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The Odyssey already has a good modern adaptation and it's called Epic: The Musical.

Am I surprised that Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie is using generic ancient greek movie aesthetics instead of the Bronze Age Mycenean look? No.

Am I disappointed? Yes.

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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newborn pudu fawn named petal via the san diego zoo

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Wallpapers by William Morris

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William Morris (1834-1896） Tree of Life

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Lights Over Hadrians Wall✨🌌🏛️

December’s illustration is of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) appearing over soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall. It’s a snowy scene overlooking a vast stretch of the structure, with everyone (including animals) gazing up at the lights as they stand guard or, in the case of the auxiliary cavalry, embark on their patrols.

The past 12 months the aurora borealis been appearing frequently in Hadrians Wall country, which inspired this illustration. Also I’m calling this piece a spinoff of my Saturnalia in Hadrians Wall series, as it’s “same universe” but an anonymous cast of soldiers this time round🏛️

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H...E...L...P!!! 😭😭

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the wildlife photographer of the year peoples choice award is always fun

there's a stoat hiding in that last one

source - go check out the rest of the awards too, they're really incredible

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Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

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View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground (1888) by Vincent van Gogh

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This is what Rickon looked like when Ned said that he was too old to be afraid of horse-sized mythical wolves btw

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The Holy Land re-imagined! A historical fantasy map of the Crusader States in 1135.

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Rabbits fighting mid-air in Kyushu, Japan, 2024 - by Mora Nakamura, Japanese

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