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[zegalba]

Shige Hasegawa: 'Hana' Table (2009)

[utopians]

stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day

[utopians]

guess what post just got read aloud in poetry club tonite by an unknowing club member as I watched on in terror

[parkchanwoohoo]

That weirdo billionaire obsessed with stopping his aging/taking his son's blood to stay young has, as far as I can tell, taken a hero dose of shrooms that led him to fall in love with one of his employees(?) and is now attempting to use his wealth to find a cure for her endometriosis? Which like, sure

[parkchanwoohoo]

This is so funny

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm ctfu

[myarmcanfly]

Fat Horse No. 2

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out!

This piece and four others will be available at Furry Weekend Atlanta May 8-10!

[jewreallythinkthat]

I often think about how people (including me back in the day) talk about "oh well old people are all right wing. Everyone gets more right wing when they get older."

And now I am older, I realise it's not that I've become right wing. My values have not changed at all, I am still firmly on the left side of politics. What's changed however is that I understand the world a hell of a lot better than I did when I was 20. I've spent half a decade at uni, I've worked and paid taxes since before the pandemic. I'm involved in political things in a way you don't have the opportunity to as a kid.

What's changed is that I now understand how much more complicated the world is. I understand that some things, much as I'd love them, are not possible, or are at best impractical without loosing something else. I see the ways I want the world to change and I have to think about what is sacrificed for them. Minerals, food, technology, health; everything costs money. We don't live in a society where everyone looks out for eachother no matter how much I wish that were true. We don't live in a world where all country leaders wish for peace, or even wish the best for their citizens. We sadly live in a world where there are multiple leaders who have expansionist tendancies and don't care how many people die to get what they want.

I watched my cousin, one of the most left wing people I know - a journalist regularly on TV debating some of the most deranged right wingers in my country - not lose her left wing values, but adjust to a pragmatic view of the world. What is the situation now, what do I want, what's the best way to do this in a safe, and legal manner? They're just as involved in activism, however what they do now makes a difference because it's realistic goal orientated rather than based around ideological puritism.

Now yes, some people absolutely do get more right wing and they get older (there are also those who go in the other direction) and money absolutely has a lot to do with that. I personally view paying tax as a civic duty and a privilege but I know that this isn't a universal feeling.

The world is shit, but pretending anything other than realistic pragmatism is possible in the immidiate future without the deaths of thousands of people ("the revolution" etc etc) and the installing of an authoritarian regime is complete detached from reality. And I don't have the time to deal with people who don't bring value to the conversation.

[weepingwidar]

Nicko Cecchini (Canadian, d.o.b. unknown) - Castle Walls Lead Me to Despair (2026)

[asneakyfox]

you can definitely have a deep understanding of an academic field with just a bachelor's degree, or in fact with no college degree at all. but if somebody cites the fact that they majored in this field in undergrad as evidence of their expertise that's a pretty clear tell that they don't understand shit

[asneakyfox]

if your bachelor's program did you any good at all one of the main things you would have learned from it is how much you were just barely beginning to scratch the surface of this field

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hedgehog-moss]

Everyone just look at him

[musashi]

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

[jvlianbashir]

my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing

[weaselle]

when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces

[yadelah]

This kinda required my brain a bit

[marithlizard]

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Not that most of us can DO anything about it, but at least this is validation that we're not crazy and the world really is running full tilt over a cliff. It's really refreshing to have someone describe this in plain language, with specifics. Someone on the ground, not an outside commenter: This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication. We were so mortified by the inexplicable shift in energy that we (wisely) declined to take the money and ended the sales process, and soon thereafter removed Cortex from our list of demonstrations.

[fatsexybitch]

Thisisfinedog.jpg

[suturesque]

harold fisk - meander map of the mississippi river (1944)

quilt by timna tarr "mississippi meander"

[utopians]

I consider myself a real hater but sometimes you really do go too far with haterism. once I had to break mutuals with someone bc they hated the entire art form of poetry and the final straw was when they started hateposting about soup. The food

[bluestockingbaby]

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of plastics is collapsing

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.

[lettuce-tv]

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

[hypokeimena]

i need to show you guys the absurdly saucy pear my parents just casually had out in the fruit bowl like it was normal

[hypokeimena]

im not a talented photographer but these come close to capturing the overall effect (i.e., the raunch factor)

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

641.34 and 778.921

fruits and nude photography