March from Scipionyx

its me rene guy babord, belemnite enthusiast and hater of value https://reneguybabord.neocities.org/

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Marx and Engels: Stations of their Life

An 11-part tv 'docudrama' series broadcast in East Germany from 1978-1980 all about Marx, Engels, their life and works ... A few years ago I decided to translate and write English subtitles for each episode, and finished episodes 1-7 before it was all unceremoniously pulled from youtube. Anyway here's the folder of what's left. It's quite an interesting historical artefact as well as a decent dramatised depiction of Marx's biography, and the music is freakish and incredible.

i cant exactly vouch for the quality/accuracy of these translations any more but since im probably one of the only people left with copies of these films i thought i might as well put them out there.

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ive decided ill start posting here again. Twitter is just too evil

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Puyo Puyo illustration for a 1996 Disc Station calendar, by Ichi.

Madoh Monogatari Fan Book (Oct. 17, '17), pg. 12

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

[fernthefanciful]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

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I found this Delias aganippe dead...

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Beetle and larvae on Eucalyptus cephalocarpa

(this is now a bug photography account)

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There are two main kinds of treefern around here: rough and soft. They are well named, for the simplest way to distinguish the two is to feel the bases of their fronds. The rough treefern’s, Cyathea australis, is covered in warty bumps and feels almost like sandpaper. However, as you descend into the deeper, wetter valleys, you start to see the soft treeferns, Dicksonia antarctica. These are smooth and covered in long, soft hairs at the base, like a horse’s mane or something ...

These soft teddy-bear like beings also tend to have more clingers-on (epiphytes) than the cyathea. One such is illustrated below: a Mother Spleenwort, Asplenium gracillimum. The spore cups (sori) under the leaves are pouch-like.

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The cool-looking discolorous leaves of Olearia argophylla, or Musk Daisy Bush. This large shrub from the daisy family (Asteraceae) forms a major component of the understorey in cool temperate rainforests throughout south-east Australia. Here I’m using the camera’s flash in order to attain the freakish ‘black mysterious seaweed forest with ufos’ atmosphere ...

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Recent images from the hills!!!

[aletheyass]

24 etruscan/roman bronze statues found!!! yes!!!!

[aletheyass]

hiiiii besties! welcome back to the world 🤍

[plebeiameretrix]

Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history

Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring an

Adding this article for the time stamp and some details. What an exciting find!!!

[rockstarsuperheat-archive-deact]

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i've made a list of 7 books ive left half-read which i should be able to finish before the end of the year, let's see how this goes

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self and others by rd laing: all the existential psychiatry stuff... a lot of the book is taken up with case studies which are written very empathetically.

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Chaosmose (Chaosmosis) by félix guattari: subjectivity as a machine, and it can be any type of machine imaginable ... the question of building new forms of subjectivity ... fundamentally it seems like guattari is saying that rather than e.g. psychoses coming from an increasingly convolution/fragmentation, they are instead tapping in to this other sphere of infinite intricateness, likened variously (if i remember right) to a freeze-frame, or a particle travelling at infinite speed (and hence being present at every point in the universe at once).

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finished reading freud's 'outline of psychoanalysis' (not exactly a book, but oh well). I guess it's a good introduction to psychoanalysis but it's very dogmatic and yeah i don't see the whole incredible explanatory power of stuff like the oedipus complex or penis envy. On the one hand -- it does seem certain that almost no 'natural instinct' which we may have obtained from our evolutionary past is strong enough to overturn superstructural psychical stuff. E.g. we clearly have a genetic predisposition to be afraid of snakes, but there are also a number of people who want to have sex with snakes... And this applies even more to the incest disinclination. So I don't accept those arguments against the oedipus complex. But at the same time: why should we presume that this very particular possible complex is a universal of childhood psychosexual development?

Also the more i read of freud the less i like him. He was a boring bourgeois liberal who was a big proponent of the idea that human beings are inherently cruel and violent, and basically all of psychoanalytic practice seems to be based on the idea that people's normal inclinations are disgusting and evil and need to be hemmed in to comform to social norms, if necessary by force! There is not a drop of social criticism. It always has to be criticism of an individual (a suffering, miserable individual) from the eyes of 'society at large'.

also the guy was incredibly keen on the stupid 'oxfordian theory' of shakespeare authorship, and literally brings it up every time he mentions shakespeare. Complete freak

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Example of xingkai script (行楷), a style between running hand (行書) and regular script, but closer to regular script

[eng by me]

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i've made a list of 7 books ive left half-read which i should be able to finish before the end of the year, let's see how this goes

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self and others by rd laing: all the existential psychiatry stuff... a lot of the book is taken up with case studies which are written very empathetically.

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Chaosmose (Chaosmosis) by félix guattari: subjectivity as a machine, and it can be any type of machine imaginable ... the question of building new forms of subjectivity ... fundamentally it seems like guattari is saying that rather than e.g. psychoses coming from an increasingly convolution/fragmentation, they are instead tapping in to this other sphere of infinite intricateness, likened variously (if i remember right) to a freeze-frame, or a particle travelling at infinite speed (and hence being present at every point in the universe at once).

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i've made a list of 7 books ive left half-read which i should be able to finish before the end of the year, let's see how this goes

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self and others by rd laing: all the existential psychiatry stuff... a lot of the book is taken up with case studies which are written very empathetically.

[antiqueanimals]

Zoölogy; A Textbook for Colleges and Universities. Written by Theodore D. A. Cockerell. 1920.

Internet Archive

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Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis 2: The Swarm

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i've made a list of 7 books ive left half-read which i should be able to finish before the end of the year, let's see how this goes