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#ain't that the way

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My friend came over this weekend and we bleach dyed some shirts for the eclipse! The cotton shirts definitely took the bleach better than the cotton-poly blend sweater and tank, but I really love how they all came out

#awesome #good use case for shirt bleaching

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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#if that's the first good thing said about a piece of media and it isn't literally about being queer that's a bad sign #like- there's a world of difference between “it's queer” as subject matter vs a selling point #and tbh at there's so much contemporary media “about” queerness that you do need to be more specific in a pitch #if someone tried to sell me on stardew valley because it's queer that's the wrong selling point (you can be gay but ehhh) #if someone tried to sell me on “my lesbian experience with loneliness” because it's queer- no shit sherlock #it's no longer a description that automatically means the work has something interesting to say #i'm glad we're at the point where pandering happens but that doesn't make it not pandering y'know

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#animal death #sounds like an educational zoo trip

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Laios heaven is Marcille hell it.s a very efficient system

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I love baseball

#omg

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in general I think this website has a serious problem about wanting to feel smugly superior about Literally Everything without spending even five seconds thinking about it first

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#absolutely yeah

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#honestly i'd watch it

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i cannot possibly be the first person who has had this idea

#it's a great bit #dropout #brennan lee mulligan #zac oyama

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hm not me suddenly caring about the star wars oc i made up when i was six years old when i don’t even care about star wars

#accurate #i'm here to see the 1970s retrofuturism and han solo in that order

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#my phone broke after 2.5 years but i intended to exceed that #i downgraded to an old phone for a while #used my prev until it wasn't useable anymore