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dailytweets: This is what happens when a bubble freezes

2020-05-20T20:25:38Z

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This is what happens when a bubble freezes

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mapsontheweb:3D map of Italy

2020-03-03T13:03:26Z

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3D map of Italy

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theartofanimation:Xin Yingzong -

2020-01-01T22:18:36Z

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Xin Yingzong - http://www.rachelxin.com - https://twitter.com/Kiddo_hah - https://ift.tt/2uHmA6M - https://www.instagram.com/rachel_xin_yz - https://www.facebook.com/people/Xin-Yingzong/100007870849049 - https://ift.tt/2LGyyE4 - http://rachelxinart.bigcartel.com

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trulyvincent:Murmuration of Starlings that looks like one huge bird

2019-12-31T19:48:48Z

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Murmuration of Starlings that looks like one huge bird

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mapsontheweb:Map of Japan from the mid to late 1800s

2019-12-31T13:48:37Z

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Map of Japan from the mid to late 1800s

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ultrafacts: Source: [x] Click HERE for more facts

2019-11-22T14:26:44Z

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theartofanimation:Atey Majeed Ghailan -...

2019-11-22T14:26:44Z

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Atey Majeed Ghailan - http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-1982936395/snatti89/photos - http://blog.sina.com.cn/snatti - https://www.behance.net/snatti - https://www.artstation.com/artist/snatti - https://www.instagram.com/snatti89 - https://www.facebook.com/atey.ghailan - https://www.patreon.com/snatti?ty=h - https://www.youtube.com/user/rabuf666 - http://snatti.tumblr.com - http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=3143520

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peashooter85: Viking runes on an ancient Greek statue, The...

2019-10-31T19:43:22Z

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Viking runes on an ancient Greek statue,

The Piraeus Lion is a marble statue around 3 meters (9 feet) tall which was carved around 360 BC and had adorned Athens harbor for over 1800 years. In 1687 Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice was at war the empire when they laid siege to and eventually sacked the city. The Venetians looted Athens of it’s wealth, carting of many treasures and historical antiquities including the Piraeus lion. The Venetians noticed that there was a strange writing along the shoulder and flank of the lion, however no one remembered what the language was, what it said, or who put it there. The lion was carted off to Venice and put on display at the Venetian Arsenal, where it sits to this day.

The origins of the writing remained a mystery until the lion was visited by a Swedish diplomat named Johann David Akerblad, who identified them as Nordic runes at the end of the 18th century. Since then numerous scholars have viewed and attempted to translate the runes. This task is greatly complicated by the fact that the runes are heavily eroded, with many completely illegible. The most widely accepted translation is from Erik Brate in 1914,

The runes are believed to have been carved in the 11th century by the Varangians. The Varangians were a group of Scandinavian Vikings who sold their services as mercenaries to the Eastern Roman Empire, AKA the Byzantine Empire. The Varangians would eventually settle down in what is now Russia and Ukraine.

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2019-10-31T19:43:21Z

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Sylvia Ritter - http://sylviaritter.tumblr.com - https://sylviaritter.deviantart.com - http://www.sylvia-ritter.com - http://sylviaritter.bigcartel.com/products - https://www.facebook.com/animalzfrance - https://twitter.com/sylvia_ritter - https://ift.tt/2L5sdWE - https://www.patreon.com/sylviaritter - https://ift.tt/2Lo6G7r - https://www.instagram.com/sylvia_ritter - https://www.etsy.com/shop/SylviaRitterArt

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peashooter85: A pair of ceremonial Chinese jade swords, Han...

2019-10-28T19:35:35Z

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A pair of ceremonial Chinese jade swords, Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD)

from Quan Rong Gallery

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2019-09-11T20:53:52Z

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nonalimmen: Hexagonally jointed basalt pillars formed by ancient...

2019-08-25T20:10:29Z

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Hexagonally jointed basalt pillars formed by ancient volcanic eruptions serve as the pathway to an island steeped in Hebridean history and folklore. Legend has it a giant once lived in ‘An Uamh Binn’, a place eternally swept by the deep and swellling sea, also known as Fingal’s Cave. This vast cavern with its mysterious shadows, dark, weed-covered chambers is one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld.

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2019-08-25T19:25:25Z

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jillbert:

capacity:

autohaste:

If depression was a musical

This is a bop

ok this keeps coming on my dash and every time the notes are filled with people being like WHAT IS THIS so i am HERE TO ENLIGHTEN YOU, FRIENDS

this is from the musical Firebringer which is free to watch on Youtube. it’s by Team StarKid of A Very Potter Musical fame (think you recognize the girl singing? that’s Lauren Lopez, also known as the funniest Draco Malfoy the world has ever seen)

anyway, Firebringer is a female-driven, hilarious musical about bisexual cavewomen and you are going to want to watch it. trust me.

WATCH FIREBRINGER!

Our entire office sings this at least once a week.

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monarobot: Here’s my updated version of my

2019-08-18T13:21:31Z

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digital drawing of the pokemon bulbasaur, ivysaur and venusaur reimagined as glyphs, their pokédex number is on display at the bottom of each pokemon as maya numerals, the pokemon look like half-monst

digital drawing of the pokemon charmander, charmeleon and charizard reimagined as glyphs, their pokédex number is on display at the bottom of each pokemon as maya numerals, the pokemon look like lizar

digital drawing of the pokemon squirtle, wartortle and blastoise reimagined as glyphs, their pokédex number is on display at the bottom of each pokemon as maya numerals, the pokemon are inspired in tu

monarobot:

Here’s my updated version of my Pokemayan starters! I’ve been thinking about tackling other gen starters for fun as well, let me know if you’d like to see that!

You can nab a print of these on my INPRNT store or at my TeePublic if you prefer a black background.

I’m also posting the process videos for these on my Patreon!

If you dig my work and would like to support it I’m also open for commissions (info on the link) and have a tip jar via Kofi

These were made with Procreate on the ipad pro!

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theactualcluegirl: keynoi: witchyautumns: aclotheshorse

2019-05-18T23:25:39Z

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aclotheshorse 🍂 instagram

on one hand, this is adorbs

on the other hand, i need this, but brass knuckles

This is a post I’d have expected to see on copperbadge‘s tumblr

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trilliath: kelagon: malformalady: Before the availability of...

2019-04-22T18:57:02Z

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malformalady:

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays calling it ‘bone music’. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen.

I started to tag people who’d think this is cool
And then I realized that’s probably everyone

That middle one says “элвис пресли“ (Elvis Presley)

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2019-04-15T19:15:41Z

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trilliath:

kelagon:

malformalady:

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays calling it ‘bone music’. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen.

I started to tag people who’d think this is cool
And then I realized that’s probably everyone

That middle one says “элвис пресли“ (Elvis Presley)

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girlwithouthands: “In Russian, Baba

2019-02-20T20:56:29Z

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“In Russian, Baba Yaga’s name is not capitalized. Indeed, it is not a name at all, but a description—“old lady yaga” or perhaps “scary old woman.” ere is often more than one Baba Yaga in a story, and thus we should really say “a Baba Yaga,” “the Baba Yaga.” We do so in these tales when a story would otherwise be confusing. We have continued the western tradition of capitalizing Baba Yaga, since the words cannot be translated and have no other meaning in English (aside perhaps from the pleasant associations of a rum baba). ere is no graceful way to put the name in the plural in English, and in Russian tales multiple iterations of Baba Yaga never appear at the same time, only in sequence: Baba Yaga sisters or cousins talk about one another, or send travelers along to one another, but they do not live together. e first-person pronoun “I” in Russian, ‘ia,’ is also uncapitalized. In some tales our witch is called only “Yaga.” A few tales refer to her as “Yagishna,” a patronymic form suggesting that she is Yaga’s daughter rather than Yaga herself. (That in turn suggests that Baba Yaga reproduces parthenogenetically, and some scholars agree that she does.) The lack of capitalization in every published Russian folktale also hints at Baba Yaga’s status as a type rather than an individual, a paradigmatic mean or frightening old woman. This description in place of a name, too, could suggest that it was once a euphemism for another name or term, too holy or frightening to be spoken, and therefore now long forgotten.”

— Sibelan Forrester, from her introduction to Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

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copperbadge: rionsanura: silvysartfulness: teamrocketing

2019-02-13T21:43:00Z

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teamrocketing:

i’m so glad i live in 2016 so i dont have to deal with these massive terrifying animals except the blue whale, but shes gentle and good

The little “for scale” guy, though!

for the crocodile, and only the crocodile, the scale guy is Captain Hook

The Giant Ground Sloth would probably murder us but he LOOKS friend-shaped….

lol, look at the whale! =)

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pettry: Just a little drawing of some sort of

2019-01-26T22:46:13Z

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pettry:

Just a little drawing of some sort of romance… and a pet dragon. :)

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bomberqueen17: probablyasocialecologist: Neglected pastures...

2019-01-03T22:16:16Z

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Neglected pastures thrive under solar panels

Solar panels could increase productivity on pastures that are not irrigated and even water-stressed, a new study finds. The new study published in PLOS One by researchers at Oregon State College finds that grasses and plants flourish in the shade underneath solar panels because of a significant change in moisture. The results bolster the argument for agrovoltaics, the concept of using the same area of land for solar arrays and farming. The idea is to grow food and produce clean energy at the same time.

Oh! I actually heard about this!! At the Sheep & Wool Festival there was a woman shearing a sheep, so we took Farmkid over to watch, and the woman started telling us that this was a new breed of sheep they were trying to get to catch on in the region, and they were pretty decent for wool but the big thing that they were useful for was grazing under solar installations, because they were small but not super into jumping. Some sheep are too large to fit under the panels, and some are too vertically-inclined and like to climb on them, which can damage them, so these particular sheep were in the sweet spot of being smallish but not great jumpers.

Apparently that’s where the money is. Because otherwise you have to mow the grass under the panels, and ride-on lawn mowers don’t fit. (If you don’t keep the foliage down, it can take over the field and shade your solar panels.)

Shepherds can make most of their profit by hiring their flock out to keep a solar installation grazed down, and it’s extra-great because solar installations tend to have good forage under them.

(what does it say about the state of america’s foodways that you otherwise often can’t make money on raising livestock except in horrifying confinement operations, however? the woman was absolutely clear that the sheep didn’t break even on wool or meat, but if you could get solar gigs you were golden. Isn’t that sad?)

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jellyfishdirigible: solarpunk-aesthetic: sassypixiestrashcan: no, listen, when I say I want to...

2018-12-09T10:02:10Z

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sassypixiestrashcan:

no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget, im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

Hello! ☀️ Here are a few practical suggestions for stuff you can do:

Make a bottle tower garden (a small one could do well on a windowsill)

Make eco-friendly household cleaners

Germinate strawberry seeds and care for the plants

Grow plants from cuttings (you can grow almost anything this way)

Make a sun jar

Grow low maintenance houseplants

Make a string garden

Make a wall planter

Germinate an avocado seed

Make a shoe pocket garden

Build a mini solar generator

Re-grow kitchen scraps

Find the right solar battery charger

Recycle old solar cells

Hope you find something useful in there! I post stuff up from time to time under my diy tag. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any requests!

grow oyster mushrooms on waste coffee grounds (also works with shiitake)

a list of some food plants that can grow indoors with reduced light

windowsill herbs

egg carton seed germination

germinate chayote and keep it as a houseplant (the root, stem, leaves, fruit, and seed are all edible)

choosing a portable solar panel

tips for energy efficient apartment life (but jsyk LED is better than CFL, and a tank bank or expanding water bottle is better than a brick or bottle of gravel)

DIY draft stoppers

DIY solar oven and recipes

evaporative refrigeration

use conkers/horse chestnuts to replace soap and detergents

use baking soda as dry shampoo

cleaning with vinegar do’s & don’ts and common myths

DIY dryer balls

apartment-friendly bokashi composting and DIY bokashi bran

DIY moss terrarium for your soul (ain’t many souls slower or more patient than moss)

and a list of some easy care indoor plants for your nerves

and for your bathroom and your air quality

recycle t-shirts into yarn for your crafts

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misshotaru: Art by: LukasWerneck

2018-12-08T21:09:10Z

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Art by: LukasWerneck

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imakegoodlifechoices: the-hopeful-lark: tinybro: so we have a conversational safeword in my group...

2018-12-08T21:08:44Z

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tinybro:

so we have a conversational safeword in my group of friends and it’s great, idk why more people don’t do this. whenever someone wants a subject to be dropped immediately no questions asked we just say “spleen” and we stop immediately and it’s a really good way to avoid crossing the line between teasing friends and genuinely upsetting them by accident, or stopping debates from turning into actual arguments

Wait but no this is actually a brilliant idea.

When I was a little baby high school student, I used to do the Living Chessboard at our local Renaissance Faire. We always used “forsooth” to indicate if someone was actually injured and needed to quickly end a choreographed fight. It was also very useful when doing little street improvisations because if someone tried to stop you, you could say “forsooth good sir, I must leave.” and they knew you couldn’t do a scene right then. We all used it in real life too, to say “no really” and it was amazing because there was a word used in a casual setting that meant “I’m not playing, I need you do listen to me.” So if someone tried to pick me up or tickle me, I could say “forsooth stop.” And I was instantly obeyed. I had “forsooth” long before I learned what a safeword was, and having a non-sexual safeword for everyday use amongst a circle of friends was the best thing ever. It made me feel very safe and listened to, even as a tiny 14 year old. Because let’s be honest, 14 year old me was teeny tiny and adorable and it’s easy to coo at kids when they say “no don’t pick me up!” but to have a word that every single person respected to mean “whatever I say after this MUST be listened to” was amazing. It gave me a definitive voice when it would have been easy to dismiss me.

So basically having platonic safewords is awesome and I’m all for it.

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laraapollo:“I’m good at making things!

2018-12-07T08:38:31Z

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“I’m good at making things! (I think)”

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