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Putin just showed naked pictures of his wife on Russian TV. That is not something a “friend” does.

Ooo! That last one has long fascinated me. It’s a Siphonophore called Praya Dubia. They can get as long as 160 feet long!

giphy.com and yarn.com have been doing that to me on occasion. I’ve started making habit of downloading GIFs and re-uploading, but forgot. I just fixed the post.

Thank you for that. That is very kind. I appreciate you as well.

Without my adding any commentary to this, it’s hard to deduce my intent. That is my bad.

The title of “Don’t Look Up” is referencing the movie by that title, which is a cheeky reference to climate change, which was my intent.

And I’m like you said: still processing recent events.

that, and Red Rocks Amphitheater

I’ve known about Chauvet cave for years, and I’m still in awe every time I see a picture of it. To think most images in this cave are around 35,000 years old. Human history (written history) is maybe 6,000 years old. This is more than 5 times older than that. Humans existed, and were creating things like this, for 30,000 years before the written word.

Pablo Picasso visited the Lascaux Cave (also in France, but much younger), and said the following:

“We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years.”
― Pablo Picasso

I linked this above, but check out Cave of Forgotten Dreams documentary on this cave.

Look for a documentary called “Cave Of Forgotten Dreams” by Werner Herzog, about this cave.

Yes, this is that one.

The amazing paintings in that cave don’t stop there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Paintings

As the saying goes:

Say what you will about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler

Holy crap, that is a legitimately amazing place! Well done by Mrs. Squid!!

P.S. Libraries rock and are true treasures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Soon-Shiong
Born July 29, 1952 (age 72)
Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa

Another South African billionaire, born during Apartheid.

Totally

I expected it to be the next Princess-Bride-like cult classic, but hardly anyone has heard of it.

Captain Shake Spear:

One Line to rule them all
One Line to find them
One Line to bring them all
and in the data bind them