peace

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[arthistoryanimalia]

Enjar Vinfeldt (Danish, 1905-1953

Dachshund Mother and Pups, c.1945

oil on canvas, 19 x 21 in.

On display at AKC Museum of the Dog in NYC

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MothersDay

[cuties-in-codices]

botanical illustrations (aloe, dill, black henbane, rose, apium, mandrake, water lily, meadow sage)

from a manuscript of johann hartlieb’s kräuterbuch (book of herbs), a treatise dealing with the medicinal uses of various plants. this copy was created in northern bavaria, c. 1462

source: Berlin, SBB, Ms. germ. qu. 2021

[botanicalgardens]

The fact that Dirty Dancing Havana Nights is rated so poorly makes me no longer trust people. That movie was ahead of its time

[fashion-runways]

SIMONE ROCHA Fall/Winter RTW 2026 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

[vamplire]

manifesting sinners winning every award especially best actor and best cinematographer because autumn durald arkapaw would be the first woman of colour to ever win and i need timopeepee shartlamet to lose

[evvantic]

new colorwork chart i made! knitting a summer top and all the dragon charts i could find were too many stitches wide for my yarn.

[botanicalgardens]

I can’t tell if it’s healthy or not that I’m reading through the files and compartmentalizing so I can carry on with my day

I’m exhausted. I’m going to travel soon for work.

[urgetocreate]

John Cooke (British 1929–2018), Winter Evening, My Studio, 1991, Gouache on cardboard

[catchymemes]

[everyday-cutephoto]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black mackerel tabby with high white spotting

[louceph]

smirking bastard with grievous grin

[ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

i’m gonna invite them in

[stlamb]

"monastic cells" - miniature models made by nuns, where they depicted themselves as little dolls praying in their monastic rooms. they can be found in museums in france, belgium, and switzerland. crosses, images, and quotes from the bible, as well as everyday items are meticulously crafted.

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[likeniobe]

A man's cap with turned up cuff, of off-white linen embroidered in a pattern of rainbows arching over clouds with rain falling, with snails and caterpillars interspersed. In blue, green, yellow, red and pink silks and silver metallic yarns.

english, late 16th century, at the cooper hewitt

[siena-sevenwits]

@lurking-latinist, don’t hide this in the tags!

[botanicalgardens]

When someone sets up a meeting before 9am, I want to kms

[botanicalgardens]

I’m not generally superstitious but I am attributing all the bad things of late to the fact that the lunar new year has yet to begin

[portraitoftheoddity]

My favorite part of youtube is the part of it that is middle-aged-to-old guys with zero production value who have made a simple, low-quality video on their phones about how to repair the exact fucking appliance that has been giving me grief so I can fix that fucker myself instead of spending hundreds of dollars to hire someone.

These men are all my honorary uncles and I love them.

[magicstoat]

Also saluting the boomer ladies putting out detailed instructional videos on using and repairing knitting and sewing machines. You da MVPs