Butt in orbit

Viktor Lyapkalo Artwork: 'Blowing bubbles' & 'Evening' Painted 9 years apart.

[nudity under the cut]

http://www.lyapcalo.ru/

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

websites now:

I was cleaning out my desk and found my very last remaining tumblr sticker.

For the young people, or maybe the ones who just didn’t know. Back in the day (2011-2012 ish) if you sent a prepaid, pre-addressed envelope to tumblr headquarters in NYC. They would throw a bunch of these stickers in the envelope and send it back to you.

This was peak™️ “tumblr era” and I remember plenty of people doing this, myself included. I received about 6 I think and for years I would always place one on my laptop. It was great for making friends in college lol.

Constructivism as an art movement

Key dates: 1915-1940

Key regions: Soviet Union, Germany

Constructivism is an art movement that rethinks the role of the artist in the creative process. Within the framework of constructivism, the author ceases to be an artist, but becomes a builder, a creator, just as the place and area of ​​his work ceases to be a studio and a narrow artistic world of art, but becomes the entire industrial and social world as a whole.

In their works, constructivist artists directly address society, social trends and problems, which is why constructivism flourished during the communist revolution in Russia.

Constructivism is focused on industrial production. Constructivists used stripped down, geometric forms and modest materials. This artistic approach allowed works of art to be brought closer to the wider industrial world and society.

Along with the leftist political tendencies that followed the Russian Revolution of 1917, constructivism spread to many countries. Constructivist currents also reached the German Bauhaus art school.

Pictures in this post:

1. Vladimir Tatlin, Tatlin’s Tower, 1919

2. El Lissitzky, Study for « Proun » 8 Stellungen, 1923

3. El Lissitzky, Lenin Tribune, 1920

4. Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, A II (Construction A II), 1924

References:

1. Art Movement: Constructivism

Wolfe

https://magazine.artland.com/art-movement-constructivism/

2. Wikimedia Commons

It’s okay

Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1 - "Danger by the Lake" (2026)

I work in tech, and much of what I do is support sales reps within the company by resolving errors with the software they use.

There is one sales rep who, every single time I send her a message or email with extremely specific instructions that will resolve her issue, does something completely different from what I tell her. Every time. Without fail. It is so glaringly obvious that she has never read even a single word that I have written to her.

So one day, she sends me a message that says little more than "(software) is broken, help"

So I do my standard song and dance of asking her what she's trying to accomplish, and what specifically is stopping her from doing that. And eventually, after much unnecessary back and forth, she tells me there's an error message. I ask her to send me a screenshot of the error message. She does.

The error message basically says, "these two required fields are blank. To resolve this, please fill in these two specific fields, and then click save."

So I take a few deep breaths.

Then I lie to her.

I message her back, saying "hey yeah, for some reason it's not loading that screenshot on my end. Could you type out the full text of the error message for me?"

She does.

I ask her if she still needs help.

Client is reporting that Some Thing Program doesn't work. I ask if there's an error message with further information about what's not working. Client says "no". I go over and ask Client to open Some Thing. Client double-clicks on the icon for Some Thing, it starts to boot, an error message dialog flashes up on screen, Client closes error message before I can read it, Thing closes after the error.

"What did that error message say?" I ask.

"What error message?" asks Client.

I tell Client to open the Some Thing again and then not click anything else. Client opens Some Thing, error message appears, Client clicks it away again.

I tell Client to stand up, step away, and give me physical control of the computer. I open Some Thing, start looking at the error message without closing it, and Client says "You should close that." I tell Client that I am reading the error message. Client is apparently accustomed to treating error messages as a kind of spam email that should be deleted as fast as possible, and gets agitated that I'm reading it.

I read the error message. It tells me what the problem is. I fix the problem. Some Thing works now.

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Later, I start thinking about how such an error message might perhaps be engineered to be more attention-grabbing and close-resistant as a way of making people read it. It's not important for some random program here, but there are more important systems (medical, etc) where it would be reasonable to demand the user's attention because people's lives depend on paying attention to the error message.

She was a computer programmer / analyst, a... Long Time Ago. Called in for a system she'd installed before, the office folk said they kept having problems where it Didn't Work Right (no error, a malfunction)

She investigated, and told them that could only happen if they did 3 specific things in a specific order, which they should not ever do.

So, she asked, did they ever do that?

No! Of course not, was the answer.

So she made a couple of small changes, packed up and said that should be fine, but they should call her if there were problems.

The next week

She had a call saying "We're getting a strange error message on the system, can you help?"

She said, of course, can they tell her the error?

And the message was:

“AN ODE TO SPOT” IS FREAKING GENIUS FIGHT ME