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When I die I hope it’s doing 2 of my favourite activities- sitting and doing nothing.

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Looking forward to this!

Me and the bf really enjoyed the WTF puzzling of the first season and the beautiful aesthetic, I just hope they continue the quality and don't shit the bed.....

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I went in blind...

Us too, we had no idea, just that it seemed highly recommended

Each episode had us going WTF and trying to work out the 'puzzle' of it all....don't even get me started on the utterly bizarre waffle party

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We used to have a video club at Primary School (5-12 years) where you'd pay something like 10p to watch a film after school on a crappy TV. One such film was Beastmaster, we also watched Raiders of the Lost Ark, and inexplicably Assault on Precinct 13 (one of the older kids brought it in and told us younger ones not to say anything to the teachers)

Needless to say, I loved Beastmaster and Raiders, and didn't have a clue what was happening in Precinct 13 apart from the swearing and violence....Fun times

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I don't normally comment on news posts, but in this instance, FUCK CANCER

Fuck cancer for stealing my brother from me, and for taking half my bf's lung

I seriously hopes this works for everyone out there living with this disease, and for their families, friends, the people who love them....

.....and also for everyone who has died too soon and missed their chance for survival. Their donation of tissue samples and furthering the cancer research that ultimately wouldn't help them, but will help the poor bastards that are diagnosed today and in the future...It is bitter sweet

Fuck cancer

quinacridone OP Mod ,
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I had no idea, thanks for the info 👍

quinacridone OP ,
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a certain ‘labor of love’ needs to be involved

You are not wrong! I think I must be mental sometimes, but it can be good fun discovering new things and then sharing them....

I really like her work, I posted last week some of her cityscapes of Manchester, which is interesting to see the ordinary and mundane of somewhere you know immortalized in art. I've got some others of hers which I'll probably share next week

Also thanks for the tip regarding the code to expand images, it would be nice if the developers added a nice easy button to click to do it for me, but it's something I can remember to do, like all the other minor things that help when making a post (it's a learning process)

Cheers! 😀

edit, I've just tried it out on one of my posts on mander, it works really well!

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She's won a few awards for her work which doesn't surprise me!

I'll be posting some of her other work at some point which is just as good, if not better.....even though I do love the fact that she makes Blackpool look pretty fucking amazing 🤣

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I’m glad there are artists capturing the normal sights of places instead of focusing on the most impressive and amazing parts of the world, you know?

I agree, it's always nice to see your local places immortalized in art, I think it helps that she's from Bolton, although I haven't seen any paintings of that downtrodden place yet...

All that's missing from the paintings is a couple of spice-heads, and the guy who's always playing the 'Harry Potter Theme' on a recorder near Selfridges

Love back at you, from up the road 🐝 ❤️

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I had a similar experience recently while researching for !nudibranchs....I found these gems pretending to be nudibranchs

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/53b2cd38-97a6-4dbb-a239-9382563ca46a.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/14996024-f1f9-4c34-b169-14e8812818f1.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c2b877ed-d8e7-408b-be96-9fa22e42323a.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3e157066-2bc5-406a-9031-c3f5adf674d7.jpeg

In fact the whole site has some wonderful ai abonimations masquerading as real animals....

....This is a 'mud skipper'

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/60d2c5fc-6f28-43f9-bc3c-ff259f53e0e0.jpeg

Bats!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/84fafc83-0a85-448c-9dfb-c60ead167078.jpeg

axolotls

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/94e96b0d-922d-42a1-bbac-9a4d06100c0c.jpeg

It's weird out there!

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they’re presented on a legit looking website mixed in with real information. It really can poison the well of information out there

I completely agree with this, I'm not against ai art (I've had a mini dabble to 'create' something, it's fun! and from a science perspective a photo realistic dinosaur created using up to date research can help present information and capture an audience) however, it does need to be labelled as such when depicting actual living things today

Also, the text on this website also reads like ai mind babble with lots of 'flowery' phrasing and repetition, I've no idea if it is ai generated but even my attempts at writing read better (I hope)

The 'authors' are also suss- '.....Sophia has a deep love for furry friends, from the tiny shrew to the giant elephant. She spends her days studying how these incredible creatures live, play, and interact with their environment. With a heart full of curiosity and compassion, Sophia is dedicated to protecting mammals and their habitats'

This is 'Sophia'

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b7ee6245-7be7-437c-88bb-9833d4fbeb99.png

Quite fascinating in a horrendous way, I genuinely hope this isn't the future of the internet

If it turns out I'm wrong about any of the above I will happily edit my comment (and include an apology)....I doubt that will be happening though....

quinacridone OP ,
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Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying something a bit different instead of just posting nice pictures....but it also helps that I actually went to the exhibition 😀

quinacridone OP ,
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It's definitely the etchings that are the most impressive 😀

quinacridone OP ,
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That looks really good, it never occurred to me that an etching like that would work as phone wallpaper...also you've got several to rotate if you need a change 👍

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I discovered The CryptoNaturalist over at the other place, and ending up buying 'Field Guide to the Haunted Forest' and 'Love Notes from the Hollow Tree' by Jarod K. Anderson....

Which is unusual for me as I detest poetry. I think it's a pile of long-winded, navel gazing wank...Except for haiku, (because they're short and sweet, and condense things down to their essence, which I like).

I like The CryptoNaturalist though, probably because they write about nature in a weird, beautiful and wonderous way. I want to use the word 'magical' to describe it, but am reluctant, for reasons

Also, thanks to this post I just found out there's a couple of other books available which I'm going to buy tonight 😀

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I rather like this one...

wearily she waves

the white flag of surrender

cobwebbed butterfly

—Tracy Davidson from here

Pawprints fade, empty

Silence fills the empty space

Love lives on, always

From here

I sometimes feel that the classic haiku are let down by some translations, and the fact there are Japanese words that don't translate across very well or at all.

I have a soft spot for this one

The old pond,

A frog jumps in:

Plop!

Translated by Alan Watts from here

It's interesting to see how each translation differs, and tries to put into English something that is probably untranslatable....also...

pond

frog

plop!

Translated by James Kirkup

'The sound of water' 'kerplunk' 'splashing the water' 'leap, splash' 'water note' ....just don't capture it for me

Do you know any that are decent?

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Guilty as charged

quinacridone OP ,
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I think I prefer moths to butterflies, the colours are more subtle and I love the general fluffiness....keep a look out as I'll be doing some more hawk moth posts 👍

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I'm rather taken by the green one myself! I'll probably make it the star of its own post soon

quinacridone OP ,
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Nice! How big do you think it is?

quinacridone OP ,
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If it is the A. bruennichi then it’s certainly a female.

You're going to have to do a post if it lays eggs.... Also is it dangerous to humans?

Really nice photos btw (and jealous that you have a kumquat tree)

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It’s a dwarf nagami variety, so a bit more like a bush

Don't be so modest, I bet it's really lovely (your new spider seems to agree), and tasty (assuming the fruits are edible)

.... a tendency to hide inside wardrobes

Lol

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