Star Follies

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[mcsryaoihell]

my bonnies

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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[starfollies]

Oh this is cool!

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[thekimonogallery]

Furisode set,  Creation Date: 1920 - 1940.  black furisode is the outermost (uwagi); red furisode is is the middle (shitagi); while the white one represents the lower (shitagi), represnting a set of three formal kimono with long sleeves for an unmarried young woman (furisode. Red crepe silk (chirimen) with yuzen decoration in white, black and blue, the cranes with embroidered detailing, cloud bands in gold foil and the waves with detailing in silver thread and white paint. Red silk lining. Five family crests (mon). Rijksmuseum

[succubusboyfriend]

so. i was not happy with the 3D models of horses on offer in the CSP store or literally anywhere else i could find them, i needed one to use for my work, and i went ahead and made my own that is now available for the low low price of FREE in the CSP assets store.

textures included are greyscale basic shapes, multicolor basic shapes, and white with no shapes (but eyes, mouth, nostrils, and hooves emphasized for ease).

shape is ROUGHLY based off the silhouette of an Andalusian. size-wise, it by default stands at around 16 hands, but of course it can be resized to suit your needs. for that, I recommend sizing a human pose doll to the correct height (in centimeters), lining them up on the same plane, and resizing the horse to match the human doll's height. remember that a horse's height is measured at the shoulders!

it also comes with the following preset poses:

if you use CSP and wanna snag it, type 2204263 into the search bar in the CSP assets store. happy horsing!

[sesiondemadrugada]

Hasui Kawase.

[agardenandlibrary]

There's a StoryGraph giveaway for The Hands of the Emperor! Both digital & audio versions!

victoriascribens's giveaway for The Hands of the Emperor on The StoryGraph

In honour of the recent release of the audiobook, I'm doing a giveaway for THE HANDS OF THE EM...

[thefugitivesaint]

Sayume Tachibana (1892-1970), ‘Jealousy’, 1923 Source “To Western eyes, it may seem that Sayume has something of a typical gothic sensibility. His subject matter includes ghosts, water sprites, shape-shifting fox ladies, “hell courtesans,” and tragic stories of lost love, murder, and suicide. However, his career, which spanned the Taisho and early Showa Periods, came well before more conventional gothic influences reached Japan; so his art represents a truly authentic Japanese sense of the macabre and mysterious. Sayume is a semi-tragic figure. His introspective and otherworldly art emerged at a time when Japan was moving towards militarism and modernism. Although this means his art now has a poignant atmosphere of ghostly nostalgia, at the time it meant he could not enjoy all the success his talent merited. Also, a great many of his works were destroyed in the great fire that followed the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, while others were destroyed in the War.” (Source)

[crumpet099]

Those are his fledglings man

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[themightywolftiger]

Adding my own images of Nashville Zoo to this. It’s super important to stand, fight, and continue to spread awareness on this.

There’s so many other great animals at this zoo, and it's done so much in teaching people about animals and conservation.

[todaysbat]

Other animals includes bats, btw.

Nashville Zoo fights potential data center, developer addresses concerns raised

Developers are seeking to turn land into a 69,000-square-foot data center next to the Nashville zoo.

Tennessee is home to dozens of data centers, why a new one faces pushback

Amid a growing number of data centers in Tennessee, the Nashville Zoo is pushing back against a proposed facility near its property, citing

Developer claiming they'll follow government regs when the EPA is openly rolling back regulations.....

[greater-than-the-sword]

Dude. The NOISE. All I can think about is the noise. None of the animals will be able to survive there anymore.

[barnlarn]

Sorry this isn't an art post. I don't normally reblog stuff like this...but this is important to me.

AI is dubious at best in terms of its actual benefit to humanity as a whole. Chatbots are dangerously affirming and often factually incorrect. GenAI is rotting our brains with slop content and emboldening scammers and criminals. Memory and graphic cards manufacturers have abandoned the consumer markets, wildly driving up prices for basic home computers in the name of line-go-up profit. All because a handful of people unleased AI onto the world without anyone's consent, ushering in an age of digital theft, the devaluation of human skill, and allowing corps to kick people to the curb even more than they already do.

And at the foundation of it all are datacenters. If we can stop these, we can at slow AI and maybe give ourselves enough time to at least regulate it.

Humans are actively made sick when they live next to datacenters. I can't imagine the toll this one will take on the sensitive animals if built. We need to band together against datacenters and their construction.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[anyaboz]

Join the cult

Check out my Patreon for tutorials

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[elljayvee]

The Library of Congress has a collection of over 1000 of his images. All color renderings in their catalog are available to view, with descriptions.

Prokudin-Gorskii Collection | The Library of Congress

Search results 1 - 25 of 1380.

[catchaspark]

californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

[progressivemillennial]

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

[whitneymuseum]

Happy first day of winter, everyone! Explore more works from the collection.

[Rockwell Kent (1882–1971), Moonlight, Winter, c. 1940. Oil on linen, 8 × 34 1/8 in. (71.1 × 86.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Charles Simon Bequest 96.60.42]

[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

Voting ended on12h

[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 :(

Voting ended on12h

[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

Voting ended on12h

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

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[acorviart]

some new wood prints

in da shop