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The blurb said the shot was taken in Granada, Spain, by Agneta Fondén.  No other info, so I have no idea how old, etc.  There's a game (from 1988) that uses a similar pattern on one of its pieces, but this could predate it by at least a thousand years  — or not.  But the pattern intrigued me, so I made a texture map and used Blender's geometry nodes (no generative AI) to set up a hexagon grid with random rotations for the tiles:

That's all done with a single design:

You'd think this would have a name, right?  (For its historical use as an architectural / decor tile — although I've found out more about its use in games, that's not what I'm looking for.)  Like the Penroses do (and no, it's not one of those).  But I've had no luck finding it, or any other info.  Any (human only, please) help?

I'd image having an alien who relies so heavily on cycles and repeated patterns in order to function normally would be mind-boggling to the Eridians. What do you mean it celebrates the exact day of its birth every so often, just because? Wait we need to program a reliable change in light levels to simulate its planet, which has almost no atmosphere? And we have to schedule any interactions we have with it around this cycle? Wait it tracks its age by the scientific year, not by life experience and physical aging?

"Gifted" students, as well as those who were labeled as "prodigies" or "geniuses" were often never actually taught how to study. Why bother? They're already acing the tests. And that serves them fine for a while, but then the expectations catch up to their ability, and suddenly the kid who was able to just whip through coursework is struggling, and they don't know how to study, so the only thing that they can know how to do is try harder, but they just keep failing and failing and they can't ask for help because they're supposed to be smarter than that. And then they just burn out. Meanwhile the kid who was always struggling, and had to learn all the different ways to study suddenly starts to flourish, and then the next thing you know, the kid everyone said was going to grow up to be a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist is struggling to get their life together but slowly making headway at their retail job, meanwhile the kid everyone said was destined to be just another statistic in the papers has just finished defending their dissertation and has a job lined up to start doing field research in the Arctic Circle.

TikTok of retired (but still active) American competitive figure skater Ryan Dunk performing a routine on the ice to Queen's "Killer Queen".

Ryan's tight-fighting outfit (including a black tank top), 70s-style mustache and proudly flamboyant turns and flicks on the ice more than call to mind Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. Quite, quite joyous.

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Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”