So far, I've been a baker, a bookseller, a publishing intern, an English conversation teacher, a high school English teacher, an editor, a parent, and a practitioner of the art of making stuff up. You may find books, baking, photography, and Entertainment. I have two small children and talk about them regularly. Tumblr Old.
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It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! Thatâs a big deal! Iâve never thought about it before but now that I have, itâs ridiculous to me that thatâs not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why donât we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
Itâs July 20th. Thatâs the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. Iâm ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and Iâm going to have a goddamn potluck. Youâre all invited.
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
EU microplastic ban regulations introduced through REACH in 2023 are transforming how industries use plastics. The comprehensive rules phase
From the article:
European Union microplastic rules are working. They have changed how companies make and use plastics across dozens of industries. The regulations aim to eliminate microplastics that pollute oceans, soil, and even the human body.
The EU microplastic ban regulations started in 2023 through a law called REACH. These rules will remove microplastics from face scrubs, laundry detergent, paints, cosmetics, agricultural products, and many other items by 2035. Companies must now find alternatives that break down naturally instead of lasting hundreds of years in the environment.
The regulations define microplastics as tiny pieces of synthetic polymer that donât break down. This clear definition helps companies know exactly what they need to replace. Industries are responding by creating biodegradable materials that decompose into water, carbon dioxide, and natural matter within months instead of centuries.
Market research firm IDTechEx studied these changes in their report Microplastics 2025: Regulations, Technologies, and Alternatives. Their analysis shows how EU microplastic ban regulations are speeding up the development of earth-friendly plastic alternatives throughout Europe and beyond.
You paint and we can just see a visual that was in your mind?
You bring to life a visual thought? And then share it with us? And it's good? Like
Really really good, like, this rules
You make painting seem effortless
I hope to paint as beautiful as you some day, but where would one even start
Im gonna answer your ask in a few different parts since u have some different ideas going on here! Gonna be long so its going under a cut:
first of all, thank u for your kind words, i am so glad u like my art!
Regarding learning to paint and where to start: Here is a link to my teacher's website, all of the information is presented in video format, just watch all of the videos in order and you will have all the information you need to get started painting realism in oil.
Regarding things coming out "right": It is very rare for me to feel that I've executed something perfectly as I first envisioned it, in fact, usually by the end stages of a painting I feel disappointed and disgusted by whatever I've done. This is a very common feeling for artists, I advise you not to take it to heart. There's a few reasons why this happens:
Once you've stared at something long enough you'll almost certainly get sick of it. I literally can't bear to look at my apple painting right now because it pisses me off to much.
Right before a painting gets started it's a non-existent object of pure potential. It is 100% perfect in its non-existence and also has infinite different paths to its completion. The second you make a single move towards its fabrication you slash its potential, and the possible choices in the work dwindle down to 0% at the very end, the emotional effect of which can feel devastating, especially if you were particularly attached to your initial non-object. If you, the reader, do not feel this way then I am happy for you, but if you do relate to what I've just written then I want to tell you that this is a normal part of art making. The shittiest painting ever made is 100% better than the best painting ever imagined and not fabricated.
Allow me to tell you this: It is actually a good thing for the potential of a work and all of the creative options within it to be destroyed. In fact, I advise you to go out of your way to destroy these as soon as possible. "Potential" can only exist in the vacuum before fabrication, therefore it has no actual value. Choices must also be eliminated until only a single one remains, that is the condition that will allow the execution of a work to take place. Art can only happen within the exoskeleton of limitation and imperfection.
Now regarding effort: Do not fear difficulty. Difficulty and strain are not the signs of failure, they are the signs of your own progress. When I was less experienced I had a perception of art making, that the goal was to be able to make something without strain, but I have come to know something different now that I have made it pretty far into my intermediacy: The feeling of difficulty has remained constant in my practice but my abilities have increased. In other words painting feels just as hard as it ever did [if not harder] but I am able to do much more technically advanced work now. Here are some visual examples to illustrate my point:
All of these paintings took the same amount of effort and were roughly equivalent in difficulty, the difference between all of them is my cumulative technical ability.
Prayer Plant - 2017: The challenge in this painting was learning basic paint handling. I was not attempting to paint realism yet but I knew I want going to go in that direction. I took a few years just using whatever colours and not focusing that hard on things looking any particular way because just handling the paint was hard enough.
Tea Pot - 2019: This is the second realist study I did, focusing on accurate drawing and colour mixing. You can see I chose something monochromatic and symmetrical to paint to minimize the difficulty of learning the new realism skills.
Red Onion and Shallot - 2025: Learning more about red and purple.
Painting all of these felt equally difficult, but the skills acquired in each execution carry over into the next work. It's all just as hard but much more becomes possible to achieve.
It's good to have a hard time doing art. If you ask me, if it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing.
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Do you wanna play mermaids? Yay. Okay so my tail is light blue and I have ice powers. And I live in the Arctic sea and watch British sailors die horrible deaths while trying to find the Northwest Passage.
on the one hand: Amazon putting out a Legally Blonde prequel show called Elle about Elle Woods in high school when her family temporarily moves to Seattle in the 90s FEELS like a shallow cash grab somehow since it's a) amazon, and b) legally blonde is so beloved.
On the other hand, it was Reese Witherspoon's idea (she got the idea watching Wednesday, apparently) and she's really excited about it and I know she absolutely adores that character and LB3 has been in development limbo for close to a decade at this point, so I am hopeful it's at least clearly made with LOVE even if it's not great.
And on the third hand I love that Reese was part of the casting process for Elle specifically and that they cast an unknown actress named Lexi Minetree, and VISUALLY at least the girl is a perfect fuckin fit because just look AT her:
That last infographic I reblogged about India's heat wave turned out to be miscontextualized by the OP, so the information was wrong. I will try to make up for it by spreading a recent news article instead, dated Jun 10th 2026.
Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.
A recent study underlines the dangers of these worsening highs. It estimates that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in India.
A five-day heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the paper published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month.
These heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense as climate change â driven by the burning of fossil fuels â pushes global temperatures higher. The past 11 years, from 2015 to 2025, were the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). [...]
The research also reveals deep inequalities. The five states bearing the highest heatwave mortality burden account for 66 per cent of national excess deaths while contributing only 29 per cent of Indiaâs GDP â meaning the places least able to fund adaptation are also those facing the greatest risk. The authors argue this should reshape how federal investment in heat resilience is directed. [...]
âMy husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet somehow, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite thisâ despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only lifeâthe trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.â
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Vienna here refers to the song by Billy Joel. When he was young, his parents divorced and his fatherâoriginally from Germanyâleft him behind to grow up with his mother.
He eventually reunited with his father on his first European tour, in Vienna.
He was young and feeling desperate to achieve everything he wanted before he grew old, but then he started to notice that elderly people seemed to have more of a place in daily life in Austria than they do in America. He saw them out and about more, socializing, working, enjoying life.
He later said in an interview,
âI realized they [Europeans] donât throw old people away like we tend to do here in the States. They allow for people who are aged to have a useful place in the scheme of things, and I thought, âya know thatâs a good metaphor for someone my age to consider.â You donât have to squeeze your whole life into your 20s and 30s trying to make it, trying to achieve that American dream, getting in the rat race, and killing yourself. You have a whole life to live. I kind of used âViennaâ as a metaphor, there is a reason for being old, a purpose.â
Itâs a song about relaxing about growing old and taking life as it comes. That some of the things you want can wait, and other things you want might never happen, and thatâs all okay.
âyouâre such a ray of sunshine!â thanks! one day i chose to act happy and then i kept choosing it over and over and over and over until the neurological pathways formed like desire paths in the thicket. i dug and clawed my nails into the grooves of my brain and carved out joy. i retouch it every day.
One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!
As a neurologist, Iâll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.
The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons donât regenerate. They make connections with each other and thatâs it. If you donât use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, youâre gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you wonât notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.
As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.
We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but itâs gonna take decades and itâll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that itâs a muscle and make it work. People complain about âwhen am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?â Youâre not. Youâre teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your weekâs schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so itâs clear and you understand what Iâm saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.
Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a churchâs event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your bodyâs energy â do you really think itâs going to maintain connexions that arenât in use?
Most cases of Alzheimerâs are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimerâs starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.
TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.
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Teaschooler would like to petition that right whales have their common name in English changed to cute whales so that people will not want to hurt them and will instead give them love.
Have to say, this does seem like it might have some effect on boats speeding and hurting right whales - it would be pretty damn hard to go home and tell your family how you killed a cute whale out of reckless disregard for its life
Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell
The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words
**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.
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