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Did you mean your rat terrier or fox terrier mix?

"This is my German shepherd"

Did you mean your brindle bully breed mix?

"This is my maine coon"

Did you mean your morbidly obese long haired tabby?

Great way to truly irritate those people is to call their silver lab a weimaraner mix XD "it's pure lab!!!!" Not with that head shape, and enormous pendulous ears it isn't

Instead, they strapped a regular camera and an infrared camera together, coordinated them with lasers...

...combined them, used the naturally black sky created by the infrared as a blank canvas, added a new digital cloud line and various other effects to create a gorgeously lit night scene.

This is a ground-breaking new technique, and Jordan Peele is correct to say it could make movies better.

Good night footage is possible.

The reason Nope and other movies with beautiful day-for-night like Mad Max: Fury Road look so good is because the filmmakers shot the night scenes during the day with deliberate intention and a vision of how they wanted the eventual night to look and how that would serve the film.

Fury Road's night scenes feel like they belong to another reality, less like night and more like the movie has suddenly entered The Blue Dimension, which I didn't like when I saw it initially but now I feel like it lends the scenes a surreal quality that really works, plus everything is totally readable. The cinematography and colour all through Fury Road create a sense of heightened reality beyond our normal senses, so the bright saturated blue night fits right in.

Nope, on the other hand, is probably the closest thing I've seen to capturing what it feels like to be outside in the country on a bright night. It's brighter than most nights really are so that it's readable, but the way the filmmakers edited the daytime footage and the addition of the infrared camera create the right kind of look to recreate how it feels once your eyes adjust to the dark.

Whatever you do, don’t greet this baby with a handshake! To mark its territory and improve its grip, the Senegal bush baby urinates on its own hands—leaving its aroma behind as it moves through the trees.

Also known as the Northern lesser galago (Galago senegalensis), this diminutive critter only weighs up to 0.7 lbs (0.3 kg). It’s nocturnal, typically spending daylight hours snoozing in hollow trees or abandoned birds’ nests. By night, it’s an active omnivore, using its large eyes and ears to find food. Its diet includes seeds, eggs, and insects. On solid ground, the bush baby moves by hopping, but in the trees it prefers to leap and climb. It can be found in parts of Africa including Ethiopia and Senegal.

Photo:Petr Hamerník, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Alt: A photo of a Senegal bush baby. It is standing on its hind limbs, facing away from the viewer. Its fur is gray, its eyes are large and brown.

He made a Facebook post about finding a ‘mysterious primate skull’ in British Columbia. In the original post he claimed he “smuggled it out past customs and the TSA” but he has since removed that bit of the post. 

You can’t see much detail in the photos but from everything I can make out it looks like a replica gorilla skull. Teeth appear to be made into the skull rather than separate from it and the texture of the bone looks off as well. It also shares a few unique features with one of the resin gorilla skulls currently available for sale online.

I dunno what his goal is with this (other than drumming up interest and traffic) but at best it’s a dumb prank and he loses any credibility he had or at worst he’s gonna be in deep shit for wildlife trafficking—again I don’t think it’s a real skull but on the very slim chance it is a legit gorilla skull then Fish & Game are gonna be all over that.

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HOWEVER

Nothing good comes of the idea that ONLY queer folks should tell queer stories or portray queer characters, or that it’s okay to critique and harass straight folks purely for telling queer stories.

Why?

1. Segregation is not going to work in our favor. We know how “well make your own, then” plays out when the other group has the resources and institutional power. Especially if there’s no one even making them pay lip service to “separate but equal.” It’s not going to be any better if the segregation is self-imposed.

2. Saying straight folks can’t make queer media gives them a convenient excuse to simply not include any queer characters at all in the majority of stories, and I thought we hated that? I thought that was explicitly a bad thing? We WANT straight creators to be doing their best to write us well so we’ll be represented in a full range of mainstream media. Saying they can’t do it right and shouldn’t try lets them off the hook.

3. It puts closeted queer creators in a bind. Either they stay closeted and be harassed by angry queer folks, they come out and expose themselves to harassment from bigots, or they simply never tell queer stories, their own stories. The world gets worse for some subset of queer folks and fewer authentic queer stories get told. Net loss.

4. It makes the small pool of out queer creators the arbiters of queer narratives, which sucks for people who don’t see themselves well represented. There is no single definitive queer narrative and the smaller the pool of Approved Creators the more we risk instating a false one.

5. It opens the door to further divisions within the community. If a straight person can’t possibly understand a trans person well enough to write about or act them, can a cis gay person? So should a cis gay man ONLY write characters who are cis gay men? Ridiculous. No, all queer people are not alike and do not have the same experiences. So either we need to overcome that to learn about and empathize with other people and stand in solidarity, or we’re all going to splinter off into our own little bubbles which, again, is explicitly bad for both our real-life community and our fiction.