fragile soft machines

west. on a mission to fail the turing test. “some prophecies are self-fulfilling / but i’ve had to work for all of mine.”

[aldieb]

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i like editing things, writing things, and coding things. i blog about books, sff, and nice images. i have a lot of fun looking closely at art to see what makes the gears go.

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[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Waldinneres (In the Forest), 1933 painting by Hans Emmenegger

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Thank you @nuka-rockit I was actually going to ask if anyone spoke German and if that translation, which came from Wikipedia, was any sort of accurate. Fascinating. Titles are so important.

[aldieb]

those who have jokingly asked me if i might try to run a half marathon and got a grumpy “no way that would be possible” in response are potentially allowed to laugh at me… i’m really quite curious about whether i could do it before surgery. the timing seems possible given where i’m at rn. and it would be something fun for my bday weekend/on robert jordan’s bday no less

[ontologicalevil]

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[heaveninawildflower]

Woodcut of a grasshopper (1918) by Julie de Graag.

Rijksmuseum.

Wikimedia.

[roymbrogart]

I made a friend! Literally!

I finished this brushbuddy art doll earlier this week and he is very cute. It's got a wire armature inside and is fully posable, including the leather fingers and toes. (There are also magnets in the feet to potentially stick it to things later.)

[patronsaint-ofthedenial-deactiv]

First of all he's not my boyfriend he's some other shit. Plus scientists don't even know the ramifications of it's hazards yet

[jesterlesbian]

what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender

[thomaszhuang]

Thomas Zhuang: Street Series, NYC #182, 2013

[cilantroodon]

[ID: A photo of a playground, street, and city buildings, distorted by a window of thick glass bricks. End ID.]

[rainbowgaez]

evil great lakes

lake inferior

lake normal

lake offtario

lake hurton

lake michigan

[aldieb]

but everyone posting about radiant star makes me feel like i’m gnawing at the bars of my enclosure. of course i could just get it and read it but i would be very sad if i couldn’t enjoy it :( i like how i’m so shocked pikachu about this despite the fact that basically everyone else in my college program also lost the ability to read books at some point. it just happened, like, when they finished school or started in acquisitions. i’m being indie about it

[aldieb]

you can literally take your rice/tofu/vegetable slop up to the roof and peacefully watch the sunset while reading manga. well i can. idk about the rest of the rabble

[aldieb]

he can finally look out the window at our new place and he falls asleep doing it slugstyle on a + v’s bed… my old man <3

[librarycards]

If you love something but don’t know how to acknowledge your emotions, try to destroy everything you enjoy about it; if you find yourself back there anyway, perhaps it was meant to be.

Hugh Ryan, Safety Third.

[onrtrp]

the set of ships is nonempty and finite

(any reasonable notion of) size induces a total order on the set of equivalence classes of ships of the same size

every nonempty finite total order has a maximum

there exists a ship that is no smaller than any other ship

QED

[mossdftba]

[Image description: a youtube video thumbnail titled "why does the world's biggest ship exist?" The thumbnail shows a drawing of a large red structure in blue water. End ID.]