death rather than sin

laeva eius sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.

[morscion]

Igne divini radians amoris...

Roman Catholic

Celibate lesbian (Side B)

20s

Bachelor’s degree in Classics

Currently discerning contemplative religious life

Special patrons: Our Lady of Sorrows, St. John the Baptist, St. Agnes of Rome, St. Dominic Savio, St. Gemma Galgani, St. Thérèse of Lisieux.

[christianbalesasshole]

scene that shouldn’t have altered my brain chemistry but did anyways

[morscion]

seeing my grandpa’s last apples post in my notifs again is making me emotional… so nice to relive that memory again 🥹

[soymoss]

starling

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[perriaeyjeve]

[morscion]

you’ve caught me at a very “‘blue sky & the painter’ by bastille” time in my life

[magdaleneanthony]

[a-h-mad-hish]

"If one has not read the newspapers for some months & then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

He is not saying every report is worthless. He is saying the form itself devours attention. It creates the illusion of importance because it arrives constantly. Once you step back, the fraud becomes obvious. A lot of what looked necessary turns out to have been mental clutter.

So do not confuse constant information with real understanding. Do not confuse urgency with importance. And do not let the passing noise of the age colonize your inner life.

[laterkiss]

everytime i want something i should be shot in the head

[laterkiss]

wanting to get shot in the head for wanting something is also wanting

[ad-crucem]

Corpus Christi by Paul Shad-Rossa, (1891)

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[ramqiu]

the upgraded xenonite suit was invented shortly after

inspired by this tweet

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Andrew Gifford, (UK b. 1970) Étude, Dordogne, France Summer 2024 oil on canvas

[petitworld]

Yorkshire, England by Paul Moon

[yoursummerdreamz]

[taragrimface]

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

[taragrimface]

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

[taragrimface]

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

[taragrimface]

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

[serenity-bitty]

ouch