Isn't it all just a big game?
I'm Brendon, a guy from Australia. Here's a bunch of stuff that I like.
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Post reblogged from Doll Parts and Loose Threads
i don’t want to go to work i want to do all the things i only want to do when i don’t have the free time to do them
no longer at work and with plenty of time to kill
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Post reblogged from Doll Parts and Loose Threads
A Winter Fairytale in Hallstatt, Austria via @finduslost
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Photoset reblogged from Banesidhe's Wails & Tales
I love this.
I won’t lie I’m shedding a few tears right now
Sometimes the interpreter’s job is to actually interpret what is being said. Not word-for-word (though that can be quite important), but context-for-context.
[ID: pictures of text from a book, some of which has been highlighted in pink. The highlighted parts read: “I was the first to introduce myself. […] Joy. I’m from Portland and I’m traveling with eight other African American women. […] despite the brevity of my comments, the translator seemed to be going on at length. ‘Is this going to happen after every introduction?’
“I know that I didn’t say very much, so what exactly did you say to them?”
“I said that you were African American women, I needed to explain what that meant. You see, many of the people in the audience are […] the ones who had been stolen away. They were chanting at you, ‘Welcome home.’
“We mourned Martin and Malcolm with you, we are so proud of you, we just wondered when you were coming home.” END ID]
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Post reblogged from Taitanator
SPOILER CRITICAL ROLE C3E33 ,,, That was one hell of a run… I am big sad
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Post reblogged from Doll Parts and Loose Threads
You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you’re just like. Oh ok
I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn’t a broken leg would mean you Die because you can’t. Do things
And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn’t properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps
So basically I have connected the two dots (“you didn’t connect shit”) I’ve connected them
And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh
Really makes you think
Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I’d love to see where crows are going with this
Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they’re so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you’ve never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that’s never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).
The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they “know what they know” meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.
Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff’s work if you want the deep skinny.
