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rolling around in eurovision drama like a dog in filth without actually watching the show counts as boycotting, I have decided

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the sky only did this for ten minutes of the ~hour I was out there, but it was a very cool ten minutes

#thought about brightening the colors but this is pretty true to life. turn your lights off instead and gaze upon the night sky! #aurora borealis

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morning 😊

#almost perfectly simpatico with my maximalist preferences except for the lack of wallpaper

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Has anyone ever actually finished a stick of lip balm or do they just despawn after a certain amount of time

#hm. maybe I use too much chapstick #I am constantly running out and scraping out the remnants of near-empty tubes to add to half-full ones

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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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Qian Xuan (錢選), 1235-1305 Early Autumn, late 13th-14th century The Detroit Institute of Arts (ink, watercolor and gold on paper, 311 mm × 10624 mm)

source: https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/early-autumn-57885

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Remember these terms for professions to help encourage gender neutral language!

#my brain keeps fucking autocorrecting 'mailman' to 'post officer' #it's like police officer + post office. is I guess the internal logic happening there

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total years-long burnout and resolution to step back and let people handle their own jobs VERSUS no one is doing their damn jobs and quite literally we are about to have power shut off for non-payment: FIGHT

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TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024

ALFREDO JUÁREZ | RAMI ASTRO | JOSHUA INTINI | KENDALL RUST | DERAN HALL | KUZCOKHANDA | TREVOR MAHLMANN | OTHINGSTODO | NASA | STEVEN RATNIK

#I love how the different eclipses have different corona shapes #the 2017 one had three spikes of light coming out like a sideways V had been overlaid on it #this one's halo is a smoother sort of snail shell shape #the solar prominence near where the 'shell' ends was visible to the naked eye btw! pinprick of white light

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poll plagiarism <3

#100%! thought I'd fumble for lack of history knowledge but the 1919 map is easier actually. fewer countries #took the modern one to compare and got 82% due to former yugoslavia and tiny city-states #I cannot be expected to know where malta is until they send at least one banger to eurovision that ISN'T titled in french

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you can literally say anything to men, it doesn’t matter

#people in the comments saying this is probably ai. have you not interacted with this genre of straight man? #I also suffer this when talking to urban professionals but at least they usually aren't simultaneously hitting on me

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the veins and arteries and various capillaries of your circulatory system are referred to as blood vessels. this is extremely stupid. vessels are closed objects, not connecting tubes. we should either use "blood vessels" to refer to closed containers within blood, like red blood cells, or we should use it to refer to the entire closed circulatory system, in which case the human body only contains a single blood vessel

#I looked up 'sanguiduct' as an appropriate latin alternative #and found: an old article on guillotine use in the french revolution. and homestuck fanart

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the most frustrating thing about eclipses is how difficult it is for me to capture them on camera, including:

the way it gradually gets darker leading up to totality in a way that is different to either evening or cloud cover. the sun is still un-look-at-ably bright high overhead; there is no pink-orange light of sunset or lengthening shadows. the midday sunlight just gets dimmer, like a fading lightbulb

once totality hits, it mostly looks like dusk, except that the sunset colors are on every horizon instead of just in the west, and also what the fuck is that in the sky

similarly to trying to photograph the moon on its own, you (I) can either get a close-up shot of totality in detail with no surrounding landscape, or you can get a shot of the world around you and also some blurry white dot in the sky. not the distinct black circle with thin white ring you see in reality

#the other thing is venus. jupiter was also present! and saturn further away I believe

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kinda half-assed it this time tbh

#dark quiet forest instead of family bickering on the farm was nice though

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eclipse shirts! frustrated by how like 1 out of every 4 tshirts I try this on is coated in some kind of anti-staining material or dyed with anti-fade ink, but some of them are turning out really cool.

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Loquats and a Mountain Bird

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Realized I didn't know anything about art history or styles or movements, so have been doing a dumb little self-study. One century at a time, slowly moving forward, learning about each new period as it comes, discovering pieces I enjoy. Or at least that was the idea; in practice, the vibe I am getting is that the Roman empire fell and then all of Europe forgot how to paint for a thousand years until very abruptly some Dutch guy, I don't know, coalesced artistic talent straight out of the aether? Stole it from the gods like Prometheus' fire? Do we know if Jan van Eyck is tied to a rock somewhere with an eagle eating his liver

#been queueing paintings I like for the rest of the year with timing based on era. currently we are in the medieval era and there is: nothing #sixteenth century in july gonna pop off though