Les Yeux Fermés

✽ Anything that catches my attention Looking through a different lens ✽

[moldspace]

they have some flowers to give you (more weird vases)

[miamaimania]

“绿墅芳塬” (2003) ⍋ Xue Liang — ink and colour on paper

[insomniac-arrest]

people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to

your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:

Befriend

Tell story

Make Thing

Investigate

Share knowledge

Laugh

Sing

Dance

Empathize with

Create

we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands

your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way

[full-moon-phoenix]

~“Your primal instincts are not bathed in blood.”

My god this is beautiful. Such a refreshing change of pace to the constant glorification of instinctual human violence.

[thechekhov]

Primal Human Instinct pack also includes bonus instincts such as:

imitating weird noises made by other animals

playing with water

the urge to eat anything brightly colored and jelly-like

touching things that look like they will move in a funny way

seeing faces in literally everything, including toast

jumping up to see if you can bap the top of that doorway

saying ‘ow’ when something unexpected happens, even if it doesn’t hurt

[aetherograph]

Can I Eat It?

I’m Gonna Pet That Animal

[zombilenium]

Jeroen Taal, ‘ Italy, La Serra’

[huariqueje]

A marsh tea flowers  -  Eero Järnefelt  

Finnish,  1863-1937

[trulyvincent]

Photographs of the Sun by Alan Friedman

[keyfili]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 • dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[pmamtraveller]

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

[djotime]

Inde Navarrette ph. by Nick Rasmussen for Schön! Magazine

[shithowdy]

doubloons!

playing with linocuts

[7fff00]

[ID: Rough black-on-cream print of a loon in water, depicted doubled and conjoined in 180° rotation like a royal on a playing card /end ID]

[idlelizard]

hying hares

[brutalgrace333]

“Wild Geese”, by Mary Oliver

[moldinfez]

I'm slowly forgetting your face

[paperstorm]

One of my bosses took a pdf index of documents with academic and legal citations and ran it through Copilot, for the purposes of getting it into a spreadsheet without having to manually type it all out. Not a terrible thought I guess since it seems like a simple enough task but obviously proper citations are super important especially in the legal system so she asked me to take a glance to make sure there were no errors.

There was an error in literally. Literally. Almost every. Single. Citation. (And there were hundreds of them) Here’s a non exhaustive list of things the AI did instead of just transcribing the exact text:

- Rewording or shortening the titles of articles and legal cases

- removing authors’ middle initials

- Removing the specific dates from newspaper articles (like making it just 1966 instead of January 8 1966)

- In cases where there were multiple citations per entry, only transcribing the first one and then adding the words “And others” like? Did you get tired?? You’re a robot

- (By far the worst one) instead of populating all the specified page numbers it just wrote “Various pages”. Imagine if we went to court and when asked to cite page numbers we were just like “oh it’s somewhere in there trust us your honor”

TLDR do not fucking use AI for shit that actually matters (I mean imo don’t use it at all for anything ever but especially not for serious stuff) because we would’ve gotten in a ton of shit if I hadn’t checked this. And it took me forever to correct all of these errors which in the end definitely took longer than just typing it up myself in the first place.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[anthonyhurd]

The Sun And The Moon - 24x30” acrylic on canvas. Available.

[dyedu]

i like birds