xoxo R.R.

She was just a girl, with infinite eyes; of sea and air, land and sky. A chameleon of sorts, she fills her thirsting ventricles with inspiration.

[walkthegale]

"What are you smiling at?" "Nothing."

[upennmanuscripts]

Today we're looking at a 15th century German medical and astronomical miscellany. It has sections on medicine, astrology, and astronomy, including texts on the zodiac. Also includes a great urine chart, and many bleeding charts. (UPenn LJS 449)

Online:

[archiveofaffinities]

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Composition, Blue Segment and Red Cross 1922-1923

[viralfrog]

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"do it scared" this "do it tired" that. well no one ever talks about the fucking insurmountable "do it with greasy hair"

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[themisally]

[lost-in-a-nebula]

Voyager + text posts: wlw edition pt1 | pt2

[sophie-watts]

Thanks 

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign

[oneheadtoanother]

[animentality]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

The art 👇🏻

The inspiration 👇🏻

[berrycobbler]

it's so hardcover –> we're so paperback

[logically-devonian-blog]

How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

[thelynnfiles]

Oh snap!

[cutlerish]

As an engineer, this makes me happy.

[thefurrynerd]

If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…

[endoshan]

easy peasy

[aibohphobia]

watching this while listening to a clock ticking is the best decision i have ever made

[puppybeargf]

[sonbr]

You may like this amazing web page then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ It’s a full break down of how a mechanical watch works, every single part including a complication. Every diagram is interactive and beautifully put together. It’s a fantastic read, fun to play with and really informative.

[eightyonekilograms]

Seconding this recommendation, and in fact this person’s entire blog: he has multiple of these explainers and they’re all good.

In particular, if you’re a programmer who finds floating point numbers to be exotic dark magic, I strongly recommend his Exposing Floating Point post. There are many guides/tutorials on floating point arithmetic out there but IMO this is the best one and makes them really not seem so difficult by the end of it (or at least, all their counterintuitive behavior now makes sense).

[florial]

[nyanakin]

the type of ship i fuck with the most

[edinburgh-by-the-sea]

the sun's watery home

[free-my-mindd]

“Envy no one. For whatever you see, a price was paid.”

Absolute truth.