Maya

[architectureofdoom]

Graves getting dug for the victims of a US strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran.

[wetheurban]

Your inner child is so proud of how far you’ve come.

[dietbridgetjones]

"it was 11:07 here, it would have been 9:07 in san francisco.

armand called me.

were you there?"

[brian-kinney-apologist]

the second anniversary of the month has hit the iwtv towers

[irinviolet]

"Gazing into The World"-oil on canvas 100x60cm

ITWV is gonna begin filming and would you look at that, I finally finished editing this behemot, what a nice coincidence.

(If painting is hard, taking pictures and editing them is harder or i dread them more. I managed to make time to finish it because a kind person comissioned me for it.)

[selkielore]

friendship & romance are a pair of beautiful mirrors facing each other btw

[talesfromthecrypts]

Tragic that to a whole bunch of people “horror” just means “slashers and haunted houses” and not a wide range of fascinating stories and subgenres that explore humanity 

[redrola]

[alexcabotgf]

NOPE — 2022 dir. Jordan Peele

[thetattedstoner]

[lunius-art]

Vampires are mosquitoes, part 2 🦤

[a-philanthropistswife]

Black women in their 30s appreciation board

Ari Lennox, 30

Lupita N’yongo, 38

Laura Harrier, 31

Ciara Wilson, 36

Issa Rae, 36

Tessa Thompson, 38

Jurnee Smollett, 35

Lauren London, 36

[academic-ana]

“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via leofarto)

[lierdumoa]

I was reading an interesting article years ago about collective memory. There have been a lot of thinkpieces over the years about how humans are getting lazier and worse at remembering things thanks to technology. There’s a tendency, particularly in the western world, to behave as if memorization was all people did prior to the internet. 

But outside of artificial school test-taking environments, human beings have always relied on the collective memory of their close peers to keep track of information. Anyone who’s ever worked clothing retail knows that no single employee has the location of every item in the store memorized, but as long as you have enough people working the floor, nobody will ever have to waste time searching for an item because at least one employee is bound to remember which rack it’s on.

TL&DR - brains were never designed to function in isolation. 

Testing the intelligence of an individual in an isolation is never going to give you an accurate idea of a person’s true intellectual potential.

TL&DR TL&DR

Two (or more) heads is better than one.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

My maternal grandfather was a math professor at the City University of New York. He died before I was born, but he passed a key bit of wisdom to my mother, and she passed it on to me:

The important thing is not knowing the answer, it’s knowing how to find the answer.

It our era of text and alphabets, that’s often knowing how to look something up. But for most of human existence, there were no alphabets. So knowing how to find the answer meant finding the person who knew the answer.

All human knowledge is cooperative.

[parasoli]

““It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.””

— Charles Dickens, great expectations.

[nowayhome]

ZENDAYA — by Michael Bailey-Gates for Valentino’s Rendez-Vous Spring 2022 Campaign

[politicalmamaduck]

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

[nyarnamaitar]

Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.

[oblakom-deactivated20200302]

You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.

Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.

Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.

It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.

The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[theanishimori]

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[brightlotusmoon]

The tags speak the truth.

[paxamericana]

[ept2222]

It’s literally a circle. They’re cousins. It’s insane.

If you look up Queen Elizabeth’s family tree, they’ve hidden it DEEP in Google searches, but if you look up Prince Phillip’s family tree you’ll see the circle right away.

[lgbtpolitics]

And it gets worse lmfao because their common ancestor, Queen Victoria, has quite the family tree herself:

Two circles are seen here - one alarmingly small showing that Victoria and her husband Albert are first cousins. The bigger one shows that her own mother married her third cousin once removed, making Victoria her own mothers fourth cousin, meaning Albert was not just Victorias cousin, but also her fourth cousin once removed.

This means that Elizabeth is Philips third cousin, and his fifth cousin and his seventh cousin once removed.

[catgirldick]

european monarchies are an insane mess, yall. their incestuous bloodlines can almost all be traced back to a single ancestor, as well as frequent other crossings.

the english, the dutch, the spanish, the belgian, the danish, the swedish, and the norse royal bloodlines can all be traced back to mr charlemagne, king of the franks in the 8th century . the same goes for the late french, portugese, german, and all other now-deceased royal bloodlines.

royals only court other royals, so eventually all your options in that regard become your cousins.

(this is the highest detail + resolution chart i could find w/o paying 20 bucks)