Brownie + Cookie = Brookie

[everythingwithwasabi]

Gingerbread Self Saucing Pudding

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[gamebird]

So much joy here!

[ohlivee]

hannah muehi

[nitro-nova-deactivated20180206]

A new religious statue in the town of Davidson, N.C., is unlike anything you might see in church.

The statue depicts Jesus as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church installed the homeless Jesus statue on its property in the middle of an upscale neighborhood filled with well-kept townhomes.

Jesus is huddled under a blanket with his face and hands obscured; only the crucifixion wounds on his uncovered feet give him away.

The reaction was immediate. Some loved it; some didn’t.

“One woman from the neighborhood actually called police the first time she drove by,” says David Boraks, editor of DavidsonNews.net. “She thought it was an actual homeless person.”

That’s right. Somebody called the cops on Jesus.

[xekstrin]

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Since you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.

[hokaegu]

that quote should be added as a plaque on this. This is seriously one of the MOST powerful pieces of art I’ve ever seen. Bravo.

[mysharona1987]

Jesus, when you call the police on him, tho.

Ok, in biblical ages maybe you didn’t you know. 

But these days people know better,

[inthesensethat-deactivated20240]

[noosphe-re]

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s crazy how there’s so much misinformation about Food. The thing we need all the time. Arguably the point of getting up each day. Fucking food. You’d think educating our young on this central component of life would be the sort of thing we’d teach them as kids, but nooo, I have to go reading up on zookeeping techniques for keeping and feeding large primates in captivity to get a straight fucking answer about carbon and phosphorus sourcing instead of a bunch of pseudoscience or fatphobia or classism or racism or just good old fashioned taboos! [Chews furniture] HOW DO YOU DEMONIZE THE POTATO

[centuriespast]

Noli me Tangere: Christ Appearing to the Magdalen Girolamo da Santacroce (1480/1485–1556) Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

[lasylphidedubolchoi]

Tamara Karsavina at A. Eberling’s workshop

Photo by A. Eberling

St. Petersburg, 1907

[buttery-spoooons]

[bitchboynasty]

Absolutely true

[tinydragontori]

you are so right

[psikonauti]

Takashima Yajūrō (Japanese,1890-1975)

Autumn Flowers, 1953

Oil on Canvas

[lizardsfromspace]

The reason "what if 1950s suburbia...wasn't all it was cracked up to be..." media feels hollow nowadays isn't just that they're beating a horse that's been dead for decades. It's that the 50s aren't even America's idea of Good Times, Before It All Went Wrong anymore. The kind of person likely to pontificate about simpler times doesn't picture Ike and postwar suburbia; they picture Reagan and the 1980s.

Pop culture continues to slate the glorified picture of the 50s from 70s/80s nostalgia bait, while endlessly hawking a glorified picture of the 80s to the present. "Isn't it weird that they made all these movies about happy housewives and diners like the civil rights movement wasn't happening?" asks a culture making endless movies about shopping malls and [insert blockbuster 80s movie here] where no one ever mentions AIDS

[70sscifiart]

John Alcorn, 1969

[electroshocktherapist-deactivat]

people r always saying “get therapy” 2 ppl who have actually had too much therapy and need to do two years of a brutal physical labor job instead Genuinely no more therapy-speak and obsessing over the supposed intricacies of your average mind for you get your ass on the Alaskan salmon fishing boat

[hyumjim]

Putting aside the obvious fact that it is not possible or feasible or healthy for many people to be physical laborers, this is such a weird like… borderline Ayn Randian style of thought. Very conservative, “back to the land,” trad type shit that people are nonetheless eating up I guess because they are just that irritated by “therapy-speak”… which here seems to be conflated with actual therapy.

Obviously I disagree with this post on many levels but here is perhaps a more important point: companies like Amazon, FedEx, and UPS frequently poach young people so they can work them to the bone. I work with young people for a living so I often am told by an 18 year old that they’ve just been hired by UPS etc, and then it’ll usually be about 2 weeks before they quit because these jobs are terrible. That’s why they give them to 18 year old high-school dropouts, because they are looking for people who are vulnerable and desperate for money, and they’ll keep them for as long as it takes before they realize how bottom of the barrel these jobs are. You work insane hours moving heavy boxes, you drop something on your foot and they tell you to keep moving. These huge companies use up young people and throw them away at a shocking rate. Trust me when I tell you they are not better off for it.

Shitty jobs are often deeply detrimental to a person’s health both physically and mentally. Putting aside your thoughts about therapy, the way to happiness is not through labor, of all things. I wonder if there are self-described communists or anti-capitalists on this post, too. Come on, think about what you are saying.

[sixpenceee]

Titanic : Then & Now

[cottaqecore]

source: sunsetoned