Awkward Pariah

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

would you say no to the piss baby? would you??

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

our solar systems traveling in space

Little Cheetor exercise I was working on for my portifolio rahh rawrrrr

Turns out it’s because dogs can smell the rise and fall in different hormones that comes with emotions so he’s trying to gage my intentions. Am I relaxed, happy, sad, angry, nervous? Nervous might suggest I intent to give him medication and angry that I want to stop him from doing something, but relaxed/happy/sad might mean I just want to hug him for a bit before letting him go. When it’s just a hug he stops sniffing the air almost immediately but if I have other intentions, even if I play it off as a hug, he keeps going for longer. Their world look so different and yet we make it work.

Conservative men are addicted to sexism and rape culture.

Bubblegum Crisis (1987) layouts 

Inspired by pelagic snails like heteropods and siphonophores.