This works as an answer to the metaphorical problem because the key is for the hedgehogs and prcupines to be a bit flexible about how they position themselves and keep thier spines pointed in such a fashion to minimize poking, just like how in human relationships you have to be a bit flexible and concious of your position relative to others, and to manage your sharp bits to minimize the harm you do to others.
Why is there AI generated images of foxes on iNaturalist 😬
How can a fake image be research grade!!!
The colours and markings of the fox are all wrong. It’s supposed to be an arctic fox but it has the black face, ear and leg markings of a red fox (no arctic fox has marking like that). The fur is very blurry and lacking in detail in many areas. The snow on the ears and face makes no sense. The whiskers are weirdly shaped and detached from the face in areas. The back legs make no sense and are weirdly shaped and overall it just looks super fake.
if we all spent just six hours a day working on some kind of complex tapestry in contemplative silence nobody would have the problems they currently have
we would have entirely NEW problems. the tapestry discourse would be intense
That last panel looks so peaceful. Sure they’re tired, but they’re genuinely enjoying themselves. Props to the artist for being able to convey such an interesting expression.
I have very little to say about Break!! that hasn’t been said elsewhere, other than to observe that if you’re the sort who sees a character class called “Murder Princess” and picks it purely on the strength that it’s called “Murder Princess”, this game will probably interest you, because it has a character class called “Murder Princess”.
I appreciate how Murder Princess is apprently mechanically distinct from “Battle Princess”.
Well, in mechanical terms, Battle Princesses practice Heart Magic, while Murder Princesses practice Wrath Magic.
In narrative terms, that means Battle Princesses get abilities like “healing”, “making protective force fields”, and “having a wise and adorable animal companion”, while Murder Princesses get abilities like “flipping the fuck out”, “physically wounding people by glaring at them really hard”, and “shrugging off having a hole blown through your torso because you’re not done maiming yet”.
So sad to hear of the closing of the Cartoon Network building. I worked there writing Time Squad (on the same floor as Samurai Jack) and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones, along with helping on Dexter’s Lab, A Kitty Bobo Show, and helped develop Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and later had an art show there.
I remember a small gathering where we raised the flag on the roof and got to play with a baby chimp. Mike Lazzo was an incredible boss (before leaving to start Adult Swim ) who allowed us to spray paint the walls of the stairwell (that’s my chimp) and really make it a home. There will never be a place like it again…
On Saturday I hung out with my 84-year-old ecologist great uncle and he stopped in mid-conversation (abt the return of the whooping crane) and very seriously told me that “you can go one of two ways, as a naturalist”; either you keep sight of the hopeful possibilities, or you don’t. I’m one of nature’s wretched little pessimists but when an old ecologist literally holds your hands in his and tells you, “don’t despair,” you have to try, I feel.
I’m immune to a lot of the “hopepunk” narratives about ecology but…
The Karner Blue butterfly was extirpated from Canada the year before I was born. He donated to one of the projects to bring it back for years, and even though the project he was working on fizzled out, I told him about the branch in Toronto, still going strong. They save every lupine seed they can harvest and germinate them carefully so that in 20, 30, 40 years we might have enough habitat to bring the Blues back. He was part of the first wave of that effort.
Fuck!!!! What do you do with that kind of care? You have to at least try to believe that better things are possible!
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