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trying on a metaphor
Game of Thrones Daily
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
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Claire Keane
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if i look back, i am lost
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@chibistarr
the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when theyâre barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think itâs on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. itâs sad. sad state of affairs weâre in.
Mors Imperator â Hermione von Preuschen (1887)
The delicate beauty of ancient Roman frescoes.
This fresco is a classic example of Roman wall painting from the 1st century AD, belonging to the "Fourth Pompeian Style" (c. 50â79 AD), characterized by fantastical architectural elements such as columns and elaborate ornamentation set against vividly colored backgrounds, in this case a deep Pompeian red.
has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing
âFor me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, âOf course.â When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.â
Osprey aka âSea Hawkâ (Pandion haliaetus), CATCH A TASTY FLOUNDER!!!, family Pandionidae, order Accipitriformes, BC, Canada
photograph by Henrik Nilsson
this picture Jared Harris postedâŚ
I still think itâs objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else youâre seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but itâs not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself
"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?
This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.
Storm rolling in, 35 mm
Ogasawara, Japan
Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in âblind auditionsâ with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.
so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.
âŚThen they put down a carpet, so that high heels didnât clack on the floor, and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.
The testers didnât even know thatâs what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.
The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.
You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brainâs foibles can cause.
The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwellâs Blink (2005) describes this in detail.
What you donât usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.
Iguazu Falls, Brazil by Jaime Dantas
I love calling movies films and I love purposefully overpronouncing it as âfehlimâ to be extra insufferable.
American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, FL, USA
photographs by Deb Powell
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Anglesea, Australia 2024
Dorota Sroka
I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.
I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.
