[asmrgaret]

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

[asmrgaret]

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

[roseoilz]

translucent fabric sculptures by korean artist do ho suh

[teaboot]

FABRICCCCCC?!??!?!?

[redlipstickresurrected]

Charlotte Miller aka Charlotte Emily Miller (British, based Suffolk, England) - Claiming, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[pmamtraveller]

"Danse macabre" (2023), acrylic painting created by the Iranian artist Bahman Pezeshkzad.

[queershakespeare]

replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

[wizardarchetypes]

song of the summer (via muco_0 on tiktok)

[enigma-absolute]

You can’t just leave us without translation!

[kirkwallhellmouth]

And have some additional nerdery about the song (includes pictures of the original manuscript—and where a scribe decided to change some notes, but the original notes were still obvious):

Sumer is icumen in / Perspice Christicola: silencing the cuckoo

Sumer is icumen in is the earliest surviving complete English secular song, sung in this article’s video with all six voices indicated in th

[yeoldenews]

A selection of animals from various 17th and 18th century calligraphy copybooks which were drawn with single lines to practice (and show off) penmanship strokes.

[beardedmrbean]

[literallymechanical]

This is a contender for my new favorite fusion paper. How does it feel to be the realest god damn scientist on the planet Dr. Smiet

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[triangleguy]

by fomajc on instagram. im losing my shit over this

[themboots]

[commander-ledi]

one detail i think is important to point out: if you look at the video frame by frame, you will see that his pants come off

[creative-anchorage]

[forestgreenlesbian]

Los Angeles (growing up etc), Sophie Altemus

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[agoldenplum]

Thanks @slightlylightly founded by Sunny Somrat, This is  SSFood Challenge

The players in and around Bangladesh play and are rewarded with food even losers get food. The combination of colorful games and the feel-good factor of nobody going home empty-handed has given Somrat a genuine hit.

[uhanekahiko]

Polynesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

[baddestvenus-in-virgo]

sometimes I am just amazed at how my ancestors managed to navigate the entire Pacific Ocean with these. knowledge that was nearly lost and is being re-learned.

[gamebird]

AH! I'd heard of these, but this is the first time I've come across pictures.

[batbetbitbotbut]

Book rec: We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, by David Lewis. Dense but readable and absolutely fascinating, it is a detailed account of traditional sailing and navigation techniques in a number of Pacific island communities. It's been years since I read it but what I remember most is the "star paths": nighttime navigation by keeping your boat at a particular angle to a particular star, BUT stars move overnight and with the seasons so each route might need you to switch between 15 various different stars at different times of night and you might need to learn whole new routes for other times of year.

[apocryphiend]

oh my god. i never thought marshallese history would cross my dash!! all great information but i would like to point out that the marshallese people are actually Micronesian, a group that has historically been looked down upon and oppressed by Polynesia at large, so please put respect on the name of Micronesian innovation, culture, and history!

[whiteshakira]

u cld write a whole thesis abt this xkcd & how the only workers personified here r the upper class college degreed tech & management workers & not the third world workers facing unsafe grueling conditions working in mining or even manufacturing..... the wood source described as a "legal fight"

[hex-360a1b]

i saw this post on facebook and i love it tbh. it helps regulate calm deep breathing.

[jacobfryetrash-deactivated20171]

Try this out!