Quiescence Interrupted by Nonsense

G. 30s. It is what it is and that’s just fine.

[ghiblin]

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ハウルの動く城 2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[moreover-angel]

Even if it’s slowly 🐌

by me

[bearwithh]

[depsidase]

[perriaeyjeve]

[radawaycunt]

I think being pinned onto the clothesline and fluttering in the afternoon breeze while I sun dry would cure me actually

[srdcovka]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i was tired

[classicalcanvas]

Argenteuil (1875) by Claude Monet

[notahorseindisguise]

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

[unfug-bilder]

UND endlich einen 380-Volt-Anschluß.

[krakenteacups]

[lacetulle]

Zuhair Murad | Spring/Summer 2026 Couture

[rosieandthemoon]

By Jeroen Taal - In Scotland

[woowoo-woman-deactivated2017121]

The earthy smell of rain is one of the most divine scents I’ve ever beheld.

[random-fantasy]

[alibrariangoestoikea]

I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …

And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …

Anyways …

[alibrariangoestoikea]

OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …

BUT this is the item btw

WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!

[vinceaddams]

This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!

[stephaniematurin]

NOW GUESS WHY EARLY COMPUTERS WERE PROGRAMMED

WITH

PUNCH CARDS

yes you’re right, they used jacquard-loom techniques

[alibrariangoestoikea]

Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing    

I just wanted to add a video discussing how a jacquard-loom worked, cuz this is nuts

A Jacquard loom in action    

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse