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esonetwork · 6 months

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Cigar Nerds Podcast: See Saw

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Cigar Nerds Podcast: See Saw

Cigar Nerds Podcast: See Saw of Death. Its time to play a game. Everyone’s favorite inventor/ serial killer is back in Saw X. In science we we discuss living in space, hitting the snooze button, a diabetes app, and the worlds hottest pepper. In news we review our haunted house experience, Mission impossible 8 delays, Fall Out the show, Night of the Living Dead returns, and Silent Night. This week we are smoking the Onyx Vintage Nicaragua.

Onyx

Saw X

Space Living

Snooze Button

Diabetes

Pepper X

Silent Night

Mission Impossible 8

Fall Out

Night of the Living Dead

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bbyteach · 4 months

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Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

#ofmd #blackbonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd season 2 #my draws #ofmd au #I rushed the first one to hammer it out bc last drawing of the year babyyyyy #one of Ed’s old bands was called ‘here comes the kraken’#anyway he’s burned out on The Grind and all the bad bs in punk spaces overall #he’s not too cool to get flowers now in fact he welcomes the occasion okay #and uh. happy new year #oh and the venue is queen Anne’s revenge bc he’s a pirate history nerd maybe idk #punks and pirates seem like they are kindred spirits #for vastly different goals but… you know

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gojostan-doodles · 2 months

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🩷 *Talks a lot*

💜 *Likes to listen*

#amari is a flower nerd 🥹🩷#also my first full effort animation YIPPEE!#I'm still a beginner so I have a lot to learn #(as I was making it I kept learning new things about my animation program 😭)#but overall I'm happy with how it turned out #stardew valley #sdv sebastian #stardew valley sebastian #stardew valley oc #stardew valley farmer #farmer amari

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abel-draws · 5 months

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My faves should meet

#fischl #furina #genshin impact #genshin fanart #genshin comic #fanart #fontaine #the fact that fischl isn't an actress in the new event is just-#she needs to be there she needs to be friends with furina AAAAA #if genshin won't give fischl screentime i will this is personal now i love her SO MUCH #this is fischl propaganda and you're here to witness is #please tell me about your fischl headcanons #i need to draw her with cyno he'd be like her cool uncle who teaches her how to DM tabletop games #fucking nerds AAA I LOVE THEM!!!!!

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alternativeminiatures · 4 months

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Leman Russ DM by Relithel

#only wanted to add the new one because I have seen these image here before but after looking for more than 30 minutes I couldn't find them #anyway #I like 'nerd leman russ'#he's one of those characters people seem to portray very unidimensionally so something like this is appreciated #warhammer #warhammer 40k #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 30k #leman russ #roboute guilliman #corvus corax #lion el'jonson #primarchs

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robotpussy · 3 months

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#polls #personally i dont like it but thats only because i dont like fandom. the type of stuff that gets the most attention #in fandom usually just annoys me idk. how to explain it in a way that wont come off as me saying #fanfic or whatever is evil its just the fact that it just bombards alot of the conversations?#i prefer it when the thing i like has 10 fans and theyre all on one message board or forum #like for example mtvs downtown is getting popular but apart from annoying #'me and the mid nerd guy i copped by being weird and sexy' posts its not awful....#but then smth like... clone high or smth i suddenly cant remember ppl just got so annoying abt that show??#like i cant stand it i dont even bother watching it anymore plus its just weird to me now like i can't watch it regardless #im just rambling but personally i do not like it. like i dont want what i like to get a revival #i dont want anything new! i just want to enjoy the thing and move on 😭#fandom seems to prioritize shipping and memes over evaluating or simply just enjoying something!#this goes for anything. music film tv books....

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fantasykiri5 · 2 months

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RIZ “THE BALL” GUKGAK EVERYBODY 👏👏👏👏👏

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#my art #D20 #d20 fanart #d20 fantasy high #riz gukgak #riz gukgak fanart #fantasy high #fantasy high fanart #fhsy #fhjy #<- this is supposed to be. Between s2 and s3?? He has his late s2 heaven gadgets and new gun design but no haircut #I love his tattoos but I hate his tattoos #they’re so hard to draw it look me like 2 hours just to figure out #anyways here’s my lovely son. The ball. Little shrimp. Private investigator. Dragon slayer. Lame nerd teenager #He’s my stupid favorite it’s so important to me that he canonically has freckles. They’re in merch. His freckles are so important to me #I’m on the s2 finale as of scheduling this I’m having fun. I need to draw the others soon #also Yes I did give him a tooth gap thank you for noticing!!!#The knuckle tats say “night yorb” with an empty thumb on the other hand. I almost put “nite yorb” as a reference to a tumblr user but-#-decided against it

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

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gunstreet · 10 months

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sorry I'm not a photoshop master but would someone mind hanging this up in the SNW writers' room because I think we have all had enough

#Nimoy's portrayal of Spock is INTENTIONALLY Jewish coded and visibly queer coded #you can claim ignorance as a casual fan but as a writer it's your JOB to know and honour this shit #SNW has done ok with autistic coding of Spock but the erasure of the other stuff feels deliberate at this point #like cishet white nerd men want him to be like them so they make these bizarro choices that feel like a totally different person #sorry but he's not FOR you #he was NEVER for you #you already have everything else please just let him be the way he was intended to be #let us have one gd thing #why are the opinions of people who don't care about Star Trek's ethics and legacy more important than the opinions of the those who do #star trek #strange new worlds

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mintymx · 1 year

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North Blue Boys? More like North Blue Nerds >:)

#one piece #one piece fanart #op fanart #myart #one piece art #north blue boys #sanji #black leg sanji #trafalgar law #basil hawkins #x drake #ah yes this is another old comic because I'm taking forever on new art stuff #they are nerds trust me #not sure if this post is too long vertically... might condense it a bit more later #trafalgar d water law

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callcorbett · 1 year

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something about glass onion that makes me go insane is first the movie starts with Bach’s ‘little’ fugue in G minor, then the box miles sends to each of the ‘shitheads’ has it as one of the clues. Don’t exactly remember who says it but someone says that fugues are a complicated layer of music. While they are layered they are not fundamentally complicated, it’s just layers of the same figure played over and over again. The fundamental core melody is all the same. Which is a perfect melody for Miles thinking his plan and puzzles was this complicated system of music, when it’s really just the same story told over and over again, and also a metaphor for the glass onion itself. I dunno I just love when classical music is used in movies that itself tells the story in a deeper way

#glass onion #miles bron #benoit blanc #knives out #glass onion spoilers #this is a really simple analysis but look #i’m a big nerd for music history and reusing old pieces in new and interesting ways #ITS JUST COOL OK #can you tell i’m brainrotting over this

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the-army-brat-and-the-nerd · 9 months

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Clark Kent's ultimate guide to charm the woman of your dreams : treat her to coffee.

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 4 months

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At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

#poorly drawn mdzs #art summary #It's so interesting looking back at how my style and technique changed throughout the year!#I used PD-wwx as the consistent factor (October is an exception) and you can see so many processes going on.#My little petri dish amoeba (with a little red bow to tell him apart from the other amoeba) <3 #Whether it's getting new markers or trying out a new shading style - it's cool seeing a snapshot of my journey like this B*)#There's certainly been a slower curve to my overt improvement *but* I have become so much faster!#My life outside of drawing has been hectic and at several points extremely stressful this year. For all the work this blog has been-#-It has truly been a life saving anchor when the darkest of times have hit.#Love is hard work. Change is even harder work. Sticking to a goal I set out for myself and striving to keep going was worth it.#And I love drawing. I think there has always been something in me that longed for this. And it is finally tangible! I can draw!!!#I wanted to make a more elaborate year reflection where I looked back at my favourite comics and jokes.#but I'll leave that to the one year anniversary.#I have also been collecting a ton of statistics throughout the year and I am desperate to share them. I'm that kind of nerd B*)#I can never say it enough: Thank you all for the kindness and support. I wish everyone a lovely 2024!!!

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legendarytragedynacho · 6 months

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