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fogged up goat, and honestly, mee too.

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Okay, don't get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this...

And then looking at this...

Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.

THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.

Well done, BBC.

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I once knew a 6 ft pig named Miss Piggy whose fav food was Krispy Kreme donut batter

It's over

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Game of the year

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I was in the path of totality by happenstance and took "don't look at it w/o glasses" too literally 🫠

So I both have and have not seen a total eclipse

Question: Have you seen both the northern lights and a total solar eclipse in person?

Answers:

Yes, I've seen both in person

No, I've only seen the northern lights in person

No, I've only seen a total eclipse in person

No, I haven't seen either in person

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As someone whose main activity is phone in bed, this just isn't true. It's easier to stay in bed. A lot of us are tired. And a lot of things do cost money.

But if you look, there's free things to do. Free events, clubs, intramural sports, libraries do stuff too.

Or some things that cost a little money but not much. Cafes and bars often have poetry nights, karaoke nights, trivia nights. $10 for a latte or a pint to get out of the house for a couple hours.

If you've got a local bookshop, they might have a bookclub. Meetup has a lot of groups doing free activities. Eventbrite too. Check the subreddit for your city/town/county & see if ppl have recommendations for free/cheap things happening.

City govs sometimes do stuff too. A couple of smaller cities I used to live in would do free movie screenings in a park.

I promise there's more than you think it just takes some effort to find! Free events don't have the marketing budget that for-profit companies do, so they're gonna be harder to find without effort.

It sucks that they got rid of every activity. It’s only phone in bed now. They got rid of everything else

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ily, menswear guy

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I hit a pothole (a Michigan pothole so basically a sinkhole) today and my check engine light came on. I don’t have one of those computer plugins to reset the light and I knew it was just a sensor that got knocked so I was just like “well let’s see if this works” and on the way home I swerved and hit the pothole again and the check engine light turned off

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wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

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eat an entire can of sweetened condensed milk. you deserve it.

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whatever two consenting adults do in their own privacy is none of my business ✋️😌 unless theyre freaks having scary sex 😰

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me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?

me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.

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I (American) got into an argument with a Canadian at a leftist/anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist co-op bar in Canada about this exact thing on the night of the election. Among other things, he was going off about having no empathy whatsoever for Vietnam vets and how they're all scum. That there's no reason to not have dodged the draft except for being a horrible, cruel, violent person.

Nevermind the fact that the military preys on low-income, uneducated teenagers. Or that there was so much disinformation and misinformation pushed in American media about what we were doing there without access to information through the internet to counter those narratives.

He just kept saying they all should've known what we know now anyways regardless of these factors. How? The invasion of Vietnam was the first televised war in the US which had a big impact on the anti-war movement. People can't do better when they don't know better.

Do you want to be righteous or do you want to get something done?