@kev lmao hell yeah

@Thomas yessss do it please

@Thomas Thomas I demand that you share them

@Thomas you cannot go wrong with an elephant joke!!

In his sleevies!!

What is your favorite really silly joke? Like the one that makes people want to throw things at you?

@MmeLibertine if I’m having the big feelings everyone’s gonna have the big feelings lmao

One of the most relatable movie moments of all time is in Friendship when Craig is given a Neolithic tool to hold and immediately starts fountaining blood from his nose

@Thomas I watched one a while back about a scientist who falsified cloning data and he did some truly heinous stuff in the process and the movie did not interrogate it at all. The very end of the movie they asked him if he’d do it all again and he said “yeah ” and there was zero follow up, zero engagement, it went to credits leaving this feeling of “oh hey maybe it was worth it lol” in the air, I wanted to yell at my tv

@Thomas right!!! It kills me when I start a documentary and I realize it’s going to be a mealymouthed bland piece of garbage that’s afraid to take a stand on any of the things it’s talking about. Come on!! Sting!!

@Thomas one of my all time faves, it’s so gorgeous. I would simply collapse if I saw it in person

I love the tech guy who talks about dreaming about the lions and happens to have worked in the circus in the past, Herzog pulls these incredible things out of people

@thevhswizard this person was a person just like we are with hopes and fears and loves and dreams and one day they picked up a rock they thought looked neat and painted it and it made them happy and almost all trace of this person has been scoured from the earth by time but we still have this rock they held and enjoyed. I can hold this rock this person held in my hand and see and feel the same thing they did, and sometimes the beauty and the immensity of that just hits me really really hard

@thevhswizard some of the earliest records we have of art have been traced to Neanderthals! They used ochre to paint and decorate shell necklaces pierced and strung together in necklaces. They possibly buried their dead surrounded by flowers. They made flutes. I am always always team Neanderthal!

I think what makes me feel the way I feel when I see these is the moment of connection across millennia. Here is a person who saw the same thing we see in this rock, who maybe smiled and added a nose

Having a completely normal day at work thanks

A Neanderthal found this rock, thought it looked like a face, and put a little dot for a nose. We still have their fingerprint. How can you look at that and not feel split open

Ochre is fun, not only does it show up (mixed to varying intensities) in cave art, it also shows up in burials dating all the way back to 300,000 years ago. It’s an iron oxide pigment and it’s relatively easy to make. My neighbor growing up had a big bowl of it in a room filled with artifacts they’d been given or they’d dug up themselves and you could dip your finger into it and it would be stained for days

Do you ever think about handprints in cave paintings and start crying

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