Look for a creative reuse store for the art and craft version of this! I’ve got so much art shit on the cheap. So at least it’s less expensive for it to sit in the drawer 🥲

Definitely sad, but also now part of the archaeological record as a snapshot for how American civilization treats Indigenous cultures and art.

Thanks, I was always taught the toxin survived heating, but apparently it’s the spores that can survive and reproduce.

Not at all, food spoilage caused by mold and bacteria can have waste produced by the mold/bacteria that doesn’t break down even at high temperatures. Ex: botulism. Your grandma got lucky!

Cocoa could be another visual interpretation as well, and based on some very cursory searching it looks like both have a history in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico. Now that you’ve brought up that visual aspect, the bowls remind me a bit of volcanic stone metates that are used to grind up cocoa beans (although I’m familiar with that through Costa Rica, not PR).

The movement in this is so cool, both in the human figure and the representation of the cliff face. It reminds me a lot of Bird in Space.

Edit: oh, I just zoomed in and saw the petroglyphs at the bottom! What a neat detail to have added.

They used to do sugar cubes saturated with vaccine for polio, we should go back to that. I know there are reasons they stopped using it, but Americans are definitely more likely to eat sugar than get vaccinated, so let’s just call it a wash in terms of health risks.

It definitely adds a layer of mystique! Part of me also wants to see water running down into the bowls from the mouth, I bet it would be really cool outside in the rain.

Is there any additional information about the piece, or a title? The toothy appearance of the wood carving and the stacked stone ‘bowls’ are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret it.

They must have to do so much sweeping.

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I’ve been stung by a velvet ant (although not a glorious one) and that’s honestly pretty spot on. I still remember that hot poker feeling, and they move so fast I didn’t even see the sting happen! That was my first lesson that fuzzy is not always friend 🥲

Nothin’ much, what’s up with you?

(It’s slang for vomit)

Let’s play ‘was this a fucked up sample or did someone completely botch the amount of buffer added to the gel’!

My dad’s credit score plummeted after he paid off the house 🤷‍♂️

The compression or smoothing or whatever on the OP image did this artwork dirty, it’s beautiful.

‘California Academy of Sciences’ sounds like a professional organization, but it’s actually a museum open to the public. I went over a decade ago but it’s one of the coolest museums I’ve ever been to. They have an indoor, 4 story rainforest greenhouse dome thing filled with plants, free flying birds, and a bunch of other animals. They’ve also got a nice planetarium and natural history exhibits. Their green roof was great when we saw it, it’s just my ideal fantasy solar punk building.

TL;DR: Lots of pics here. Go to the California Academy of Sciences if you’re ever in San Francisco, because it’s at the Golden Gate Park and you’re probably going to want to go there anyway.

That’s probably why he’s saying it, lol. I doubt J&J wants a stupid, expensive lawsuit with the government over this, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve been in private talks to get them to walk it back.

No, I was talking about the people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Clinton or Harris.

Maybe you should clarify that’s what you’re talking about instead of coming into a thread that is clearly about a Democratic primary and lecturing the people talking about how one candidate is worse.

Or run a neoliberal and lose again, I’m used to it at this point.

Did you interpret the OP as depicting an election where the two choices are AOC and Newsom?? Who is running as the Republican?