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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, I think that's only in the cartoon, eh.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

The fact is that the platypus’s digestive tract does include a small expanded pouch-like section where one would normally expect a stomach to be located. The platypus’s stomach doesn’t secrete digestive acids or enzymes (Harrop and Hume 1980; Ordoñez et al. 2008), but does produce a mucus-rich fluid to assist nutrient absorption in the intestines (Krause 1971). Following on from the discussion of grinding pads above, it would seem that a platypus masticates food so thoroughly in its mouth that little additional processing is required before food reaches the intestines. Also, because a platypus consumes numerous small prey items over a period of many hours, its stomach doesn’t need to have a large holding capacity to accommodate infrequent large meals.

Sooo, "gullet"?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I went down this rathole.

They first grind up the bugs they eat in their mouths, then they have a chamber with bacteria which further reduce their food, then their intestines finish the job.

ETA, since you all are such curious cats:

https://wildlifefaq.com/platypus-stomach/

and

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ze Frank is still making videos?

Mind blown, in a good way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just jumping in here to say thanks @[email protected] for this recommendation.

Before this, I had not heard of this series. I've been playing FlatOut 2 from Steam this week though and it's a blast. So thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Not with that attitude.

 

I'm a fan of WFMU, a user-supported, ad-free radio station in New Jersey (USA) in general, but this specific program seems like a good fit for this community. It's not just about privacy but that's a really common topic.

It's described as:

Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. In our shift to a digital future, we need alternatives to Big Tech. Homepage: techtonic.fm

They talk to authors of books, talk about big tech anti-trust trials and so on. Check it out. You can stream the last 7 years worth of shows for free from the provided link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

< banjo plunking intensifies >

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I was just joking, eh. All good.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She has a name, eh? Raygun.

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Landscape - Alan Aldridge (pixtagram.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com)
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Alan Aldridge (8 July 1938 – 17 February 2017) was a British artist, graphic designer and illustrator. He is best known for his psychedelic artwork made for books and record covers by The Beatles and The Who.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Aldridge

 

Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx is an oil on wood painting by the Flemish Northern Renaissance artist Joachim Patinir. Dating to c. 1515–1524, it is now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.

Landscape with Charon Crossing Styx fits into common Northern Renaissance and early Mannerist trends of art. The 16th century witnessed a new era for painting in Germany and the Netherlands that combined influences from local traditions and foreign influences. Many artists, including Patinir, traveled to Italy to study and these travels provided new ideas, particularly concerning representations of the natural world. Patinir's religious subjects, therefore, incorporate precise observation and naturalism with fantastic landscapes inspired by the northern traditions of Bosch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_Charon_Crossing_the_Styx

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The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. It has been housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain since 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That one is my aspiration too. Is retirement as great as it seems?

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Untitled - Hans Hofmann (pixtagram.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com)
 

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.

Born and educated near Munich, he was active in the early twentieth-century European avant-garde and brought a deep understanding and synthesis of Symbolism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism when he emigrated to the United States in 1932. His works are in the permanent collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hofmann

 

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter. A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was called all-over painting and action painting, since he covered the entire canvas and used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style. This extreme form of abstraction divided critics: some praised the immediacy of the creation, while others derided the random effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock

https://www.jackson-pollock.org/moby-dick.jsp

 

Morgan Russell (January 25, 1886 – May 29, 1953) was a modern American artist. With Stanton Macdonald-Wright, he was the founder of Synchromism, a provocative style of abstract painting that dates from 1912 to the 1920s. Russell's "synchromies," which analogized color to music, were an early American contribution to the rise of Modernism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Russell

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The Lady with an Ermine is a portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. Dated to c. 1489–1491, the work is painted in oils on a panel of walnut wood. Its subject is Cecilia Gallerani, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza ("Il Moro"), Duke of Milan; Leonardo was painter to the Sforza court in Milan at the time of its execution. It is the second of only four surviving portraits of women painted by Leonardo, the others being Ginevra de' Benci, La Belle Ferronnière and the Mona Lisa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_with_an_Ermine

 

Oil on gesso panel

Samira Abbassy (born 1965) is an Iranian-born British painter and draftsperson, of Arab heritage. Her work address issues of mythology, female deities, psyche, memory, and the diaspora. Abbassy lives in New York City, and previously lived in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Abbassy

 

Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994; London, UK) endeavors to build spaces of queer community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s singular visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture.

https://michaelayearwood-dan.com/new-page

and

https://www.flaunt.com/post/michaela-yearwood-dan-the-cocoon-issue

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Adelaide Nathalie Marie Hedwig Philippine d'Affry, Duchess of Castiglione Colonna, known as Marcello, (6 July 1836 – 14 July 1879) was a Swiss artist and sculptor.

Bronze, 9 feet 6 inches tall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_d%27Affry

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