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Utagawa Kuniyoshi , "Fashionable Octopus Games" 1840

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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.

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im crying

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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

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puking

Hands are hard, not even AI can do them. I found this on my Facebook, enjoy.

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Jelly Ear or Auricularia auricula-judae is species of edible Auriculariales fungus found worldwide.

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Garden of Pier Francesco Orsini, Italy, 1952.

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𓈒⠀𓂃⠀⠀˖⠀𓇬⠀˖⠀⠀𓂃⠀𓈒

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and while we're on the subject of luigi mangione, FREE NATHAN MAHONEY (who stabbed his company's CEO during a meeting)! the reason you may not have heard this name is because the police clearly do not want to make the same mistake they did with Mangione by allowing him to become a symbol. let's show our support for Nathan Mahoney, who looks exactly how he should in his mugshot— proud of himself

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Linocut print by Pamela Leavey

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15th century metal mask, used to torture prisoners by being heated red hot & clamped onto their face.

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what the ABSOLUTE fuck

Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) are tube-building, segmented bristle worms that live in tropical oceans. Named for their tree-like appearance, the multicolored spirals are actually highly derived structures for feeding and respiration. Because it does not move outside its tube, this worm does not have any specialized appendages for movement or swimming. Instead, it bores into living coral, secretes a calcium carbonate tube around its body, and survives by filter feeding. (x x x x x x x)

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Paul Carus, The Open court, 1887

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the most virgo song ever

im sick again

and fking chiron is retrograding over my natal south node

while saturn is on my mars and sun