Kaiju Hearts

Godzilla's first appearance and first tussle with Anguirus in Godzilla Raids Again (1955), aka Gigantis the Fire Monster.

what the fuck

that thing is eldritch

acquired a dark mode version just to see what it’d look like. oh my god. this map is gorgeous

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

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The top of a real telegraph will be filled with information–codes that indicate where and when the original was sent, and the person/address where the received end should go

The places for the information at the top would have been printed on the paper by a printing press and would never match the the telegram parts in typeface or print color

It will be all caps

It could be hand written (more often in pencil) or type written, but most often the version presented to the addressee would have been typed, with all the attendant irregularities of a well-used typewriter–if what you’re seeing is rendered in an even, smooth, regular-looking typeface, it is most likely a novelty fake telegram (yes, those were Things back then)

Generally no punctuation–even after punctuation was introduced in the 1920s, writing STOP or QUERY (I think that was the word for questions–I haven’t double-checked recently) remained fashionable

Sometimes there aren’t even spaces–spaces were like punctuation and didn’t exist initially, and if it was paid by the character, spaces would have often been omitted even when they were available.  The person transcribing the Morse Code on the receiving end would have just written down the letters as they came–maybe later they’d interpret where the actual words were, maybe not (if it’s pencil, I think that’s when it’s more likely to have been the initial received transcription)

And this last one I’m going to share is something that, I admit, takes familiarity with typography to catch–sometimes, you will see something that is presented as a telegram from a certain year, but it’s printed in a font that was designed decades later.

There’s a post floating around Tumblr that claims to be a picture of a telegram from the 1880s with a message concluding with something like “STRONGLY WORDED MESSAGE TO FOLLOW” and it’s printed in Futura, a typeface designed in the 1920s.  At the time, all I knew was that Futura couldn’t possibly have been used on something from the 1880s, and that’s what led me to do a little research about telegrams and learn the points above (and s o know that that particular “telegram” also completely lacked the information at the top and wasn’t anywhere near typed)

There’s another post of a purported telegram written as if by a woman who has found out the addressee is cheating on her–that’s a novelty fake telegram, and you can tell because it lacks the information at the top, everything is printed in the same color (dark blue), and it’s printed in a clear, even font, instead of the disaster letters of a worn-out typewriter (which…as much typing as telegram offices did, their typewriters would get worn out realllly fast.)  Also, once you know of the existence of novelty telegrams, you can find many copies of the same thing for sale on eBay

From a reverse image search, I found the website Show Your Stripes, run by the University of Reading in the UK, which is likely where the above graph originated. It provides temperature data for various regions of the world from approximately 1900-2025. For example, here are graphs for Canada, India, and Papua New Guinea: