it's a long life

pretty stuff, martial arts, and video games.

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leaked set photo from the last jedi

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THANK YOU FOR DOING THE LORD’S WORK AND LEAKING THIS TO US. 

[screaming-towards-apotheosis]

day 1348 the birds still think I am one of them

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

#no you don’t understand#i went to skellig island years and years ago#long before it was ever in these movies#and the second i saw the island in the force awakens#i thought ‘what did they do to the puffins?’#because friends let me tell you#when i visited this island way back when#the entire fucking thing was covered tip to toe in puffins#nests of puffins in the rocks#puffins shitting from the sky#puffins swimming in the sea#it was a true island of the birds and not a damn person could hope to get a panorama without approximately 10000+ birds photobombing#how did disney edit out all the puffins#who was the puffin intern#important questions that need answers 

I’m stealing @humming-fly ‘s tags because I’m not original

[theramseyloft]

Pigeons Can Spot Breast Cancer in Medical Images

After just a few weeks of training, the brainy birds rivaled human levels of accuracy in their diagnoses

[catchaloststar]

The study is free: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141357

[theramseyloft]

Great addition!

Thank you!

[catchaloststar]

Thank you for posting the article!

I like the parts of the study where they compare the pigeons to human radiologists:

In a study of human radiologists and radiology residents given the same cases to review, accuracy averaged 97% for calc-(negative) images, but only 70% for calc-(positive) images; our birds’ performance did not reliably differ between the categories. In fairness, unlike the pigeons, the radiologists were not shown just small regions of interest, but whole images that had to be searched for abnormalities, a more challenging task.

and

Thus, the pigeons’ errors did not appear to be random; instead, the least-accurately classified images contained features that were relatively unrepresentative of the rest of the corresponding benign or malignant set, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that images used for training fairly represent the gamut likely to be encountered in future specimens. This, of course, is true for pathology residents’ training as well.

and

Overall, our results suggest that pigeons can be used as suitable surrogates for human observers in certain medical image perception studies, thus avoiding the need to recruit, pay, and retain clinicians as subjects for relatively mundane tasks.

Also, here’s a picture of the pigeons’ working conditions!

(The link to the study is in the article, and the contents of this post including the picture were copied from the study.)

[mayanangel]

#WWGotYourBack

[walkingthroughdestinysgarden]

Important Research 

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

The thing that makes me happiest about this tag is how many women own formal gowns AND swords.  Truly beautiful.

[sosuperawesome]

Miniature Food and Plant Jewelry by Allim Yalo Jewelry on Etsy

See our ‘miniatures’ tag

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[ikaruwa]

You can thank Anita Sarkeesian for being able to play Emily in ‘Dishonored 2’

Here's how it happened.

Smith said that Sarkeesian’s criticism of the first Dishonored made him defensive at first, but played a role in the way Arkane approached the way it wrote the women of Dishonored 2.

“Your comment,” Smith said. “Which I will always remember and I’ll take it to my grave is … ‘While Dishonored is a game that does many things very well, the roles it has for women are very narrow.’”

After hearing Sarkeesian’s criticisms, he said that it made him see the way Arkane depicted the women of Dishonored 1 in a new light. Here are his comments in full:

At first, you take some criticism and go, ‘Wait a minute,’ and then you look and it’s like, ‘Wow, every woman in Dishonored 1 is either a servant, a prostitute, a witch, a queen or a little girl. Or a mistress.’ We have a mistress also. You know, that was not an intentional choice. So, when something like that pops up, you can get defensive if you want, or you can say, ‘Guys, let me just ask this: Did we mean that?’ And the answer is no, we did not mean that. Would the game be worse if we took an action on [this criticism], or would the game be better? The game would be richer and more interesting … and we carried that over into Dishonored 2 and we’re very happy we did.

[atratum]

Google has built a stunning, searchable archive of 3,000 years of world fashion

It's an endlessly entertaining portal touching on everything from modern Japanese streetwear to the clothes worn at Versailles.

“We Wear Culture” is a collaboration between Google and more than 180 museums, schools, fashion institutions, and other organizations from all parts of the globe. It’s part of Google’s Arts & Culture platform, which is digitizing the world’s cultural treasures, and functions as a searchable guide to a collective archive of some 30,000 fashion pieces that puts “three millennia of fashion at your fingertips,” Google says.

But it isn’t just a database. Google has worked with curators to create more than 450 exhibits on different topics—say, how the cheongsam changed the way Chinese women dress—making the site an endlessly entertaining, educational portal filled with stunning imagery touching on everything from modern Japanese streetwear to the clothes worn at the court of Versailles.

i can already tell this has made writing for historical fandoms – the worst part of which, for me, is absofuckinglutely hands-down the clothing – much easier. 

[scentofawarden]

Commissions Mark Deux

Well, the first wave of five commissions seems to have worked out well in terms of my schedule, and I think I can manage another wave of commissions now. Still going to stick to five at a time, same new pricing guidelines, and hopefully I’ll get into a new groove with, like, one of these a month.

So here are the slots available; I’ll update this as they fill up.

OPEN

OPEN

OPEN

OPEN

OPEN

If you ordered in the last wave, please know that I will be prioritising people who I didn’t make an order for last time. I won’t stop you from putting your name out there, but please consider that slots are limited.

[scentofawarden]

Daytime reblog! I figure I give it 24 hours before I start considering repeat orders.

[maysills]

I’m reading the original wonder woman script by Joss Whedon and YIKES

margaret atwood: male fantasy male fantasy m a l e  f a n t a s y 

[maysills]

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[hellooteapots-deactivated201905]

this genuinely reads like one of those posts lampooning how men write about women

[merindab]

Here is the script if you want to read it yourself

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[aturinfortheworse]

reblogging in the hope that if enough of you read this you will somehow take the knowledge of it straight out of my mind and let me live my life in peace

[fuforthought]

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Tai Chi Jian

[mechanicalfoundghost]

I’ve always wondered, what’s the purpose of the second hand, particularly when you touch the two fingers to the wrist

[tai-chi-guy-deactivated20210211]

Hey there! Good question - what’s that second hand doing?

Generally speaking it’s for guidance and stability. Doesn’t really add power to the strike but helps ensure the tip of the sword hits the intended target.

Sword fingers (That’s what that hand position is called) can sometimes also imply the holding of a second sword.

[awwww-cute]

I painted a watercolor of my other cat with a samurai helmet. (Source: http://ift.tt/2rQDc9C)

[tai-chi-guy-deactivated20210211]

@sifukuttel this seems relevant to your interests 

[commiehilfiger]

RPG’s be like

[robinwrightwebsite]

Robin Wright as General Antiope on Wonder Woman (2017)

[punkrorschach]

GET WRECKED

[pandavalkyrie]

[aestheticoftheday]

Today’s Aesthetic of the day is: Historically accurate calvary

[amynion]

When your horse turns up lame…

[ritasv]

Photo by Blanik Knights

[teadrunktailor]

The funniest thing about this is the mispelling of “cavalry.”

[justiceleague]

Wonder Woman (2017) poster by Tula Lotay for Mondo

[trainingforstarfleet]

How beautiful is it that we’ve lived long enough to see our childhood princess become generals? And best of all, little girls will always see them as both

[manwithoutborders]

Aww yea buttercup!