it's a mess, like me

What it says on the tin. Am 18+

[garaks-padded-cell]

ZIGGY PLAYDATE WITH ALL HER FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[garaks-padded-cell]

Have u ever considered.. what if the playdate.. was Wet ? And Smelly ?

Bonus Ziggy when she got home cuz she was mad as hell

[jbhrts]

this genre of pics 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[dubiousdoobie]

[newtype-exe]

@yay-bunnies-world

[yay-bunnies-world]

bunnies often enjoy having fun in square-type playing situations

[meltknuckles]

day 27: community 🍽️

for @montereybayaquarium 's deep sea december prompts!

[layaart]

and here is all the serpent gates character designs together! 

[automatonwithautonomy]

you knows whats awful. csorwe was raised to die and when she was given an out she took it and put all her faith onto one person. and when he was proven unworthy do you know where that loyalty went? to everyone else born as a sacrifice. to a snake that spared her, once. to her worstie <3. to the girl she loves. csorwe and her deep well of love and loyalty.

[midnightliar]

nothing beats csorwe "not a single charming bone in my body" lastname and shuthmili "it's my first time making choices in my life and it turns out i love lying" qanwa showing up to big morga's map shop with a whole script and set characters to get a map. only for talasseres "every plan i have ever made has involved being very loud and getting hurt" charossa busting through the wall with a crossbow and a dream to steal the same map. only for shuthmili who has recently discovered Deviousness to steal the map when no one was looking and replace it with one of tal's own rude notes. the unspoken name is a perfect comedy of idiots

[kangaruthi]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[excretal]

can you believe this happened twice to jacob in the last nine years

[the-big-mood]

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[enki2]

[inkxlenses]

Polar Bear Plays in Flower Fields | © Dennis Fast

[achillesinhighheels]

A Statement of Pride" by Nigerian artist and photographer Favour Jonathan

[theartistrans]

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park