If there was so much discourse over continents I CAN'T WAIT for you to find out about the south-up map

This is what the earth looks like btw

Ok stop answering to this post with "up and down don't matter in space" cause north and south are not up and down and their orientation doesn't matter on earth either. This is legit what the earth looks like.

Well somebody has a superiority complex. Go to a shrink or something idk

Just in case you're feeling important, our planet also looks like this:

"there's a very good reason we humans tend to draw north up maps" yeah, colonialism and eurocentrism. anyway south up rules

mapposting time post your favorite projections mine is the pierce quincuncial!!!

My favorite map of Earth

Oh I feel like I should be able to fold up the pierce quincuncial into a sort of ball

did someone say fold up into a ball

Waterman is clearly the best except it needs the origami gold lines

@elodieunderglass You might appreciate Jarke van Wijk's "Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections" (site, pdf)

I really like these, thank you. Although my first comment was tongue-in-cheek, I like origami and seaming and folding. These are very satisfying.

None of these come close to the Spilhaus Projection:

@xkcd-for-that

WELL THAT’S JUST BEAUTIFUL

can't get over the phrasing of this actually

i will never get over the realization that when straight people misuse "twink" for random men what they actually mean is "he looks kinda faggy"

it's so obvious EVERY time now

i don't think most of them even realize they're doing it, it's just the natural instinct of the hettie to go "HE LOOKS GAAAAAAAAAAY" filtered through an understanding they can't say it in those words anymore

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

First like and this has already found its intended audience

uh oh

Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875

All hail Gustave Caillebotte, the only Impressionist who bothered to say “You know what this art movement doesn’t have enough of? Shirtless rough trade, that’s what!” And then he became the change he wanted to see in the world, and I think that’s beautiful.

i saw this in a museum once and i gotta go off on this for a second– not only is it a gorgeous display of technical mastery over light, darkness, composition, form. it’s also a slap in the face to artistic conventions at the time. at the time, you could have nudes but they had to be heroic. they had to be virtuous. 1875, paris– art was supposed to be elevating. it was for the wealthy, it was to be uplifting, it was so everyone who commissioned the pictures could flex their classics education. okay?

so here’s the floor planers. they’re workmen. they’re workmen. they’re not some rent boy you dolled up with a helmet to be achilles or adonis. artists have been hornily painting working-class models (and sex-worker boyfriends) into their portraits forever, but you’re supposed to frame your appreciation for the male form as an intellectually irreproachable appreciation for the heroic body from literature, or, conversely you could depict the humble beauty of peasants, if you must, but it had to be a sort of ode to nature and the simple life. peasants could be art, as long as they were… out there, you know. in a field. being a metaphor. so there’s your options for looking at a shirtless guy: he’s got to be mythic.

but no. look, here, at the workmen. the floor planers. the workmen’s bodies not dressed up in sandals and helmet, in flowers, on a pedestal. the workmen not employed as some distant paean to an arcadian countryside, not stacking sheaves or holding a lamb or elevating the beauty of nature. they’re here, they’re urban, they’re in a room just like you might have. the workers of your world, in your home, in this reality. the male body as a very real, very nonfigurative tool, humble and employed, but still gorgeous. the beauty of the men that the patrician class pays not to see. the men who come into your mansion through the back door and work unseen and leave unseen. those men. there, right there, this painting, glowing and beautiful.

not adonis. but beautiful.

anyway at the time everyone fucking hated this picture because it’s a direct slap across the classist chops. they were BIG MAD, this was filthy, it was an affront. they hated it. the paris salon rejected it. established intellectuals didn’t want anything to do with this kind of confrontation. it wasn’t art.

i just love that.

like, look at those hot guys go. look at the shine on the floor and the way their arms are. no virtuous framing, no classic allusions. just some regular guys making the floors nice for a rich fucker who never laid eyes on them at all. but here they are: look at them.

they’re still beautiful.

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If you get a puppy at the standard time, around 9 or 10 weeks, it is YOUR responsibility to teach them this. As you are playing, anytime they bite even a little too hard, make a sharp noise like a yelp or a hissing intake of breath or even just “hey!” not angry, more like in pain, and immediately stop playing. If they try to continue to play turn your shoulder or back to them, ignore them until they stop and let you recover. Then you can go back to playing with them. You are showing them what it looks like when they bite too hard, and what is expected of them in that situation, which is to wait to be invited to play before reengaging. Not only does this train them to not bite too hard, it lets them calibrate to each person, dog, and situation.

Maybe one of your hands is hurt – having grown up learning bite inhibition this way, your dog will pick up that you are wincing or stopping to inspect your hand or making a noise and will adjust their bite force/play style. This is a key aspect of socialization, and will let your dog play well with other dogs, children, etc.

This is also how you teach cats not to bite hard or use their claws with humans. You mime and exaggerate your hurt. The thing you DON’T do is respond with your own aggression, because that just teaches them aggression is okay. You stop play and act hurt.

IME this works with cats of any age. They will eventually learn humans are weak little wimps and need to be treated with kid gloves, i.e. claws retracted.

Cavemen adorned in white coats & safety goggles working diligently with welding gear and beakers on PROJECT: WHEEL

Cave scientists huddled around a rotating holographic projection of a prototype throwing spear

Wearing full hazmat suits and watching from a bunker 500 meters away as the first berry is picked

burning man 2023 explained

and lastly: when the ground here gets wet, the sea monkeys hatch

it’s worth mentioning here that Brace Belden is pretending to be at burning man and started the Ebola rumor among others as a joke and everyone is just believing him

I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones

Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.

Fucking what?!

Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.

I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

OH MY GOD

Please forgive my ignorance, but does brass do something similar, or am I misreading this?

Brass is naturally antimicrobic meaning living germs on it die pretty quickly

Huh, news to me, and very good to know, thanks for clearing that up.

Ah man brass is probably my favorite alloy.

What else can it do aside from being antimicrobial and being high-quality casings for ammo?

Friction resistant, can be easily and endlessly recycled, has better corrosion resistance than bronze

It's also conductive, which is why I feel like using it for light switches carries a risk unless you are 100% sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that your wiring is good.

rip to you guys but i love assembling ikea furniture its so fun its like legos

people complain about how confusing assembling ikea furniture is and meanwhile i rise above their understanding and exist beyond their pitiful mortal comprehension as i spend a wonderful day assembling two twin beds with nothing but two hex keys, hope, and a whole lot of screws. 10/10 experience would do again

This is good advice, but also why this picture?

It’s hard for two horses to be intimate when there’s an erupting volcano nearby. What’s not clicking

I like how this guy addresses this octopus as "boss" and "sir". Gotta give due respect to an octopus.

Why does it sound like Charlie Day is on the boat?

The octopus sounds like charlie day?

It does now

i am going to kill bpd

Bipolar disorder or the Boston Police Department?

borderline personality disorder, but also the boston police department

My go-to choices are: - Loudly shush them - "May the healing hands of Satan be placed upon your afflicted areas."