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almost home
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Misplaced Lens Cap
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Omg look how it moves! 🌟👁️💫
It's got so many movable components, so many layers! I'm so excited to get more of these!!!
You can help me fund this guy through my Pintopia campaign that launches Jan 22. Check out the pre-launch page to follow and get updates! It's here:
From Kaizuart - Angelus Astronomica, Launching Soon!
video game and film fandoms will come and go for me but the Silmarillion fandom will never die. because that book came out like 50 years ago and we're all still trying to figure out what the hell is going on there.
When I get blood samples at work sometimes they’re still warm from being imminently inside the patient’s veins and my hands are always cold because all the labs Ive work in are in the basement and they keep it kinda cold for whatever reason (and I’m also just a chilly kid).
And I clutch the little warm tubes of blood and feel this sick person warming my hands and I think about how kind you might be and how I wish I could hold your hand and how badly, how really really badly, I want you to get better and stay warm and hold someone’s hand again.
And anyway sometimes it’s better to not think so vividly about the people I’m doing tests for. I’m a good little cog in a vast machine of people all trying to heal and cure, and my cog feels so fucking small sometimes. But I hope the blood I prepare for you helps you breathe better and laugh and wake up feeling well rested.
We’ve never met but you warmed my hands and I want you to know I love you and I’m rooting for you.
At 1 PM on a Friday I get an email from my boss. I'm busy as hell so I don't check it immediately. Then I get a phone call from my boss, which has almost never happened before. I'm a white collar worker, a historian. There's never a 'historical emergency' requiring a phone call to kick me in the ass and get to work.
The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.
It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.
The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.
This map required:
North and South Vietnam in it
All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated
Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)
Has Laos and Cambodia in it
Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it
So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'
I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.
Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.
The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.
The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc
At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"
My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond
good fucking god, jesus tap dancing goddamn christ, I'm glad I was asked to look at it and then find a real map
My fear has never been that AI would replace human intelligence. My fear has been that the people who Know Things and the people who Make The Decisions are almost never the same people.
We’re throwing real intelligence out on the street to starve while worshipping the shambling Frankenstein-ed corpse of knowledge puppeteered by those who see us as disposable assets.
venus flytrap girl ready to eat all the fruit flies in your kitchen.
she turned out very different from the initial idea [she was not meant to have clothes for example], but i'm very happy with the result.
©Philomena Famulok
Dear sea, dear wind. If I were a seagull...
Evanuris Week — Day 4
Day1 ✦ Day2 ✦ Day3 ✦ Day4 ✦ Day5 ✦ Day6 ✦ Day7 ✦ Day8 ✦ Day9
Dirthamen — Keeper of Secrets🤫
For this "nine-days-long-week", I will be sharing my mosaics based on the games, mixing them with the pantomime theatre masks (Dragon Age The Veilguard), their respective vallaslin, and other symbolism <3
Bola Edun by Teneshia Carr for Blanc Magazine 2020
stuff I saw back when I lived near the beach
Anglo-Saxon Bird Brooch, The British Museum, London
Hunter and prey, markers on paper.
“There were voices in the wind and hands in the obscurity. . . .”
Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), illustration to “Three Against the Stars” by Eric North
Fantastic Novels Magazine Vol. 4 #1, May 1950 — source
“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt
“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.
forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me
I’ve heard the author of Little Women always “wished to have been born a man”? I didn’t fact check that, but there’s that.
Author of the classic novel Little Women, Louisa May Alcott wrote about being “born with a boy’s nature”, much like Jo in the classic novel
Yep.
You mean Lou Alcott? Yeah Lou was one of ours.
Yes he was.
ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know
The Enigma of Amigara Fault
This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.
It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.
i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.
Pick a theme for next year's Met Gala:
insects
ways Jack Dawson could have fit on the door
the Bermuda Triangle
Scooby-Doo villains
characters from famous ballets and operas (ahem ahem)
wallpaper samples
the creatures you see when you're hallucinating on NyQuil
O Brother Where Art Thou
