Three espressos from Greatness

Mad scientist. Sad scientist. Tired grad student.

[ymutate]

Väinö Blomstedt ( 1871 - 1947 ) Finnish painter

"Lake in the Wilderness" oil on canvas 103 x 64 cm, 1895

Finnish National Gallery

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

mmmmmmmm hardtack

[phillytranswoman]

Going on an extended expedition? Is the hardtack the main ration or backup?

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

it's for if I get hungry in my apartment

[phillytranswoman]

That's what doordash is for.

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

DoorDash is expensive and takes effort. gnawing on bricks makes me feel like a beaver or perhaps a dodent

[carovingian]

what recipe do you use??

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

You put flour in a bowl and add water until you have a dough and then some salt if you have it. You put it in the oven and bake it at 325 F, plus or minus however much, until it's hard as a rock all the way through.

[pugman1230]

Is just salt necessary or is iodized salt fine?

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

guys it's fucking hardtack you're basically making a brick food really does not get simpler than hardtack just throw some shit in a bowl and fire it at low heat or high heat idc until it's hard and you can build a house with it

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Congratulations you've taken inspiration from edible bricks and created the regular brick

[hillsofspices]

so this is insane

Canada is failing the Jewish community and Jews are being targeted, Prime Minister Carney says

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is failing Jewish Canadians and the community is being brutally targeted by hate.

[softestaura]

schiaparelli saturn bag

[poolsidescientist]

Most Americans are perfectly decent people but sometimes you meet Americans who manage to live up to every negative stereotype about American tourists. Funnily enough I've never met these people while visiting the States.

[notaplaceofhonour]

“SJP chapters are independent & autonomous”

And? So is the Klan.

[notaplaceofhonour]

The “autonomous cell” structure is in fact incredibly common among hate groups & extremist organizations for exactly this reason.

Neo-Nazis use it. Terrorist organizations use it. For the same reason White Supremacist violence usually takes the form of “Lone Wolf” attacks.

It’s an entirely intentional & incredibly effective tactic for vast radicalization networks to isolate and limit responsibility for the inevitable fallout of their rhetoric & actions.

[poolsidescientist]

Most unhinged breakfast order I managed to overhear today: 5 fried eggs over hard with the yolks cracked.

[poolsidescientist]

There's nowhere quite like being in the woods during a summer storm.

[caketopus-bleg]

A Reichenbach Falls embroidery inspired by the brilliant @contact-guy Watson's Sketchbook. Make me feel things and I must stab things artistically.

[disfiguredgrace]

pro palestiniks are so fundamentally stupid they’d hear about kibbutzniks draining israel's malaria swamps and call it ecological imperialism

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

Because they envision Palestinians as needing to fit the model of the Ecological Indigene™ whose close relationship with and stewardship of the land was in perfect harmony, and hence they envision the state of abject ecological degradation and collapse the land was in for centuries under imperial Greco-Roman and Islamic rule as a romanticized, natural state that had been carefully nurtured and undisturbed since time immemorial. When in fact the colony of Palestine was such a blight on the native ecosystems that dozens of keystone species went extinct, most of the land was unnaturally desertified and swampified, and during several historic periods experienced such long and intense famines and droughts that human population declined drastically because most of the country was uninhabitable. Invasive species like tzabar - originating in Mexico - were heavily adopted and spread by settler communities, many staple crops like our ancient grape cultivars and date palms were wiped out, and things like our terrace farms (madregot or ma‘alot) and other native landscaping practices that used to keep local ecosystems and water systems and soils were mostly destroyed. Almost all large carnivores like lions, bears, monitor lizards, and crocodiles were extirpated due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and extinction of a lot of their original prey species: oryxes, hartebeests, onagers, ostriches, etc. Ancient Israel was not filled with swamps and deserts. Romantic nationalists see images of "Palestine before Zionism" and interpret its decay and neglect as being the normative condition - or even a beautiful indigenous cultivation - when the truth is that before Zionism, the colony of Palestine's exploitation of, violence against, and apathy towards the land and its oldest inhabitants brought it to ruin.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[poolsidescientist]

It's still unbelievable to me that someone would use AI to plan their vacation. I know some people do it and it might save time but false information aside, planning the trip is honestly half the fun and I would hate to be robbed of that joy.

[urgetocreate]

Andriy Kovalyk (Ukrainian b.1986), Breath of Spring, Oil on canvas

[alan713ch]

america's birthday present would be a hell of a tag to keep for it

[poolsidescientist]

It's always a wild ride when you hear that a famous/semi-famous person was given a government job and you look them up and they're actually qualified for it.

[thickness-protection-program]

I'm probably someone's "not this guy again" on Tumblr

[icaseybaybee]