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Is another website I love, created and maintained by an eccentric and apparently isolated pseudo-scientist named Eugene M. McCarthy. It features a confusing and unnavigable index of pages all providing recorded instances of trans-species hybrids: Cat x RabbitAxis Deer × TahrAss x ZebraPig x Human (for some reason McCarthy finds this particular hybrid to be the most credible and irrefutable account of a human hybrid, but its clearly just a deformed piglet). Poking around macroevolution.net and finding all sorts of disturbing and compressed images of these creatures that offend the natural order combined with the fragmented, disorganized site design gives you an acute uneasy sensation of disgust. Many of the pages back up dubious hybrid accounts with only ancient drawings McCarthy found, others have more credible evidence like photographs, and may go as far as, such as on Dog × Cow, including actual GIFs of one of the species fornicating with the other.
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Adding on to @JILLY's botanical drawings post, I love these weird little animals that are all over medieval european manuscripts. Like what are they even doing ... snail jousting???
May 25, 2025
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You’ll better understand how often animals get tics attached to their bits.
Feb 27, 2025
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Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (London: printed by E. Cotes, 1658).
I giggled.
I giggled.
Apr 26, 2025
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🎾Was a Bizarre tennis superstar from the 70s and 80s. His tennis playing was graceless but amazing, he moved like an action figure, rarely came up to the net yet hit every ball spinless, low, and from the back of court, which doesn’t make much sense because topspin makes your hits more reliably land in play from a distance. He used a Wilson T2000 which was the first widely-distributed non-wooden racket, made of heavy stainless steel that most other tennis players refused to use, even when it was new in 1967. He continued to use it until 1987, missing out on of millions of dollars of racket sponsorship deals. He was distinguished for being widely unliked by tennis audiences and commentators. His Wikipedia article includes how he would put his racket in between his legs when he disagreed with a call and waddle around the court, then would “yank on the handle in a grotesque manner,” which the crowd hated.
Dec 11, 2023
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🌐Is a database of everything in the public domain, any format you can think of: videos, digital books, audio files, software files, etc., all available in any type of file you knew existed, and others you didn’t. It is a useful tool for finding archival video footage, any sort of audiobook you want to listen to, commercials aired on Cartoon Network in 2006, or incriminating documents on your enemies. Sometimes, when all my free trials of streaming services run out I spend the final lazy hours of my day browsing archive.org finding all sorts of esoterica like: Horses 2 (Wide Screen), The care and training of your pet rock [digital book], and Virtual Women 95 [computer program].
Dec 11, 2023
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🎇brilliant Geography songs with great production. British Isles, Former USSR, Eastern Europe, and Middle East are all highlights of the 34 track album but the true gem to me is Southeast Asia
Dec 11, 2023