Divertimento #186 (gifs)

Walking through the Rotherhithe tunnel is not recommended

Unusual toy

"Shepherd jump" as a way to descend from heights

Electric hydrofoil surfboard

Polymer water balls

A 2019 CNN interview with Randy Rainbow

A child's monowheel (1927), passes through horse manure with ease

Drawing a circle with a square

How the inside of a ceramic bowl is painted

Sorting eggs on a "chick farm" (not an "egg farm") (see discussion thread)

The American highways in numerical order

Riding down a Swiss funicular (scenic, tho the endless panning is annoying)

Nature and Science

How the epiglottis closes to guard the airway during deglutition

Sand from the Sahara on European snow

A modern aeolipile

Lavawatching in Iceland

This rattleback can only be spun counterclockwise.  Explained here.

Nitinol spring and candle.

Animals

Panda having fun in the snow

Bobcat vs. rattlesnake.  I didn't know rattlesnakes make squeaky noises

Canada goose vs. two tigers (goose wins)

Crocodile vs. cheetah (crocodile wins)

Tagged blue whale dodging ships

Elephant uses stick to intimidate rhino

Peacock displaying glorious plumage

Australian plague of mice

Australian plague of spiders

Puppy and butterfly (?Diana)

Octopus balloons in size

An Argonaut (Paper Nautilus)

Saltwater crocodiles can swim 18 mph (Olympic humans 6 mph). "Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."

Impressive or Clever

How to catch pirhanas

Sisyphus sand art table (ball controlled by magnet under table)

"Antigravity" lego set

Ceramic "puzzle pot" discussed at the via

Convert a sulfur match into a rocket

Great Britain's inflatable army

A squirrel's cache of acorns

Elaborate joineries in a 100-year-old house

Netherlands first responder soldier using a jet suit for maritime operations

The Falkirk Wheel boat lift in Scotland. (info here)

Sports and Athleticism

School custodian aces half-court shot

How figure skaters train to spin

Softball shortstop makes incredible play tagging runner at second base

Full-rink hockey goal

Man windsurfs over an island

Jalen Suggs' buzzer-beater

Bowler converts a 7-10 from the INSIDE of the ten pin!

Falls and wtf

Train vs. semi (train wins)
"Hey, watch out!"

Thief doesn't get away. ("Fortunately the wall broke his fall")

Humorous or Cheerful

The "lawyer cat" Zoom filter mixup

Happy cows escape from a farm

I wonder if the snail does this on purpose just for fun

Spring in Sweden (related: laundry day)

Lively manhole cover looks like it's having a happy day
Indescribable.  Found at Madame Jujujive's Everlasting Blort.

This one speaks for itself.  It's also via Everlasting Blort.

And E. coli Karen is also from there.

The embedded images for this gif-fest are selections from a gallery of photos of Irish Traveller children, photographed by Jamie Johnson and posted in The Guardian.  Description and commentary on the photos at the link.  Growing up Travelling: The Inside World of Irish Traveller Children is published by Kehrer