobbits (because your scenario)

wait

wait

wait

BOTH EVOLVE

two sapient ape species

hobbits and wookies

and they'd be so different and deeply diverged we wouldn't have a neanderthal-hybrid-mixing situation....

just imagine a hobbit-wookie hybrid though

…i regret to inform you that you’ve just reinvented the ewok.

You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???

they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

"No, in the back yard right now."

imagine aliens that come from a tidally locked planet where only a thin band of the planet is habitable, or a planet life was only able to develop in small areas at the poles, or in the few pools of liquid water on the planet's surface, or just in isolated areas where geologic activity causes geysers and springs, visiting Earth. They seem completely unprepared for the shock of realizing that Earth's continents appear green because the continents are absolutely covered with green organisms.

The alien biologists are so uncomfortable because there are certain protocols for maintaining certain distances from life signatures to avoid harming unfamiliar organisms, and groves of plant like autotrophs and pools where aquatic life dwells are carefully protected and respected, with very important rules for approach

On Earth, the inhabitants are just. Playing and walking LITERALLY STEPPING ON CARPETS OF ORGANISMS the whole time. the aliens are like "it doesn't hurt them??? Can't you just...move them to a place where you don't have to step on them?" and the humans are like "no of course not, grasses evolved to tolerate being stepped on, and besides, more plants would grow there if we tried to move the existing ones"

It then must be explained that humans would need to regularly spray poisons on the ground to prevent any given area of bare soil from filling up with plant life, and that "regularly" means "multiple times within a single solar cycle." And that the poisons stop working within a few decades because the plants evolve to resist them that fast.

Human: yeah solar is the dominant energy source these days but some of the recent solar farm projects are pretty controversial because they're in reclaimed strip mining sites that others argue should be restored as best as we can to their previous ecological state

Alien: I don't understand...why would you not place the solar farms in an area of the planet with no existing ecosystem?

Human: ...what?

Alien: You have rather sophisticated protective gear and have done some space exploration, surely you could establish them in an area of the planet to which life is not yet adapted?

Human: ...there isn't one.

Alien: ...what do you mean there isn't one

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU 'DON'T KNOW' HOW MANY SPECIES THERE ARE"

"Our biologists would love to collaborate with your Earth scientists to draw up a definitive listing of Earth species and resolve any inconsistencies in the records."

"I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Only 25% of Earth's species have been formally described, at most."

"that's...that's most of them."

"Yes?"

"Well...I suppose the ocean trenches and abyssal plains must be difficult for you to reach...where did you have to travel for your discoveries?"

"Travel? I moved here to Alabama in the first place to study its aquatic ecosystems. The crayfish I discovered live in that creek I showed you earlier."

Some fun with different Marvel Legends heads.

It's June 1. It's time.

Go be gay.

shout out to the costume design of Willow (2022) that made the men wear the necklines they deserve while giving the women badass knight fits

3247. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fan Art)

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