“mold is gross!!” “mold gets people sick!!” maybe for you. my mold loves me. we share germs & we arw in love ❤️ he livws on my water bottle and i take him everywhere with me. i am dyinf. for unrelated reasons
trying on a metaphor
we're not kids anymore.
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“mold is gross!!” “mold gets people sick!!” maybe for you. my mold loves me. we share germs & we arw in love ❤️ he livws on my water bottle and i take him everywhere with me. i am dyinf. for unrelated reasons
when the clock is at :45 it’s like. oh i have a whole quarter of the hour left i have so much time this is great and then it hits :47 and you’re like it’s basically :50 which is basically the top of the hour and all my time is wasted forever and ever
1:45 -> oh neat there's 15 minutes left
1:47 -> yeah no it's 2pm
we should start making zines about cool research papers
Abandoned church in the fog, Minnesota [2400X1600]
Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]
The first image of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope
We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels, but electric vehicles and other green technology can put their own pressures on the environ
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This is the sort of stuff machine learning needs to be working on, not making art. This is something that humans have been trying to do for years but couldn't accomplish, yet a highly specialized computer algorithm was able to pull it off in 3 months.
This Twitter thread really spoke to me. I wanted to share it with anyone who hasn’t seen it.
[ID: A twitter thread of 10 tweets by lhkuroda that read:
Tweet 1: I teach Japanese (language) and one thing I often hear students say is that they want to become “fluent” in Japanese. I don’t think this is a reasonable goal. Instead I ask: what do you want to talk about fluently? Who do you want to talk fluently with?
Tweet 2: No native speaker of any language is completely fluent in their language bc no language is singular. If I were hanging around a group of rocket scientists speaking in English I would have no idea what they were talking about.
Tweet 3: Any language is almost always fissured by class, race, region, profession, even time (!) and the illusion that it is a singular thing that can be mastered is a myth created by nationalism / nation states
Tweet 4: There’s also no reason why “native speakers” should be the only benchmark by which you measure your progress as a language learner. People who were born and raised in Tokyo speak a particular kind of Japanese bc that is what is useful for their life. Maybe it’s not for yours!
Tweet 5: This is especially relevant when it comes to heritage speakers who have grown up in countries other than Japan. Why would you expect your Japanese to be the same as someone who lived their whole life in Japan? That would not have been advantageous to you.
Tweet 6: When Japanese people migrated to other parts of the world in the early 20th century, the Japanese they spoke changed too. Language adapts to circumstance because it is a tool for doing something, and you will need to accomplish different things in different places.
Tweet 7: When we think critically about how a student will or wants to use Japanese, it often turns out they want to talk to their family, or talk about manga, or read the news. Those are attainable goals that allow us to spend our time and resources in better ways.
Tweet 8: Don’t have expectations for what you’ll be able to do in a language you’re learning that are higher than the expectations you have for the language you use most of the time!
Tweet 9: You’re also not going to progress if you live in a place where there’s no need for you to use the language you’re learning. You have to alter your environment by creating the need to use it.
Tweet 10: Anyway learning a heritage language or reconnecting with a heritage language is a daunting task but I love to help people with it. Always open to DMs from heritage learners of JP or if you have thoughts on heritage languages 💖
End ID]
I was literally just thinking about this thread the other day while thinking about my experience with Spanish. I took SIX continuous years of it before, and at this point, while I certainly could converse with a native speaker of my same age, it definitely wouldn’t be at the same level of skill. I’m familiar with all complex tenses and conjugation, but not off the top of my head. A vast majority of the vocab fell off as soon as lessons stopped. For a long while I largely considered all of that a failure.
But do you know who I recently could confidently speak with? The trilingual 3yo last school year who had spanish as her main home language. I knew and remembered a majority of the language equivalent to what we typically said to the children in english. What vocab i had forgotten was easily identified and studied (and it was way less than “every piece of Spanish ever spoken under the sun”). My spanish lessons were not a failure. They’re a perfect fit for me! I’m a preschool teacher!
Gymnastics vs Stuntwoman (Adorable audio recommended)
Previously I set off the great Tumblr cascade of "Not to be a lesbian..." with Nicole the Lumberjill.
I think I may have found the sequel.
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I'm going to skip the kinetic chain explanation this time and let you all get to ogling.
Mosquito jewelry by Les Nereides
every time I find a pill on the ground I take it home with me and draw a picture of it with crayons. here's the collection so far.
^ the very first pill I found & drew. couldn't identify it (markings rubbed off) but it looked very beautiful to me.
^pill no. 2: fluoxetine. my greatest find and finest crayon drawing. sorry to whoever lost their fluoxetine. I'll save it for a special occasion. I used a sharpie pen to clean up some lines on this one I think.
^ pill no. 3: ibuprofen. accidentally closed my laptop on this one, destroying it. and getting goop on my laptop. I found another one though. People drop a lot of painkillers. The first 2 used only colors from the classic 24 pack of crayons, but I had to break out extras from my childhood crayon collection for this one.
^pill no. 4: benadryl. this pill was crumbling inside its plastic when I found it, but it was intact enough to take home and draw! Hooray.
^pill no. 5: midol. this one was real scuffed up. I actually found an entire bottle of midol on another occasion, and someone's last 2 weeks of birth control yet another time, but those are the kind of things I leave behind because someone's likely to miss their entire bottle of midol or sealed birth control and come back for it.
^pill no. 6: unfinished advil/ibuprofen. I find a lot of painkillers, as mentioned, so I guess I got bored. I also have a drawing of acetaminophen that I am not posting because I don't like it.
^pill no. 7: severe tylenol. I didn't know such a thing existed until I found it on the ground. "severe tylenol" makes it sound like the tylenol is mean. this was among the more challenging ones and it's kinda rushed, but drawing the plastic was fun. just did this one an hour ago.
in case you're wondering, I do keep the pills when possible. I like to hold onto my reference material. they live in a separate box from my vintage ibuprofen collection.
i like when urbex people refer to something as "forgotten" instead of abandoned bc its like fuckkkkk we forgot about our mineshaft 🤦♂️
they stopped using it because they forgot about it
Bath Time Fun Frog Plush Toy with Lifesaver Floaty Filled with Bubble Bath
Guys be normaI I know how you get when things are in jars 😂
me: ugh why am i always coughing and sneezing when im in this room? and my eyes are always irritated too
the despicable mold spore:
In any tomato based sauce, vodka, or any strong alcohol doesn't make the dish taste more like alcohol, it releases alcohol soluble elements from the tomato itself, making it taste sweeter, richer and more tomato than even just tomatoes themselves, this adds acidity, which is often tempered by the addition of dairy (usually heavy cream) a la vodka is not a delicate sauce, but any means, it's made with a full intention of every major ingredient hitting well above it's weight. And if you want it even better, try using a good botanical gin or a pepper vodka for even more intensity.
Nicholas Devlin: ‘Fantasy Vanity’ (2023)