[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 70*50 cm “geese in lavender” 2025

[dasha-ko-art]

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[iris-of-the-lambs]

Notes from a scholar who found a talking castle, then tried in vain to map a way out of it…

artfight attack for @iguanodont , featuring their dragon character!

[stealingpotatoes]

found this old picture of tucker from when i did traditional art and he, in his infinite noble wisdom, decided the palette had perfect feet-holes for loafing in

[captain-price-returns]

It's not just that they're doing corruption, but they're doing the kind of corruption that is basically "guy hands over a cartoon money sack with dollar signs on it" corruption.

[natalieironside]

When I got my current job they made me sign a form acknowledging that I'll be immediately fired if I accept free mcdonalds or an amazon gift card from someone at a rival firm

[tres13]

This is the literal, legally-defined face of corruption. Why is he still a free man?

[drylippedapologies]

goat lake, wa, usa

[nausica-lucaria]

Neva painting I did last year🤍

watercolor and acryla gouache, 13x17cm

[south-africa-official]

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

[andmaybegayer]

When I moved to Europe I was like oh, I'll get to see the Northern Sky, what a novel experience. No you don't! There's no sky to see! It's for real crazy how good the skies are in like, Suburban Johannesburg.

[go-learn-esperanto]

Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.

They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.

[thequietedge]

📍Istanbul, October 2025

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 / XC15-45mm

[whyenn-reader]

one odd side effect of being stealth and hanging out with cis guys is realising just how mean they are to eachother, and they all just accept it even if it bothers them. you reply with a ''that was really mean you cunt'' after one of them insults another and they're wide eyed bc they never thought about it that way. and they all think they need a girlfriend so that they can open up about their problems. banging my head against the wall

(i am saying this in the most ''the patriarchy hurts everyone'' way possible)

[whyenn-reader]

they dont make eachother birthday gifts. they think they need a girlfriend for someone other than thier mother to remember their birthday. dead serious.

[hope-for-the-planet]

Superhot Rock Holds the Energy of the Future

Move over, solar and wind. Thanks to new technologies, a “geothermal renaissance” is propelling green energy further than ever before.

As with other areas of renewable energy, advances in technology mean that the potential energy output and affordability of geothermal energy are rapidly increasing.

The new geothermal process used at the Newberry Volcano in Oregon produces ten times more energy than a traditional geothermal plant while requiring less than half the water and well drilling.

[clubnich]

The Ninth Saint to Serve the King Undying and her cavalier Ǫ̸̥̬̳̟̞̙̼̳͓̉͋́ṛ̶̠̰̘̤̯̹͎̫̈́̌̚t̸̢̡̧̢̛̛̘̘͎̝̪͉̅͆̈́̈̒̈́̿͘ú̴͉̳͊̀̇͠s̸̺̘̙͑̈̂͂̒̾͜ ̶̘̠͔͆̌Н̴̼͚̱͚̙̭̳̪̙́̐̄̈͌̚и̶̧̌̓̇͜г̶͔̲̼͖̙̳̒̀͌́͋͂͝͝е̴͓͈̲̌н̸̡̢̛̠͚̼̻͍̠̂͂͑̾̇͒̕͝͝а̴̠̪͌̈́̎̀̓̅̀̚͠д̵̭̬͓̠̫͓͓̝̹̍̾ͅ

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

(See also the video here from ITN.)

[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofdrymice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[yet-another-heathen]

[outerspacekake]

@this-is-orientalism

[checkyourasianbias]

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[redlipstickresurrected]

Haruka Kawakami aka 川上遥か aka Soboro aka かわかみはるか (Japanese, b. 2001, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan) - 理想 (Ideal) +ラフ (Rough) Sketch, 2026, Japanese Paintings: Nihonga