based on extensive observation, I believe that my cats have only a tenuous grasp on how much of my body is “me”
It’s like, Head: definitely Big Friend, note eyes and noise-hole.
Hands: 90% certainty of Big Friend, 10% possibility of toy. comprised of two main parts, the rubby-rubby and the wriggly-scritchers. does Big Friend control them with her mind? the mechanism is unclear.
Arms, aka “Cuddle Snakes”: do these help Big Friend’s hands from getting lost? good place to sit.
Torso: ??? we have no idea what this is. smells like Big Friend but serves no observable purpose. treat as terrain.
Legs, see: “The Lap Conundrum”: 25% chance of Big Friend, totally uninteresting. WHEN LAP: 90% chance of Big Friend, excellently warm. where does the lap go? our finest cat scientists seek the answer to this mystery, but no breakthroughs as of yet.
Feet, aka “Twitchy-Kickers”: 10% chance of Big Friend, 90% chance of foe. all attempts to communicate have ended in hostility. Destroy on sight.
Two-stepping flamboyant cuttlefish wants a closer look at you. 👀
While beautiful, this coloration from a flamboyant cuttlefish indicates that it is stressed – dark black and yellow patterning indicates a defensive response. Flamboyant cuttlefish normally display colors in this beautiful range:
These gorgeous cuttlefish are actually unable to swim for long periods, due to the small size of their cuttlebone (cuttlefish use the gas chamber within the structure for buoyancy control) and instead “walk” along the bottom of the ocean, with the bright red structures on their arms extended upwards to warn off predators. One of just three cephalopods known to be poisonous, the toxin contained in a flamboyant cuttlefish’s tissue is as lethal of that of the more well-known blue-ringed octopus.
A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish Courtesy Philip Mould
PAINT RESTORATION OF MESMERIZING
I saw this on Twitter. He’s using acetone, but a cellulose ether has been added to make it into a gel (probably Klucel—this entire gel mixture is sometimes just called Klucel by restorers, but Klucel is specifically the stuff that makes the gel).
Normally, acetone is too volatile for restoration, but when it’s a gel, it becomes very stable and a) stays on top of the porous surface of the painting, and b) won’t evaporate. So it can eat up the varnish.
It looks scary, but acetone has no effect on oils, and jelly acetone is even less interactive with the surface of the paint or canvas.
my cat, for no goddamn reason at all except that he’s a cat and he can do whatever the fuck he wants: what if i just run at this wall, do a sick kickflip, scare myself with the sound it makes, and then proceed to run over your sleeping body? would that be fucked up or what
adam rippon talked about how his decision to come out was made at least in part to inspire gay kids and to let them know they are not alone and to have courage. since coming out he’s grown stronger, flourished in owning his identity, and i am so proud to see someone so strong and brave representing young scared gay kids going the olympics to look fabulous and kick ass :’)
“I don’t really care what other people think of me. I’m able to go out there and I’m really able to be unabashedly myself,” he said. “I want somebody who’s young, who’s struggling, who’s not sure if it’s OK if they are themselves to know that it’s OK.”
