Stardust & foxes

Canadian and art addict. I duel people to death with terribly bad humour.

[theweirdwideweb]

[astronicht]

Unless you were a tech at NASA back in the day, when one time some hydrogen a) escaped in a particular building, and b) caught on fire. This was extremely difficult because hydrogen does NOT burn on the visible spectrum humans evolved to see (and flee). Rather, it technically does, but it’s so pale that in practice, no one could see it. Additionally, pure hydrogen burns without smoke and with so little ambient heat that you can’t really sense it till you walk into it. So, per the lore, for a few days all the techs in that building just walked around brandishing brooms in front of them like lances. If your broom lit on fire, congrats! You have located more burning hydrogen! Do not proceed!

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

oh my god it's real and it was LITERALLY called "the broom method" holy shit

[schro-dingus-deactivated2023030]

this video shows just how hard it is to see hydrogen fire btw

[triapus]

This is how the James Web telescope works

[macleod]

A million little eyes staring into the cosmos to help paint a picture of our place in the universe.

[cocainejuul]

Limoges porcelain garlic pill case

[luv3horse]

Anyone remember a post from Tumblr past, where somebody said something about being tired of having teenage chosen ones and they wish someone would write one that's older? Because my older sister did that and it's getting published in April.

[elizmanderson]

it's me!! I'm the older sister!!! and this is my book!!

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu inspired by gold fish

[radical-revolution]

[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.

[adhd-informative]

This is really good advice for ADHD people because when executive dysfunction gets bad it’s easy to fall into this pattern of thinking. Do just one thing. It doesn’t have to be your homework, or a chore. It can be something small, it can be something you enjoy. But do just one thing to remind yourself that you can.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

This is what “humans want to be productive” really means

We want to make things. We want to do something and at the end of the process see that something has changed. We want physical proof that we did something. We want to be able to point at something and say “I made this”. We want to be creators

[gallusrostromegalus]

A Brief Insight Into The Creative Process

Gallus Rostromegalus Digital On Too Much Coffee And Not Enough Emotional Stability 1/2/23 at 2AM

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Camaraderie and Chocolate

Mia Shitpostcalligrapher Digital On A Night Attempting To Roll Over A Fucked Sleeping Schedule 1/2/23 at 6am

[gallusrostromegalus]

Gratitude

Gallus Rostromegalus Digital on The Following Evening After Therapy When Its Not Actually That Cold But It Is Unusually Humid And I Feel Way Colder Than Usual 1/2/23 at 9PM Right Before I Go To Bed Because Its Been An Intense 19 Hours

[bidonica]

Do you ever think about the infinite

[thoughtportal]

we thought it would be easy

[bitegore]

This is from @hellenhighwater!

Original post can be found here: https://hellenhighwater.tumblr.com/post/612678725528633344/i-had-a-new-flag-made-for-barntopia-because-its

[hellenhighwater]

Yeah, one of you weasels cropped the picture and it breached containment. This is in my dad’s barn–I made it for him years ago specifically in reference to the incredible number of projects that have started as “just a little thing” and have ended with a nuts-and-bolts restoration–and he’s now seeing it posted in his car groups on facebook, that’s how far out of hellsite circulation this has escaped. And now his car friends want me to make them flags too.

I really should have expected this.

For the record, this painting is also for my dad’s barn.

[hellenhighwater]

Actually, you know what, fuckit. It’s on redbubble now.

[devpalmer]

military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

[devpalmer]

whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

[legendary-scholar-deactivated20]

[nyloncurtains]

Benoit Blanc, entering the tardis for the first time: now mr doctuh… when you said it were bigguh on the insahd.. i mistook that fowuh a jest… but it seems thayut said blue box is, if my own eyes do nawt decieve me, indeed bigguh on the insahd

[layaart]

The Midnight Lie 🥀 🐍 🗡🍵

[screenshotsofdespair]

[spooniestrong]

[nkim-illustrates]

Warm and Cool.