This is moss agate from Indonesia, the ''moss'' is actually iron and other mineral inclusions in the stone that make it look like it contains a forest

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

"As you can see on slide 9, canine urination incidents have decreased by 30% YTD, and slide 10 shows overall customer spend increased by 15% after our Feline Appreciation Initiative was implemented. Going forward our projections indicate continued improvements over the next 9 months before plateau"

This is why I continaully push back against this "all art can be free when we have a UBI utopia". Maybe plenty of art WILL be free then! If artists CHOOSE that. But if your version of anti-capitalist utopia involves doing away with any consent of artists, that is still, actually, a dystopia to me.

One of th things I like about FFXIV, is that people will...

Can you imagine how amazing Jolene must be that Dolly fucking Parton can't compete?

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

You know that Hegseth bloke? The American with opinions about us and how we live and what we should do. I mean, I'm a polite chap, I have no wish to offend, but mate. Fuck off.

TOPH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq9C...

I find it hard to describe the Nyx Fortuna series without descending into spoilers. It is beautiful, and hopeful, and heart rending. It is built upon the bones of atrocities, and is uncompromising as it peels the past back. And, oh gods, the garden. Buy the series. Read it.

We’re not getting Woke 2.0, it will be 2 Woke 2 Furious.

Sector General (minus the misogyny) Same answer every time this question comes up!

Did a cat write this?

I just KNOW this series is going to be so much fun. Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social, Rosanna and I are totally on the same wavelength. And it’s a VIBE

Leo just solved the declining church attendance in the US problem (h/t @gothamgirlblue.com )

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

The cover version you didnt know you needed...

Or the Spitting Image sketch, where their puppets are reclining in bed after finally consumating things. "Oh, by the way, I have genital herpes! That's another thing we have in common!"

Gamer incels saying the new Gods of War game is unplayable because they dont find the new female PC attractive are strongly implying they only liked the previous editions of the game because they DID find Kratos's dad bod attractive. So happy pride month, queens!

I recall him pushing back hard at 'I didn't see it, so who knows?' from some when J Whedon's bad character was exposed. Clear that abusers hide from those who'd call them out. Also no 'why didn't they say?' Said younger cast not feeling able to tell him was his responsibility and was sorry for it.

So farewell then, The Gold Blend Man: youtu.be/jsN4YwbM9kw

No :( www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

'The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules.' Good news. 86% of 38,000 respondents in favour of retaining trans-inclusive policies.

Kittens are some of the most determined little terrorists on earth.

Banded demoiselle, Sheep’s Green, Cambridge.

Whilst I prefer bookish malcontent, I'm rather more exhausted shadow these days...

Current mood: Being charmed by Tiny Angry Witch videos...

not now, flesh-eating screwworm.

Evergreen.

ME: “I don’t want to just work to exist, but I also don’t want to exist just to work. Wish I had another way.” MY CAT: “What if I told you that someone else could pay for everything while you nap in sunbeams?”

Trans women are not the threat to cis women, never have been.

These are great books. Just your average single mother, hunting antiquities for fun and profit...

No :(

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you said it snufkin #sketchbook

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Pride

Thunder and pouring rain. I open the front door, watch it hammer down. Smile and wave and gurn at the 9-month old baby in the house opposite, whose father is holding her up so she can do the exact same thing I am.

Both is better! Solar panels in fields have been shown to boost biodiversity and be beneficial to farming as well as generating electricity! A triple win!

Gender neutral toilets work just fine. They’re on every train and aeroplane*. In many small venues. And in everyone’s goddamn homes**. *not coaches. Toilets on coaches cannot be said to work. **the actual toilet where women are most likely to be attacked.

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

It is hard to deny clear evidence that the Earth is warming. Instead, Trump's NSF is removing the data collecting tools. This expensive removal of working marine monitoring equipment will hinder future assessment of dangers in El Niño strength, speed of hurricane intensification, AMOC shutdown, etc.

The entire point of all this fascist bullshit is to make you quit fighting. Happy Pride, motherfuckers. Fly that freak flag high.

Oh god... this is it, isn't it? Men expect help, women don't. Even if AI worked, we'd use it less

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

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