beneath_the_chalk

[boycritter]

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

[boycritter]

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.

[luminote]

The poet exists in fragments, so does the poetry.

[thebestoftumbling]

baby meeting cat for the first time

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Cat person right there. 

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

Look at that tiny rectangle.

[1o1o1o1o1o1o1o1o1o1o1]

thsi is one of the top 3 most important videos i’ve ever seen

[assaultmystic]

Thoughts were a kind of derangement resulting from an accumulation of tension in the neck and shoulders.

[assaultmystic]

Whilst initially assumed to be a consequence of innate biological weakness, later studies revealed that thought was itself a mere symptom of Language Acquisition Syndrome.

[museum-of-artifacts]

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden

[handmadehistorypodcast]

What wait WHAT

[mydonkeyfeet]

I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.

[targetedknowledge]

[quillusquillus]

incredible sounds happening here

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

me, calling my brother, urgently: ok, who would win, the knights of the round table or the kpop demon hunters? you may laugh, but listen, the three of them jumped out of a plane with no parachute and landed totally fine IN HEELS at their kpop concert. i dont know that they can take much damage. plus i think lancelot would be really overwhelmed by the concept of kpop. and

[davetheshady]

initially the knights of the round table appear to have the advantage, attacking the supernatural sirens with confusing hair colors with gusto; huntrix is obviously reluctant to engage with innocent(ish) humans. however, the tides begin to turn when 1) rumi not only holds her own against excalibur, but also glows in a very non-evil-coded manner, which a random hermit explains is the same light as the star of bethlehem; 2) zoey tells sir gawain mid-battle she just wants everyone to stop fighting and he is constitutionally incapable of ignoring a request from a nice young lady; and 3) mira picks up one of the many pieces of cursed furniture lying around and absolutely whales the tar out of sir kay.

at this point actual demons attack and the two groups team up and for some reason lancelot is dressed as a backup dancer. crisis averted, the round table inquires about the obligatory secret familial connection and discover that rumi and merlin have the same demon dad, so that's okay. mira gives kay all his teeth back and they all have a feast, which is interrupted halfway through by derpy delivering a message with the next quest. unfortunately, the WIP is then abandoned before being picked up by a different author who writes 300K about blackpink's quest for the holy grail, the end.

[paulgadzikowski]

The "abandoned before being picked up by a different author" bit makes it sound like we're talking about a 500,000 word multichapter AO3 story but the medieval romances were exactly like that

[uroko]

Rainy day in Fukui, Japan // Countryside of Japan[福井++] ♡

[newsmutproject]

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

[gemini-enthusiast]

Earthset over the lunar surface and the sun eclipsed by the Moon, seen by the Artemis II crew as they passed behind Earth's closest neighbor yesterday.

[collemblogging]

everyone loves a classic! (vitronura giselae)

[collemblogging]

adding the photo I took of this animal with my phone, for posterity

[headspace-hotel]

Minuscule Beast

[gcballet]

Discworld Textposts

Discworld [->]

[watercolourcritters]

it will be worth it <3

(Thinking about my upcoming top surgery, and coming out and queerness in general, and the slow expansion and brightening of life)

[ID copied from alt text: A three panel watercolour comic, painted on one page that is held. The first panel is mainly blank white, with a bit of yellow and pink bleeding in from one corner. The second panel is half white, with more orange, yellow, pink, blue starting to emerge more from all of the edges. The last panel is vibrant yellow, red, pink, purple, and blue, with text reading "it will be worth it (heart shape)." End ID.]

[evenlyevi]

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