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sufjansjoy

i can no longer tolerate the fallibility of language. let's all punch each other in the head

#translatorposting

ymawgat

your car: *bounces back and forth, defeated, its hood swinging by a mere thread*

my car: *triumphantly leaps six feet in the air, spraying hubcaps in victorious fervor*

mousenemy

What?

chromatic-king

l00r0ll

Control Room, 2004 (embroidery on black velvet) & Space Station, 2006 (embroidery on canvas)

Farhad Moshiri

pyrrhiccomedy

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.

hagiomoto

Okay, if you are tired then you won't be able to read. There I say it. No one else want to say it. It is strange. If you are tired, if you cannot finish a book that's a given. That's why you need to read...at work. You need to steal your reading time from your employers.

never-obsolete

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (2002)

alexanderwales

I was reading through the U.S. Copyright Office's "What Does Copyright Protect?" page, mostly to make sure that I wasn't being wrong on the internet, but I absolutely love that this is part of their FAQ:

How do I protect my sighting of Elvis? Copyright law does not protect sightings. [,,,]

There are only 12 questions on the FAQ, and this is one of them.

bisexualgoth

monday affirmations

- i am not tired

- eight hours is not that long

- i slept well the night before

- the only reward for hard work is more work

- i feel well rested

- the 40 hours workweek will collapse in my lifetime

- i definitely got enough sleep

amarocit

Inventory

One stone two houses three ruins four gravediggers one garden flowers

a raccoon

one dozen oysters one lemon one bread one sunbeam one groundswell six musicians one door and its doormat one gentleman who was awarded the Legion of Honour

another raccoon

one sculptor sculpting napoleons the flower which we call marigold two lovers on a big bed one tax collection officer one chair three turkeys one man of the cloth one boil one wasp one floating kidney one racing stable one ungrateful son two Dominican friars three grasshoppers one jump seat two ladies of the night one uncle Cyprien one Mater dolorosa three doting fathers two Peter Rabbits one Louis XV heel one Louis XVI armchair one Henri II dresser two Henri III dressers three Henri IV dressers one drawer that doesn’t match one ball of string one safety pin one senior citizen one Winged Victory of Samothrace one accountant two junior accountants one man of the world two surgeons three vegetarians one man-eater one colonial expedition one ungelded horse one cup that runneth over one tsetse fly one lobster Americaine one French garden two Yorkshire puddings one lorgnette one footman one orphan one iron lung one glory day one giving week one month of Mary one year of affliction one minute of silence one second’s lapse in attention and…

five or six raccoons

one little boy walking into school crying one little boy coming out of school laughing one ant two lighter flints seventeen elephants one vacationing prosecutor sitting on a folding chair one landscape with a lot of green grass in it one cow one bull two beautiful love stories three church organs one veal marengo one sun of Austerlitz one siphon of seltzer one glass of white wine with a slice of lemon one Hop-o’-My-Thumb one pattern day one stone calvary one rope ladder two Romance sisters three dimensions twelve apostles one thousand and one nights thirty-two positions six parts of the world five cardinal directions ten years of faithful service seven deadly sins two peas in a pod ten drops at every meal thirty days of jail time with fifteen days in segregation five minutes of intermission

and…

several raccoons.

-- Jacques Prévert, Paroles [Things Said], trans. mine

#poetry

nyc-looks

Shane, 35

“Everything is thrifted: Kapital denim overall that's too big for me to wear as overalls, but work really well as denim chaps when cinched at the waist with my belt. The belt is made by myself. My jeans I found in a thrift shop with no name or tag attached – but clearly made with a lot of love. The top is a Kapital indigo dyed kimono jacket. The shoes are Onitsuka Tiger. I've been a preschool teacher for the last 5 years, and I take a lot of inspiration from the kids themselves and a little bit of Magic School Bus. I try to combine making fuctional wearable art with things that make the kids in my school smile and feel inspired to be a little weird and out there. I used to show up in suits and ties – and then one day one of my students showed up in a full Clifford outfit and it shook my core. What was I even doing, haha? So now I try to stretch imaginations with a lot of thrifted pieces or handmade things by my wife and I.”

Apr 26, 2026 ∙ Bushwick

becuzitisbitter

Just rediscovered this slide from the first Deviant Scaffolds talk I gave at UCSC

becuzitisbitter

#once again plugging the culture of time and space by stephen kern

bladeweave

cannot understand why people like youtubers who are yelling the entire time. why do you let that man raise his voice at you.

redlipstickresurrected

Alison Ingram (British, b. 1968, Horsham, West Sussex, England, based Sussex, England) - Evening Light, 2023, Paintings: Oil on Canvas, Private Collection

beadyeyes

Where's it made? Who brought it here? How much were they paid? Who makes it? Is it made in separate parts and put together? How much were they all paid to do this? Where do they get the materials? Who paid for that? Who brings it there? How much were they paid? Who streamlined the base materials? How much were they paid? Who gathered the base materials? Where? How much were they paid? Is it good for them? Is it good for us? Is it good for the land? Is it necessary? Is it biodegradable? How much does it hurt? Do I need it? Do I even want it?