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I love when I’m watching a tv show that’s supposed to show me something futuristic and sci fi and it’s just this stuff glued to something else

Like you can���t fool me. That’s my friend the tube. We are well acquanted

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STOP STOP GO BACK IT'S CLAY, THIS IS CLAY

德化白瓷 Déhuà báicí/dehua white porcelain

Dehua County, located in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, is renowned for its white porcelain.

Its kilns flourished during the Tang (618-907 CE) and Song dynasties(960–1279 CE), peaked in the Yuan and Ming periods, and remain famous today, particularly for their white porcelain. Fired at high temperatures, the unglazed porcelain exhibits a smooth, jade-like texture, appearing crystal-clear and pure white.

Dehua white porcelain is renowned for its "high-toughness thin-bodied高韧薄胎瓷衣" technique, a breakthrough in ceramic craftsmanship that achieves exceptional strength in ultra-thin structures. This technology enables the creation of porcelain pieces with egg-shell thinness (0.2–0.5 mm) while maintaining remarkable durability, making it a hallmark of Dehua's artistry. However, not every piece of Dehua white porcelain employs this technique, as it involves significantly higher production costs.

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She hasn't seen Die Hard!!

Being bi and then going into a relationship with a lifelong lesbian is great because there are so many movies she hasn't seen. I got to introduce her to The Usual Suspects. I got to introduce her to Terminator. We're watching Fight Club tonight, and she's never even been spoiled for it. I guess they don't do screenings at the temple of Diana where she raises those trembling dew-eyed fauns so delicate that they would sicken and die if exposed to the scent of a man

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best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩

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argh thank you for that, DELETED

All good. I get the temptation to believe in a photo like that, but it's a little too good to be true, y'know? Like, it's a pretty picture, but that ain't what solar eclipse photography looks like. If it was, you'd see photos like that all the time.

It seems like it might be plausible, because sometimes you see pictures like this:

This is a legit photo of a solar flare. I got this from NBC. That little inset of the Earth is to show scale. That's important. Those fancy streams of light coming off the sun are actually jets of solar plasma tens of thousands of miles long, and when they happen, they cause massive geomagnetic storms and crazy auroras here on Earth. They can be threats to satellites, and astronauts, if they're actually aimed at us, because the radiation is so powerful. They're cool to look at! But you will only ever see them in photos like this: quite close to the sun's surface.

Here's another image, from a video uploaded by Actual NASA. (nasa-official@ is not actually associated with NASA. It's a joke account. Sometimes they post real space stuff but they have no mandate to vet anything. Nothing against them, just remember that a tumblr account that says "official" on it doesn't really mean anything.)

Cool! The sun really does do that! But again, look at the height of the coronal mass ejections relative to the actual size of the sun. They're quite close to the surface, relatively speaking. And even these 'low' plasma jets can fuck us up on Earth.

Now let's take another look at the 'solar eclipse photo:'

HMMMMMM. If that was actual plasma, those jets would be billions of miles long and everything on Earth would be dead.

If that isn't plasma...then what the fuck is it supposed to be, exactly? And if it's something you can photograph from the ground, even if you'd need some kind of special NASA lens to do it, why wouldn't NASA be putting out calendars of cool sun photography all the time? They love sharing neat pictures of stuff in space, and I've never seen anything like this before. Also, if it was a real photo, you wouldn't be able to get NASA to shut up about their fancy new lens that makes the sun look so pretty. I would have read 15 articles about it by now.

AI is everywhere these days. Just try to keep in the back of your mind the fact that if you've never seen an image of something before, especially if it's ~Super Aesthetic~, it's probably because the image is fake.

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This is AI. [source]

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

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Google docs isn’t deleting your docs just because they have lewd text.

OP turned off reblogs of the post due to being debunked, but here’s a link of the reblog so you can still read stuff. Hate Google all you want but misinformation helps no one.

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watch out bourgeois pigs

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every time someone uses the term "reactionary" to mean "has an intense or impulsive reaction to stuff," it makes me want to establish an autocratic state that returns society to an imagined time before people did that

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me as verso's defense lawyer: and what, your honor, is the charge against my client? manipulate, mansplain, malewife-ing too close to the sun?? well, your honor, my client did all that shit. after much deliberation, we, as his defense counsel, are strongly suggesting the death penalty.

(I turn and take a furtive look at verso. he gives me a thumbs up and nods encouragingly.)

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i actually think its incredibly funny that people can just log on to the internet and get in a fight with a guy in another country. what a privileged time we live in. you used to have to go to war to do that

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I literally last week did my party trick at a work offsite: singing his entire Elements song. Rip Mr. Lehrer, you were a big deal to me.

Gods rest him. May he have found a vantage point from which to view our endless bullshit without pain.

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The Stolen Lake of Camlann

And what did the Antichrist find, in that forgotten Other England?

His lady of the lake dove into darker waters, and recovered from the unsung abyss a far more ruinous sword.

Where did the devil's sword land, when he fell? Only the Stranger knew. And so it came into Her keeping: as all unknown things do: and was kept there, concealed, in the black sea of Her realm: if it can be claimed to have a sea; if anything can be knowledgeably said of it at all.

She slipped it back into our world subtly, hidden inside a story. Did that king exist? His murderous son? His treasonous wife? Enough, they did, to sink their roots into the Other England: enough, for the ghost of the Traitor Prince to wait on the banks of Camlann, and point the way for the Adversary to his keen and bright-edged birthright.

He had years ago sent away his treasonous wife: the lady at his side now knew the doorways that hide in the water, and the destinies that can be found in the void.

She returned dark and clean and new. She doesn't remember anything. She doesn't need to.

He returned a dragon, with his fang he named Defiance. All will kneel before it: except one.

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Apparently your slur post stuck with me because last night I had a dream about innokenti teaching phonics.

(Why phonics? I’m doing a literacy program right now.)

That would be really funny, because Innokenti is blind. This is something just about everyone around him manages to forget sometimes, because as a fairy, he has other ways of sensing the world around him, but those senses by no means extend to reading.

so if Rosemary came to him and pointed on something on a page to be like "Innokenti how do you say this" he'd just be like "that's a book, huh"

he could describe the theory behind phonics, but is iffy on the Latin alphabet. Whatever alphabet Innokenti read in natively before he went blind, it isn't that one.

He actually has guardianship of Bastian's 12 year old bastard son, Aycelin, and teaches him all sorts of things. Aycelin is growing up to be a very interesting and well-educated little person. His reading is kind of shit, though.

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Which Heretic characters are allowed to call you the f-slur, and which ones actually would:

Bastian: Bastian is bisexual in the way that July is "sunny" or ice cream is "cold," but he's also a rich white guy with an enormous amount of worldly power. Allowed, but strictly between close friends. Fortunately, it would never occur to him to use it as an insult. He'd probably be annoyed that you brought it up, and launch into some speech about how "faggotry is a noble institution" and "those are our bravest soldiers."

Volo: Volo is...ace, I guess? Ace but in a 24/7 D/s relationship with his lord, which sometimes involves sexual acts that he engages in purely as acts of service. The homosexual community would need to call the third Council of Nicaea and sit in session for six weeks to arrive at a quorum on whether or not Volo is allowed to say "faggot." He wouldn't, though, even if he had permission. He's probably preparing to call you something much meaner and more closely observed than that.

Olivie: Olivie's the sort of mostly-straight woman who learned how to give insane head to girls in college because she was bored. She's the girl you meet at a party who calls you a fag within minutes of meeting you, and you spend the next half hour thinking "what the fuck, did she just call me a slur?" before she pulls you into the bathroom to do a line of coke with her and make fun of the guy you were both hitting on. She's allowed to call you a fag in the same way that you're allowed to call her a slut. You're best friends by the end of the night.

Lisbet: A bisexual woman with blunt butch vibes. She's probably allowed, but doesn't say it, because "you're all so fucking sensitive about everything," said in a tone of such brisk, worldly acceptance that you instantly feel safer with her than you've ever felt outside of your mother's arms. She's the kind of woman wearing a carabiner who you immediately know you can trust to smash a bottle on the bar and throw down if you're ever harassed in public. You are astonished to be introduced to her husband.

Innokenti: He's bisexual and in a committed m/m relationship with a boyfriend he's profoundly in love with, so he's definitely allowed. And he would, but only as an insult. He thinks it's hysterical. He can't believe you people invented arbitrary categories like this just to get mad at each other about them. What a world.

Tomassin: As gay as the night is long, bless him. He would never use a slur, though, oh my god, can you even imagine. "Say it, Tomassin, use the slur!" his friends encourage him, and Tomassin pretends he needs to throw up to get away. You find him three hours later, upstairs, with the host's dog, reading a book.

Adeliza: Oh goodness gracious no, dear sweet angel. Adeliza would be so excited to show up to Pride as an ally to support all of her wonderful friends, who she would never call any bad words! She's made cupcakes with rainbow frosting, and fun little rainbow jello shots for the party later. Please do her the kindness of ignoring the way she gushes about how pretty and talented and amazing Olivie is. She's got to figure some stuff out.

Bellefleur: Like Innokenti, she's a fairy, so the whole concept of sexual orientation is sort of quaint to her, but she lives and presents as a straight woman, so not allowed. Nor is she interested in saying it, either as an insult (why insult anyone, that only gives away that you're planning to destroy them) or as a term of endearment (you don't matter to her at all :) ).

Isery von Murnau: Whether Isery is straight or not is immaterial. She's going to call Bastian a faggot just to be a bitch to him. Not to anyone else: just him. She doesn't actually give a shit about his sexual behavior; her twin brother was gay, and Isery pretty much categorized that sort of thing as "not any of her business one way or the other." But she knows it will piss Bastian off, mostly for being something of a categorization error, and that's good enough for her.