beats a hard kick in the face

Fuck a personality test. Which label sticker r u?

*RIDICULOUS BIRD NAME ALERT!!!*

Zittling Cisticola (Cisticola juncidis), family Cisticolidae, family Passeriformes, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

photograph by Kmb Prasad

Tacoma, Washington. (May 2021)

Wedding dress, 1763. Hand-painted silk taffeta, embroidered cotton sleeve ruffles.

Snails/snäckor. Most of them (all?) ought to be White-lipped snail/trädgårdssnäcka, but I'm really bad at classifying snails. Värmland, Sweden (May 10, 2020).

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

Archivists are the most amazing people.

Spent all morning at the library but struggled a lot with the last few pages of my theory chapter. It happens. I just . . . am having serious issues with confidence today. It's mainly hormones, I know. But it still sucks bc I can't reason my way out of it. Anyway at least I get to go see my favorite band of all time Sunday ❤️

It's been a while so here's another deep-sea animal you've never heard of—the bottle comb jelly.

This species, Aulacoctena acuminate, was observed by our remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts at 1,146 meters (3,760 feet) deep. These comb jellies are ctenophores, not true jellies. Like other comb jellies, they navigate through the water by beating their shimmering, hair-like cilia.

MBARI researchers have learned that gelatinous animals like the bottle comb jelly have a large impact on deep-sea food webs. Our archive of nearly 28,000 hours of deep-sea video contains hundreds of observations of deep-sea animals feeding. Examining these observations in detail revealed that jellies, comb jellies, and siphonophores are important as both predators and prey in the ocean’s midnight zone.

Learn all about comb jellies and their deep-sea relatives in our Animals of the Deep gallery.

just discovered that the chicago manual of style has merch

Andy Warhol "Butterflies" 1955

Today was a work at home day 👍 i got an okay amount done -- didn't really keep track but it's about 4 or 5 pages, though unedited. Pretty sure I'll be done with my theory chapter tomorrow and probably my legal chapter too.

However . . . I'm honestly rethinking whether I should just aim for Fall graduation instead. Not because I think I can't do it -- I actually think I can. But there are other reasons: 1. My financial aid award for summer is low and I really wanted to have a little cushion for job searching, and 2. I worry about the burden on my readers (not my advisor really bc we've discussed it) and even if they'll be able to finish it in time anyway (one is kinda hard to pin down although he does like me).

Anyway, I'm still going to follow my schedule and work towards the 100 page goal. But I don't know . . . I guess we'll see what happens.

Hartsop Dodd, Cumbria, England by jonny.gios

Honey Possum or Noolbenger (Tarsipes rostratus) feeding on nectar, family Tarsipedidae, order Diprotodontia, found in SW Western Australia

photograph by Justin Cally (@justin_cally)

ⓘ This user is tired.