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[sixpenceee]

This Mystique cosplay mid merge (by magnetomystique)

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[mrkrabs-sugardaddy]

UHHHH

[tangentmoth]

This is legit one of the most creative cosplays I’ve seen recently.

[bisonwares]

Sockeye Salmon, made with 100% wool felt 🎏

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)

[headspace-hotel]

THIS IS SO TRUE

[headspace-hotel]

in some cases it goes back to colonialism. colonizers trying to put a certain aesthetic that was thought of as more valuable or attractive in a place we were trying to force to be the way we wanted.

Trying to import a new culture, and replace the old culture, bringing in the architectural ideas of the old place. ignoring the local climate and ecology

[only-cat-memes]

[germanpostwarmodern]

The "Peacock" Chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, in 1921-22

[lepurcinus]

My art refs be like: "rabbits are plantigrade, never stand on their toes and move by hopping"

-Rabbits not giving a shit about your "laws of science":

(Video Taken from Pinnapop on Twitter)

[ramalamacreatures]

HANDMADE Polymer clay Armadillo sculpture.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[folkfashion]

Karakalpak woman's clothes, Uzbekistan, by UNDP Eurasia

[salmon-n-hazel]

An afternoon tea time

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[kitticaturday]

[cloudmancy]

arrested for impersonating grains of rice (NO possibility of parole)

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Not a single thought in this bird's head

[evreeone]

on the contrary, i think he is having many thoughts! he's pretty attentive towards each thing shown...even observing where the water in the water fountain is going…he's curious and thinking So much about all the wonders of this world he has not yet seen (like rocket pops and Cash Money) even if the dominant thought may be "what's that what's that what's that", single thought at the very least confirmed

[ramshacklegear]

Completed hood, based off a 16th century ‘shame’ mask.

[adiradirim]