Hidden Lacuna

“The leopard sharks mating on the seabed.” & “The leopard sharks mating near the surface.” Credit: researcher Dr Hugo Lassauce-University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)-Aquarium des Lagons

^ First ever recorded video of wild leopard sharks mating (here, two males and a female) off Caledonia, an archipelago in the south-west Pacific Ocean. “It was over quickly for both males, one after the other. The first took 63 seconds, the other 47.” “Despite their broad range, their wild mating behaviour has remained largely undocumented until now, with most research carried out in aquariums.” Read more about the event (and watch the video) here.

“Grab her by the fin” is a common mating position in many shark species, whereby the female is pinned down into position:

François-Xavier Lalanne, ‘Troupeau D’éléphants dans les Arbres,” 2001,

Executed by Deroyaume Fondeur, Villers-sur-Port, France,

Comprising seven free-standing elephant sculptures and an octagonal center table,

Gilt bronze, Glass,

Table: 33 ½ (85.1 cm) high; 63 in. (161.3 cm) diameter?

Largest elephant: 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm) high; 20 ¼ (51.5 cm) deep; 8 in. (20.3 cm) wide 1/8.

La rêverie, The collection of Sydell Miller,

François-Xavier Lalanne, ‘Hippo Bar’, 1976-1996,

Bronze, 105 x 200 x 67 cm (41.3 x 78.7 x 26.4 in).

François-Xavier Lalanne, “Hippopotame II,” Bar, 1978,

Patinated Bronze, Stainless Steel, Copper, Nickel Silver, Brass, Painted Wood,

A medieval European knight who's asexual, and being a product of his time, place and station, is also a complete dickhead. Being well-educated and passably good-looking, he has made a hobby out of the ideals of courtly love, charming and seducing impressionable noblewomen with absolutely zero intention to ever actually consummate the relationships, instead using them as excuses to also not engage in any other sexual activities. While the other knights think it's weird, it's not undignified or the wrong kind of weird to refuse to visit brothels because he's remaining pure and loyal to this one random bored and lonely married woman whose husband cannot prove anything that'd justify killing this guy.

But get this: The same premise every time, but in wildly different times and places. Victorian England, the gentlemen went fuckshit with some nice sherry, wrote some questionable letters, worked together to compose an absolutely idiotic thinkpiece essay and sent it to the local newsprint (the publishing of it must be stopped) and for some reason there's an ostrich.

A troupe of travelling performers in the late Kofun period wake up in the stables of an inn, and the main plot point is the little beast sleeping on someone's chest. None of them have ever seen a cat before, but one knows enough to tell that those are imperial pets, and whoever's fucking cat that is will both be capable and willing to kill whoever stole it. So they'd better fucking return it.

Every day I wake up and think:

“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”

“They are all bonded through shared trauma now.”

Via emeraldcitycomiccon on Instagram

i hate those "testing strangers to see if they're friendly and kind! kindness wins! kindness pays!" clickbait recordings where overwhelmingly it is young, attractive people (largely women) who are being scouted for views and free advertising . they're making you model for them and they reap the benefits. they profit now off of testing you while you fucking exist. i do not want to be fucking tested. i hate the commodification of "kindness" like dude just give random people the money, not because they fucking smiled for it. none of the people recording has any idea about the origin of the term "emotional labor" and none of us could get them to even think about it. i did not apply for this job! and you know what! i actually super am a nice person! i still don't want to be fucking recorded!

In a Panopticon, the prisoners never know if they are being watched, which is psychological torture, and prohibited under international law. It follows that, if we are in public, never knowing if or that we are being filmed for something that may end up being viewed by millions of people, with all the risks that sort of thing carries, Panopticontent needs to be stopped. Probably the quickest way to curb it is to demonitize it, but that's never going to happen; companies like Meta have spent too much money trying to make it happen.