slugs are friends

Walking with Dogs, Cats, Flowers by Kyoung Hwan Kim

The Collectibles: Best of 2024

Tag yourself I’m Flamingoat

“The Scrambled Zoo” found in the children’s section of the Pittsburgh Press April 16 1922 p. 104

(h/t @yesterdaysprint)

Charlotta Maria Hauksdotti,

Opalized 80 million years old Ammonite measuring 2 ft. in diameter, discovered near Alberta, Canada

source:

Buddy that thing doesn't even look like it knows where it parked its flying saucer

ceramic tiles decorated with pomegranates.

Book Dragon Pin // Vonnart

illustration by marjorie cooper

there's a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

boaty.

The stained glass at the Elizabethan House Museum, 4 South Quay, Great Yarmouth, 17th - early 18th century - Photo by David King

American bison By: S. Wilson From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Wild Herds 1977

finished my first sashiko. sincerely addicted.

There seems to be a general malaise on most of Tumblr about TikTok getting banned in the United States.

I understand the problems, "brain rot", whatever but- A government banning a social media app that opened the world for many people is legitimately scary and upsetting. Say what you want but, there are MANY global and local issues that would not have gotten the same traction, recognition, and outreach without TikTok.

And then add to this that Meta/Facebook was one the largest lobbyists working to get TikTok banned... Like- I think folks should be more concerned about the implications of what this means, especially since the ban goes into effect the day before inauguration.

A lot of small businesses are just staring at a cliff coming right for them and they genuinely don't know what to do. It's hard to explain how good TikTok has been for a lot of little businesses. It's been accessible for people in a way that, like, Facebook hasn't been.

I never got really into it but I know a lot of small business owners who are really, really freaked out.

Computer Chronicles - Internet Showcase Special Part 1 (2000)

The United States is not uniquely capable of destroying the world via environmental disasters, no matter who gets elected.

There are so many other countries and regions doing so much good. And the US has already set a lot of good things in motion, especially at the state and local levels.

I think a lot of people get their perspective skewed by the idea of American exceptionalism, honestly.

Because thinking that we're guaranteed a climate apocalypse just because of the fuckers that won the US election is also a kind of American exceptionalism - just one where the US is uniquely evil instead of uniquely good