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I have one of those robot vacuums but there's a mirror in the house low enough to the ground that the lidar scanner can see a nonexistent room in the reflection so on the navigation map it's generated I have a room that doesn't exist that I have to forbid the vacuum from entering.

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princess xixi veindancer with sprouting wings

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[ID: Photos of a painted clay sculpture of two Przewalski's horses leaning against one another in an embrace with their eyes closed. The sculpture is from the shoulders up. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This was an older Embrace piece that wasn't up to scratch, was going to recycle it, instead reworked the faces and manes, and used it as an opportunity to practice painting with acrylics. One of the faces has the more “plastic” look that I've been trying to avoid with acrylics (lower left photo). Watering the paint down and then gradually layering seems to keep the matte look I was getting with gouache.

Available on my Etsy

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Alaskan husky puppies cleaning a walrus carcass By: Unknown photographer From: Natural History Magazine 1962

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ORANGUTAN CLERIC

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Its impossible for me to actually summon up that much indignation about cops sweeping up protesters blocking the highway (or train station, or seaport, vel sim). Even when i support the protesters. Highways without ppl willing and able to try and clear them of blockades are tantamount to no highways at all, and a life without highways for supply chains would be pretty bleak. Thats the whole point of activists targeting them in the first place: to hold the economy hostage as a negotiating tactic. There are limits to whst force it will be reasonable to use, but its important there be any threat of force at all. The fact we have cops charged with clearing off interstates is a good thing

Sometimes a blockade will be a proportionate measure in the service of a righteous cause. But "clear away ppl blocking the road, unless their cause is just" is not a social technology it is actually in anyones power to implement in hoc saeculo. Perhaps there is some sense in which, faced with the good kind of protesters, each individual highway patrolman should abandon his post in the service of the categorical imperative or whatever, but obviously expecting that to happen en masse and without any serious effort to make inroads among them is just asking for a miracle, and if you ask for the sea to be miraculously parted and it isnt maybe in a way it is reasonable to be angry at god about it but its pretty stupid to get all outraged at the water

If you are trying to force a blockade of an economic chokepoint, and our porcine friends take exception, i think basically the way to think about it is that they are doing their job, and you need to stay focused on doing yours. Unfortunate that the two have to be at odds with each other like that but thats just life in a fallen world

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I have the following Grand Theory of the Twenty-First Century that I would like to put forth. I don't know if it's true, but sometimes I think it's true.

Many of you will have heard of the Flynn effect. This is the observed effect that average performance on IQ tests has gone up since these tests started being administered. On a first glance, it appears that people all over the world have gotten measurably smarter in the past 100 years.

There are a variety of proposed explanations for this. Probably better childhood nutrition and the like has something to do with it. But another proposed explanation is this: IQ tests are known to be trainable. You can practice and get better at them. And you can practice the sorts of tasks that show up on an IQ and get better at those sorts of tasks, which might be why (IIRC?) standardized education seems to improve IQ scores. What sorts of tasks are on an IQ test? Abstract thinking tasks. Tasks related to abstract pattern recognition.

It has been proposed that people today live their lives in a world much more governed by these sorts of abstract tasks. We interface with bureaucracy and paperwork, we manipulate strange little symbols on a computer screen, we internalize the various abstractions we are (explicitly and implicitly) taught in school in order to receive the best grade. Where children 100 years ago were taught by their environment to do physical, concrete things, children today are taught by their environment to engage with abstract systems. And success at engagement with abstract systems is what determines success in life, which was much less true 100 years ago.

There are ways in which I think this is a good thing. Abstract systems have both many uses and many joys, which mathematicians have regaled us with since Euclid, and I think it's a good thing if people are more prepared to engage with abstraction these days. But it's probably not wholly a good thing. After all, there is also much utility and many joys in the physical and concrete, and I suspect that today we live in a world which prepares people markedly less well to succeed at the concrete. This is particularly troubling since many concrete activities make up the very most fundamental bedrock of the human condition (as it has hitherto existed).

In-person social relationships are of a concrete character. Leaving your house and doing shit is of a concrete character. Making and fixing things with your hands is concrete. Fucking is concrete.

I think it is possible, and potentially explanatory of some of the malaise I see among my peers, that we have grown up in a world which has taught us to shuffle symbols instead of to do things. People will blame this on their political opponents, leftists will attribute it to capitalism and rightists will attribute it to this or that form of effeminate progressive ideology, but (at the risk of being immediately dismissed by certain people) I want to suggest that, insofar as this is true at all, it might simply be best understood a consequence of industrial society itself. Abstract tasks simply get more useful and more in demand the greater the complexity of society grows and the more technology expands into our lives.

I don't want to present this sociological theory with too much confidence, and I am certainly not claiming we should burn down all the factories and go live in the woods or whatever. I'm just saying, uh... maybe this is something that's going on. I sometimes look around and think "this definitely might be something that's going on." And if it is going on, we should think about what its implications are.

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it used to be confusing to me that gluons are massless cause it implies the force between quarks is long-range but quarks are right next to each other. But I just realized that if the force between quarks was short-range you'd be able to separate them. So presumably nucleons are just charge-balanced, like neutral molecules? But like color charge instead of electric charge. So they don't interact at a distance, just like neutral molecules

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Herrrre’s a new beastie, pov you are a tasty mackerel or perhaps an eel.

I didn’t mean for her to look so…cute? She’s been in the crockpot for a while and seeing all the lion-dancer posts gave me the need to flesh her out.

I guess she’s like a massive hydrozoan type beast that’s being puppeted around by a couple mutant isopods? I’ll think of something more in depth for her though.

Her name is Maggie Motley :3c

And I made a new chunky water mark✨

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Isn't this graph crazy. What's going on with babies. Babies have gotta be insanely stupid. Third of a brain

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And yet 5 year Olds are also pretty dumb... Maybe it's just learning and not developing

Isn't this graph crazy. What's going on with babies. Babies have gotta be insanely stupid. Third of a brain

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Isn't this graph crazy. What's going on with babies. Babies have gotta be insanely stupid. Third of a brain

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Every city in Germany has a plaque somewhere bragging about how Martin Luther took a shit there once (unfortunately the preserved stool was destroyed by American bombing during WW2)

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Dopesick on da joint Big Bird cassette player/beer holder tonight 🍺🌈

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-Voodoo, Metraux

presumably the deflowering is just a bit of folklore but still, interesting folklore (the Guede family are the death and fertilty gods)

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I wish I could find the original post but many years ago I was crashing at a high school friends house and he had me sleeping on some couch cushions that unfolded into a “bed,” except the cushions kept shifting and separating as you slept on them. So I had this elaborate dream that everyone on the planet had at some point been forced to sleep at my friends house, and the situation with the cushions separating was a single common experience that every living human had. And world peace was achieved through a movement called “push them together,” accompanied by a motion like pressing your open hands together as if to pray. Rock stars were doing it on stage, politicians were signing historic peace accords and doing the “push them together” motion, it saved the whole world

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what do you think of cesar manrique's house?

this is awesome. more rocks in houses