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Maurice Grosser (American, 1903-1986). oil on canvas

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Maurice Grosser (American, 1903-1986), Nude Young Man Reading. Oil on canvas, 18 x 23 in.

#grosser #maurice grosser #painting #male form

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Antonello da Messina, San Sebastiano

#Antonello da Messina #saint sebastian #sebastian #me too ladies

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“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

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I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

#earth #earth is the best option

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Wenzel Hablik, Fire, 1913

#wenzel hablik #hablik #painting #fire

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The King in Yellow

4 colors, pixelart

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“Table for One” by Luca Ponsato

#luca ponsato #ponsato #painting

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Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95

#amanda lepore #henri de toulouse lautrec

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Raymond Delamarre: Mowgli (1929)

#raymond delamarre #delamarre #sculpture #relief sculpture #mowgli

I finally managed to see Pillion in a proper theater, and it was very worth the wait.

When I was younger and at last prepared to act on my homosexual desires, I did not so much enter a world as submit to it by trying on identities through other people’s desires, which sometimes felt liberating, and at other times felt like an elaborate way of outsourcing my sense of worth.

What I really identified with was the movement of Colin from wanting to be wanted in any form to wanting something specific and reciprocal. This requires a kind of internal authority that low self-esteem simply doesn’t permit at first. Only later, with some accumulation of experience and a bit of hard-won self-respect, does the possibility of genuine preference emerge.

Looking back, I’m less inclined to view this earlier phase as a series of errors than as a peculiar, if inefficient, education. One learns, eventually, the difference between being desired and being known, and how to navigate both.

#pillion #personal #cinema