firespirited

[firespirited]

Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger

always worth the rewatch! (if you only watch one, watch episode 2 about the female nude)

[firespirited]

did a little photoshoot at work today 💚

[firespirited]

I bring a sort of "body neutrality applies to everyone even if they're bad people" to the body shaming conversation that "people who want to body shame but only when they think they have a moral high ground so as to not be seen as a bad person" don't like

[firespirited]

I had some colorful, super-glossy stickers as a kid, and I feel like the idea of "extremely glossy sticker paper" has sort of been lost to time? Anyway, if I were designing stickers to be sold the old-fashioned way, I'd want these printed on super glossy paper.

Again, I understand no-one has any money, I'm just doing this to stay in practice. and I have no idea why there's a grungy gray border in these previews

[firespirited]

@colorschanging You're gonna love this. (x)

[firespirited]

[firespirited]

The modern character of Frankenstein is so divorced from the source material that it's hard to even know how to classify it. Like any new Frankenstein character that comes out isn't even a retelling or an interpretation anymore, that character has been completely fabricated, like tons of little bits of old forgotten media have been stitched together to make the version of him we know today, it's like, it's almost like he's been like... well I can't think of a word but you get what I mean

[firespirited]

Has anyone else noticed that baby doll's eyes keep getting bigger and bigger? I've been jump scared a few times when I come across them at the thrift store. [Patreon]

[firespirited]

Love David Byrne interviews cuz you'll either get a qoute like "I want to be cute and blonde" or one of the most heartbreakingly lonely and terrifingly confused qoutes you've ever heard:

[firespirited]

☺

[firespirited]

"Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain.

With the simplest and smallest scale test setup, the team could power around 12 LED lightbulbs with simulated rain droplets flowing through a tube, but at scale, their method could generate meaningful amounts that could rival rooftop solar arrays.

Singapore experiences significant rainfall throughout the year, averaging 101 inches (2581 millimeters) of precipitation annually. The idea of generating electricity from such falling water is attractive, but the method has long been constrained by a principle called the Debye Length.

Nevertheless, the concept is possible because of a simple physical principle that charged entities on the surface of materials get nudged when they rub together—as true for water droplets as it is for a balloon rubbed against the hair on one’s head.

While this is true, the power values thus generated have been negligible, and electricity from flowing water has been limited to the driving of turbines in hydropower plants.

However, in a study published in the journal ACS Central Science, a team of physicists has found a way to break through the constraints of water’s Debye Length, and generate power from simulated rain.

“Water that falls through a vertical tube generates a substantial amount of electricity by using a specific pattern of water flow: plug flow,” says Siowling Soh, author of the study. “This plug flow pattern could allow rain energy to be harvested for generating clean and renewable electricity.”

The authors write in their study that in existing tests of the power production from water flows, pumps are always used to drive liquid through the small channels. But the pumps require so much energy to run that outputs are limited to miniscule amounts.

Instead, their setup to harness this plug flow pattern was scandalously simple. No moving parts or mechanisms of any kind were required. A simple plastic tube just 2 millimeters in diameter; a large plastic bottle; a small metallic needle. Water coming out of the bottle ran along the needle and bumped into the top section of the tube that had been cut in half, interrupting the water flow and allowing pockets of air to slide down the tube along with the water.

The air was the key to breaking through the limits set by the Debye Length, and key to the feasibility of electricity generation from water. Wires placed at the top of the tube and in the cup harvested the electricity.

The total generation rate of greater than 10% resulted in about 100 watts per square meter of tube. For context, a 100-watt solar panel can power an appliance as large as a blender or ceiling fan, charge a laptop, provide for several light bulbs, or even a Wi-Fi router.

Because the droplet speeds tested were much slower than rain, the researchers suggest that the real thing would provide even more than their tests, which were of course on a microscale."

-via Good News Network, April 30, 2025

[firespirited]

Labi Siffre - “Bless the Telephone”

[firespirited]

Sloth Moths (Parasa schausi complex), family Limacodidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Casey Owen

[firespirited]

we have GOT to go back to this