monastic fantastic

[oneheadtoanother]

[zegalba]

Jasper National Park, Canada

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I don't mean to be callous but when I talk about walkability/transit and someone says "what about people who live out in the country" I'm like yeah, what about them? What does that have to do with how people in cities get around?

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I have a post very explicitly about pedestrian fatalities in disenfranchised neighborhoods and how people who can't afford cars are treated as second class citizens and someone commented "tell me y'all don't live 20 miles from the nearest town without telling me." I've had an IRL conversation where the guy interjected "well there are starving people in remote West Virginia, that's the REAL poverty." And it's worth asking, why do you valorize and sympathize with rural poverty but not urban poverty? JK, I know why.

[3liza]

you know everyone, in addition to what rthko is saying, in countries with functional transit, the people in rural areas ALSO can walk on to buses and trains. because the public transit goes to those places. walkability also means you can live in a farming community and catch a train to the city on the weekend. this is the reality in many places in europe and japan. a long time ago i accompanied my boyfriend-at-the-time to a series of techno festivals all over germany without a car and it was fine. the trains just went everywhere, even the smaller towns. for less dense areas there was a lot of support for biking as well.

[thankyouandthankyouagain]

legitimately yearning for summer rn

[foone]

I haven't seen it get mentioned on Tumblr yet but Samsung has just gotten caught in a hilarious scam: they apparently advertised how their latest phones can take great picture of the moon, compared to other phones!

But it turns out they aren't using machine-learning to clear up blurry pictures, they're using machine-learning to detect when you're taking a picture of the moon, and then they swap in a saved PNG file of the moon.

A reddit user figured this out by taking a photo of the moon from Wikipedia, blurring it in photoshop, then trying to photograph it from across the room with all the lights turned out.

Their Samsung phone somehow managed to "clear up" the blurriness and recover details that weren't there in the first place. Because it's just cheating.

[foone]

r/Android - Samsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

7,831 votes and 976 comments so far on Reddit

Here's the first reddit post in the saga.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

Next step obviously is for someone to disassemble the camera app, find the PNG, and replace it with something else.

[pagewoman]

Noss National Nature Reserve, Isle of Noss, Bressay, Shetland, Scotland

[higgsboshark]

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

[cheskamouse]

This is a powerful positive message..

[pluckyredhead]

I’m literally reading a book right now (Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski) that says this is scientifically sound.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

If you feel overwhelmed by existential despair, do something. It doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be anything that isn’t nothing.

[thunderstruck9]

Nicolas Party (Swiss, 1980), Clouds, 2022. Soft pastel on linen, 210 x 150 cm.

[vida-imensa]

Frances  

[rednines]

[mirrix]

#probably not what op is referring to but i keep thinking about those thinkpieces that are like #'straight cis men HATE astrology because they are all obsessed with facts and logic and reason and rationality >:( #meanwhile women are intuitive and spiritual and emotional and have a better grasp on astrology <3' THIS IS TRAD SHIT. THIS IS MISOGYNISTIC #YOU'RE SAYING THE SAME SHIT CONSERVATIVE MISOGYNISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN FOR CENTURIES AND JUST TACKING ON 'AND WOMEN ARE GOOD'

[s9sh9]

“I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

[thunderstruck9]

Nicole Wittenberg (American, 1979), A Rosy Saturday, 2020. Pastel on paper, 15 ½ × 11 ½ in.

[em3rg3ncy-backup-deactivated202]

Is there anything you feel dyadic people should know about intersex people? I'm trying to expand my advocacy and be a better ally. Do you know of any resources or topics I may want to look into?

there are so many things!

I’ll just start by mentioning the things I think of as super obvious, and then forward you onto other helpful resources when it comes to more complex issues

hermaphrodite is a slur when it comes to referring to human beings. you may see people with ovotestes be referred to as “true hermaphrodites”, but that’s outdated and intersexist

no, that cat/lion/lizard is not “naturally nonbinary”. it’s intersex

while there is a list of “intersex conditions”, not every intersex person will have a biological situation that fits into that. there are many ways to be intersex, and it’s more complex than what is able to be divided into a set number of “conditions”

if you want to be a good ally to intersex folk, you have to unlearn both the sex and gender binaries. sex is not defined to male and female categories, and biology plays a much smaller part in all this than people like to make out (e.g. female vs male brain is bullshit)

I could probably say much more, but I’m really tired so my brain is not working 100%. from here, I’d recommend you explore websites and organisations such as:

interACT

IHRA

Bodies Like Ours

interACT in particular has some great resources on their website when it comes to the history of intersex rights and also defining intersex-related terminology. it is USA-based, but it’s a good starting point for sure!

[funnytwittertweets]

[chavisory]

[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]

[gothicprep]

book banning is unequivocally bad and worth being concerned about, but it's funny how this practice has survived into the internet age, where information is more readily available than it's ever been in human history.

"ACK! my kid is going to learn Gender Queer at the school library" dude your kid has a porn machine in his pocket and you pay for it.

[animentality]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

wanna underline that it was Billy Zane doing the looking out for his co-star. James Cameron very famously directed Kate Winslet in a way that left her covered in bruises and gave her double pneumonia.

and good for him. he was a pretty big star at the time, Kate was almost an unknown, and James Cameron was, yanno, himself. so for Billy to stick up for her and respect her like that was very based and sexy.

[vergess]

I also want to point out his mention of the consultation with wardrobe.

When shitfuck actors and directors let their misogyny and racism convince them to do "improv" or "method" that inevitably is neither impov nor method but very much harmful to their coworkers, it's not just other actors who get hurt.

Everyone working on that set ends up in the shit.

He showed basic human dignity to his costar, as well as the people on wardrobe, the people handling props, the people behind the cameras that the glasses were flying towards.

Film is a collaboration, and the vast majority of the people who make the magic happen will never be seen, heard or known.

So it's really fucking spectacular to see Mr Zane acknowledge the humanity of his coworkers and the collaborative nature of the art they made together.

[epilepticsaints]

[plaidos]

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Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

[plaidos]

oh i'll give you three guesses.