Taking life one century at a time

I'm a nerd, a programmer, and a fangirl in Pittsburgh, PA. This blog is mainly transhumanism, fandoms, and small animals. Also terrible puns.

[upandoutcomic]

Wait wait don't help me I'll figure it out eventually, just gimme more time to study

[talos-stims]

trying to groom her brother | source

[sky665]

[theprofessional-amateur]

Every day I get a little closer to saying fuck it and becoming an apprentice in some at risk heritage craft or profession.

[theprofessional-amateur]

"let's have AI-"

I'm gonna go learn the art of hand engraving or thatched roofing. Maybe hand make clogs.

[trickstertime]

As a professional hand engraver, when it comes to old crafts like these, its way more accessible to get started with the basics than you'd expect. Back in the day good steel was expensive so trying something like hand engraving was expensive and difficult to justify. But now you can can just buy a good quality handpush graver online for less than a fancy coffee. Just think, for under a hundred quid you could get all the kit you need to get started with fucking up coins and stabbing yourself repeatedly!!!

Don't threaten to do it, go research it, and actually give it a go!!! Most of the books for old crafts are out of copyright. Even if you don't get a job at whatever you try, or hell, even of you don't become in any way good at it, just learning and trying something new is good for you, and it gives you a greater understanding and appreciation for things.

Fuck AI? Good. I agree. Now fucking do something about it. Return to doing human hand crafted things as an act of rebellion! Start knitting, start wood carving, start engraving, whatever the fuck. But most importantly, remember you don't need to be making money doing it to make it worth doing.

[pixelartpeach]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[bonesbeetle]

can see the pores on that thang

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Reblog to give a trans person a shockingly high resolution mango

[max1461]

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

[word-for-today]

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

[obscenicon-deactivated20231123]

this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all

[steelblue8]

Reblog if you are a freak who is justifying their gross actions

[velvetcloak]

Ottoman cape and vest, 1890s. Whitaker Auctions.

[another-normal-anomaly]

Hey, what materials is this made of? Asking for a friend who has a normal number of embroidery projects

[javert]

[shyly raising my hand] i read amateur original fiction :(

[st-just]

Voting to sentence OOP here to 5 years in the RoyalRoad mines so they can come back and give a more informed take.

[another-normal-anomaly]

These days the difference between profic and webfic, for me, is that profic has passed the bar "approved by some schmoe at a publisher" and webfic has passed the bar "one of my friends whose taste I think well of wrote it". Sufficiently appealing recommendations can get me to read profic, but by default these days I read stuff written by people I know.

[another-normal-anomaly]

The sharks in finding Nemo swear that they won't eat fish "on my honor or may I be chopped up and turned into soup". Do you think the realization that there are creatures (humans) who kill and eat sharks was instrumental in these sharks' realization that it's wrong to eat people? Like, one shark was all "it's so fucked up that the humans eat us" and another shark was like "well that's just life, innit, I mean we eat fish" and the first shark was like "well maybe we shouldn't do that then!"

[markovchaingang]

i cast pearls before swine with a fifth level spell slot

[brazenautomaton]

I cast pearls before swine so that I won't waste the swine's "next spell you cast" effect on it

[another-normal-anomaly]

I cast pearls before swine casts Explode Pearls

[another-normal-anomaly]

I keep hearing people complain about things breaking too quickly and IDK if I have lower standards or a different experience of the world or what. Like yes okay sometimes I buy a thing that costs like two dollars (shitty earphones ) and it breaks way faster than the eighty dollar version would have (like 6-12 months), but if I had cared about it lasting I would have optimized for that. But my phone is at least four years old and still pretty good. My pants are finally showing their age after seven years and are probably mendable except I'm thinking of switching from slacks to jeans, which will then last even longer. My pajama pants lasted five years despite using them as workout clothes every day when they weren't designed for that at all. The rest of my clothes are doing significantly better. My furniture is mostly between 7 and 50 years old and all of it except the couch the dog tries to dig holes in is basically untouched by time. (The couch is fine, just a bit frayed on one cushion.) Same with my appliances. I can't remember the last time I needed to replace a jacket or a backpack or any of the random art tools and household objects I got for $notmuch at Target or Ikea or Amazon. I don't put effort into maintaining my stuff; if anything I'm cavalier about banging things around to save myself time or convenience. Am I winning at Sam Vimes' Boots without thinking about it? Does everyone else think ten years is a ridiculously short time to own even relatively inexpensive objects?

[another-normal-anomaly]

Update: another 2.5 years later I am finally making arrangements to get the couch reupholstered. The dog and the toddler ganged up on it.

[nicdevera]

always struck me how the terry pratchett boots quote is wrong. wellington boots are super cheap, you see em in fishmarkets worldwide, and they're tough, i've tried and failed to hike em to breaking point

(walking long distances in wellingtons can get uncomfortable, as they're 100% waterproof they're also 0% breathable, socks are crucial and can get damp, all workable tho)

[another-normal-anomaly]

Yeah, I had Wellingtons as my regular daily shoe for a bit and the breathability issue was bad enough I switched to "wear out a pair of sneakers every 18 months".

[another-normal-anomaly]

I keep hearing people complain about things breaking too quickly and IDK if I have lower standards or a different experience of the world or what. Like yes okay sometimes I buy a thing that costs like two dollars (shitty earphones ) and it breaks way faster than the eighty dollar version would have (like 6-12 months), but if I had cared about it lasting I would have optimized for that. But my phone is at least four years old and still pretty good. My pants are finally showing their age after seven years and are probably mendable except I'm thinking of switching from slacks to jeans, which will then last even longer. My pajama pants lasted five years despite using them as workout clothes every day when they weren't designed for that at all. The rest of my clothes are doing significantly better. My furniture is mostly between 7 and 50 years old and all of it except the couch the dog tries to dig holes in is basically untouched by time. (The couch is fine, just a bit frayed on one cushion.) Same with my appliances. I can't remember the last time I needed to replace a jacket or a backpack or any of the random art tools and household objects I got for $notmuch at Target or Ikea or Amazon. I don't put effort into maintaining my stuff; if anything I'm cavalier about banging things around to save myself time or convenience. Am I winning at Sam Vimes' Boots without thinking about it? Does everyone else think ten years is a ridiculously short time to own even relatively inexpensive objects?

[another-normal-anomaly]

Update: another 2.5 years later I am finally making arrangements to get the couch reupholstered. The dog and the toddler ganged up on it.

[ampervadasz]

[fivepoint-12]

[shieldfoss]

Amazing border collies running

[another-normal-anomaly]

Ohhhhhh my god it's frolicking and prancing!!!

[another-normal-anomaly]

Reblogging this again to say ABSOLUTE UNIT

[scrumpster]

ENOUGH about the sunset opal! ENOUGH about the fire opal!!!!! WHAT ABOUT THE BACON OPAL. LOOK AT HER.

[gcu-sovereign]

@another-normal-anomaly

[another-normal-anomaly]

[arrests the bacon opal] Thanks gcu!

[theterribletenno]

A 15-year-old boy is about to base his entire personality on the last movie you watched for the next 10 years. HOW BAD IS IT?

He is going to get himself killed. Badly.

He is going to (try to) kill himself

The most obnoxious person in the world has just been born

FURRY (derogatory)

FURRY (normal)

Not much has changed? But now he's stuck like this for 10 years? Yikes.

It's cringe but it could have been a lot worse

At least he'll have fun at Comic Con

If anything this is a slight improvement.

He's not a boy anymore. He's a man now.

She's not a boy anymore. She's a girl now.

FINALLY, a son I can be proud of!

Voting ended onMay 11

[charlesoberonn]

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

[kafk-a]

Klara Lidén Self Portrait with the Keys to the City, 2005  Digital print, 60 × 42 cm

[andmaybegayer]

SpaceX probably wouldn't let you do it on account of the fact that the US government would kill them but it would be really really really funny if some other country puts together a moon lander, throws it on top of a Falcon Heavy, and beats Artemis to the surface.

[another-normal-anomaly]

SpaceX being behind on its part of Artemis is like the entire reason Artemis is behind schedule