Max, the Prettyboy

A manul kitten standing on a rough bark plank in its enclosure, looking with calm interest at something ahead. Its low brow makes it appear judgemental or unimpressed.

A little manul goes a long way. Happy Manul Monday!

A black cat on a fleece blanket. She is slightly blurred, looking towards the camera with eyes half open. The light bounces off her nose in a way that makes it look weirdly long and her chin looks funny. Other than that, she is a fluffy void.

mac. he looks happy and also super weird. like some sort of drawing made by a child

it’s a good time to remind everyone that this photo exists

YouTube video by other mike eagle a They Might Be Giants song called Wu-Tang gave me an existential crisis

youtu.be/Cmo0zczzmyI

An information poster about studying philosophy at university of Bristol with an image of a skeleton skewering a peasant as illustration

I sometimes worry our advertising material isn’t as welcoming as it might be

“Since Yesterday” by Strawberry Switchblade #nowplaying #6music

A smiling polar bear mascot with big ears stands, waving, in front of a wooden deck.

The mascot for Air Do (an airline based in Hokkaido, Japan) is Bear Do, a friendly polar bear.

“Kites” by Simon Dupree & the Big Sound #nowplaying #6music

YouTube video by Mainely Mandy The Legend of the Valentine's Day Bandit

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am veerryyy behind on my next video but it is coming. In the meantime if you miss me, you can watch this cute shortie from last year about a local Maine legend

youtu.be/sNx4kArLueg?...

the holy trinity The Felt is not The Hand is not The Henson Spirit. But together...they are Muppet.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Photo of a construction worker (Billy Mars in Man to Man magazine, 1981) with the text "Hey comrade, want to unionize?"

Send this to a comrade you'd like to smash (capitalism with)

Sketchbook spread full of drawings of the rough collie breed dogs, done in colored pencils and markers. Some look very silly.

many good boys in my sketchbook. 🐶

#art #sketchbook #traditionalart

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

“Lay, Lady, Lay” by Bob Dylan #nowplaying #6music

The quickest remedy for a broken heart is that you just learn not to value love because it is requited. It makes no difference whether your love is returned. Your love is of value to you because you give it. If you have love to give, you give it and you give it where it is needed, but never, never, never ask for anything in return. Once you have that in your head, the idea of your heart being broken will disappear. Quentin Crisp.

Mentioned this the other day with this very example but there's a lot of fun kooky experimentalism with the early Muppets Show which is just these weirdo hippies throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks we're sadly never gonna get back

“Love Cats” by The Cure #nowplaying #6music

Jasper (large black cat) looking surprised at the camera with incredibly wide-open eyes

This might be my favorite Jasper face yet

Sama'a and her family go through things every day that most of us can't imagine. They see death, destruction, and suffering on a scale that beggars belief. Please give what you can to help.

chuffed.org/project/157569

photo of three horses. A shaggy brown and white horse wearing a blue plaid coat is touching noses with a white horse and a brown horse over the top of a fence.

Mickey saying hello to Rumi and Tessa. ❄️❤️

“Just Like Heaven” by The Cure #nowplaying #6music

We have made an easy tool to tell your MP about this, here:

A colourful chill isometric drawing. hand drawn and coloured. Optimus is chilling, sitting behind a barn in a farmland. looking at the birds that just landed on his arm. It’s a nice summer sunset.

Optimus Prime is thriving.
#transformers

The emotional impact of pain.

Cc: @pallbro.bsky.social

An important listen for patients and medical professionals alike:

Links: tinyurl.com/nk6rzsnt

Microalgae underpin some of the ocean’s most iconic symbioses, most notably with reef-building corals. Yet, sailing the high seas is a new symbiosis. Using a series of advanced imaging techniques, we provide the first look at this previously undescribed partnership. Despite convergence of the cnidarian–algal relationship, unique morphological localization indicates an independently evolved, biologically novel endosymbiotic strategy different from all known symbioses. Amazingly, these sailing cnidarians seem analogous to an autonomous greenhouse fueling its reproductive medusoid stages for life in the open ocean.

Science hangout on a Tuesday night?

Come learn about blue button jellies at 7:30 pm EST on March 17th!

Speaker: Colin J Anthony, The University of Tokyo
Zoom link: u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/8103036128...

Meeting ID: 810 3036 1288
Passcode: 527641

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

communism: let's find out what people want and give it to them
capitalism: let's tell people what they want and sell it to them