cleopatronising

tamara || ig: tamaradovhaliuk

[ironpour]

I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes

[ducissatenebrarum]

Serpent-Wrapped Aquamarine Pendant • c. 1890–1910

A natural aquamarine crystal embraced by a golden serpent, blending gemstone beauty with the flowing elegance of Art Nouveau design.

Style: Art Nouveau

[knitbull]

[cedarwaxwingsandberries]

So the heatwave affecting India right now is insane. For my fellow fahrenheit folks out there, 60°C (the white areas) is 140°F.

The highest recorded temperature in Death Valley was 134°F.

[plumslices]

[cleopatronising]

I’m going to take my old car to get detailed so it doesn’t get jealous of my new car, like how you get an older sibling a gift from the baby

[dogpuppy]

[shitter]

when you finally manage to venture out of the torture dome only to find that it was but one leaf on the great tree of agony 🌱

[andreablog2]

I love when desire leads to disappointment. It’s a classic

[cleopatronising]

I really can’t believe what a waste of time Australian schooling is…

[cleopatronising]

This mitochondria course from H*rvard is starting to get hard, the trick questions are so fun. I wish school made you think like this

They are intentionally constructing questions that have no encyclopaedic style information anywhere on the internet, so I’m having to piece together an idea from both a collection of hyper specific studies and over-simplified educational diagrams, and hope that my interpretation of the answer is even right to begin with

[witch-breaker]

Sydney police photographs taken inside Rosaleen Norton's apartment in 1955, following an unlawful entry during a morality investigation.

[helenvaughans]

from what i've observed, i do think there is some pressure for women in not explicitly feminist leftist circles to affect a kind of "cool girl" posture for the benefit of the men in the movement

[helenvaughans]

same as it ever was!!!

[noodledesk]

i really liked this essay on why literary fiction is sounding so much Like That these days, especially work by asian american authors:

This entire process selects for homework-doers, personal entrepreneurs, and individualistic bureaucrats. It's why, like I said, the oracular outsiders, the Pauls of the world, who can't conform to society's expectations to check boxes and become legible to the powers that be, aren't in these programs and aren't getting the opportunities that are downstream of them. It's why you end up with tons of fiction about "my white boyfriend" and "everyone online is mad at me" or "anxious strivers in NYC" or "my annoying polycule." These are the obstacles this class encounters. You can't spend time, like Cormac McCarthy did, living in an unheated cabin in the Smokies, or embedding with the Mujahideen like William T. Vollman, or working as a psychotherapist like Olga Tokarczuk. You must move from strength to strength, always turning in your homework on time, and certainly never suffering a psychotic break.

-- Trip, Estragon News, The Oracular Outsiders and the Homework Doers

[symbolicinteractionism]

i quite liked the conclusion to the piece:

Maybe it's because that fiction is being written for the people already bought in. Art that is made for the purpose of institutional legibility and approval is dead on arrival. Writing must stand on the outside, viewing the world at a tilt. Our world is being eaten by word machines that can imitate us perfectly. Unless American letters find the courage to welcome back in the oracular, it will disappear, replaced by machine that can conform to the demands of institutional legibility—really, the demands of capital—better than any human ever could.

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

The Apartment (1996)

[cleopatronising]

I’ve always wanted to be a honeypot style spy, and I finally have the opportunity of a lifetime 💛

[cleopatronising]

🙃