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I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
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Ed Emshwiller's cover detail for Galaxy magazine, ed. H. L. Gold (February 1960) #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

I love this piece because the dude is clearly completely satisfied with his hairline

this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this

every Battletech mech can cast Daylight, once

The cauliflower jelly is so named because it has a million microscopic mouths tucked inside giant frilly lips that, collectively, look like a cauliflower. It uses this madness of mouths to filter microscopic food from the water. It also has a knobby top, but it's function is a scientific mystery.

Never meet your heroes

WE’RE ALL STARS NOW (Cardinal in weird androgynous bodysuit turns to camera) IN THE POPE SHOW

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

HEAVY METAL (1981)

Being from the UK and a member of the late part of Generation X means having to live with the fact that every photo from your childhood resembles a still from a cultishly acclaimed but commercially disappointing folk horror film. ESPECIALLY IF THEY ACTUALLY ARE: tomcox.substack.com/p/some-photo...

She looks like she's planning to kidnap Geordi La Forge en route to Risa and manchurian candidate him to kill the Klingon governor

excuse me??

🎵 life is like a hurricane / here in duckburg / flat beaks, quackers, budget cranes / those are duck slurs 🎶

ye shall soon be initiated into certain facts hitherto pretty generally unknown

it’s Vicky’s sixth gotcha day! I asked her how it feels to have outlived her species’ natural average lifespan in the wild, and she said “feed me more grubs” which is her response to most things I say to her

@shriekback.bsky.social hello! did you ever find out what the safeword is? shit's getting real, the system is tanking, and i'm shouting "zinc", but nothing is happening

solidarity with trans people worldwide, fuck jk rowling

Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered? Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit. 🧪🔭 www.eso.org/public/news/...

the only requirement to be a woman is to sing "man! i feel like a woman". just that line. its shania law