accidentally sewing machines georg

Pronouns: They/It, feel free to call me Curse Tags: my stuff for my stuff (still a few stragglers I haven’t gotten to) NOW my accursed beasts for my content adventures in academic reading for my mild adventures in academic reading, technicolor junkyard army for my model army, nutcracker mechanicus for my current WIP, and dnd miniatures for my miniatures! Ao3 link (although I’m currently on hiatus): https://archiveofourown.org/users/Dorktapus42

[unchildhood]

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

House of Leaves (2000);

photos by George Ngayu, or @monstertalent

[kayforpay]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[kayforpay]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[archaeologysucks]

You mean like this?

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.

Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:

World History Timeline

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!

[mckitterick]

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!

[lepetitpoete]

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500

✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️

You can spend hours upon hours exploring this

[bethanydelleman]

I really wish schools in my country spent less time being Euro-centric and showed what was happening around the whole world occasionally.

(to read later)

[djpachipikachu]

happy pride month

[mattpresents]

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

[54625]

flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this

[pillowspace]

Things to look for in this:

Fish

Eyes

Body

[astronomical-bagel]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is one of the greatest pieces of art in the world OP

[389]

Nick Hannes

[goflowolfog]

[lavender-draw]

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why are fallout 4 companions of all people so judgmental when you pick up junk? Don’t they know that in this universe you can turn two wrenches and a carton of cigarettes into a fully functional mattress?

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think it’s confirmed in universe that these workbenches have some kind of mysterious properties because they can clear rubble that heavy machinery can’t get rid of.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you break into that dlc vault or whatever the overseer tells you that the workbench can clear out the rubble. She’s had access to operational heavy construction equipment down there for over 200 years and she says that the rockslide was too much for it to handle.

And yet the workbench can clear the rubble in seconds. Same thing happens at the castle when you break into the armory with the minutemen. The workshop can remove rubble that Ronnie Shaw can’t figure out how to get rid of.

I’m just saying if they can do that, it must be something about the workbenches that allow us to make fully functional gas powered generators out of cigarette lighters, old cans, and lightbulbs.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I will now accept this without question.

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[aaami]

"I like using ai"

[lcdlcdlcd]

pt 2 to this LMAO

[eroscestlavie]

Why am I finding out just today that Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo

[eroscestlavie]

????

[eroscestlavie]

Hey. What

[trash-slvt]

"relax. sucking does not kill" would make for a fun shirt

[silly-signs]

Official silly ad

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[luisonte]

Sin cgi pierde mucho

[tiredspacedragon]

Sound on

It looks like it can't get any better, but I am begging you, turn the sound on

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

I don't know this sport.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[lichofhams]

[PrideFrame 2026]

Hoi Hoi wonderful Tenno! To celebrate Pride Month this year, me and @deuswf are hosting a Tennotober-like contest for Art and Captura! If you'd like to participate and win prizes (Sponsored by DE), tag your posts with #PrideFrame2026!

Rules:

The contest is open to both Art & Captura. Let your creativity guide you!

Use the hashtag #PrideFrame2026 to enter into the contest

Participants are not required to use every prompt to enter, but can enter for each week. (Week 1-4)

Participants can use 1 or more prompts in each Week. (Week 1-4)

This contest is to both celebrate Pride and allow for members of the community to express themselves during this special month

On the 30th of June, winners will be selected and announced on https://www.twitch.tv/deuswf.

Prizes:

1st Place: 600 Platinum

2nd Place: Deluxe Skin Collection of the winner’s choice.

3rd Place: Gauss Moto Collections OR Grendel Turbis Collections!

4th Place: Gauss Moto Collections OR Grendel Turbis Collections!

5th Place: 200 Platinum

*Prizes are sponsored by Digital Extremes!