chill out, icarus, before you fly into a window

I'm just here to look at stuff and take up space on the internet. Feel free to ignore me! I've been here longer than some of you have been alive. icon by 1945sellmeats

[evidentlyeddie]

[megamindsupremacy]

Beautiful dash pull

[prokopetz]

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

[bear-disguised-as-a-human]

This is how I found out that Ada Lovelace was Lord Byrons daughter

[prokopetz]

Well, yeah. That's why she received the unusual education which laid the foundation for her later discoveries in the first place. Her mother, Lady Byron, firmly believed three things:

It was her responsibility as a mother to ensure that Ada didn't turn out like her father;

Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet; and

The opposite of poetry is math.

Ada Lovelace's biography handily illustrates how well this theory worked out in practice.

[arqueete]

Hark, a vagrant: 298

[puzzled-on-main]

am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas’s paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as ‘vulgar’”.

[robogrind]

love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever

[robogrind]

you're bountiless you stupid bitch

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[scarlettaagni]

so i think the solution is to give dachshunds a third pair of legs right in the middle

[bayesic-bitch]

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

[koiagain]

im really bad at texting or talking And really communication in general

[fandaniel]

having a multi year long character obsession becomes like a abstract thought experiment at some point

[robertfagden]

(guy who tags every single post as the same exact character) you know who this post reminds me of?

[uniformedwater]

music not hitting, phone not hitting, Minecraft not hitting, food not hitting, mouth taste like blood, death comes for us all

[platypusesforarms]

Cassowary Chicks 🐦Dino Bird (2017)

The chicks are striped for camouflage in the leaf litter. They won't get their elaborate adult colours until four years of age.

[bunjywunjy]

What the heck is a Falanouc and why does it look like that?

okay so I saw the search summary art first and was like "interesting style choice"

However,

looks like their faces are shaped like that because they shove them into the dirt all day hunting for worms. american robin type of animal.

<art src Lilya Butenko>

[markscherz]

Mongoose* with face for slorp

*not actually a mongoose because Madagascar has its own brand of everything. This is a euplerid, like the fossa.

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

[desolendate]

im literally in tears what the fuck