[Malankazooie]

This is my default setting for most of the regulars here on the forum, you know who you are.... jk! I love you guys.

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[Tsundoku]

Ok, I chuckled at a few. Funny animal photos:

https://www.escape.c...galleryimage=27

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[Tsundoku]

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[Tsundoku]

We've all had that dream ...

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[Aptorian]

I have had that dream and when you wake up and remember that you're no longer in school/university/work at that place, that feeling of blissful release always lets me fall back asleep all content.

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Texas, if you haven't seen it:



Also:

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 18 February 2021 - 03:47 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Going to the restroom in Texas today. (Real pic from a house in Dallas)'



'[...] in Texas made some incredible octopus Art out of the snow to bring some light into the dark times.'



'let the dog go outside after the storm. These are the resulting footprints'

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Octopus steals camera and wins underwater photography competition


[...] "I remained in the tide pool as the tide was too low to venture outside of its boundaries. In one of the shallowest parts of the pool I noticed an octopus. I placed my camera near its den and the octopus started interacting with it. It came completely out of the den and to our amazement it started shooting pictures!"

[...]




"Quarantine" by Wen Chou Wu

This amazing photo shows a nudibranch inside a crystal bubble algae. Here it lives, eats and hides. The nudi is only 5 mm long. The photographer, Wen Chou Wu said "Many people have experienced this kind of quarantine life this year, and I think this photo is suitable for this difficult time." The judges [...] loved it and awarded the photo first place in the nudibranch category.

[...]



by Jenny Stock, taken in Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba'

https://news.scubatr...f_LNw8YMDsJW1G8

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Illustration of a space hurricane, created using the observation data

When it comes to extreme weather, it's safe to say a "space hurricane" qualifies.

Scientists said last week they observed a previously unknown phenomenon — a 620-mile-wide swirling mass of plasma that roiled for hours in Earth's upper atmosphere, raining electrons instead of water.

The researchers labeled the disturbance a space hurricane because it resembled and behaved like the rotating storm systems that routinely batter coastlines around the world. But until now, they were not known to exist.

"It really wasn't expected," [...] "It wasn't even theoretically known."

[...]

Scientists from China, the United States, Norway and the United Kingdom found the space hurricane while combing through satellite observations from August 2014.

[...]

The spiral-armed space hurricane swirled roughly 125 miles over the North Pole, churning in place for almost eight hours'

https://www.nbcnews....glRT55S96pMmVuk

[Malankazooie]

caption: A boy walks past a street mural in Mumbai. | (REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas)

caption: A hennaed female soldier in Tindouf, Algeria. | (REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina)

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'For the past year, we've been taking our pandemic cues from public health authorities, but maybe we should have been looking to menswear brands. This week the soothsayers at Suitsupply declared that the "new normal" is coming, and since no one else has told us when this is really going to end, it seemed like a prophecy worth considering. And the company's words came with a vision—several visions, actually. This "new normal," according to them, is going to look a lot like an orgy. Yes, when post-pandemic life starts up again, we're all going to be licking each other—and if Suitsupply has its way, a bunch of us will be wearing business casual while we do it.



"She’s almost eating him. That’s actually exactly the feeling, right? That also goes really well with our brand. [...]

We just ran it in Europe, on billboards and outdoors. It was fine."'

https://slate.com/hu...y-pandemic.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 07 March 2021 - 01:16 AM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'A Finnish Astrophotographer Spent 12 Years Creating a 1.7 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo of the Entire Milky Way





In the final, climactic scene of Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, the Milky Way engulfs the protagonist — an aesthete who keeps himself detached from the world, a universal perspective overtaking an insignificant individual.

We now know the Milky Way itself to be a minuscule part of the whole, just one of 100 to 200 billion galaxies. [...]

[...] via lactea, "Milky Way," or as the Greeks called it, galaktikos kýklos, "milky circle." Andy Briggs summarizes just a few of the ancient myths and legends:

To the ancient Armenians, it was straw strewn across the sky by the god Vahagn. In eastern Asia, it was the Silvery River of Heaven. The Finns and Estonians saw it as the Pathway of the Birds…. Both the Greeks and the Romans saw the starry band as a river of milk. The Greek myth said it was milk from the breast of the goddess Hera, divine wife of Zeus. The Romans saw the river of light as milk from their goddess Ops.

A barred spiral galaxy spinning around a "galactic bulge" with [...] center[...] a "monstrous black hole," [...] "billions of times as massive as the sun"… the Milky Way remains an awesome symbol for a universe too vast for us to hold in our minds.

[...] a 1.7 gigapixel panoramic photo of the Milky Way, from Taurus to Cygnus, 100,000 pixels wide, pieced together from 234 panels by Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio, who began the project all the way back in 2009. "I can hear music in this composition," he writes at his site, "from high sparks and bubbles at left to deep and massive sounds at right."

Over 12 years, and around 1250 hours of exposure, [...] Metsavainio "focused on different areas and objects in the Milky Way, shooting stitched mosaics of them as individual artworks." As he began to knit the galactic clouds of stars and gasses together into a Photoshop panorama, he discovered a "complex image set which is partly overlapping with lots of unimaged areas between and around frames." Over the years, he filled in the gaps, shooting the "missing data."'

https://www.opencult...-milky-way.html

More at the photographer's website:

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 March 2021 - 10:05 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Eduardo García-Molina

I was unaware of the Medieval trend of depicting Aristotle being ridden and whipped by a dominatrix named Phyllis to show the power of female sexuality over male intellect. Having just finished a comp exam where I was subjected to too much Aristotle, I'm enjoying these.'
https://twitter.com/...Ny-fr-hokAnApMs