it's just your voice learning for once to stand up tall

Death of the Author is a term coined by Roland Barthes for his essay of the same name in 1967.

In brief: death of the author is the concept that analysis of a work of art should not be focused on the artist's intent; the artist's intended reading of their own work is just A reading and no more valid than anyone else's.

A good straightforward example of this in practice is the response to Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary. Weir is adamant that his work contains no politics but I would say that PHM is pretty clearly a story about climate change.

But until real human beings who experience hallucinations are treated like human beings worthy of respect and dignity...I think perhaps it's shitty to keep associating hallucinations with being non-human, dangerous, and a liar.

It actually really fucking sucks that hallucinating is seen as monster-movie-scary, dangerous, inhuman, and worthy of scorn and/or mockery. It actually really fucking sucks that people who hallucinate or experience delusions can't get compassionate help or understanding, because everyone thinks it's an automatic sign of being dangerous, violent, and a liar. It's a massive problem that people look at hallucinations as "dangerous crazy person shit" that should be gotten rid of or locked away.

I find it crass, at best, to flippantly use the term "AI hallucinations" when real-life people get abused, imprisoned, and killed because they experience hallucinations.

I saw an image of a Fat Kererū when looking up images of Fat Pigeons.. and found this majestic beast

so I went an painted him, to honour this loaf of a being….

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Throwback (Bird) Thursday featuring the Kererū, New Zealand wood pigeon!

The precursor of Fat Bird Friday, here's the original post.

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Image 1: A digital painting of a Kererū bird, a New Zealand wood pigeon. A large, wide portrait, from the belly up, face slightly tilts to the right, showing the left side of the face more. Plumage consists of a iridescent green–blue head that reaches to its chest in a ruffled pattern, a pink beak, and a light grey body, shaded all around; including a reddish purple wine coloured wing. All on a light orange background, with a cast shadow of the pigeon.

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hail mary launch today how are we feeling gang?

#i’m gonna miss ilyukina what an icon #enjoy your heroin girl thanks for all the unhinged interviews 🫡 #so sad to hear about dubois and shapiro

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Okay so I did some research into the new science specialist (Ryland Grace) and he wrote the most insane dissertation possibly ever???

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Some of my favourite parts:

#HELP #ryland grace #project hail mary #space

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hey remember when they tried to sue eva stratt for breaking every single copyright law and she walked out mid-trial? i’m obsessed with her

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OP is obsessed with a dictator who destroyed the ecology of Northern Africa by hiring a murderer to pave the Sahara desert and who literally blew up Antarctica btw

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god forbid women do anything

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STOP calling Stratt a girlboss. People will excuse anything she does under the guise of “feminism” while completely ignoring that she’s a white German woman causing extensive ecological damage that will disproportionately affect people of color. Fuck you and fuck Eva Stratt I hope she goes to prison for life after all this

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While stratt’s definitely caused environmental damage, both projects you mentioned were in earth’s best interest: the paving of the sahara was to get enough astrophage for the mission that’s literally our last hope for survival (and the countries get to keep the infrastructure afterwards), and antactica was to minimize climate cooling. There’s a lot to question ethically but it’s not as straightforward as you’re making it sound. And yeah this will most heavily impact third world countries but the astrophage crisis was going to do that already??? I just don’t think you can blame the racist structures of the global economy on one woman and frankly people’s tendency to pin everything on her is a bit misogynistic.

Also she’s dutch, not german.

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have we considered that all of the above can be true? stratt is first and foremost privileged as a white woman, but also falls into the “glass cliff” phenomenon — put in a temporary position of

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#reblogging this in honour of stratt’s immunity ending #god the notes are a nightmare lol #politics

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launch liveblog everybody strap in

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wait where’s dubois why isnt he with the others

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THEYRE SENDING MY SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE TEACHER TO SPACE?!?!?!?!?!

#lowkey doxxing myself with this but WHAT #i didnt even know he had a doctorate #i remember seeing his name in articles and thinking it looked familiar but i didnt clock it until they showed his photo just now #edit: he was a great science teacher for all the people asking

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Okay updated version for the new crew

And don’t come after me with the “oh this is so disrespectful to their sacrifice” bs again, you know ilyukhina would have loved it