Field Notes (from The Field of Pleasure)

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This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.

Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.

The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”

I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.

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I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORDS

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

by Obvious Plant

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We’re doing heartbreak now, amongst other things

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A Pop-Up Alterations Shop Run by an Artist Considers the Cost of Labor

On Black Friday, textile artist and activist Carole Frances Lung will examine unseen networks of labor and capital in the garment industry.

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A Day of Healing Through Mending Clothes

Bring your discarded sewing, or the sewing you never started, or the sewing you wish you knew how to do, for a day of personal and community mending.

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…At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and Song of Despair (via wordsnquotes)

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A new generation of postfeminist sexologists is trying to discover what ignites female desire.

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How We Obliterate Female Sexual Desire – Emma Lindsay – Medium

Why do bisexual women get raped so much? Almost half of bisexual women have been raped (compared to 13-14% for straight/lesbian women) and…

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The last surviving sea silk seamstress

Byssus, or sea silk, is one of the most coveted materials in the world – but after more than 1,000 years in the same matrilineal family tree, this ancient thread may soon unravel.

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The problem with how men perceive rape

A few years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I met up with a boy from Philly at a fancy doughnut shop in Chelsea. Prior to the date, I’d been excited. We had an internet “meet cute” story—a witty remark he’d made had gone viral, and, smitten with his smarts, I’d managed to track down his OkCupid profile—and the fact that our first date took place in the early days of New York’s recovery from Sandy’s destruction felt auspicious. My city was getting back on its feet, and so was my dating life.

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13 Charts That Are Way Too Real For Bisexual Women

Online dating = 99.9% couples looking for threesomes.

So... lots of actual truths here.  Kinda surprised by Buzfeed on this one...

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New York, 1992

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lmao😂/smh🙄

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Eli Bosnick had the best response to this ridiculousness.

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”