per aspera ad astra

Multi-fandom | loves mecha, transforming robots, space operas, elves, folklore, and myth

[piro-piroooooo]

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[theia-mania-comics]

Queen of the Dead part 2, 129

"The motif of the famine or drought plays a role in many other versions of the myth. As a grief-stricken Demeter searches in vain for her daughter, the crops cease to grow. The famine thus constitutes an outward manifestation of the overwhelming grief of the goddess of vegetation. As we have seen, the Hymn to Demeter suppresses the theme of the Search for Persephone, and the famine is deferred until after the events in the palace of Celeus."

"Demeter's first plan, to immortalize and adopt a human child - and thereby to subvert the order of Zeus - has been thwarted. After its failure, the goddess conceives a second plan: to starve men so that they can no longer bring offerings to the gods. While Demeter may still be irritated at mankind for interfering with her designs, the true object of her wrath remains the gods, Zeus, above all. But she is quite willing to sacrifice mankind to her own purpose. The cessation of vegetation is consciously - and somewhat heartlessly - willed and planned by Demeter to achieve her goal."

The Politics of Olympus by Jenny Strauss Clay

This is the last page of part 2. But my work is not done. Oh no. Now begins the editing. I want to change a few scenes and maybe add something. Part 3 will start, at the earliest, some time next year.

[theanticool]

They're calling it the most perfect end to a career ever

[theanticool]

A man who has spent the better part of the past 5 years losing to his worst instincts and terrible decision-making. Forced back in to the cage against his will because those instincts and decision-making skills have bled him financially. And as a result of those dumb impulses, likely completely tearing his ACL trying to recapture his youth. Turning the last refuge for the morally bankrupt - combat sports - against him. Truly amazing.

[theanticool]

Oh, forgot to mention for those that didn't' see the fight. They gave McGregor this obnoxiously long entrance that included a fog machine. I didn't see anyone wipe down the mat before the fight so....I wonder if that had anything to do with it. LOL

[warandpeas]

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[rapidpunches]

Refs used from @adorkastock 's reverse mermaid pack. Enjoy!! https://www.adorkastock.com/pose/reverse-mermaid-pack/

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[headspacedad]

@noisypaintersong

[catchymemes]

[pillowfort-social]

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[therapatical]

so one of the largest open source data communities on the internet, data.world, got bought out by a company called ServiceNow, who has decided to fucking delete all of it by July 11th. they've given users barely any notice, no emails, just a fucking banner at the top and a blog post from June that gives barely a month to download your data before they fucking delete it all.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

[irreverentworm]

Have you posted this to r/datahoarder? They would probably be most prepared for preservation efforts on such a short time frame

[therapatical]

I haven't, I don't really have a reddit anymore. if somebody else would be willing to do that, that would be great. I'm pretty sure it only lets you post with a certain amount of karma now which is annoying

[elodieunderglass]

It looks like this has gotten onto Reddit and people are saving the data - but I can imagine researchers who uploaded assets won’t know this, so hopefully can reach some.

[elodieunderglass]

Related to my previous tags

https://www.re3data.org

There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher there’s no point in data existing if not findable; if you’re trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there

Home | re3data.org

[colubrina]

[nevereverbird]

[blov01]

In the blink of an eye, 8 years have passed since the donghua version aired.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu by 倦风拾玉壶

[akitasenseidraws]

Cursed reverse mermaid Maglor for @peasant-player's reverse mermaid crack week, i got invited to participate and I couldn't say no 😭

the pose reference is from @adorkastock

[fuckyeahrayearth]

Mark your calendars! Wednesday 7 October 11:45pm (JST)

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.