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My Personal blog, Mike, 25, bi, has a shining Things I post: Cats, Music, piece of writing, my opinions on various things, League of Legends, more cats, literature, more cats, Nier;Automata, more cats... I see a trend here...

[quasi-normalcy]

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[uncahier]

Since you don’t respect my opinion anyway, quit pestering me to fill out a survey after every single consumer experience. I keep wondering who looks at these surveys. Is the CEO sitting in his wood-paneled office, reading each individual response on an old-timey stock ticker? If so, you can keep doing this. If not, I rate this experience zero stars out of infinity.

[blamedorange]

Remembering her always

[sleepy-bebby]

Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen

[thriceandonce]

WHAT holy shit that’s wildly cool

[razielim]

i've seen several times fans not wanting to use "content," esp as AI fics become a non-negligible portion of some Ao3 spaces in the pursuit of "engagement," "reach," and other icky influencer-like words that don't match the spirit of community that's so integral to fun and meaningful fandom

it can be so hard to remember how we "used to" talk, but... the words still exist! and it's nice to be reminded of what they were.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[viralfrog]

[cameoamalthea]

Things to do with your twin

[dalals]

Byzantine mosaics found on the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.

[bookseffect]

So this is not the starry skies ceiling of the Galla Placidia Mausoleum, this one is but I am still looking for the origin of the prev image

[saessenach]

We've gone through like. Half a millennium's worth of famous churches and it's still a mystery.

With that being said, it's delightful how many craftspeople throughout the ages looked up at a ceiling and thought "you know what would fuck here, my liege? a starry sky mosaic."

[bookseffect]

All of this to say, I found it with a little help from @saessenach and after about 5 hours of scientific psychosis, this is from Saint Vladimir's Cathedral in Tauric Cherosonesos in Sevastopol, in Crime. The mosaic appears after the 2024 restauration, it seems. So this is not from Ravenna, it is a neo-byzantine restoration (by the Russian government, I concluded after multiple articles translate poorly from russian). It is unclear to me if this is part of the New Chersonesos complex (aka a museum and temple dedicated to the ancient and Byzantine culture of the area) but I do strongly believe it is:

sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/Orthodox_Churches_Art/s/UDN1grgUjZ

Паломническая поездка к святыням Херсонеса и Фиолента / Крымская митрополия

Прихожане двух ялтинских храмов единодушно благодарят Паломническую службу Крымской митрополии за заботу и прекрасное путешествие!

Председатель Общества Сергей Степашин посетил Севастополь с рабочим визитом

3 февраля 2025 года с рабочим визитом Севастополь посетил Председатель Императорского Православного Палестинского Общества Сергей Степашин.

and here are some better pictures of the whole church

So yeah, mystery solved!

[queenburd]

@rudjedet

[rivetgoth]

When people talk about all art being political (hard agree) they always talk about the content, themes, etc present within the art itself. Which obviously I get and obviously is a huge part of it. Of course. But I’m personally always struck by the politics surrounding the more metatextual elements of the art; that is, stuff like access to the tools needed for the creation of the art. I mean the literal materials of which an artpiece is made. This is a low-hanging-fruit example but I’m reminded of that Disney adult who tried to claim art isn’t inherently political by being like “I just drew a stick figure on a napkin, is that political? 🤣🤣” & while I think there are multiple different angles from which one could criticize this blatantly pathetic argument, I remember being really struck by like… the flagrant “waste” of implicitly throwaway resources that many parts of the world just literally don’t have and/or that carry with them deeply fraught histories of capitalist labor exploitation and destruction of natural resources. Like. Napkins?? The apolitical canvas that is paper napkins?

[crabussy]

made a post about how I'm relieved and excited to be alive in 2026 and how I'm glad I exist in a time where music and education and communication are so expansive and accessible and said post wasn't even up for a single hour before someone started declaring that actually there are evil revolting breaches of human rights happening right now. not even an hour

[shallowsenjoyer]

im so mad i cant find it anymore but heres my recreation

[crabussy]

this is kind of beautiful. I reckon we should all fabricate tweets from faint half-remembrances and letter them by hand instead of using screenshots

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

obsessed w this person in the replies

[upsidedownsmore]

Colored/rendered sketch comm for @warframestuff of their Hildryn fashion, thank you for your support and patience!!!

Timelapse and such below the cut!

Carrd | Ko-fi | Inprnt

My Movie

There's also this thumbnail wip I like that didn't show up in the timelapse because there was some weird file duplication I had to do early on lol oop:

[saywhat-politics]

Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The c

Standing in his laboratory, Harvard professor Sean Eddy gazes at a row of vacant work stations. More than a year ago, this lab was filled with over a dozen researchers. On a given day they might be working independently on analyzing genomic sequencing or gathered around the group table, drinking coffee and helping each other troubleshoot questions about genomic data from different species.

Now, after his funding was terminated under the Trump administration, the computer screens are gone and the room is silent. He's one of the last people left.

" Seeing these labs empty — this is not the way it's supposed to be," he says. "This was a very vibrant lab."

[stealingpotatoes]

do you ever think about how much of the original trilogy artoo spent silently watching the drama go down with popcorn

(commission info // tip jar!)

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[manicpixiedckgirl]

[theaudientvoid]

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

[aro-ace-from-outer-space22]

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!