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Yearning for what you can never have is beginner level. Real yearners know the good shit is what you could freely have if you allowed yourself to, but never will.
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scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can make women’s clothing
Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections
Technically they're using it for bandages. For now.
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The resulting “nanopasta” can then be spun into a tiny mat about 2 centimetres across. While it isn’t intended as food, Clancy says that it should be safe to eat, but is reticent to talk about having tried it. “It’s an ethical quandary to talk about scientific self-experimentation,” he says. “But, hypothetically, one might expect it to be chewier than you’d expect.”
Oh he's definitely eating it
scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can surreptitiously eat it
the delusions are taking over, goodbye
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I like that they didnt show jax abstracting first of all because we already know how it looks like. It would just feel redundant
but most importantly
people abstract when they loose conection with others and stop feeling human. thats why Ribbit abstracted. they got pushed away, got left alone and just gave up
thats why Jax is the one who abstracted from the cast. playing a role, being always disconected from reality, represing every feeling and thought thats too personal. he just stoped feeling human.
someone abstracts when they no longer feel conected to others. they do it alone, when no one is here for them. for other charachters it looks like someone slowly drifting apart over time. and then suddently being gone.
nobody notices the moment of the abstraction. nobody is prepared for it. just like in real life, we dont know when people snap.
i like that they didnt show jax abstracting
i am going to need to rotate every frame of that episode in my mind for the next Two (2) weeks
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Was taking screenshots of a foal video for study refs and this doesn’t help. What are you.
Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:
chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.
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I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.
when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically
daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman
he invaded egypt
the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”
then napoleon showed up
napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus
the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”
this did not make napoleon happy
in fact it made him jealous
napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud
I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.
General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…
…and like this…
…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…
:-D
I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…
…he was also a foodie.
He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
General Dumas was also the highest ranking officer of African descent to have command of a European army. EVER.
His stuff is in the public domain, you can find them on Project Gutenberg here:
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And for those of you who would like to try audio versions, this is what is on LibriVox, the free, volunteer run audiobook version of Project Gutenberg:
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Day 35/365 of listing something good I saw today:
Today, some little girl in the grocery store saw me. She and her mom were between me and the shelf I wanted to get to, and the kid turned around and smiled, saying something utterly incomprehensible (I'm usually good at understanding toddler, but we live in a bilingual area and I straight-up could not tell what language the kid was speaking), pointing at me and turning to her mom.
I told the kid that I like her hat (pink and sparkly with pom-poms for teddy ears) and I have no idea whether she understood me any better than I understood her.
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does anyone wanna see my dumb fuckhead sheep fursona he's cute
here he is ! x
just got an ad for an AI reading service. i.e. "you don't need to read the book, let the AI do it for you" and i just...
good sirs, what do you think the purpose of reading is?
a book is more than just the story it tells, more than just the words on the page, more than just the knowledge it shares.
a book is knowledge, and words, and story, yes, but it's also feelings and spirit and heart. pictures painted in the imagination.
am i to let the AI experience joy and sorrow and horror on my behalf?
am i to let the AI eat my food and tell me the meal was good while i starve to death?
Why would i care about a summary of the story? I don’t care about the story
I care about the emotions it carries, about getting lost in a new world, about discovering the mistery with the characters
Otherwise its just some plot a guy made up in his head. And why would i care about it?
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It's a really nice day outside so I wanted to finish The Head Thing out here (the wind is pelting me) I'm using whatever paints I have on hand so it's not perfect but I had some gold metallic paint I brushed over a dark base.
I'm in-between painting the eyes black or leaving it. The sculpture does have some cracks but it's sturdy and I'm probably gonna glue some fake moss in there before I use epoxy to seal it all
The power going out gave me the motivation to finish this!
It's sealed and finished, and I like how it came out! I decided to go with just glass backing cause I think it looks fancy. I'll need to find a better spot on the wall for it, but for now I think it turned out great
I've moved him around a bit and now I'm trying to think of any small clay stuff I can make to fill in the spaces between creations
(Framed Narinder art above belongs to @wolfsteax)