Liminality

i have no honest to god clue what this blog is about anymore...

[drops-of-universe]

im like who cares who cares who fucking cares but i care i care i care

[the-haiku-bot]

im like who cares who

cares who fucking cares but i

care i care i care

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[misscoquette]

This one was brilliant!

[officialprettyboy]

I saw a post that described the sentiment a very long time ago at this point, but it gives me hope.

I love humans. I love that it is built into our DNA to pattern-recognize faces. We are such social creatures that we look at a tree and find a face, we find a face in everything. We just actively look for others to love and be and celebrate life with. We need the community.

And like! We saw big vicious predator animals (cats and dogs) and went "fluffy! I am gonna keep you" and gave them food and, because they're also social creatures, they were like "yeah, okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

We look to the stars for more friends! For adventure, for hope.

Our brain is also so wired for pattern recognition that sometimes, among the white noise, it fills in voices, or music. Not necessarily in a psychosis way, but some people's brains hear silence and just fills it with music! We have such a tenancy for patterns that we just make something out of nothing.

Things are really scary all over the world rn. But sometimes I feel a bit better thinking about how much love still exists in the world. People are not born cruel. We can fix things. We will get better.

[misscoquette]

We could all use some more hope these days ❤️

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[radicalgraff]

"You are not a tech bro, you are a modern day factory worker"

Seen in Oakland, California

[the-haiku-bot]

“You are not a tech

bro, you are a modern day

factory worker”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[kat-formerly-submissive-mrs-c]

Dracula Daily Calendar

I made a Dracula Daily Google calendar that is set up to repeat on the correct dates each year, please share!

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The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny

[fairyhaven13]

As an art major, while I know Fountain is a valid piece of art that accomplished exactly what it set out to do, I also think it’s one of the stupidest things. We have a urinal in a museum display. I have yet to see a work I think is dumber.

[inthefallofasparrow]

[punk-a-cat]

The thing I love most about Duchamps urinal piece is that it was so “low cost” in terms of creative labour (compared to say, a large scale oil painting or sculpture for example), but it’s absolutely FULL of rage against the traditionalists and the world at that time and it’s SUCH a statement, it’s like, “oh just a mass manufactured item with a signature” but the reality of it is so many layers of meaning and without understanding the history at the time you don’t get it.

It’s an incredibly clever “fuck you” and I love it

[xanderwithanx]

An old professor of mine, an expert in Duchamp who has written several books, has a theory. In part, “Fountain” was a prank, a personal “fuck you” to the organization looking for artworks. It’s importance cannot be overstated, and this importance stems from the fact that “Fountain” is /ridiculous/. It is enraging, it is hilarious, and it is very fascinating.

Aside from Duchamp’s readymades, I love “Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors Even”. Pictured below, the work invokes a complex machine, one my professor spent a great deal of time studying. Eventually, he reached his conclusion. My professor had been pranked. He believes “Bride Stripped Bare” is a joke about masturbation, hidden to all except those study it excessively.

At first blush, Duchamp’s works are stupid. Upon further study, they’re very complex. And, upon true understanding, Duchamp is laughing at you. To me, it seems the closer you come to truly understanding Duchamp, the more he slaps you in the face with a large fish.

[xanderwithanx]

Let me rage about “traditionalism revival” here. This is a dogwhistle.

As a lover of art, there are many complex and technically impressive works being created today, which both embrace different artistic traditions and break from them. To ignore those is to ignore contemporary art.

Here, OP is raging against conceptual art, which stimulates thought and challenges tradition. He wants his followers to believe that art has “degenerated”, because the West has “degenerated”. OP is intentionally engaging with fascist ideas of “degenerate art”.

If OP wanted to be accurate, he would seek to restore the Salon System, the Beaux Arts Academy, and classical training in the arts. The collapse of this specific system allowed for Modernism to evolve. Of course, that’s not what OP is talking about. He’s evoking beauty as a moral standard, telling his followers to “restore Western tradition”, to fight against aesthetic “degeneracy” in culture.

(By the way, Duchamp is commenting ON MODERNISM with “Fountain”. Duchamp submitted the work to the Society of Independent Artists’ salon in New York, who would accept any work by any artist, for a small fee. In part, Duchamp is saying, “Is this what you Modernists want? A urinal? Look me in the eyes and prove this is not art.”

If OP dared to use his brain, perhaps he would agree with Duchamp here.)

[riotsquirrrl]

The thing is that it isn’t even a urinal! It doesn’t match any model manufactured at the time. Also Duchamp was an accomplished ceramicist. It’s likely that he made the sculpture and absolutely everyone is like “I know what a urinal looks like. This is sufficiently urinal-shaped for me to assume it is one without looking at it closely!”

Duchamp had other readymades, like his snow shovel, where if you actually look at the photos, the handle is square and the bowl is way too flimsy. Why would manufacturers make a snow shovel with a squared-off handle? It’s impossible to hold! Duchamp slapped the “readymades” label on all these items and the hoity-toity art people who were so good at looking at things didn’t see it (probably because they’d never had to do labor like shovel snow imo, amongst other things).

Marcel Duchamp. In Advance of the Broken Arm. Museum of Modern Art. (4th Version [Ed.!!!] after lost original of November 1915)

[the-real-seebs]

wait what. there… what?!?! IT ISN’T AN ACTUAL URINAL?!? or might not be anyway. what the fuck.

if the dude seriously did that, his troll game is out of everyone’s league except Leader Kibo.

[foone]

My favorite thing about Fountain (besides the fact it has been pissing off fascists for over a century, natch) is that the original was lost and he made a bunch of official editions to sell to various museums (after the original was lost, possibly on purpose).

And they’re different! If it was a real “readymade” he could have just bought some more at his local hardware store, but no. He changed them in OBVIOUS WAYS.

See the triangle of holes?

Here’s the one from the Tate Modern:

Oh hello, cross-holes. Fancy seeing you here.

SFMOMA’s edition has the triangle holes, but it also has a line of holes at the top that are completely different from either other version.

Here’s one from Moderna Museet. Line and a circular set of holes!

Duchamp definitely intentionally made these different on purpose. It’s a “readymade” but it’s not, really, each of these is a specific custom creation.

It’s not even clear if he made it! He wrote a letter to his sister claiming that a female friend sent it to him, and he just enrolled it in the art exhibit under his own name. There’s also a possibility that that female friend was himself, since he later had a female pseudonym of Rrose Sélav.

This whole piece of art is a fractal troll, and it’s a beautiful one.

[roach-works]

art is a creative statement.

sometimes that statement is ‘go fuck yourself’

[therealbeachfox]

Art has a message and sometimes that message is “die mad about it.”

[the-haiku-bot]

Art has a message

and sometimes that message is

“die mad about it.”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[misscoquette]

I love that haiku-bot will sometimes unearth the most fascinating discussions from the depths of Tumblr that I never would've thought to go looking for but thoroughly enjoy

[pnglove]

png of glow-in-the-dark stars ♡

[misscoquette]

POV: it's 1996 and you're staring up at your bedroom ceiling while plotting how to run away to Europe instead of going to college just before drifting off to sleep at 2am

[depsidase]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[misscoquette]

I miss the beach!

[glitchlight]

one of these days I'm going to open this app and see you posting "actually, gluons are a type of maid locked in a black rom mediation between two topgirls and one bottom girl, and there is only one bed!"

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#i regret to inform you describing quantum chromodynamics in terms of which particles are fucking is older than anyone reading this post #the maid angle however may be new (via @prokopetz)

[artyphex]

I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

[ageisia]

Of course we do, and the people on this website are totally representative of the average population.

[misscoquette]

Naturally

[skopostheorie]

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

[queen-mihai]

Always reblog flash debate

[official-megumin]

on it boss

[zocomi]

reminder that the presenter says "oh, shut up" not "can it"

[azeofspades]

Native French speaker here. "Ta gueule" is actually more like "shut the fuck up" in terms of level of disrespect

[belphegor1982]

also worth noting is that the "are you happy" is the correct gender

[kkachi-serica]

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[anxietyproblem]

[anxietyproblem]

3 months*

[scaip]

2

[misscoquette]

[leg-stealing-bee]

thank fucking god I'm not 14 anymore

[leg-stealing-bee]

hey if you are 14-17 It does get better you are just in your caterpillar goop era

[sadspectre]

Also sometimes the goop era lasts a little longer than other people's goop

[hobbit-feels]

Reporting in just 6 weeks shy of 50 years-old: You will re-goop several times in your life, often emerging with different wings and maybe even different skills. You're gonna be okay.

[pansexualpasta]

Fuck I needed to hear this today.

[naamahdarling]

There's many goops but things do generally get better with each goopening. Especially that first one.

[reasonsforhope]

A new study finds you can reduce the amount of microplastics you drink simply by boiling your water.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the health risks associated with microplastic exposure.

Nano- and microplastics are bits of plastic as tiny as one-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.

Boiling and filtering your tap water may dramatically lower the amount of microplastics you drink, according to new research.

Recent studies have found that nano- and microplastics (NMPs), which are bits of plastic as tiny as one-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, have been found in a host of products and even in tap water.

A new study, published February 28 in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, found that boiling mineral-rich water for just five minutes can reduce the amount of NMP you’re exposed to by up to 90%.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the health risks associated with microplastic exposureTrusted Source, but growing evidenceTrusted Source suggests the plastics can accumulate in the body and trigger oxidative stress, inflammation, insulin resistance, and liver issues.

Certain advanced water filtration systems can capture and help remove some NMPs from tap water. But researchers wanted to figure out other options to remove microplastics, especially since in poorer countries cheaper, more accessible solutions for clean water are needed.

Boiling water may be a safe, simple solution that can effectively decontaminate household tap water, the new findings suggest.

“Boiling water before drinking is a great example of an ancient cultural practice that can help reduce an environmental exposure,” Dr. Luz Claudio, PhD, a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told Healthline.

Claudio was not involved in the study.

How boiling water can help remove microplastics

The researchers found simply boiling water is the first step to removing NMPs from tap water.

The researchers collected multiple samples of tap water from Guangzhou, China and contaminated the samples with varying levels of NMPs.

Each sample was boiled for five minutes then left to cool for 10 minutes.

Boiling hard water that’s rich with minerals — such as calcium or magnesium — creates a chalk-like residue known as limescale, or calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which can trap the plastics.

That solid, chalky residue then had to be separated and removed from the water with a standard coffee filter or stainless steel filter, thereby removing NMPs.

The team found that the impact was greatest in harder water: In samples that had 300 milligrams of CaCO3, for example, nearly 90% of NMPs were removed.

In softer water samples with less than 60 mg of CaCO3, roughly 25% of NMPs were removed.

“What’s important to note here is that the effectiveness of trapping these micro/nano plastics in these mineral solids is tied to how hard the water is – the harder the water, the more solids are formed, the more microplastics are trapped,” Dr. Anja Brandon, PhD, the associate director of U.S. plastics policy at Ocean Conservancy and an environmental engineer, told Healthline.

Brandon was not involved in the study...

How to limit your exposure to microplastics 

Anyone who wishes to boil their water should do so in a glass or stainless steel pot.

After boiling the water for about five minutes, let it cool, and do not stir it, Claudio says.

The microplastics need to bind to the calcium and fall to the bottom of the pot so they can filtered or scooped out."

-via Healthline, February 28, 2024

[misscoquette]

This is very important. It is also incredibly depressing. How are developed nations being told to boil their drinking water without rioting over the unsafe conditions of our natural resources? Why aren't we doing anything about this from the top? What kind of dystopia is this?

[my-midlife-crisis]

artist unknown

[homunculus-argument]

me: alright, I managed to get the paperwork stuff done. Still plenty enough time today to do some other work. my most trusted advisor who would never betray me, the ADHD goblin: Enough stressful things have happened today. Draw a pearlescent deer instead.

[frogfile]

You have to post the deer now. That's the law.

[homunculus-argument]

Deer.

[misscoquette]

The ADHD goblin will not be denied.