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So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.
Basically they realized hey no one's cleaning this shit up, it's polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there's a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?
They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it's in a painting, if it's in your home, it's not poisoning wildlife.
anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
How the fuck does his have less than 200k after setting the internet on fire for months
This lack of notes is probably a big part of why TikTok seems to think they invented the meme.
They think WHAT?!
Roommate went out of town once, asked me to look after her cat.
Night one she comes down meowing at me. I go check her food/water, they're full. Litter box empty. Make sure my roommate's door is still open and she's not locked out of her room or something. I try to pet her and she dodges me, offer her treats and she won't have it, try playing with her but she won't play, try just ignoring her and she won't stop following me around meowing at me.
So I call my roommate, concerned maybe she was sick or in pain and that's why she was being so insistent despite having all her needs met.
Roommate goes: "OH! She wants you to go to bed. Go upstairs to my room and just sit in my bed with her for a few minutes. She should curl up and get comfortable. Once shes laid down she usually lets me go back to what I'm doing she just can't seem to go to bed on her own"
Sure enough, I go sit on roommates bed and she just happily jumps up, curls up on the blanket, and purrs herself to sleep.
I like when cats try to give their humans healthy habits.
From Theophile Gautier, mid-19th century, about his very floofy white cat:
Don Pierrot of Navarre always sat up at night until I came home, waiting for me on the inside of the door, and as soon as I stepped into the antechamber he would come rubbing himself against my legs, arching his back and purring in gladsome, friendly fashion. Then he would start to walk in front of me, preceding me like a page, and I am sure that if I had asked him to do so, he would have carried my candle. In this way he would escort me to my bedroom, wait until I had undressed, jump up on the bed, put his paws round my neck, rub his nose against mine, lick me with his tiny red tongue, rough as a file, and utter little inarticulate cries by way of expressing unmistakably the pleasure he felt at seeing me again. When he had sufficiently caressed me and it was time to sleep he used to perch upon the backboard of his bed and slept there like a bird roosting on a branch. As soon as I woke in the morning, he would come and stretch out beside me until I rose.
Midnight was the latest time allowed for my return home. On this point Pierrot was as inflexible as a janitor... Twice or thrice Pierrot sat up for me until two o’clock in the morning, but presently he took offence at my conduct and went to bed without waiting for me. I was touched by this mute protest against my innocently disorderly way of life, and thereafter I regularly returned home at midnight. Pierrot, however, proved hard to win back; he wanted to make sure that my repentance was no mere passing matter, but once he was convinced that I had really reformed, he deigned to restore me to his good graces and again took up his nightly post in the antechamber.
Cats : trying to make us go to bed at a Reasonable Time since forever (so they can wake us up at 3 am for treats)
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Don Pierrot of Navarre is an absolutely spectacular name for a cat.
[1697/10977] Bronze-winged courser - Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
Order: Charadriiformes
Suborder: Lari
Family: Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers)
Subfamily: Cursoriinae (coursers)
Photo credit: Fernando Nunes via Macaulay Library
More pleinair mountain paintings from last week as I was in the french alps! Pleinair is hard and i havent gouache painted in a while so I feel like i've lost a lot of skills ;-;
Looking back at paintings from last year, I cant help but also feel like I use less bold colors now- Idk if I like it or not. On one hand, I feel like I understand colors theory better now, and colors are overall more harmonious. On the other, I did like that chaotic colorful use of colors I used to have, even if it was a bit clumsy. Oh well! I'm still learning.
Cueva de las Manos, which translates to Cave of Hands, is a cave located in Santa Cruz, Argentina. The name comes from the fact that the cave is composed of paintings of hands that date back from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. The cave was last inhabited at approximately 700 AD.
I think, if we ever have a first contact situation or something similar, a circle with the negative imprint of a splayed hand in the center should be used as the universal symbol of humanity
Not only does it display a distinct and important part of human anatomy, but also one of the few nearly-universal aspects of human culture. We’ve found cave paintings like this everywhere across the world that humans have settled - hell, we still trace our hands on paper as children, most notably for hand turkeys
Something fundamental about the human psyche just likes doing this, I guess
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