Hawks & Roses

Random gleanings from my internet wanderings. Mostly Marvel, some Jurassic World (because raptors!), and Avatar and Korra of course :)

[notha-mulier]

Palace at Knossos, Crete

[portalibis]

Goddes Nut. Anthropoid sarcophagus of Peftjauneith, XXVI Dynasty (664 -525 BC). Rijksmuseum van Ouheden, Leiden

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[bulljumpingfresco]

Apollo. detail from a 2nd.century BC. funerary marble relief slab. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

[bulljumpingfresco]

1st century BC marble statue of Cybele from Formia, Lazio

[solestella]

[transformativeworks]

The OTW is Recruiting for Open Doors Technical Volunteers, Tag Wrangling Volunteers, and Translation Translators

Do you know programming languages like SQL or Python and want to help rescue at-risk fan archives? Want to wrangle AO3 tags or translate them into English? Are you fluent in other languages? The OTW is recruiting: https://otw-news.org/2p94jnbf 

[transformativeworks]

Applications for Translators are still open, check out our volunteering page for more information: otw.org/volunteer!

[nakamorijuan]

[gayweeb]

this is wrong

[southerngamerguy-deactivated201]

Yeah, she could’ve done this in her standard Sailor Moon form. Super form is overkill, really.

[halfpastcaketime-deactivated201]

Sailor Moon is stronger than Goku. I don’t make the rules. Fight me about it.

[dragonxball]

What!? 👀

[seidmadr-secrets]

I’m on a still active forum, with a solid vs debate scene. Sailor Moon vs. the God-Emperor of Mankind from 40k is one of the most treasured threads there, as Sailor Moon trashed the guy.

[catbureau]

19 pages straight of debate over Sailor Moon vs. God-Emperor of Mankind, in which every time a 40k fan desperately brings up a new point, it immediately gets negated by another one of Sailor Moon’s powers

[kamari3]

[huariqueje]

Last Swim - Ruth Stage , 2024.

British , b. 1969 -

Egg tempera on gesso board , 22 x 24 cm. 56 x 61 in.

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[ms-demeanor]

To have a computer reliably recognize a picture of a red-winged blackbird the computer must first imagine the universe.

[ms-demeanor]

I am having complicated and frustrating thoughts on AI again (as always).

[ms-demeanor]

I don't know if I've expressed this but part of the thing that has been making me bugfuck insane about discussions around AI image generation is knowing people who have worked with computer vision for decades.

[ms-demeanor]

I should fire up my 2005 macbook with CS2 installed on it and edit a photo entirely with "AI tools."

[ms-demeanor]

This is a 1980 computer science master's thesis by Ellen Hildreth on computer image recognition and creation. (Link downloads PDF)

The paper demonstrates the development, training, and testing of the Marr-Hildreth algorithm for edge detection in digital images.

[tiffanyengland]

🍓I was nervous painting this because I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to get all the details in. I mean ~ I love adding details ~ but I felt like I had met my match with this one 😅

🍓 I pulled out my tiniest brushes and held my breath. I think I pulled it off, what do you think?

[thememedaddy]

[xalatath]

3-5 turkey vultures will soon be dispatched to your location.

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

[inbabylontheywept]

i have recently decided to shave my head. surprisingly good experience. have been given far more professional defference than i actually deserve as a result. but. slight hazard. my coworkers are very kind and they have insisted on complimenting my skull shape. they are very insistent that i have a very nicely shaped skull. this is a perplexing and mildly unsettling compliment. i feel like a hot twink at the gay phrenologist bar. a lot of people have walked up behind me and simply gripped my head like a bowling ball too, which i personally have enjoyed, but suspect the average person would not. also, unless i shave my head every day, it becomes surprisingly hard to take my hoodie/beanie/hat off. its like having my head wrapped in grip tape. overall 9/10 experience.

[inbabylontheywept]

i also shaved an avatar arrow into it for the first day which the techs were overjoyed with. if you shave your head, you do get one day with your entire head as a blank canvas for any kind of tomfoolery. avatar was a frankly milquetoast option. if id walked in with, hypothetically, the toyota logo i think i would have been run out of my own lab on a rail.

[inbabylontheywept]

this is the best website on the internet

[kevinjaystanton]

I’ve got the itch to make new stuff, while stocking faves of existing work! So tell me - what kind of things do you wanna see me make? I’m thinking about embroidered hats, new foil prints, maybe new pins? Keychains? Let me know - I’d love to hear from you!

[thejawsdevour]

Hannelie Coetzee (South African) - Hyena Clan V (ink and rooibos tea on paper, 2023, Eco Queer Creature Series)