Nano Banana : 1998 "artist self-portrait painted from a TV"
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
Jason Lewis and Josh Kelly Midnight, Texas 2.06 "No More Mr. Nice Kai"
was visiting a friend who has a farm, and one of the chickens has a home made flared cone on, so i asked what was up with that and she said "that's diesel, and she's suicidal" so obviously i went ??? and she pressed the door lock on her truck fob so the truck beeped, and this dumbass bird SPRINTED full tilt across the garden to shove her head in the tailpipe. she has to be locked up and coned so she doesn't gulp down toxic fumes direct from the pipe for some idiot bird reason. she is obsessed with doing this and has to be locked up any time someone is using a vehicle.
i told her i posted about this and she has an update (which i guess content warning for animal harm [the animal did it to it's damn fool self])
she found this out the first time when she auto-started her truck to warm it up before work one below-freezing morning and came out ~5 minutes later to find (the then unnamed) diesel with her head stuffed in the tail pipe hanging limply by her idiot neck and thought that she was dead, ran over and pulled her out, and the chicken went "oh hi! anyways mind if i get back in there?" and did it a-fucking-gain??
best guess is bc she feeds her chickens with a pvc gravity pipe like this
and despite having ~40 other chickens who don't fuck this up, diesel went "food comes from tubes, this is tube, ∴ this is the ~secret~ food hole that the others do not know about. i will be rewarded with golden seed for being the cleverest of them all :)" and is now on 24/7 vehicle related suicide watch. fine line between docile and dumb sometimes.
my artists rendition of the morning in question
Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!
I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly
Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.
If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.
Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.
That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.
Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.
This explains so much.
Also, if you don't take the time regularly, your brain will do it for you. Usually when you're already stressed and it gets to be too much. You will zone out. And you can not control it. So regular maintenance will help
every reread kills me a little bit more
reread and enjoy <3
sex worker. sex mechanic. sex technician. sex engineer. sex safety inspector.
When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.
This just got posted to a Discord I'm on & my first thought was, "ah yes, for @elodieunderglass."
@kedreeva explaining that albino UPS trucks don't exist and that you can see it's leucistic because its windows are blue and not red
actually! They do but this is still a leucistic vehicle. The windows are not eyes, like some cartoons would have you believe, they are false eye markings to deter predators (largely other vehicles), and due to their translucent nature can appear different colors even when there is none. The headlamps are where you would look, but even then it might not tell you much; the actual lamps on most vehicles are already "white," and both leucistic and albino vehicles have a cool white cast instead of the normal warm white (which can even appear cream or yellow). SOME albinos will have indicators around the eyes though.
The markings on the side are also not a great indicator, as those are brands added by the company to purchase the truck, in this case UPS.
But what we CAN see from here is the black rims, and black encircling the rear light patches, which indicates leucism not albinism. In an albino, you'd see white, red, or possibly chrome in some species.
This would be an example of an albino truck:
and a different one where you can see the chrome rims and white or absent light casings, but as you can see there's very little other indication on this guy except! that the front grill usually has black, and this one doesn't.
Not to say that albinism is necessarily unhealthy, but you can kinda see genetic deformities on both of these trucks. It's less a case of albinism causing deformities and more a problem of albinism appears more often in poorly-bred cars, and is usually seen in consumer-owned trucks like the above, not in working vehicles. These trucks also often have behavioral problems (personals space issues) and sensory issues (poor eyesight, poor hearing), making them a bit of a menace on public roadways. They're better kept away from the public.
So, I'm relatively certain the above UPS truck is a leucistic one, but it would help to see the front to be sure. Still a really cool photo of an unusual animal though! Thanks for the tag!