the fun thing about english/literature class is that no matter your feelings towards english/literature as a subject, there is always That One Fucking Short Story that you remember decades later because holy hotdogs that was a fucked up thing to make a 10th grader read
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god damn this is a QUILT ('late day shadows' by nancy messier)
THIS IS A QUILT?!?!?!?
I love how we got the introduction to TREE LAW a few weeks ago, when that story went viral on Twitter about the person whose neighbor illegally had all of their trees chopped down because they wanted a city view, so that we would understand what was happening when Universal thought it would be funny to deprive strikers of shade by "trimming" city-owned trees to the point of destruction.
This is an excellent example of organically teaching concepts without relying on tedious tutorials or forced, immersion-breaking expository cutscenes.
A++++ game design. 10/10, no notes.
I seem to have snarked a bit too close to the sun, yes.
Don’t forget the first victims when you go see Oppenheimer this opening weekend. Unforgivable not to include them in the narrative.
We love us some Nolan and Cillian but this is also a story that should never have taken place.
For further reading:
This is what happens when the US government goes nuclear-crazy during the Cold War and mines a shit ton of uranium. Lambs born with three legs and no eyes, and human stillbirths and agonizing deformities for those that survive. For decades it was referred to as a Navajo-specific hereditary illness. No one made the link to the mines and the drinking water.
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
wanna hear a wild story? my brother’s history professor is closing in on 80 and basically lives at the university. one night my brother visited him for a meeting, and it came up that my brother was gonna be performing as a court jester at the castle the following day. and his professor busts out: “ah, that reminds me of my youth!”
he then proceeded to tell the tale of when he and his friends went backpacking to greece back in their early 20s. then one day they found themselves completely penniless. so they decided that the only reasonable thing to do was to set up acrobatic shows in skimpy outfits on the beach at day, and then drink up the money at night.
after a week or so they gained some traction, and a gang of young greek men walked up to them like “hey y’all are cool as hell, can we join y’all for drinks tonight?” and my brother’s professor was like “of course! y’all have to wear these revealing outfits and do somersaults with us tho” and the greek gang said “sounds dope. y’all are invited to live with us for however long y’all want.”
anyhow, they proceeded to live like this for the better part of 3 months, doing shows, drinking, and sleeping at the greek gang’s apartment. but after a while they decided enough was enough, and said thank you for everything, but we’re going back to sweden now. and the greeks said “sure! love y’all have a safe trip xx”
half a year later my brother’s professor gets contacted by the greek police. they ask him about the months they spent in greece, and then informs him that their greek friends have been convicted of serial homicide and robbery. that the group of young greek men had joined up with several tourist groups for several years “for drinks”, and then killed and robbed them all, terrorising the beach city for several years. with one exception, of course, because “this one group of swedish acrobats in slutty strongman suits were just ‘so damn nice’”.
and that’s the story of how one swedish history university professor survived sharing a flat with a group of serial killers for several months by performing acrobatics in slutty outfits on the beach. moral of the story? be kind of heart, thicc of ass.
Six incorrect theories proposed by aliens
1. Humans have a variant language mode for use in the Winter, when normal commmunication becomes more difficult due to the muffling effect of their thick Winter coats. When this mode is enabled, rudimentary messages may be exchanged by barking and possibly also by the secretion of chemical-signalling mucus droplets.
2. Humans enjoy a symbiotic relationship with giant robots and can travel long distances held in the robots’ oral cavities. We hypothesise that, over time, the species have evolved together such that the robots are unable or unwilling to move without humans present: for example, they may make use of the humans’ body heat to kick-start their locomotive processes. What the humans get from this relationship is less clear. They may be carried many miles from their homes by the wandering of the robots and perhaps are able to access better or different foraging at these locations. In any case, they are usually able to identify the robot they were transported by and use it to make a return journey.
3. We believe humans originally evolved from water-dwelling animals. One piece of evidence in favour of this is that human dwellings often contain water vats in which they can perform water-related functions that remain from this evolutionary stage, for example equalising swim bladder pressure and venting internal gases.
4. Humans are one of the rare species to have at least partially made use of fire for their own aims. We believe this transformative experience has led to numerous flammable-material cults across the species. Many humans keep blocks of fire-starting material in their home even if they do not normally take on the fire-starting role. Closely examining fire-staring material is a socially-approved activity in public spaces. We believe these activities may have arisen from the need to make sure that these materials are not wet or contaminated with poisonous spores.
5. Human mating activity requires the complete or partial shedding of the outer skin layer. Interestingly, humans will often re-enter the shed skin layer after mating, perhaps to provide shelter from the elements while they regenerate a new skin underneath.
6. We believe that the species as a whole may be attracted to atmospheric vibrations. Humans can often be observed gathering in intensely-vibrating areas, particularly after nightfall. It may be that they have learned that such environments are uncomfortable for predator species and thus relatively safe. We have not yet determined why so many of the humans’ nest biomes are characterised by vibratory arenas.
literally can’t stop this abt this like the love that went into this.
People with fear of balloons, unite.
Also what a great idea for a modular soft toy!
see always good to add links because op posted a link to the pattern
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Reddit post on r/crochet, by u/crochetmylifeaway. The post shows a crochet toy that can be bent and twisted to make balloon animals. The caption says, "This was such a fun project! I'm terrified of balloons, as is my son. So I made him this for Christmas so he can practice his balloon animals."
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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.
what if whales in minecraft!
[image description: several colourful annotated digital drawings on a white background. the drawings are in a blocky style, to resemble minecraft’s graphics.
the first and largest drawing is a whale, mostly a dark blue/grey/purple colour with a pale underside and a pale patch around its small eye. text under it says “whales!”.
to its right is another whale, this one with square grey barnacles (labelled “barnacles!”) on its skin, and a minecraft player in a boat approaching it. an arrow leads from the barnacles to text saying “remove them with shears!” and an illustration of shears.
from here, an arrow labelled “…and as thanks…” leads to a splashing whale with loose items such as boots, fish, and leather around it. text says “splash! items fly all over!!”. grey text says “(fishing loot tables)”.
another arrow labelled “barnacles” leads to a crafting grid where an item labelled “barnacle spike!” is being crafted from three raw barnacles, an iron bar, and redstone dust. the the barnacle spike is a barnacle-textured grey block with a hollowed-out centre, which appears empty.
below the crafting grid is a simple circuit labelled “redstone trap!” where a line of redstone dust connects a pressure plate to a barnacle spike, which now has a sharp spike sticking up out of its centre.
another drawing, labelled “new structure, whale fall!”, shows a whale skeleton surrounded by sea plants. the skeleton consists of a large skull followed by a series of bone arches for the body/tail, which get smaller the closer they are to the tip of the tail until the tip itself is just a single block. the skeleton is annoted with grey text saying “bone blocks”
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+ 1 to "commissions that are the reason i wake up in the morning".
just ahhh amazing character from the amazing story, written by an amazing person. thank you for giving me another chance to draw her!!
[Image description: text that says:
i crawl in the moss. it is easy to find god. she is a cluster of eels beneath my palms. i ask of her, am i doing any of this life right? and she, with her many mouths, says nothing.
"am i doing any of this life right?" is in italics.
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Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.
The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.
EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.
And even machines need to rest all the time. Even unfeeling blobs of steel need maintenance, upkeep, and care. They need to be turned of every now and then to cool down.
Rest is sacred
the only Donald Duck cartoon to ever win an Academy Award was an WWII propaganda cartoon called Der Fuehrer's Face which was released in 1943, and the plot is that Donald Duck has a nightmare about being a Nazi, which mostly involves being forced to work overtime and not getting time off. Then he wakes up and thanks god for living in the USA where you always get time off and don't have to work overtime. anyway
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A day in the life of Anubis
“Anubis and Black Sea” 2016 “Anubis with mantas” 2016 “Anubis in Hakone I” 2014 “Anubis at the cinema” 2012