Nile Monitor (Varanus Niloticus), Family Varanidae, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

Nile Monitor (Varanus Niloticus), Family Varanidae, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus), family Varanidae, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa

photograph by Ruth Rising

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Hide and seek

Hide And Seek

I know that this is not possible, but i just want them to be happy kids... And playing children games... Am i asking too much?

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rain world and its themes of impurity and kegare through the use of death, rot, and mud. and why bitter tea and gravel and embalming and mummification were ritualistic and why the karma gates are referred to as "decontaiminating you" by james somewhere that I need to go find again

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a poll from ibrahim!!! :D

hi all - i have an update on ibrahim @wolf-aid 's father, yasser. in january, he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. even after the traumatic surgery that was performed on him, the cancer has destroyed his bladder, and he needs another operation for a replacement. we are not sure how much this will cost, but we are trying to raise as much as we can to save his life!

please help ibrahim raise what he needs to have his father transported to the hospital ASAP! he is on the verge of death and needs help urgently!!!

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please check his blog @wolf-aid for vetting proof!! thank you and much love from me, ibrahim, and his family again and again

1 month ago

Rain World - Original Pearl Writings

A short collection of pearls I wrote, read from the perspective of Looks to the Moon.

(Inspired by gr0mm.)

Pest Control

It's a deployment order confirmation from an agricultural pest control department, followed by a list of several dozen genome sequences.

This farm purchased a specialized virus to eliminate some kind of burrowing crustacean. However, most of the microbe specimens are for controlling the virus itself, to protect the other useful organisms that allow the farm to function.

My creators' technological dominance meant that the genetic arms race had arguably been won, but such a power had to be wielded with care. Industrial ecosystems were managed incredibly tightly, as the introduction or extinction of a single species could have catastrophic consequences without sufficient counterbalancing.

Outside of these carefully quarantined industrial ecosystems, the rest of the world was largely ignored, left to become wastelands of disease. Life prevailed, of course, even when my creators departed and all these ecosystems rapidly toppled...

...I can't imagine you cared for much of this. Sorry, little creature.

Rhino Pill

Amazing... this one is a neuro-spiritual stimulant. It records the experience of a moment where a monk lightly dips a finger into a stream of water, and then... his mind is flooded...

...with an astonishing...

...sense... of...

...enlightenment.

My apologies. The feeling is incredibly intense, even to me.

If I still had the equipment to allow you to read this pearl, you would share that same enlightenment. Experiences like these were impossibly rare, and maintaining the potency of the memory while exporting it into a mass-reproduceable pearl was incredibly difficult. The monk likely perished during that transfer process.

Still, the study of these pearls always led to breakthroughs in the karmic sciences, while public exposure to the enlightenment gave rise to...

...

Oh. The enlightening feeling has already worn off. This pearl's probably just the work of a con artist.

You

This one is a draft for an academic publication. It's probably a sham, as it seems to posit that the numerical accuracy of cusps in an epicycloidal model of karmic patterning correlates with dermal organization patterns. It is simply too unlikely that one's skin has anything to do with...

...This must bore you. Perhaps it would be more interesting to talk about you - the little critter in front of me!

With the life you live, I'm sure you're grimly aware that every animal is made of sacks of meat and circuitry. You, too, are no exception.

Like most of creatures around here, your skin emits surfactants to squeeze you through small spaces. Your brain is safely divided across tetrispheres in head, abdomen, and tail. Interestingly, I can see you have an incredibly hardy secondary gut, teeming with its very own ecosystem. Your body is supported by the help of many tiny, tiny bugs.

In fact - if you were to peer within yourself at a very, very small scale, you'd see that your whole body is a great swarm of simple little creatures, living and dying to make you possible.

I don't think your eyes have the ability to look that closely. Mine do, though - I'd say you're doing quite healthy for a wild animal!

1 month ago
Hey Ive Misplaced My Soma Somewhere
Hey Ive Misplaced My Soma Somewhere

hey ive misplaced my soma somewhere


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poor silly car🐈

2 weeks ago

Her name is Alma. She's my little girl.

Last night, she went to bed crying from hunger again. She whispered, “Daddy, I’m hungry…” And I had nothing to give her. Just silence. Just pain.

My name is Fayez, a father of three children, and we live in Gaza.

We are living under siege and starvation. The occupation blocks food and aid from reaching us. There’s no access to clean water, no electricity, and now we are facing a real famine. People especially children are dying from hunger.

I was injured in the war. But what hurts more is watching my children slowly waste away, while the world turns its face away.

💔 This is not just a message it's a desperate cry for help. From Gaza… to any human heart that still beats with compassion.

We don’t ask for luxury. We beg for basic survival: A meal. Clean water. A chance to live.

🙏 Please if you can donate. And if you can’t, share this message. Let someone, somewhere, hear us. Before it’s too late.

Please Donate now:👇

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I don't hv money to donate, but hopefully I can spread the word!!!!

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what kind of animal is this

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