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oil painter, graphic designer

[mallorymmacher]

I see artist portfolios and besides the actual art my reaction generally consists of "OMG, look, they finished a buncha stuff, I'm so jealous."

[mallorymmacher]

Death takes Orpheus in her hands and gets very very real in an inexplicably non-atomic way.

"My dear 'brother'. My transient kin in this very small and weirdly significant world you find yourself manifest. Understand that that infinite beginning that never ended only technically created me like it was created in response to an infinite nothing. There was not and therefore there was. There was and therefore it ended. But the first eddy of matter changed and I am that change. My sister the progenitor has made and I have received and volleyed the making. A making in it's own right but defined by the end of her first attempt. We are as Belobog and Chernobog. We are the infinite unknown perceived as lack and it's desperate wild attempt to BE. Being is DEFINED by it's ending or else it would be that same infinite nothingness from which this entire opposition arose and then where would we be?"

Orpheus is staring. Trying to even see if he can see her still. She is like a trick of the eye. It is bright in the park and she casts a yellow shadow.

"What I am trying to say, 'Brother', is that we are, none of us, truly real or unreal. It is a possibility only in the place where our conscious minds originate and that place has nothing to do with this contrived place. One day I will take your being and return it to my sister and if you are very lucky she will not return it to me and you will go home. Like all the humans you serve. Like all the humans who collectively made you.

Orpheus is about over her shit.

"Ever wonder why there's no God of the rainbow for a rainbow mantis shrimp?"

"... What?"

"They create these catastrophic bubbles that feed and defend and are basically breaking the electromagnetic spectrum.... You know why there's no God for one of the most bizarre and poetic and powerful forces made by beings in this entire place?"

"...I can't say I've ever thought to ask..."

"He could teach you a lot about that stoicism you're always on about. You could get new material if you start paying attention to things like that."

Orpheus is DEFINITELY over her shit.

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Virginia Climate Data Shows No Crisis - Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookOne standard response when the Thomas Jefferson Institute chal

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My Tumblr feed recently;

*Hypersexual teen* "Hi! My entire self definition is how socially unacceptable I am to people who don't have mental health disorders!"

*comments* "collectively demonize all dissent."

*algorithm* -sees me blocking accounts- "I see you keep interacting with these accounts, I will be sure to find more for you."

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What if countries has to actively advertise to gain population? What if someone comes up with a system that fully anonym-ises people so you can just opt into any system and your physical autonomy is part of the buy-in?

Sounds sci-fi but seriously. What if you could, for a reasonable fee that could be put on credit in a system that doesn't inflate, simply opt in to independence and a-la-cart your laws? This needs polishing.

An autonomous situation with individual habitats that don't touch down in technical jurisdictions. Would require anti-gravity.... Anyone working on this? Hell what if everyone is just issued an IJ at comming-of-age and you can auto-set parameters for social interactions...

Countries would consist of individuals actively opting in instead of accidental geographic defaults.

Better or worse?

Ugh. Humans

[mallorymmacher]

All these posts about body positivity and intrinsic self worth and happy hippie bull crap.

I don't need these dreamy eyed lies.

I need to know when all the hard work and achievement pays off, please.

Because if I get to the end of this game and find out that all the awards and skills and dedication not only don't pay off but that I should have literally wasted away in a diabetic coma in a field of flowers nailing it by being high on the unexamined life...

I'm going to find the coder who fabricated this pos and shoot them.

I hope I didn't pay to be here, this whole experience has been very poorly devised and I'm not impressed.

[mallorymmacher]

I came here for art and every time I turn around there a load of LGBTQ slop in my feed. I qualify and I, frankly, find the marketed "culture" absolutely disgusting and I'm embarrassed to be associated with it and this damn site just keeps trying to inundate me with this crap. Is there a way to block certain hashtags? Can I fix this or should I give up and leave? Because I'm about |•| this close.

[tattoovonbeardy]

Big, big fan of when things are covered in moss or ivy. I just think it's neat.

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

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It's nonsense but I love it so much

[ephraimwaite]

Dreamt I had to come up with a new aesthetic and my idea was "celestial uncle"

[mallorymmacher]

I feel like this is "new age hippie" but bad advice and good comedy reign in the man's stars.

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Old photography from the Smokey Mountains

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Why do I always forget to post here. The colors went well so far. 💕

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TEMU of all things 🙄. I know it's not archival but the prints are!

Shop Art | Mallory Macher

Classical realism artworks by Mallory Macher for sale on demand.

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"The Moon" layer 1 with ochre ballpoint