links, videos, images. things that are Satisfying. things that are Fascinating. stimmy things, curious things, educational things. brain food!
edit: yep, after a rewatch, yeah, that is every bit as satisfying as i thought. do be careful if you have a problem with flashing images, though. this is an electricity experiment.
Popokuro makes the best resin things I find watching these aquarium videos (specifically the betta tank and the 5 gallon nano tank) very satisfying. Tank gets crowded, tank gets neatened up, and there's shrimp and fish and such to watch. Also an occasional visitor like a ladybug, or a spider, or a cat. I don't know much about aquariums, but this person seems very knowledgeable and attentive to the health of the animals they have Spoiler: Betta tank with cat grass Spoiler: 5 gallon nano tank with shrimp and gouramis
this video from Journey to the Microcosmos: just 5 minutes of soothing music and living jewels dancing around
No talking, no music, just the sounds of filing/sanding/painting/etc. V satisfying to watch him fix things up! I rec his whole channel but obvs won't spam every single video heh.
i personally just really like... math rock not sure if this is stimmy but its definitely..................sTiMuLaTiNg
Spoiler: more obsessions this kind of sound/rhythym is very satisfying to me thank you for letting me post :)
@jacktrash every time i hear about frank zappa, it’s always in the context of really great and unique stuff. maybe i’ll check him out?
I heard an interview with Frank Zappa during which he recalled that as a teenager growing up in a musically isolated area, he requested, one year, that his present would be the price of a long distance phone call to one of his idols, Edgard Varese. I thought it was an interview with Studs Terkel on WFMT (Chicgo's classical music station, except for Saturday nights, when it does four hours of folk music [and other stuff]) but if so I can't find it. There is a Studs interview, and it does mentionVarese, but not the phone call https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/progra...others-invention-and-interviewing-frank-zappa (the archive doesn't include the songs played during the interview) but it's interesting anyway, and searching for <frank zappa edgard varese> has many more links which I am not following because I should be working. Seebs, didn't you have a cassette of Zappa when we lived in Shanghai? I remember Pink Floyd, and Weird Al.
(video is about mythology, not suicide. odin comes out fine.) i love listening to this cowboy-looking professor reading and analyzing Old Norse while standing in some ridiculously picturesque place. he's got a really soothing voice and also that's the kind of nerd i am.
Dolphins Are Finally Living and Breeding in the Potomac River Again About 1,000 bottlenose dolphins have been recorded in the lower reaches of the recovering river, including one that gave birth in August That little fin belongs to Gwendolyn Mink. Her mother is the namesake of Patsy Mink (researchers were naming dolphins after politicians, but they're running out of politicians) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-potomac-river-180973263/#GcECyYwgc4xV4if1.99
Crawford's also done one of the better and more accessible translations of the Poetic Edda. If you've ever wanted to read it I'd check out his translation.
Also here is Story Archaeology. If you like Irish myth and want to know a lot more about it then I'd give these people a look. You'll learn more about the context of these stories and what they mean.
Endangered eagles: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...upts-russian-tracking-programme-roaming-text/ The steppe eagle is named Min, and he wears a GPS tracker that texts his coordinates to scientists. There's a gorgeous picture of him as an adult in the article, but it has some weird kind of extension and I can't upload it. But here's a baby picture: Min was born near the city of Minusinsk in Russia