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Artist: Tim Brierley

Je connais pas assez la madame et je prétends pas pouvoir dresser un portrait convenable donc je veux simplement partager avec vous quelques unes des œuvres que je connais et si vous en avez envie, vous pouvez réagir à ce post pour partager un souvenir, une recommandation etc.

En premier, Persepolis évidemment. J'avais 17 ans quand on m'a offert l'intégral en BD et j'avais adoré. Je vais pas m'étendre sur cette œuvre que beaucoup de gens connaissent sûrement. Simplement, si vous ne l'avez jamais lu, foncez. C'est un excellent moyen de découvrir cette autrice/dessinatrice, son univers et son écriture. Et si vous aimez pas trop lire, il existe une adaptation animée. Je ne l'ai pas vue donc je peux pas en dire grand chose mais il a été réalisé par Marjane Satrapi elle-même donc je pense que ça doit être très fidèle à l'œuvre d'origine.

The Voices*. Si vous ne connaissez pas, rendez-vous service et voyez-le, il est hilarant. Le casting est très chouette : on a Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick et Gemma Arterton. Si vous êtes à l'aise avec l'anglais, je vous recommande la VO juste pour profiter des voix du chat et du chien doublés par Reynolds.

*attention quand même, c'est sanglant et ça aborde des sujets difficiles donc renseignez-vous avant de le regarder, au cas où.

This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??

The fossil is a stunningly preserved skeleton from China that includes evidence of hard armour scales on the tail (like in the much smaller Kulindadromeus), and a coat of spines along its neck and back! The name appropriately means "spiky dragon".

Not only is a spiny iguanodont wild on its own (this individual is over 2 metres long and is a juvenile, other ornithopods with quill-like structures are much smaller), these spines also appear to be an entirely new skin structure? They're apparently not feathers or scales, but a secret third thing.

Who ordered some tooth rotting fluff between two merciless killers? :>

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

It's also how we know that most dinosaurs had round pupils. It's pretty common for people to depict dinosaurs with slit pupils, probably because of Jurassic Park, mostly because it looks really cool, but nope, they were round. There are very few, if any, birds with slit pupils, which is further evidence for round pupils. And most extant animals with slit pupils are on the small side. Many people think of cats having slit pupils, and they do, but it's the little ones. Lions and tigers have round pupils, because slit pupils are most useful closest to the ground and they actually sacrifice some of their visually acuity for the sake of being better at judging distances in low-light conditions, and most animals with them are ambush predators that jump out at their prey. You ever seen a video where someone throws or bounces a ball towards a cat and it bops them on the head and they seem surprised? That's why; they struggle to track where the ball is going, especially horizontally. So for anything over a certain size, slit pupils are a detriment, especially if they chase down prey.

Propagande Astérix : /

Oui, c'est sûr, Asterix c'est une icône française, c'est L'Icône Française par excellence même je dirais. Et genre je veux bien hein, Asterix notre ambassadeur culturel à l'étranger ça le fait ! Parlons résistance, parlons rebellion, parlons bonne bouffe !