Lord Inquisitor Jebus 🇺🇸

A 3D printed recreation of an Arthropleura, the largest insect (arthropod) ever known to exist. Thankfully it went extinct 300 million years ago.

Northern White Rhino: officially extinct in the wild. Last male dead. Only 2 females remain A creature that endured 55 million years—ice ages, asteroids, entire epochs—wiped out by human greed, poaching, and destroyed habitats. We failed them. 💔🦏

how i look at bro after we get superpowers and he suggests we save humanity

if you had powers, would you be a hero or a villain?

Muslim "intimidation" parade. First thought when you see this ?

The Absinthe Drinker (1901), by Viktor Oliva

Man, WW2 and all the insane shit Himmler and Goering were up to. Like it was everything from Outer Gods, to demons, UFOs, and lost civilizations. Rommel wanting to put them all in the ground was the least surprising thing.

Life of a Human 1/4

don't go

Im crying they got Conquest living in an empty cube 😭

Thais uphold a custom of appeasing land wights much like that of our pagan ancestors. They make little houses for the spirits called san phra phum and make offerings to the wights to appease them. My brother lives there on a farm with his Thai wife and daughter who I am going to visit next month. They held a ceremony for the land wights after construction work was completed. The old man in the photo was the one who invited the spirits back to the land. You can see there are 2 little houses in the picture. One is the shrine of the household gods, a domestic altar used for honoring protective spirits to ensure family safety and prosperity. In Ancient Rome, this was the lararium for Lares, in England they were called Cofgodas “cupboard gods”. Thais offer food, flowers, and incense at the houses. The other house is an ancestral shrine for old ghosts of people who lived there before, like the Hustomtar in Scandinavia, and also for the land wights that inhabit the land itself. Thai people believe there are spirits on every piece of land. Prior to construction there was an old spirit house at which the family made an offering. That night my sister in law dreamed of an old man who resembled the doll idol within the spirit house. He instructed her to keep the idol which they intended to replace, to restore and maintain the spirit house and in return he would make the land fruitful and protect her daughter of whom the wights are apparently fond. My sister in law agreed to build a new spirit house if the wight never came into her house again, as it scared her. So today the new spirit house was inaugurated and the wights were appeased with an offering of a pig’s head, a chicken and some decent whiskey. Basically all the same sorts of things I do in England. Such is the perennial nature of the most ancient ways.

Which to choose? 🤔

I'm a Smurf. I've been hired to run counter-intelligence operations at Smurf Village. My role is political; I've personally gone up against the evil wizard Gargamel. But once I'm on the inside, I discover that Smurf Village has a relationship with a goat-riding human boy called Peewit. Peewit isn't a Smurf. He's caused a lot of damage with his antics over the years. Why is he even here? I start digging. I pull up Papa Smurf's history with Peewit. Papa Smurf has been collaborating with this kid for years. Protecting him. Making excuses for him. Why? Peewit is reckless. Peewit makes messes. But Papa Smurf keeps letting him back in. The more I dig, the more Peewit I find. He's everywhere. In every file, behind every favor, connected to every mess. A picture forms in my head: if I'm looking for Peewit everywhere and I keep finding Peewit, the only logical conclusion is that Peewit is the one controlling Papa Smurf. Then a prominent Smurf gets assassinated. They say Gargamel's people did it. Case closed, move along. But I get access to the dead Smurf's private messages. And there's Peewit. Right there in the chats. The same Peewit I've been laser-focused on all year. Pressuring him. Making demands. I bring this to Papa Smurf and his inner circle. I bring it with alarm. Papa Smurf looks at me funny. And then — just like that — I'm kicked out of the investigation. No explanation. Just... out. This is the final proof that Peewit is controlling the Smurf Village. I know what I saw. I have to get the truth out there. So I do the unthinkable. I leak the information.