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Challenge: least suitable sport or hobby to construct a "sex is just like [thing]" analogy with.

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Policy brainstorm: public housing aimed at artists and scholars.

You want lots of arts and cultural activity in your city? Build a bunch of live-work units. A big building full of tiny apartments with workspaces attached. Give us lots of publicly-funded spaces where everyone who wants to live cheap and just make stuff can do that. Put them near each other so they can give each other weird ideas. And use the government funding to make it stable, so the whole thing doesn't collapse every time someone pisses off a landlord.

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From the article:

People in affluent countries around the world are willing to tax themselves to address climate change and ease poverty. That idea defies conventional political wisdom, which typically holds that people hate taxes, writes Grist. It emerged in a survey of 40,680 people in 20 nations that found strong support for a carbon tax that would transfer wealth from the worst polluters to people in developing nations. Most of them support such policies even if it takes money out of their own pocket.  Adrian Fabre, lead author of the study published in Nature, wasn’t surprised by the results. He studies public attitudes toward climate policy at the International Center for Research on Environment and Development in Paris, and said this is the latest in a long line of studies showing that climate-related economic policies enjoy greater support, on the whole, than people assume.

This result is not surprising to folks who actually study public perception of climate action. Concern about the damage we are doing to the planet and desire for our governments to take action are way more widespread than most people think--some studies have estimated about 80% of the world population supports climate action.

People are less likely to talk about climate change when they believe their social circle isn't as concerned as they are, which can become a self perpetuating cycle. Talking to friends, family, and just others in your community about your concerns and desire for climate action can help break this barrier.

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Ask not for whom poob has it. It has it for thee

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just met a three month old pomeranian named horchata. her paw was the size of my fingertip. she looked like half a dandelion fluff

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Zohran fuckin' Mamdani!

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Osamu Yokoyama, Japanese bamboo artist, born 1980

Ether Silhouettes of You"

https://www.yinjispace.com/article/Osamu-Yokoyama.html

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Glass vase with snake thread decoration, Roman, 2nd-3rd century AD

from The Walters Art Museum

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"oh guess I'll just draw a smiley face on some art and call it fair use" ok. look. sorry. I'm sorry. do you know anything that's happened in fine art for the last 100 years?

there are very good arguments against the proliferation of "AI". copyright trolling has NEVER been one of them.

I don't really care to argue the relative merits of these pieces or artists or moral carve-outs for specific works, but saying "oh so I can just draw on something and that makes it my art?" is like... this has actually been a relatively settled question in fine art for a century, yes.

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Typography Tuesday

These specimens of type ornaments and borders are from a facsimile of a ca. 1760 type specimen sheet laid in the 1983 catalog Type Studies: The Norstedt Collection of Matrices in the Typefoundry of the Royal Printing Office by Swedish museum curator Christain Axel-Nilsson (1934-2012), published in Stockholm by Norstedts Tryckeri. The specimen sheet displays ornaments by German typefounder Johann Gottfried Pöetzsch, who was manager of the Berling Type Foundry in Copenhagen from 1753 until his death in 1783. The foundry was eventually acquired by Swedish Printer Johan Per Lindh (1757-1820) in 1814, whose business had its origins in the Royal Printing House founded in 1526. After Lindh's death, the printing house and type foundry were acquired by Swedish printer Per Adolf Norstedt (1763-1840), who established the long-standing printing and publishing house that produced this catalog. Norstedts Förlag is Sweden's oldest, continuously-operating book publisher.

This specimen sheet was facsimiled from the only extant copy in the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, and many of the matrices for the types shown here are preserved in the collections of the museum. The Norstedt type foundry operated from 1821 to 1980, but one third of the Norstedt matrix collection, including those for the ornaments shown here, were imported by Johan Per Lindh in 1814.

View other type specimen books.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

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Oh, that's interesting.

I love the Wake idea. I think two other readings potentially work:

Alecto is using her people-reading powers, and just knows Mercy is seeking the information for Bad reasons;

John knows about the jizz heist, and she's picking up an intuition across their soul-merge.

But the image of Wake looking at a zombie she hates so hard it radiates out of the sword she's in and saying, "you need to talk fast or we're both toast" . . . well. It's pretty great.

interesting that alecto was never much for lying but she sure was quick on the draw to have harrow lie to mercy about her age

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Co-sign, and I'll actually put in a pitch for small-talk within intimate relationships too! A lot of people are familiar with the Gottmans' concept of "bids," where strong relationships are built on a pattern of seeking and receiving each others' attention in small ways, and small talk is great for that.

But also, beyond bids, if I want to know you as a person, then I want to know your feelings about the sandwich shop you go every Tuesday. I want the texture of your daily life!

I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

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A slime mold, Arcyria ferruginea, grows on dead wood in Hertfordshire, UK. Despite their common name, slime molds are not fungal, and are in fact an amoeba-like organism that clumps together in large structures.

by Will Atkins

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Next thing you know, you'll be knitting klein bottles and projective planes.

fiber arts is really a laundering scheme for mathematics.

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I'm re-reading HtN again, and struck again by Muir's skill at hiding things in plain sight.

Harrow is confused about reality. The narration is chatty and sassy, in exactly the way Harrow has gotten used to being sassed.

And so when John's first full scene with Harrow involves him negging her in almost every statement he makes, it's easy for the cruelty not to register. It's kind of normal, you know? And then when he realizes that saying a particular word is doing Harrow actual, physical injury, his response is *curiosity.* Curiosity and repeating the word a couple more times to see what will happen.

But the reader doesn't understand what's happening, and Harrow definitely doesn't understand what's happening, and the narration continually informs us how kind and gentle he is, so we're encouraged to think--maybe this is just how he shows love?