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i feel strongly about this
I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question
But then you wouldnt have known about the moose
this is tumblr. we needed to know about the moose.
At least no molten metal was involved!
I love The Golden Girls.
Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.
This was before Ellen came out.
This was before civil unions.
This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.
And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”
I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.
I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.
I just want to make sure it's not just me
Nowadays when I get a phone call I don't say anything until the person that calls me speaks.
I will just sit there and not say anything because I've gotten too many scam phone calls.
So I will just sit there not say anything and if you're calling me you should probably speak first
I wish i could do this but my job requires i answer the phone and that habit carries over to my personal life. 😕
The Operator, watching Drifter head back to 1999 to do that one year all over again, bouncing around the walls of a single brick room in a run down mall except for planned offensives down the same cobbled streets, 1999 after 1999, holding back the Indifference as friendships deepen and civilians hope but nothing else can change for the better when the year ends in nineteen Radiation Wars... "I don't know how you do it."
The Drifter, watching the Operator head back to their Orbiter for another day of invasions, excursions, cracking relics, the day's sortie, the week's Archon Hunt, where the faces of the dead change but not the killing just the way they die, and maybe it's not technically a Spiral filled with the same thing as yesterday, different decrees and a different Warframe, but if there is upward progress then it's too incremental to see in this slow crawl of an entire civilization out of decay... "I don't know how you do it."
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
This is the paper. It's excellent, highly recommend reading it.
I remember reading about Gebru's firing but I had no idea this was the paper she was fired over.
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
lil baby Nero doodles from Broken Glass in the Morning Light by @dragons251. I could not get over him wearing Dante's coat so neither will you.
Warframe Pride 2026.
Good news, everyone! I'm excited to announce that I will be doing another round of Warframe pride (after a 2 year break, oops!).
To truly re-enact my previous circumstances (because that's how the magic of art works for me) I need you- yes, YOU- to give me a list of Warframes. I'm talking to Limbo, I'm talking Uriel- any and all of them, I mind not! I might even draw them kissing. You never know.
I'll handle the gay stuff for personal, gay reasons.
Also:
This year, I'm making a public list, so if any other artists wish to participate, they can!
I dunno if that makes sense (I'm running on 4 hrs of sleep), but yee :3
If all goes well, the list should be out by the end of the week :D
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter
good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week
Huh fascinating, I wonder what the fash have against Eric Carle? I wonder what he might have said about his life, and influences, and early experiences that makes them say he’s part of an ‘insalubrious culture’?
Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement.
You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong
"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.
[Image text: there's actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]
happy star wars day! redraw of one of my old sw comics bc i am STILL obsessed with the idea of the twins meeting padmé's family
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how rogue one probably goes in the rebel padmé/ galaxy's messiest divorce au
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who wants more rebel padmé au (me, the answer is me i want it)
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I love your art style! In your Rebel Padme AU, how do the twins deal with the whole ‘worst divorce of the Galaxy’ dynamics of Padme and Vader? How are theirs interactions with theirs super divorced parents? Do they pick up a side or just try to stop everything from burning? I’d love to see Luke and Leia of this AU in your art style!
see i want to have seriousness/angst but I also want to have the sheer comedic potential, so i think as early teens it's like "mom how could you lie to us abt our father being an evil fascist sith all these years?!?!?!" and then by like age 17 it's like
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In the au where Vader and padmé are super divorced who do they talk to about it if anyone? Also where do their friends stand on this?
the only person she really talks to about it is obi-wan, who is of course the opposite of team 'hes evil rn but theres still good in him' and not receptive at all
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