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aperfumedpearl

The Neoclassical Château de Bagatelle built 1777 for Comte d'Artois

witchydreamhome

The conservatory from Practical Magic.

wardengrill

Misfortunes, we are told, have been sent to test our fortitude | Pride and Prejudice (1995)

tropiyas

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naamahdarling

Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.” It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.

warpcoreejector

Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.

dragonheartftherpays

“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.

aqueerkettleofish

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expressions-of-nature

Fyrish Monument, Scotland by Kier Allen

holespoles

"Shimmering night" by Inaslind.

indigosfindings

when tiger met dragon

indigosfindings

crouching harry hidden sally

#this will be stuck in my brain for YEARS

rorywonder

hey so filming people without their consent is weird. you know that right? filming people you don't know and they aren't aware of what you're doing is creepy. posting strangers online is fucking weird. we're too comfortable with doing it now for shits and giggles, chasing some sort of viral hit instead of reckoning with the fact that you posted someone who did not consent to their body and face being publically used.

we're being pushed these Meta Glasses as if mass surveillance of strangers is fun and normal! it's weird!!! there are already reports that people are using these to film women without them knowing and sharing it to communities who get off on this shit. who else knows who people are filming. these glasses with cameras are not obvious and that is dangerous.

liberalsarecool

Data centers have a very limited lifespan but their consequences will be felt for generations.

tpwrtrmnky

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

thatscarletflycatcher

"For Elizabeth Gaskell, women loved, frequently unwisely, but love was not always the dominant force in their lives. Like men, they too knew, and frequently understood better, the meaning of duty... The scene at Marlborough Mills when Margaret goes out to stand beside Thornton has been misunderstood by many critics. It is not the selfishness of individualised love, but her awareness of a duty to others that prompts her to action. Her shame and anger are aroused when her action is construed as that of a lover. For a man to stand by another's side in time of danger was natural, but for a woman to do the same implied that her inherent timidity had been overcome by a greater passion."

-- Coral Lansbury, Elizabeth Gaskell and the Novel of Social Crisis (1975)

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