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[abbiistabbii]

The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

[velvetvampyress]

[nevver]

Ghost world, Jang Koal

[neil-gaiman]

are you a cat person?

Only in Arthur.

Otherwise I'm an actual human person.

[elf-indulgent]

I really like what this physicist, Lamar Glover, has to say in Behind the Curve. 

+ this part from Spiros Michalakis:

[chemicalheart-deactivated202009]

Incredibly good take which is really rare for these topics

[clevermanka]

The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy

Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.

[moniquill]

https://youtu.be/KLfL1Gm9QDM?si=-pKPBqOWMZiHZwar

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Choose Your Own Adventure books - Bantam Books (covers from 1979 to 1985)

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai’s Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful ‘original’ aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of ‘Fairies’ by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF’s projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would adore. It’s the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world’s 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn’t have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don’t want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don’t care about flipping it at Christie’s, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don’t have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - “paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety” - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I’ve ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán’s Christ Crucified (With Donor):

[reconditarmonia]

An interesting addition to this discussion is that Tumblr or another scrolling newsfeed-based site is absolutely the funniest way to encounter this painting for the first time. I was not prepared. Thank you, OP.

[shredsandpatches]

YEAH, I was like “well, I don’t see what’s so funny about–THERE it is.” Actual lol.

[ihaveemotionalmotionsickness]

[emptiable]

HOT Mesopotamian singles in YOUR AREA !

[glamourweaver]

She’s from Paleolithic Austria, not Mesopotamia!

[wormsdyke]

HOT Paleolithic Austrian singles in YOUR AREA !

[titkoks]

[theriu]

YOU SURE ARE KILLING THAT SNAKE RODNEY, GOOD JOB

[sonicsuns]

What the heck kind of bird is that?? (Also I hate that I had to stop for a second to ponder if the whole thing might be an AI fake somehow. The future is gonna be weird, man.)

[anaxaver]

Its a secretary bird! they are super rad and do look like some kind of dinosaur or elaborate puppet creation.

[shadow27]

[witchofprose-deactivated2020041]

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[untitled12573]

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

[knitmeapony]

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

[theprofessional-amateur]

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

[geminisee]

via 2rawtooreal2

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NEVER THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY!

(captions added by me)

[atlinmerrick]

Listen to this person for three minutes and then tell me why you're not going to vote.

Listen to this man tell you what YOU NOT VOTING means. Please.

Because you not voting will kill more people than voting for Biden. You not voting is you killing more people.

[2bpoliticallycurious]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[politijohn]

Source

[hole-therapy]

Dear god please let housing become affordable here and please make this force the thousands of sitting-duck properties re-enter the market at drastically reduced prices for native families to be able to purchase and then live in their homeland 😭 kū kia‘i ‘āina

[sewerfight-deactivated20250114]

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering "the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee". now imagine that's you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

[xenobotanist]

[61below]

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

[bunnyhugs22]

[depsidase]

[catasters]

[reading-wanderer]

Wants to be a criminal but too small to commit crimes 😔