Wintermute

30s, back after a long hiatus, AuDHD. Just things that I like. Former EMS, now I write and push buttons.

[dduane]

Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.

Gods rest him. May he have found a vantage point from which to view our endless bullshit without pain.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[rikacreature]

when u have the correct number of cinderblocks in ur enclosure

[rikacreature]

due to popular demand, i have included the target ball

[bastionkeeper]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Lean into the funny idiot archetype so that when you’re unexpectedly hypercompetent at something they give you The Look where you can see them reexamine their entire perception of you in confusion, respect and no small amount of fear, and when you keep playing funny idiot they will be forever wary of you. Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat, and never figure out how to deal with that because they won’t abandon their boxes.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

i keep mine in my fanny pack :)

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Art in the Age of Digital Puritanism (2022) by Iness Rychlik The artist reposted it in 2024 "because it feels relevant in social media today".

[thegryffe]

[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

[valcun2u]

I think this is right up your alley @elodieunderglass they’re all so beautiful.

[elodieunderglass]

They’re enchanting, thank you so much for thinking of me!

An interesting thing about this seems to be that it would’ve been really difficult to reconstruct these images without digital technology. Although Prokudin-Gorskii photographed his images to be shown in colour, he apparently showed them on a projector - with three coloured filters on projector lenses combining to project a colour image.

Even though the negatives were available historically, the actual recreation of the intended images seems to have been driven by digital photo editing: Making Color Images - The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: The Empire That Was Russia | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

A half-completed thought here: “there are many lenses for looking at the world, some of which we haven’t retained. Which other ones may we have forgotten? what can we recover?”

[adhdxxsdiary]

Me, not talking: Ah fuck, I am being weird

Me, talking: Ah fuck, I am being weird

[accidentalslayer-deactivated202]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Additionally, findings indicate that the act of doing shows you that you were not seeking perfection, you were fearing inadequacy

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

@grey-and-lavender

#oh that last line gutted me #is there a place between perfect and failure?

Good news! There is!

Bad news! It is called 'done'

[spreadassholesdotorg]

[homunculus-argument]

"New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually" is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They're not exactly urban animals. I'm pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you'd see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.

[introsquirrel]

County roads

Full of holes

On the route

I need to go

Road construction

Lane obstruction

Let me go

County roads

[prescription-cactus]

couples ought to be friends if not best friends. romance is not a alternate path to friendship, but an add-on to friendship. friendship with sprinkles on top.

[finalhorsegirl]

obsessed with this stupid shirt i found at goodwill the other day

[anexperimentallife]

Hast thou thy morning meds consumed?

Off with ye, then, and do so! (And also should’st thou some water imbibe.)

[anexperimentallife]

And thine evening medications, as well?

Hast thou taken them? If not, and if it be at or past the time for thy medicines, I urge thee to take them in a timely manner, as well.

[anexperimentallife]

Art thou avoiding (as thou canst) those activities which exacerbate thine infirmities, and engaging in those (again, as thou canst) beneficial to thyself? Please, I urge thee to care for thyself.

[scribblewise]

[autiebiographical]

Neurotypicals and autistics communicate very differently, and both sides need to work together to be understood. However, it's often the autistic person who's seen as the problem when communication issues arise.