if i look back, i am lost
Monterey Bay Aquarium
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
cherry valley forever
YOU ARE THE REASON
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Xuebing Du
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Kiana Khansmith
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Acquired Stardust
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JBB: An Artblog!
occasionally subtle
wallacepolsom
styofa doing anything
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@wyrve
I crashed from the numbing heat. Slumbered in deep and lost myself in dream. I roamed through and nowhere in the maze. The shapes I saw grew and shrank, pulsing and floating. The Fever was getting to me. Closer they hunger and I burn in my head.
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so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.
it makes you a fruit.
Btw. If you're a teacher and you catch one of your students (kids, tweens, teens) using AI for the first time, please be gentle with them.
Last week i was looking into one of my teen's homework when I noticed she was writing words she "wasn't supposed to know" in english (like "furthermore", for example. They only know very intermediary english) I got a bit mad for a second. I wear an "anti-AI" button all the time, i even told them before why i was anti-AI, yet she didn't listen to me and thought she could get away with it... But i decided to keep it cool because i didn't know why she would do this, since she never did.
Okay, one week after, this Wednesday, it was time for their class again and, when she arrived, i told her to come to my desk and asked her: "what is furthermore?" She went pale when she noticed the paper in my hands. I asked again: "darling, what is furthermore?" Then, she shuttered: "I don't know, teacher. I'm sorry, I had to ask Gemini because I had no time..." then I sat her down, she was clearly upset (she is just 13) and I asked her what happened. "I didn't have any time left because of my exams and there were too many units to go through. So I asked my mom to help me and she told me to use ChatGPT but I asked google instead." Okay. So I looked into her eyes and told her it was okay, that she didn't need to be upset, but she would have to re-do that paper and bring it back to me by the next week. I told her she didn't need google or gpt to do her work, because she got a very high score at her english exam (both at school and at the course). She got right back on her feet and we started class as normal.
The only reason why I'm telling you this is because I hate AI. I hate it SO much. But, as a teacher now, I hate ANYTHING that takes the learning process away from kids. I hate the GLOSSARY in my kids' books as well for the same reason bc they don't want to figure the words out with me, they want to check the answer as fast as they can to get rid of that boring thing and I don't blame them for wanting to get rid of the boring task! But I blame ADULTS for allowing the kids to go the fast way, when they need the slow process to learn something! Her MOM told her to use ChatGPT to ace her homework. You know, the person PAYING the course bills so her daughter can learn english at an early age doesn't care about her learning process. But I do. I care. And you should care too. It's not my student's fault, it's about the learned helplessness, it's about wanting to be the fastest, it's about the knowledge scrapping, the way nobody cares anymore. And the kids are being affected by parents who don't care anymore. They're byproducts of this. So please, when teaching them why AI is bad, be gentle. It's not their fault the world around them is teaching them how to be dumb in a smart, sneaky way.
im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.
please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.
A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ספר אבן בוחן, יג Sefer Even Boḥan (§13), describing the author's wish t
Cursed be the one who announced to my father: “It’s a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a fool’s mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines
Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead – a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"
Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...
What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.
I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.
the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
To really put it in perspective
Immediately I love him
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On an intellectual level i know that early 20th century megacity concepts are deeply impractical and would cause triple the harm they purported to solve, but damn if the art doesn’t make me yearn to visit.
Hugh Harriss made some of my favorites.
It’s Hugh Ferriss, check out The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929). Some of his work is speculative, some of it is just artistic renderings of existing (or proposed) buildings for advertising purposes, some of it is educational, and a lot of it is New York. All of it is dope.
I love Hugh Ferriss cityscapes so much. I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, and it’s responsible for a lot, and this whole vibe, the massive, monolithic, Art Deco cityscape, Hugh Ferriss is the epitome of it. Gotham, Metropolis, Rapture, New Capenna. Any fantasy dieselpunk art deco city you’ve ever seen. This guy, along with the original Metropolis, was one of the first.
I especially love that last image from the first post:
I have it saved to most of my computers so I can use it as a desktop occasionally. This tiny human figure standing back in awe of this cityscape view that absolutely dwarfs them, this mass of concrete and light that looks like a dawn beyond them.
And, yes, this is from an early 20th century dream of a future that would have been incredibly bad for us, but the imagery. This is the city as a mass, as an entity, as a pillar to the heavens, as a radiance, as a dawn. The solidity of it. These are cities as the epitome of humanity’s ability to say ‘I built this’. I made this mountain, and I made it radiant. I put this thing here and it is so solid that no wrath of any god could strike this babel down.
(They wouldn’t have needed to. We’d never have gotten them up, and if we had they’d have slowly killed us in and of themselves. But damn they look good)
I really love his stuff …
I started working on software to detect keysmashes and I keep getting distracted from writing the code because I keep flirting with the transfems who give me more keysmashes to put in the detection code
oh god, I'm going to need to make a standardized message to ask keysmashers about their keyboard type & layout...
(because I want to be able to make the distinction between physical keyboards vs virtual keyboards vs IMEs, etc)
This made me think of an XKCD
XKCD
at least one of the people I have collected keysmashes from is a spider, so once again Randall Munroe is a visionary
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Joan Miró Ditto.
Day 16 of drawing Ditto until I give in and nab Pokopia...
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guy who was sick and unable to draw for over a week has a new fixation he's late to
it’s a shame more vampire media doesn’t pull from vampire bat behavior because they’re such sweeties. they can only survive their incredibly specialized diet because bats will share blood with colony members that didn’t find a meal! there’s evidence that suggests the donors sometimes initiate this behavior themselves by approaching hungry bats! the colonies are mostly harems of females with a few males but they’ve been observed letting unrelated males in when it gets cold so they can all stay warm! cute little social critters!
guys what's your methods? personally i think about doctors examining me, works like a charm
the only one who gets it and has ever gotten it and will ever get it is marina diamandis circa 2010 when she released "oh no!"
don't do love don't do friends i'm only after success don't need a relationship ill never soften my grip don't want cash don't want card want it fast want it hard don't need money don't need fame i just want to make a change i just wanna change i just wanna change i just wanna change i just wanna change i just wanna change i know exactly what i want and who i want to be i know exactly why i walk and talk like a machine i'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy oh oh no oh no oh no oh one track mind one track heart if i fail i'll fall apart maybe it is all a test cause i feel like i'm the worst so i always act like im the best if you are not very careful your possessions will possess you tv taught me how to feel now real life has no appeal it has no appeal it has no appeal it has no appeal it has no appeal it has no appeal i know exactly what i want and who i want to be i know exactly why i walk and talk like a machine im now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy oh oh no oh no oh no oh i'm gonna live i'm gonna fly i'm gonna fail i'm gonna die im gonna live i'm gonna fly i'm gonna fail gonna die die die die i know exactly what i want and who i want to be i know exactly why i walk and talk like a machine im now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy oh oh no oh no oh no oh la da da la da da la la la la la la la
About 26 hours in the life of a fruiting Stemonitis chocolate tube slime mold, the weirdest of weird little folks.
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sight I saw in san francisco, twice: gaggle of tiny children leashed together being herded along, everyone in hi-vis
and in the distance, I saw / proud, solemn/fern-wild
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