Just a bibliophile

Jew. Nerdfighter. She/her. 18+, queer. Separate_Entity on AO3. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Incomplete fandom list: Brandon Sanderson, Cassandra Clare, Criminal Minds, Disney, fibercraft, history, Marvel, Our Flag Means Death, Patricia Briggs, Rick Riordan, science, SPN, Tamora Pierce, Young Wizards

[assignedilyaoftheday]

your assigned ilya of the day doesn't ever want that problem to ever go away 💖

[charleezard]

Happy Pride month!! 💜 I'll never forget how horribly the queer community has been treating queer Jews 💜

[pekingopera]

[madeingodsimage]

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[sleepnoises]

i want to do a painting of a tiger taking a bath to put in a bathroom (bathroom-themed bathroom) and to this end i made a little maquette out of clay and i suspect this will scope creep into having both a painting and sculpture of a tiger or perhaps only a sculpture of a tiger. if i do both should they be displayed together or separately

[sleepnoises]

Tiger maquette by the way 🐅

[sleepnoises]

Working on cutting out a large piece of wood to do the painting on, which is a constraint that will either be really fun or really annoying. Maybe both

[sleepnoises]

Wood primed and underpainted and sketch transferred mostly by cutting it out in different chunks and tracing around them. Stripes to be determined. Nobody let me work on this again for at least two weeks

[sleepnoises]

The finished Ms. Tigers

[maimonideznuts]

Good news everyone... We finally know why Cassowaries have the Casque (horn like protrusion on the head)

It fluresces in a UV spectrum that they can see, and every Cassowary has a unique pattern like a fingerprint. Shiny dinosaurs!

Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius) - Scientific Reports

Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signali

[hmslusitania]

Kala “fixing your problems with violence is never the right choice unless the violence in question is fire, in which case it is always the right choice” Dandekar

[ehyde]

Listen I know that people who make movies are gonna be biased towards movies I just don't think visual media would be Rocky's first choice of human entertainment, even with their workaround to sense the screen.

But also, imagine Grace has been explaining the idea of a "movie marathon" and Rocky is skeptical, because you JUST hold still and watch for that long? You don't work on anything else? But fine fine, earth culture thing, Rocky will try, and they're a couple hours in to FotR when Grace hits them with "okay but in the books--" and Rocky is just. Grace. Grace, there are books question? There is same story in medium that makes more sense question? And Grace is just belatedly like, huh, I guess we do have all of audible dot com here too.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 11 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[psycho-parkway]

hear me out

Ryland Grace is from Nightvale

Doesn’t change much else abt the overall course of the book/movie but like,,, he can get the nightvalr radio from the Mary,,, he calls in sometimes

Pls someone write this for me

[triviallytrue]

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

[dorkichiban]

Karpov had cemented his position as the world's best player and world champion by the time Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene. In their first match, the World Chess Championship 1984 in Moscow, the first player to win six games would win the match. Karpov built a 4–0 lead after nine games. The next 17 games were drawn, setting a record for world title matches, and it took Karpov until game 27 to gain his fifth win. In game 31, Karpov had a winning position but failed to take advantage and settled for a draw. He lost the next game, after which 14 more draws ensued. Karpov held a solidly winning position in Game 41, but again blundered and had to settle for a draw. After Kasparov won games 47 and 48, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players' health. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match. The match had lasted an unprecedented five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws.

okay, yeah this is pretty funny

[hotvampireadjacent]

[geridoodles]

[mariacallous]

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of graphic novel 'Persepolis', dies aged 56 - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/marjane-satrapi-iranian-french-author-graphic-novel-persepolis-dies-aged-56-2026-06-04/

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/marjane-satrapi-iranian-french-author-graphic-novel-persepolis-dies-aged-56-2026-06-04/

[dancinbutterfly]

[caden]

When u hear your friend john talking shit about someone but you’re in church so you tell him to tone it down:

[caden]

[pesti-devota-futurae]

lacuna mutata

[... ] a wonderful phrase

lacuna mutata

aint no [... ] craze

it means textual emendations

for the rest of your days

it's a source [...] free

ambiguity

lac[... ]