putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer
12k people killed by pointing at their house on a map and accidentally squishing themselves with their own finger. Protecting the maps with lamination and Map simulations on screens prevented future deaths.
ok look someone needs to come fuck my asss
no zoidberg you keep pinching me peanus with your snippers
Once the birds had learned how to initiate video interactions, the second phase of the experiment could begin. In this “open call” period, the 15 participating birds could make calls freely; they also got to choose which bird to dial up. Over the next two months, pet parrots made 147 deliberate video calls to other birds. Their owners took detailed notes about the calls and recorded more than 1,000 hours of video footage that the researchers analyzed.
If you guys have a few minutes (~5) to watch the video with the study goals and results + clips of the birds, it’s so so so wholesome.
shoutout to daily weed gang u are gods strongest soldiers and you are making it out of samsara
Emperor moths have large eyespots on their hind wings that they flash when disturbed. This often startles and thwarts potential predators.
Image credit: Tim Flach
For all the textual and paratextual browbeating about being a movie about Empowering Women and sending conservatives into meltdowns, the Barbie movie really was like, the fucking apogee of a feminism whose goalposts have been shifted so much it's mostly about men and their feelings at this point
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different anon, but could you elaborate about the canon is enforcing of IP? or give some recommendations of what i could read about it
well, like. all fiction is equally real, in that it all exists in the exact same capacity (as in, exclusively as the relation between a text and the people engaging with it). let's take star wars as an example where people were recently upset about 'canon' and what was and wasn't allowed to be 'canon' -- there is nothing about padawan (2022) that is in any way 'less true' or 'less real' than heir to the empire (1991). they are both books about equally fictional events. the only substantive difference between these books is that the IP holder, disney, will allow future ''official'' material to draw on the former and not on the latter.
and respecting canon as some sort of intrinsic property of the text, as something that confers weight and importance--being willing to accept 'what disney has greenlit to be the basis for continued cultural product' as a pivotal factor in how or even whether a text should be analyzed (e.g. 'that's not canon, it doesn't count') is ceding the notion that the embrace of the rightsholder makes one text more 'real' than another equally fictional text depicting equally fictional events. it is accepting an epistemology of fiction that is ultimately rooted in IP law--the only material difference between a 'canon' and a 'non-canon' text is that the rightsholder might well fund the production of a work expanding and engaging with the former and might well legally prevent the publication of the latter
obviously if you want to create your own personal corpus to restrict your analysis to, that makes sense. & for very good reasons that may well overlap with 'canon' -- it often makes sense to say 'this text wasn't intended to be read as part of the same story, so including it in my broad analysis of this story would complicated that analysis for little gain'--but accepting prima facie the distinctions of 'canon' as valent in any sense except economic is an unproductive way of envisioning texts that cedes so much ground to reifying The Franchise as a neutral thing with independent existence.
alcohol was something like a ritual substance they would drink to enhance their driving. nobody knows how their great civilization fell
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yeah i thought the part of barbie where margot robbie sat down and read an entire sally haslanger book aloud was a little heavyhanded, but it was even weirder when she started giving a pretty detailed and careful critique of the material. i guess they were really worried about people saying they weren't tackling complex themes
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the part where greta gerwig came out reciting the scum manifesto before shooting ken to death was a little tasteless i feel. a little too gruesome for what i took my daughter to see. at the same time i respect that they didn't flinch from the consequences of it. like they showed all the gore
