Flat arches with 'hanging' masonry supporting the arena floor of the Colosseum: precise Roman construction using no mortar. Laid upon a frame that was then removed, the central keystone has held the bricks in place since the 1st century AD.
please don't have sex in disabled bathrooms if you're abled. we need somewhere to have sex too
URGENT TIME SENSITIVE
Hey, It's your friendly neighborhood Black goth dyke stuck in a sticky situation :(
I'm in between jobs rn and although my mom is going back to work soon, our bills are steady approaching and our savings have been exhausted.
Between rent, the internet bill, and our phone bill things have been piling up faster than we can save to pay for it and it's been stressing both of us out.
Please share this around and or give if at all possible. Even a dollar helps.
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GULLS WILL DECIDE WHAT TO EAT BY WATCHING PEOPLE
Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) can perfectly thrive in coastal and urban landscapes, however, these birds will steal your food as soon as you are distracted. Urban gulls pay attention to human behaviour in food-related contexts, and will mimic what humans almost all the time, a new study shown.
In a simple test, researchers studied how herring gulls behave in front person eating snacks on Brighton beachfront, UK. They gave the gulls the choice between two differently coloured potato chips, and when the human were eating potatos chips from one color, seagulls approached the food, and chose the same colour that the experimenter was eating, the 95 per cent of the time.
Seagulls were able to use human cues for stimulus enhancement and foraging decisions. Given the relatively recent history of urbanization in herring gulls, this cross-species social information transfer could be a by-product of the cognitive flexibility inherent in species who steal food, called kleptoparasitic species. This success in urban environments is suggested to result from behavioural flexibility, which is likely to require specific cognitive adaptations. In food-stealing birds, success is said to reflect an ability to integrate and use information about both the environment and other individuals, and kleptoparasites generally have usually larger relative brain sizes than their hosts.
#me when I see my coworker eating potato chips
Happy disability pride month, help an unemployed disabled Jew get pain medication to function
Hi my old post seems to have died so I'm making a new one. I have chronic pain that keeps me from eating and sleeping. I am unemployed despite my best efforts to find a job I'm physically able to do. I am out of medication and I am miserable. Please donate or share, remember donating directly to disabled people is the best way you can help us. I have less than $20 in my bank account right now. My meds are an ongoing issue and will continue to be until I somehow find a job.
um . warning now that tumblr is allowing gif pfps . PLEASE dont use gifs with flashing or eyestraining colours <3 since the gifs Cannot be turned off it WILL negatively affect photosensitive people
not to be like "source? 🤓" but... do you have a source on this? I don't really keep up with tumblr update news and I'm unable to find anything about this
turns out that tumblrs wip blog has no update about this??? im not sure why that is, but i found out through this post and the fact that some of my mutuals have already changed their pfps to gifs (one of my friends kindly changed their gif pfp a second time after i told them the first gif was hard on my eyes <3)
ive seen some people say it doesnt show up for them (dunno if its regional, being rolled out slowly, or some other reason), but i can see it on my dash so it already directly affects me
Just so you all are aware, it's because of the webp format. webp's can be animated, (similar to apngs + gifs) and you've probably been able to have moving icons for a while. webp's aren't covered by tumblr's anti movement code (this is my theory), so technically it's a bug. I believe there should be an extension that changes this behavior, (forcing webp's to load as stills instead of moving)
I'll do some testing of various extensions and update this post with extensions that work (for firefox and chrome)
Here- you can also right click to tell it to bypass if you want to see the gif. It doesn't freeze the gif on the first frame, instead blocking it entirely, however, if you need this for medical reasons, this should be a good bandaid solution for now
this is just objectively funny though
Great joke tho? Who complained?
art republished with artist’s permission
Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.
Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.
actually we have recorded texts of sumerian warriors describing symptoms that closely match ptsd, and the diagnoses was not desert demons, but rather "Those dudes you killed are still attacking you with their ghosts because you killed them"
