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I finally finished watercoloring the lineart @jilljoycearts made available!

Last weeks life is really messy for me so it really took a long time for me to finish it.

I loved painting it! It was a pain to try and get their skin tones right, but worth it (even if I still wasn’t that successful 🤡). Definitely one of the most complex pieces I watercolored to this day (mainly because three people in it and I decided on detailing the background lol)

I also used some watercolor pencils and colored pencils to bring forth some colors in the finalization, and metallic watercolors for some details.

I loved painting it, Joyce, hope you liked the final result!

(My plan was for the light to be as if there is a hearth behind Calia 🙃)

dduane:

sartorialadventure:

27dragons:

allstrangenature:

I can barely contain myself right now

holy shit

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HOLY SHIT

holy CRAP.

Artists, creators, students, and researchers of all types, take note:

Digitized photos and text. 2D and 3D object renders. Music and other sound files. Videos. Research datasets. Collections metadata.

On a Creative Commons Zero license: Take what you want. Use it. No permission or attribution required. Yes, even for commercial use.

There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but the Smithsonian… the Smithsonian is right.

The archive includes fashion images!

…Wow. :)

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draconym:

draconym:

a large eastern box turtle sitting in a food bowl while a smaller turtle looks on in dismayALT
the small turtle is making pointed eye contactALT

Witnessed a slow motion argument today when Tilly (small turtle) ate a mealworm that Tippy (big turtle) was looking at. She retaliated by moving to sit in the food bowl so that Tilly couldn’t have any. Twice he walked away in frustration, and twice she moved off the food bowl–only to immediately go sit back on it again when he attempted to come back. I think it’s safe to say the honeymoon period for these two is over.

I added a second food bowl and she immediately marched over and sat on it.

tippy the turtle sitting on top of a small food bowl, completely covering it with her shellALT

I had no idea turtles could be petty.

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correctdichotomy:

(image credit to Dan Hoare on twitter)

I ONLY JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THIS MUSHROOM????? WHICH ERUPTS FROM AN EGG BEFORE UNCURLING HELLISH ARMS, EXPOSING ITS STICKY MASS OF SPORES TO BE SPREAD BY FLIES ATTRACTED BY THE SCENT OF ROTTING FLESH???

Admittedly, I am easily won over by all organisms that attract flies with the scent of rotting flesh. But the octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also has tentacles, a freaky egg stage, and blackish goop, so it’s my favorite now.

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roxaro:

roxaro:

The town of Hay River and the Kátł'odeeche First Nation (KFN) in Canada’s Northwest Territories are under evacuation due to an out-of-control wildfire that began on Sunday (May 14, 2023) and has already destroyed homes.

Visit NWT Fire Info for up-to-date information.

Image ID: A photo taken from across a river of the Kátł'odeeche First Nation (not visible) which is on fire. End ID.ALT
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Images retrieved through Cabin Radio.

How to help:

  1. Spread awareness about the fire! The more people know and the more media coverage there is, the more resources are likely to become available.
  2. Live (or know someone who lives) in surrounding communities? Consider hosting evacuees! You can use this Google form if you live in Yellowknife.
  3. Donate to United Way NWT to aid in emergency relief efforts!

There is a Facebook group dedicated to helping evacuees, for anyone who lives in surrounding areas and may be able to help:

bemusedlybespectacled:

penrosesun:

You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit “am I the asshole?” posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.

Like, if you see a Reddit post titled “Am I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?”, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: “I (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think it’s too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like she’s going to cheat on me now that we’re married. I’ve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didn’t want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldn’t take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldn’t have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked she’d have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that weren’t sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?”

Similarly, whenever you see a headline like “Woman Wins Millions From McDonald’s Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hot”, if you dig a bit, you’ll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonald’s was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old woman’s lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonald’s for her medical costs, and McDonald’s refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonald’s had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonald’s two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the woman’s medical costs.

I think it’s largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but don’t know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous “how could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?” case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that that’s all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isn’t. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones. 

Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of y’all automatically siding with McDonald’s over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because “hurr durr dumb kid didn’t know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lol”, I will grab that McBoot you’re licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.

lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they don’t have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what you’d get from insurance isn’t enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and that’s not going to happen if you just ask nicely!

most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before they’re even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like “yeah you don’t have a case here”) or very shortly after they’re filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasn’t actually as absurd as it sounds.

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