Wandering between myths and constellations

Briar: the untitled goose in human flesh Aka a walking contradiction. (she/her/hers)

[dduane]

Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over

OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content.

Well, this would be interesting...

[sullustangin]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[oneamongstconstellations]

I’ve never watched the old guard, but am seeing murderbotx the old guard crossovers on ao3. The mystery develops.

[oneamongstconstellations]

Death.

Eternal end, new beginnings. Peace at last. Rest in peace we say, yet we speak of death as something to be feared. Grim reaper in name, welcoming guide in truth.

When shall we meet?

[tenya]

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

[broskepol-deactivated20221009]

this fucking shit, you know

[bogleech]

I spend so much time carefully picking and adjusting the colors in every single drawing I make that I’d probably lose my mind if I didn’t just repeatedly push this out of my memory and pretend it’s not a thing. Why am I reblogging a blank empty post that doesn’t say anything??? Weird

[gaysheep]

good news! you can’t make sure that everyone will see the correct colors on their own device, but you can make sure your monitor is as accurate as possible for printing and sharing by calibrating it! 

there are a bunch of free monitor tests, but here’s an easy one you can use. the passmark and eizo tests are also pretty good, though passmark doesn’t work in your browser. be warned that some tests may cause eye strain.

you can either use the settings built into your monitor itself or use the display color calibration settings in your operating system to adjust the settings until everything looks correct, and then enjoy your accurate colors.

[zeldadiarist]

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

[camerapits]

Photographers, too. Color calibrate your monitors if you intend to print or sell your work. There’s a ton of info out there for this.

[russiawave]

[hellenhighwater]

he is keeping his beans warm

[narwhalsarefalling]

oh yeah have i ever told yall of the academic war i have been an unwilling soilder in for the past two years

[narwhalsarefalling]

okay SO. i have two professors that both teach this one subject, but different classes. they have different last names, so i didnt know this at first and espically since they are academic RIVELS at my school, but they are MARRIED. but for the past 8 years they have been in an academic WAR of geospatical sciences data. more accurately, the raster vs vector data debate. i am personally on the side of "both have their pros and cons and can be utalizied to the utmost efficency" but both professors are like, DEADLOCKED in insistanting one is better then the other

so, professor A is my mentor. i like him a lot, and he was the main person that taught me the most abotu Eris and ArcGIS. professor B is a professor i had one for class, and shes nice and knows a lot of little tricks about Eris programming but mostly relies on arcMAP because shes the raster data professor.

and THESE MOTHERFUCKERS. have written no less then 30 papers that is basically like a "re: re: re: re: re: re: vector data is better then raster fuck you" but like, Professionally. and they leave stupid notes in the footnotes that read "Reguardless of Professor A's opinions reguarding the efficency of Vector data, Raster data has a more efficant polygon computing rate and is the most commonly used program on interplantaring mapping" and its HILARIOUS

[narwhalsarefalling]

ive read all of their papers, and its basically like reading an email chain between a married couple arguing over the colors of the kitchen backsplash for their new home. its HILARIOUS. but obviously, because of their differnet last names and because they act like they HATE each other, NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE REALIZES THEYRE MARRIED

until like LAST WEEK

[narwhalsarefalling]

professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word "husband"

and obviously all the students are like "oh i didnt know u were married!" because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine

[narwhalsarefalling]

and shes like "yeah, its Professor A"

[narwhalsarefalling]

and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT

[narwhalsarefalling]

we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A's desk was ironic because hes that type of guy

[narwhalsarefalling]

like, you gotta undestand. these two have gotten into YELLING matches in hallways. these two refuse to go onto trips with each other. but apparently they have a system where they quite LITERALLY leave all of their work at work and drive home in seperate cars and literally NEVER mention work at home. it is SO funny

[beez-n-crackers]

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

ADVENTURE TIME (2010 - 2018)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 The wisdom of Adventure Time <3

[rejectingrepublicans]

[adrenaline-revolver]

since microplastics have now been found in plACENTAS allow me to reiterate: 

faux fur is plastic

pleather literally has plastic in the name

synthetic wool is plastic

stop implying that plastic is good for anything.

[randomfandomteacher]

“Vegan” fabrics? Yeah that shit is just plastic rebranded

[todaysbird]

not supporting the fur industry - but remember, vintage furs from thrift stores do not contribute to killing animals and are actually better for the environment than faux fur.

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

You can also buy fur new if you want. That is not a crime unless you are buying endangered animal furs. It’s also not really worse for the environment or the animals than buying regular meat or eggs from the grocery store, because all those animals are factory farmed, whether for fur, meat, or eggs. Factory farming isn’t solely a problem with fur, and anyway if you want to stop it then you’re better off calling or writing your politicians and getting involved with the larger movement that is trying to end big agra monopolies than only shopping at ‘pure’ retailers. You can’t change the world with your pocketbook, that’s a lie capitalism fed us.

The best furs to buy for warmth are coyote and raccoon, anyway, not mink and such. Sheepskin is also good. Stuff like mink, ermine, and sable aren’t actually very useful in terms of keeping you warm. Vintage bear and beaver are also pretty warm. Rabbit is useless, it sheds and goes bare quickly and isn’t very warm at all. Soft though.

Wool is the only fibre in the world that keeps you warm even when the wool is wet, and silk is among the best baselayers for warmth. Linen is the coolest fibre in the world, better than cotton, has been used for centuries and is a lot less costly in effort and water to produce–cotton is only cheaper artificially.

Down is the warmest and most breathable stuffing for blankets and pillows and it lasts a really long time. Cotton or wool stuffing is available also, but it doesn’t get the loft that down does, nor is it as warm (cotton isn’t warm at all). Remember that stuffing is also made of plastic!

Leather is great stuff, if you take care of it properly. It needs regular care and maintaining, but it will last a really long time if you do, and just get softer and softer over the years. And yes, you can clean it! You use something called saddle soap to clean it with. Patent leather has a plastic coating and may not even be leather these days, unfortunately. Deerskin is very nice, very soft but not very warm.

There’s a movement I first heard about in the historical costuming community, from Pinsent Tailoring: Slow Fashion. It’s a response to fast fashion, and the goals are to have a wardrobe that is more about longevity and quality of the clothing, and also about the clothing being made so that in a hundred years, all that would be left are the metal/horn/bone/shell/wood buttons. It’s very hard to do that with modern shoe soles, but if the heel or insole of your shoe is the only plastic you leave, you’re still doing better than an outfit from Target or something. Making your own clothes is actually not extremely difficult, you can start with extremely simple things, including the Bisexual Shirt (poet shirt), a pair of comfy pajama-style pants, and so on.

Make friends with your local vultures, costume historians, and leatherworkers (which are all, sometimes, also cosplayers)! They’re going to have oodles of resources for where to find natural materials.

Also, support Indigenous businesses!

[bogleech]

It was always friggin weird to me that real fur became so controversial and socially offensive among people who still eat meat, like PETA activism actually successfully changed our entire culture and tricked people into thinking that wearing an animal’s skin is Exceptionally Wrong, except I guess cow leather because that’s not from like, a fox, which is like, a dog, and therefore special or something

[hydro-homies]

@Nestlé

[dkpsyhog]

Just a reminder it used to be standard that public locations would have drinking fountains for anyone to use

[july-19th-club]

something about Sam Vimes that ive seen ppl miss (why?) - he’s not devoted to the law. he’s devoted to fairness, and therefore frequently breaks or bends the law when it turns out to be upholding unjust things. he deliberately does things to frustrate and hamper the noble class, and it’s more than implied that the guy in charge of the city lets him do it, and encourages him to do it, because it is helping to slowly pave the way for a different status quo. BUT. he doesn’t start out like this. he’s guilty of using the law, or even just the social conventions, to excuse his own bad behavior, and he has to learn before he can change. 

take men at arms, where he’s grouchy as hell about having to include these affirmative action hires and loaded with casual bigotry that he feels like he’s okay to have because ‘he’s allowed’ - and how this conviction is challenged and shown for the excuse that it is throughout the novel.

 this is something he has to learn in order to be better at what he does and therefore a better person. that’s half the point of his character: expose the flaws in the system. he’s a watchman who exposes the weakness of the watch, who at the time of ‘men at arms’ still has an attitude of overlooking wrong so long as it’s done to the wrong sort of people. there’s this scene where he’s having dinner for the first time with his fiance’s rich cronies and they’re having one of those ‘political conversations’ we’re all familiar with (last time you saw the family at Thanksgiving and you kinda just buried your head in your wineglass while they got lofty about The Illegals and The Decline Of Family Values until you got sick of it and got chewed out for chewing them out, that kind of dinner). he starts parroting their own racist rhetoric back at them, dialed up to eleven, until everybody’s embarrassed, and his fiance gets upset because ‘you made them look like idiots, and it’s not like you’re a paragon of political correctness’ and then - and then he makes a comment along the lines of this: he’s allowed to make rude comments, it’s different because he’s not as bad, blah blah blah blah blah. and there’s his hypocrisy, use the thing to show its flaws.

and then he realizes. 

this has gotten rambly but the point is: his development hinges, and always has, on working hard to overcome personal biases and shortcomings. taking his privilege as well, and confronting it. that’s the only way he can get to become the kind of character who knows which laws are in fact unjust. 

the watch books aren’t an examination of law as A Thing To Be Upheld: in the watch books the law is just a tool you can use and should change when it has stopped working. when Sam Vimes has the gonne he says “I am the law” - but he is not, because that’s not how it works and as soon as he says this, he knows he’s gone too far. and he puts the gonne down.

[matsuropalette]

you know what I’ve fucking had it. the fact that it’s almost exclusively disabled people writing image descriptions IS a form of ableism. If you are an abled artist you should be writing image descriptions for your art. if you’re abled you should be able to image describe a tweet. it shouldn’t be up to just the people that have to literally ration energy for basic tasks to be doing this. I shouldn’t feel awful about not being able to do image descriptions when I literally cannot stand to shower while abled people won’t even reblog descriptions. 

[matsuropalette]

refusing to create accommodative measures is a form of ableism. it is ableist to not choose accommodation. that’s what this boils down to. 

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Time travels to show this screenshot to someone 10 years ago and ask them to figure out what happened

[dankmemeuniversity]

[gowns]

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a friend shared these with me — people are still piecing the info together, but seems like this is a true phenomenon

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[neil-gaiman]

Change your last name u ain't even gay

I’ll get right on that.

[paroxsys]

this is the funniest post on this site. everyone go home. nothing is ever going to be better than actual neil gaiman, on tumblr dot com, answering this ask.

[geniexo]

yo if you’re a cis girl or afab and femme presenting and you’d be comfortable with having a trans girl roommate, please reblog this. i just need reinforcement that there are girls out there who wouldn’t be disgusted by a girl like me.