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Today’s Wet beast Wednesday is brought to you by the Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)

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enjoying how this shot makes him look even tinier than usual

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✨ Please reblog to make it reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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An exploration of the Middle Cambrian, cradle of the Phanerozoic, in a warm shallow sea just over half a billion years ago.

Music 'Reflections in Stone' thanks once again to the immensely talented @villirefurinn

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hear me out wheel

step 1: spin the wheel step 2:

i left out a LOT of characters i found way too conveniently attractive on this one. have fun

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A nice, spoiler-free vid if you don’t have a ding-dang clue what Babylon 5 is and want to find out.

Personally, I’ve never found a show that feels more like reading a cunningly crafted science fiction novel of quality, so if that sounds like something you’d enjoy I’d highly recommend it.

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ohey it's photomatt

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I'm rewatching Babylon 5 (again) and afaik this was the first ever scifi show to use 100% cgi for their spacecraft and space scenes and it's genuinely always been one of my biggest inspirations how much FUN they have with that new freedom, exploring all the things they can do in that new medium that were previously impossible with miniatures: ships spinning at improbable speeds and angles! ships with myriad rotating parts! weird camera angles and moves! complex paint jobs! long complicated fiddly bits and awkward delicate shapes! animated organic surface textures! orbiting spheres! the Babylon team just went HOGWILD with ship designs and animation and I honestly think this is how cgi SHOULD be used, celebrating how the medium lets you get weird and colourful with it

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don’t kill yourself because the internet is going to be really funny when Elon gets assassinated

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its kind of really awesome to be a huge fan of ur friends art because then they become famous to you. its not exactly the same as making friends with an artist u already look up to its like if michaelangelo was relatively unknown and posted his art to 1 discord server and his tumblr blog. and you just have to sit there like i need people to understand how cool you are. why aren't you being asked for autographs yet

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the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.

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wow, so glad they sell imported american baking supplies here in switzerland, nice to see such cross-cultural exchanges :)

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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Polynesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.