Age Of Destruction @ageofdestruction - Tumblr Blog

““We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.” J. Robert Oppenheimer”

— Season 10, Episode 3, ‘A thousand suns’ - spoken by Rossi

ageofdestruction

this reminded me of emily lakdawalla's comment about new horizon's image of pluto's haze, back in the summer of 2015:

"The first time I saw it, I literally gasped. I know another scientist who cried."

#pluto #quotes

"untitled (rejoice!)" by jenny holzer, from holzer's "inflammatory essays", poster by jenny holzer and peter nadin, 1982.

REJOICE! OUR TIMES ARE INTOLERABLE.

TAKE COURAGE FOR THE WORST IS A HARBINGER OF THE BEST. ONLY DIRE CIRCUMSTANCE CAN PRECIPITATE THE OVERTHROW OF OPPRESSORS. THE OLD AND CORRUPT MUST BE LAID TO WASTE BEFORE THE JUST CAN TRIUMPH.

OPPOSITION IDENTIFIES AND ISOLATES THE ENEMY. CONFLICT OF INTEREST MUST BE SEEN FOR WHAT IT IS. DO NOT SUPPORT

PALLIATIVE GESTURES; THEY CONFUSE THE PEOPLE AND DELAY THE INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION. DELAY IS NOT TOLERATED FOR IT JEOPARDIZES THE WELL-BEING OF THE MAJORITY.

CONTRADICTION WILL BE HEIGHTENED.

THE RECKONING WILL BE HASTENED BY THE STAGING OF SEED DISTURBANCES.

THE APOCALYPSE WILL BLOSSOM

via greg.org

#jenny holzer #lorde #text #art

195195119511951-deactivated2021

In the first poetry workshop I ever took my professor said we could write about anything we wanted except for two things: our grandparents and our dogs. She said she had never read a good poem about a dog. I could only remember ever reading one poem about a dog before that point—a poem by Pablo Neruda, from which I only remembered the lines “We walked together on the shores of the sea/ In the lonely winter of Isla Negra.” Four years later I wrote a poem about how when I was a little girl I secretly baptized my dog in the bathtub because I was afraid she wouldn’t get into heaven. “Is this a good poem?” I wondered. The second poetry workshop, our professor made us put a bird in each one of our poems. I thought this was unbelievably stupid. This professor also hated when we wrote about hearts, she said no poet had ever written a good poem in which they mentioned a heart. I started collecting poems about hearts, first to spite her, but then because it became a habit I couldn’t break. The workshop after that, our professor would tell us the same story over and over about how his son had died during a blizzard. He would cry in front of us. He never told us we couldn’t write about anything, but I wrote a lot of poems about snow. At the end of the year he called me into his office and said, “looking at you, one wouldn’t think you’d be a very good writer” and I could feel all the pity inside of me curdling like milk. The fourth poetry workshop I ever took my professor made it clear that poets should not try to engage with popular culture. I noticed that the only poets he assigned were men. I wrote a poem about that scene in Grease 2 where a boy takes his girlfriend to a fallout shelter and tries to get her to have sex with him by tricking her into believing that nuclear war had begun. It was the first poem I ever published. The fifth poetry workshop I ever took our professor railed against the word blood. She thought that no poem should ever have the word “blood” in it, they were bloody enough already. She returned a draft of my poem with the word blood crossed out so hard the paper had torn. When I started teaching poetry workshops I promised myself I would never give my students any rules about what could or couldn’t be in their poems. They all wrote about basketball. I used to tally these poems when I’d go through the stack I had collected at the end of each class. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 poems about basketball. This was Indiana. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore. I told the class, “for the next assignment no one can write about basketball, please for the love of god choose another topic. Challenge yourselves.” Next time I collected their poems there was one student who had turned in another poem about basketball. I don’t know if he had been absent on the day I told them to choose another topic or if he had just done it to spite me. It’s the only student poem I can still really remember. At the time I wrote down the last lines of that poem in a notebook. “He threw the basketball and it came towards me like the sun”

ageofdestruction

it seems particularly cruel that this user is deactivated

cosmonautroger

ageofdestruction

the catmonaut appears to be labelled "ФОБОС" - "PHOBOS" - the larger of mars' 2 moons, and the name of 2 failed soviet space probes intended to investigate mars. presumably phobos-3 would be upgraded with feline guidance.

#space #soviet space program

saxifraga-x-urbium

we have all noticed that "self-care" basically ended up as a replacement word for "pampering" in a marketing lexicon and not as an active set of behaviours intended to allow the body and brain to adequately rest and revive in the face of the ceaseless crushing grind of capitalism yes

ageofdestruction

dyson airwrap advert, november 2024. as pure a statement of the hijacking as i can imagine.

#late stage capitalism

frankiedotbiz

its insane how many jokes in the simpsons there are about how weird and yucky it is that miss krabappel fucks and how no one wants to fuck her despite her being one of the baddest bitches in springfield PERIOD!

frankiedotbiz

she was literally so bad for fucking real

ageofdestruction

come on

also someone mentioned thinking that she was designed by a lesbian. david silverman credits veteran animator dan haskell with krabappel's original design. haskell isn't a lesbian but DID design belle for disney's beauty & the beast and ariel for the little mermaid.

#the simpsons

achillesinhighheels

love letter from 1913 that opens up to form an art gallery

ageofdestruction

via the smithsonian archives of american art:

"On January 10, 1913, caricaturist Alfred Frueh (1880-1968) sent his fiancee Giuliette Fanciulli her own art gallery, so that she could train for the "GALLERY MARATHON" she would experience when she arrived in Paris. It came complete with original works of art and a coat check."

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/alfred-joseph-frueh-to-giuliette-fanciulli-1915

frueh helped found the new yorker magazine, and provided illustrations until he was 82. fanciulli seems to be largely recorded online as the recipient of this letter. they married circa 1914, so i guess it worked. they appear together in a series of christmas cards that were donated to the smithsonian by the frueh's 3 kids.

it gets worse

tags: where

comment: china flag in last frames?

look: yes it is. road sign at start looks like it could be written in logographic script (like chinese)

google: "winding road tunnel china"

reddit: It’s a village road in Changshun County, Guizhou province, China.

reddit: full of idiots. need confirmation.

google: "road in Changshun County, Guizhou province, China."

google: changshun cave highway

google: "changshun cave highway"

people's daily (china state media organ) facebook page: look at our fancy cave highway (posting same video in january 2023).

sea, kitikmeot region, nunavut. / open sea, arctic ocean / sea of azov

pacific ocean / south of new guinea / timor sea and north australia

north pacific / cloud vortices, south pacific / south pacific

photographed by noaa-21, noaa-20, and suomi npp, 26-27th june 2024. via nasa worldview.

#noaa #nasa worldview #pacific #ocean #cloud #sea

great comet of 2020: casein painting on cardboard, jam jar lid / 2x studies on cardboard / reference photo (july 2020).

saw comet neowise on a beautifully clear night last month. it looked like a streak of chalk dust among the stars. i couldn't get a decent photograph of it, so i decided to paint a picture instead.

#paintings #astronomy #comet neowise #astropainting #???

stories about winter. northern hemisphere, earth, photographed by suomi npp weather satellite, 20-22 november 2017. image credit: noaa, via nasa worldview. selection & treatment: ageofdestruction

#earth #winter #cloud #water #sea #ocean #arctic #noaa #suomi npp #weather #nasa

a story about lizards, and things other than lizards.

#queer #lizards #the lizards are queer dude

earth, today: photographed by suomi npp weather satellite, 9th june 2017.

narcissus drowned.

image credit: noaa. selection/treatment: ageofdestruction.

#earth #nature #ocean #cloud #weather #summer #june #australia #africa #south africa #brazil

earth, today: photographed by suomi npp weather satellite, 26th may 2017. if you’ve been thinking about asking for help, this is your reminder to do it. image credit: noaa. selection & treatment: ageofdestruction.