In a monumental discovery for paleontology and the first of its kind "Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia"

Abstract The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia. The study of the specimen appearance showed its significant differences from a modern lion cub of similar age (three weeks) in the unusual shape of the muzzle with a large mouth opening and small ears, the very massive neck region, the elongated forelimbs, and the dark coat color. Tomographic analysis of the mummy skull revealed the features characteristic of Machairodontinae and of the genus Homotherium. For the first time in the history of paleontology, the appearance of an extinct mammal that has no analogues in the modern fauna has been studied. For more read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

perhaps the funniest targeted ad i’ve gotten yet. i assure you it is ADHD

Decided to make a Bluesky account, I remember trying out twitter years ago but quit after a week cuz I disliked the format. I'll try giving bluesky a better chance.

Haven't decided if I'm gonna import my old art there or if should just start with new art. So I guess its empty atm and not quite set up. That being said, this was literally the first thing I saw on the timeline it gave me.

Quite the first impression Bluesky has given me, not quite sure how to feel about it tho.

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

Accidentally wound up on "hear me out cake" tiktok, and I swear, if another one of these bitches puts down an at-most-unconventionally-attractive human man, Lady Dimitrescu or Nick Wilde/Robin Hood I am going to lose my fucking mind.

Saw one where the first person they named was Disney's Aladdin and I tapped out so hard I entered a fugue state and didn't regain full consciousness for like a solid hour.

Girlies giggling and gasping because they said their 'hear me out' was Gill from Finding Nemo, like

I'm so sorry, babygirl, but that's a hot fish. I know you thought you were being so controversial, but that is one of the most fuckable cartoon fish in existence. This is weaksauce.

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Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

our beautiful rail line... (so far)

I love this site

like a quarter of the railway

@amtrak-official I've gotta imagine you've already seen this, but why not

I love funky wildlife services. I aspire to be as funky and know as much about wildlife

Boulders in now abandoned Dogtown, MA. In the 1930s Roger Babson commissioned unemployed stonecutters to engrave 35 boulders with “inspirational” phrases after the announcement of the stock market crash that would lead to the Great Depression.

sorry to these men but you'd think with something like stone engraving the idea of being extra careful about kerning would be taken really seriously

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

Let me demonstrate my answer for you:

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Please just take a look at Han's face right after witnessing 3po float. The man just had his entire worldview blown to smithereens.

that's so funny. that means he accepted Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand as just something freaky government cyborgs can do, and stuck by Luke for multiple years as he tried to figure this Force stuff out, and just treated it like your friend getting really really into neopaganism to cope with a loss.

like yeah kid good job with the witching. i'm certain it will be more useful against your enemies than your sharpshooting. no i do not think your witchcraft is supplementing your aim but i'm not gonna argue about it.

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

*(gn)

The last option is supposed to be "I don't want them to kiss at all".

Rewatching Jurassic World in 2024 is somehow an enlightening experience to me because since when did I look at the park and go "oh that's such an inefficient use of space" and "you could have multiple versions of this fancy escalator and immediately improve crowding issues" and "oh, a monorail? How original. It's futuristic so we simply cannot have a train despite it being a vastly better means of transport."

At what point did this become part of my personality and how did I not notice it before?

What do you mean Owen wasn't sending in his reports? He's part of a fucking research program at the park.

First the park owner is completely in the dark about the Indominus besides the conceptual stage, and now the guy who's trying to train raptors just isn't sending in his reports about how the raptor training is going in the research program about raptor training?

Does no one write reports in this company? Does no one request reports in this company? Jesus fucking Christ, does anybody even use email in this company?

No wonder this all went to shit so easily.

Okay no Hoskins is also insane. Like jumping straight to a field test because you observed a single successful test in a controlled environment is unhinged.

But also it's very difficult to take Owen and Barry seriously either. I am on their side, but the "you've seen one successful test" argument gets tired fucking immediately because maybe he wouldn't have such a skewed understanding if you'd sent in your reports that would have illustrated that your success rate is incredibly low.

I know this has been said many times by many people but 1) why can't you access the tracking data of the Indominus from the security centre at her paddock, 2) is it procedure to enter the paddock without certifying that the Indominus is not also in the paddock, 3) why is there not a person-sized exit door to the paddock, and 4) what the fuck happened to all the construction crew that were just working on the paddock?

Hoskins is really just like "my wife came at me with a kitchen knife" and does not elaborate on that. at all.

HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW THAT IT COULD CAMOUFLAGE? WAS ANYONE MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS DINOSAUR?

What do you mean you're not at liberty to reveal the asset's genetic makeup? You're talking to the man who owns the company you work for and owns the damn park?

...he ordered the creation of the Indominus in a memo?

In a memo?

In a fucking memo?

I know everyone's talked about the fact that it is insane that if the ✨Gyrosphere✨ ride closes, it's seemingly up to the guests' leisure to return to the entrance/exit, and also that the ✨Gyrospheres✨ can just go out of bounds meanwhile your shopping trolley locks up the nanosecond you're off of Asda's property, but I have a more pressing question.

Why are they fancy hamster balls in the first place? Is there a single benefit to them being spherical?

Did no one like actually scope out this island? Before they started building Jurassic World?

Like the old Jurassic Park is just on the island and no one knows???

"Within the moral principles of my company."

Your company doesn't even CC you in emails about the dinosaur hybrid they created in response to a memo you sent about needing a bigger, scarier, cooler dinosaur that you - as the owner of the company - somehow aren't allowed to know the genetic makeup of.

I don't think your company has procedures in place, let alone moral principles.

I'm fascinated as to how Hoskins thinks the raptor plan is going to work without Owen. Like he's the one guy the raptors listen to.

I know they've never sent in a single damn report during their research, but from the one (1) time Hoskins observed them, it was pretty clear that the raptors only listened to Owen and only barely at that.

Not a reference to the debunked alpha wolf study.

Why did no one just shoot the Indominus while the whole "she's part raptor" communication thing was happening?

What if the dinosaurs had had gay sex instead of fighting? What was the plan, then, huh? What then?

Cool movie, just remembered that in the sequel, it's revealed that the park was built on top of a volcano and I want to go camouflage myself as a potted plant and sit in the corner of a Wetherspoons that's trying a bit too hard as to calm down.

If writes a fanfic about a Jurassic World Defuntland video I'll love you forever.

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