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GANDALF FUCKED UP AND EVIL MOMENT!? WHY DID HE FEEL THE NEED TO SCARE HIM LIKE THAT!?

This is so funny

This is the most German comic I have ever seen. And it’s not even about Germans.

Ok I just now noticed the birds. I thought this was just a comic about bread and respectful distance. I stand with my point though.

Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident

Nathaniel Olds, Jeptha Homer Wade , 1837, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

The green-tinted spectacles worn by Olds were designed to protect the eyes from the intensity of Argand lamps, a type of indoor light used during the early 1800s. These lamps burned whale oil, and many people worried that its bright flames might damage eyesight.The painter of this portrait founded the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1854 and soon became one of Cleveland’s wealthiest industrialists. His grandson, Jeptha Wade II, was a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art and donated the land upon which it stands as a Christmas gift to the city in 1892. Size: Framed: 87 x 71.8 x 5.7 cm (34 ¼ x 28 ¼ x 2 ¼ in.); Unframed: 76.5 x 61.2 cm (30 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.134.2

Dude looks fresh as fuck

Holy shit he’s got the Hyrums

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

Sometimes, people are really great.

This is also an example of picking One Thing and putting most of your Better The World efforts there. We have so many different important issues to care about and act toward, and it’s tempting to try and do a Little for Many Things - and I’m not saying that little bits of effort don’t add up! They do. But often you’ll make a bigger impact (and possibly have less compassion/activist fatigue) if you direct the majority of your efforts toward one or two things.

A great campaign from the Xerces Society to remind us not to clean up our yards too much in the fall!

Our little invertebrate friends need winter homes :)

Make your yard a haven for local wildlife!

More information about how leaf litter benefits wildlife here here.

Make a donation to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation here. They do great work, and I’ve been a monthly donor for a long while now.

Donate $57 and get this Leave the Leaves yard sign here!

Don’t feel obligated to donate, but spreading the word on tumblr or other social media using these graphics is super helpful!

@thahalfrican

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

that last one is literally a LOOK

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

girls who play the sims are normal. men who play the sims are generally psychopaths

girls playing the sims: just made a nice house, my sims are rich and living healthily and have a good family :)

men playing the sims:

Coronavirus Tourism Bureau California-based designer Jennifer Baer has created a set of COVID19-themed posters promoting travel within the home. 

male animals vs female animals

male animals vs female animals in children's animated movies

Rabbits and umbrellas

You never met a monster you couldn’t love.

barbie and ken are 100% love 100% support 0% jealousy 0% resentment

“OMG! Snowwwww!!!” [source]

cats can have a little snow. as a treat.

is that a tea tray on a stick