#not farm

[fischerfrey]

happy (very late) birthday to the quinn twins!

bessie and camron quinn, born june 4th, 1960

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

[chocolettchoo]

Farm animal sketches

[animentality]

[spurgie-cousin]

This is such a good, succinct way of describing the illusion of choice many fundamentalist women and men have when it comes to life paths.

[great-and-small]

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

[whats-this-mustelid]

I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

[aitze]

Prototype portrait for a game project.

[hollandwhore]

concernedape thank you for continuing to love and work hard on your game!

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Cutest baby goat ever? 🐐 By @chevre_toy_miniature

[kayliebeanie]

Project Dragon was a game that was in development for 3 years only to be canceled weeks from its announcement and its entire art and development team laid off. The game (which would have been called 'Everhaven' upon release) was intended to be a multiplayer sandbox rpg taking inspiration from both Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda, with an art style similar to that of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, which some of the team members also worked on along with Crash Bandicoot 4.

According to character design/illustrator Nicholas Kole "Our cancelled project of the last 3 years is officially, truly dead as of today (internal attempts to save it failed), and the embargo on the whole body of portfolio work has been lifted". This means that the only way the game has a chance of resuming development is by raising awareness and spreading the word of it's development. More info from Nicholas Kole and #BringBackProjectDragon Even if you're not interested in the game itself, you can find the concept art, animations, 3D models, music and all other completed pieces of work for the game being shared by the team at either of these links, and I think are worth checking out. Some mounts and NPCs

4 of the 5 playable starter races (5th being human of course)

Edit: the decision to cancel the game was made by Forte, a blockchain company that acquired Phoenix Labs last year, who later decided to cancel all other projects so that the studio could focus on Dauntless and Fae Farm, Phoenix Labs' other already established games, rather than take the risk with this new IP.

I advise against sending any sort of hate towards Forte or Phoenix Labs and instead recommend continuing to share love for Everhaven and what it could have been until they realize their mistake.

Also thanks for 10k notes.

[zegalba]

Incense Farm in Hanoi, Vietnam (2023)

[camelidae]

One could argue, perhaps, that the only thing better than having a giant, living space-heater is /being/ that giant living space-heater.

[maureen2musings]

Llangollen, Wales

daniel_casson

[kedreeva]

If you're in Wisconsin and looking for (or can take and process) meat birds, or know someone who can, there's a Situation going on:

The producer company just decided they didn't want the birds anymore and left the farmers that raised the birds a few days ago high and dry with no food coming in beyond what they had on hand. They've been working with locals have been organizing to get the birds out and processed so they don't suffer.

W21462 Holcomb Coulee Road, Galesville, WI 54630 --Sunday 10/13/2024 12noon-6pm Valarie Dianne

N47656 CTH-Y, Eleva WI, open during daylight. AT LEAST 25,000 in this barn And 23,000 more. Daylight Hours. (Dawn Filla)

W166 Highway 10, Mondovi Wisconsin 54738 (open any time during daylight) - About 2,000-3,000 birds remain for Sunday 10/13 starting at 9am.

Greg Marten’s Barn- W284 County Road HH Mondovi : (Julie Marten)- 25,000+ left pick up starts; Sunday 10/13/24 6am

I'm not close enough to help but hopefully this can reach folks who are.