Paul Kidby’s illustration of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: a large disc resting on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle called Great A’Tuin, as it swims through space. Illustration: Paul Kidby/Orion Books.
Me, I don’t live in ‘merica, this is Turtle Island. World turtles figure prominently in many cosmologies, and Atlas Obscura has a look at them.
The planet Saturn. Observed on November 30, 1874, at 5h. 30m. P.M. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
A Pale Horse Named Death – Die Alone.
Sometimes you wake up and your world is swallowed up
Sometimes your world changes overnight
Sometimes the ones you love betray you
Sometimes you find yourself all alone
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people I knew, now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
Sometimes you want to put a gun to your head
Sometimes you want to pull the trigger, now you’re dead
Sometimes we cry ourselves to sleep
Sometimes you find yourself all alone
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people I knew, now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
Nightmares become real inside my head, I dream of my death
My life has fallen apart so many times I lost count
So many people I knew, now they are all lost
One thing is guaranteed you always die alone
Stunning shots from Saad, click for full size!
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From Giliell, click for full size! That wasp, oh what a wonderful shot.
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Downy Woodpecker, click for full size.
© C. Ford.
If you are or can be in Brooklyn, NY on December 2nd or 3rd, get your tickets now for The Oddities Market. If you buy through Atlas Obscura, you get in before everyone else, so there’s the opportunity to grab the best of the odd.
A holiday market of the most curious kind, featuring the best purveyors of odd and unique gifts plus the promise of a visit from Krampus? This is a seasonal affair you won’t want to miss. And with this special VIP presale, offered exclusively though Atlas Obscura, you’ll gain first access to the holiday market before it’s opened to the general public.
Following the overwhelming success of the past two Oddities Markets, Ryan Matthew Cohn and his team are returning to the Brooklyn Bazaar for the Oddities Flea Market hosted in partnership with Atlas Obscura. Inside, you’ll find a wonderful assemblage of vendors bringing you all sorts of peculiar items perfect for gift-giving season. Feast your eyes on natural history items, taxidermy, jewelry, one-of-a-kind art, bizarre flair, strange literature, anatomical curiosities, and much more.
This ticket offers you a special experience available only with VIP access. We’ll open the doors early, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., to grant a select few first entry into the market. You’ll skip the lines, avoid the crowds, and have early access to the best selections of goods of 65 vendors, including many new vendors. And, even after the doors open to the public at 12 p.m., you can peruse as long as you wish.
You can read more at Atlas Obscura, and grab your tickets, too.
Robert Galbraith/Reuters.
Reddit announced on Wednesday evening that it was shutting down several neo-Nazi forums that promote violence — just hours after it was revealed that a Trump-loving Redditor had fatally stabbed his own father.
In an announcement posted on its website, Reddit said it was cracking down on violent content in a way that it hadn’t done before.
“Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people,” the website wrote. “Likewise, we will also take action against content that glorifies or encourages the abuse of animals. This applies to ALL content on Reddit, including memes, CSS/community styling, flair, subreddit names, and usernames.”
Among other neo-Nazi communities, Reddit has shut down /r/pol,/r/nazi, and /r/DylannRoofInnocent.
Reddit didn’t discover their ethics until after the Daily Beast exposé, so it’s a bit difficult to give them so much as one point for doing the right thing. They have had one very long time indeed to clean their forums up; they’ve certainly received enough complaints over the years from users as well as outside criticism. It will be interesting to see if they actually follow through this time, and stand against their former stance of ‘hey, sewers are alright, we’re making a lot of money!”
Via Daily Beast and Raw Story.
Part of the Milky Way. From a study made during the years 1874, 1875 and 1876. Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Ciara – Paint It Black – UPD Crew. Note: If you’re one of those asses who just has to moan about how this is horrible, how can you do that to a ‘classic’, save that bullshit for somewhere else. I fucking love this cover.
After this post, there was interest in the lavender pulp covers, so I’ll do three at a time until done. They aren’t very large, and I’m not going to enlarge them because they look awful if you do.
From Giliell, click for full size!
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