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Illustration from an 1850s Edinburgh ichthyology text depicting a Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. The elongated, snake-like fish is shown half-emerged from water with its head raised and mouth slightly open. It has a dark upper body and lighter underside with visible gill slits near the head. Surrounding the eel are detailed reeds and grasses, indicating a marshy or riverbank habitat. The image combines fine line work and muted color tones typical of 19th-century scientific plates, emphasizing anatomical features for educational purposes. The plate number "18" is visible in the upper right corner.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ichthyology
Edinburgh, etc.: W.H. Lizars, etc., 1852-1854.

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Aw, I hope it passes quickly

I really wasn't aware of that...

The thrift shop media ecosystem now stretches all the way from vinyl records to CDs to blu-rays.

Surprised that even Blu-rays are starting to hit the thrift shop shelves in numbers.

So today I got Troy, Casablanca, and Letters From Iwo Jima for about $8 total.

I don't mean to toot my own horn here, but I think I got this Renault FT locked on.

1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Bid for the chance to own a 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #222,334.

1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider

Come for the b-roll of people excited for sales, stay for the 2 seconds of this guy mugging for the camera

旅するぬいぐるみうさぎ、うさきち。 お花と一緒に感じる晩秋。

刈田の午後。
広がる秋の空。
日が早くなりました。
また12月にお会いしましょう。
Usakichi, the traveling stuffed rabbit.
An afternoon in a rice field after harvesting.
The autumn sky is about to end.
　#ぬい撮り　#ぬい活　#ぬいぐるみ
　#photography #写真 #bluesky #青空

This is the kind of "thing to get mad at on social media" that's actually harmless and even pro-sanity

Great thread for us HGTV and gray everything Haterz.

Say goodbye to another month with two F-4E's getting ready to leave sweet land behind #PHANTOMPHRIDAY

YouTube video by Discotek Media Galaxy Express 999 - TV Series Complete Collection - Opening from Blu-ray

Galaxy Express 999 - TV Series Complete Collection is out!

The entire classic 113 episode TV series from Leiji Matsumoto featuring the adventures of Tetsuro & Maetel traveling the galaxy in a single set!

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A black cat with light amber eyes, half hidden under a plush black blanket.

Now the cat has vanished completely and there is a mystery lump under the blanket! What could it be?

A strange creature under my blanket!

My cat flat on the floor by his feeding machine.

Someone was very ambitious when we played with the ribbon toy today, leaping like a pony and trying to drag it into a tree like a cheetah. Now he's passed out, satisfied that he's the true apex predator around here.

Ein Rotkehlchen sonnt sich

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight a bird bathed in morning sunlight.
This #Robin enjoys the sun light
#Birds #HolidayRobin #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin

Happy birthday!

Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!

Even when you aren't posting, you contribute by us knowing that there's a person out there who looks exactly like your pfp (don't correct my impression of this) nerding out somewhere

(The good news is that I bought one of their heavy wool, shawl neck cardigans 10 years ago and it will probably last at least 20 more. It is my favorite sweater)

Trump take sweater

State of the Black Friday deals: One Irish company offers a discount that covers the tariffs the regine will hit you with for ordering from them.

Given the justification was in part because they might communicate with someone, pete could ask Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and his XO what the law of armed conflict says about that, except oops, the allies shot them dead in 1945 after a trial

空齋獨坐，正思夜來床頭鼠耗可惱，不知其戛戛者是損我何器，嗤嗤者是裂我何書。中心回惑，其理莫措，忽見一狻貓，注目搖尾，似有所覩。斂聲屏息，少復待之，則疾趨如風，唧然一聲，而此物竟去矣 —— 不亦快哉！ I'm sitting alone in my study with a mouse on my mind. I’m wondering which of my things that nibbling sound is coming from, which book's destruction is the source of that chewing noise, and quite at a loss for what to do — when out of nowhere I spot a vicious-looking cat, eyes blazing, tail lashing, gaze fixed on something I can’t see, and I hold my breath and watch as it darts forward, quick as the wind, and with a piteous squeak that little critter is gone for good — — ahhhh, you love to see it.

飯後無事，翻倒敞篋。則見新舊逋欠文契不下數十百通，其人或存或亡，總之無有還理。揹人取火拉雜燒淨，仰看高天，蕭然無雲 —— 不亦快哉！ Rummaging through some old chests after dinner for lack of anything better to do, I discover dozens of unpaid promissory notes, more than a hundred maybe, from borrowers variously living and dead, and uniformly unlikely to repay, and so when nobody's looking I pile them together higgledy-piggledy, set them on fire, burn them clean away, and then look up at the sky, where they leave not even a cloud behind — — if that's not a good feeling, I don't know what is.

冬夜飲酒，轉復寒甚，推窗試看，雪大如手，已積三四寸矣 —— 不亦快哉！ Drinking on a winter's night, I feel a sudden sharp chill and push open the window to see snow falling in flakes the size of my hand, three or four inches deep already — — if that isn't nice, I don't know what is. 夏日於硃紅盤中，自拔快刀，切綠沉西瓜 —— 不亦快哉！ On a summer’s day, take a sharp knife, slice up a bright green watermelon, and set it out on a deep vermilion plate — — Well!

春眠初覺，似聞家人嘆息之聲，言某人夜來已死。急呼而訊之，正是-城中第一絕有心計人 —— 不亦快哉！ I'm just waking up one spring morning when I seem to hear someone in my household sighing and saying something about somebody dying the night before. Startled awake, I ask who. It turns out to be the schemingest bastard in town — — if that doesn’t cheer you up, nothing will.

In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則.
It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

Photo of a Stormcast Eternal Liberator model. The color palette is based on the Celestial Vindicators Stormhost, but it’s strongly influenced by Horus Heresy-Era Alpha Legion Astartes colors. The basecoats are done, and we’ve applied both the touchups and the shades/washes. === SECOND PASS === - Touchups and cleanup of all “first pass” colors - Army Painter Dragon Red: Sash under the sword belt - Citadel Shade Nuln Oil: All black and silver areas, and the rocks on the base - Citadel Shade Agrax Earthshade: All brown, red, and gold areas - Citadel Contrast Apothecary White: Left pauldron === FIRST PASS === - Krylon white spray: Primer - Army Painter Shining Silver: Armor plates - Citadel Contrast Akhelian Green: Armor plates - AP Gun Metal: Armor trim, mail skirt, helmet crest, warhammers - AP Matt White: General cleanup, left pauldron - AP Matt Black: Right pauldron, scabbard - Citadel Contrast Guilliman Flesh: Gloves, doublet - Citadel Contrast Cygor Brown: Boots, belt, scabbard straps, warhammer grips, sword grip - AP Weapon Bronze: Besagew, weapon hilts, weapon pommels, faceplate details - AP Uniform Grey: Rocks on the base #GW #Citadel #ArmyPainter #AP #Warhammer #WarhammerAgeOfSigmar #AgeOfSigmar #WHAoS #AoS #Order #Stormcast #StormcastEternals #Liberator #Nerdlings #MiniaturePainting #MiniPainting #CMON

Same model. Cleaned up, touched up, added the red sash, and then shaded/washed everything.

First pass at painting a Stormcast Eternal Liberator model.

The color palette is based on the Celestial Vindicators Stormhost, but it’s strongly influenced by Heresy-Era Alpha Legion.

This is most of the basecoats, but there’s still a coupla bits to cover & touchup before shading/washing.

fish inn, coeur d'alene, idaho, 1987

fish inn, coeur d'alene, idaho, 1987

#callofthenight