"You know that thing would eat you if you died, right?" I say, pointing at your potted fern.

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

I think there’s a teaboot(?) post about this with a huge security cam system

Yeah I get twitchy when I don't have my eyes

Do you… do you think they know those aren’t the same thing in the slightest?

Mama I’m scared.

dovi did you have a gay sex party for your 40th birthday be honest

dovi did you have a gay sex vacation with sava on a yacht be honest

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For people mad in the notes, this is obviously not a mass-produced product

The full interview with the creators is really interesting. Of note (emphasis mine):

Ok that IS kind of funnier. Good for them

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

i started reading this book and kept tilting my head at the comparisons the author was using so i started a running list of them

this author's use of imagery is so questionable

i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one

I feel like this is important information about this post.

I like several of these phrases but them being in a nonfiction book took me out

I really hate the way people will use the word "pretentious" as a way to describe art that engages in intellectual topics or has an unconventional presentation; in no small part because art that is actually pretentious genuinely drives me up a fucking tree

Pretentious art ≠ I didn't understand it / it was weird

Pretentious art = "Hey wait a minute, this person is full of shit!"

they’re calling him the smallest guy in the whole world

scuderia ferrari formula one team // long-term nuclear waste warning messages, sandia national laboratories report, 1993

For absolutely no reason at all, I’m gonna need to see those scars on George’s hips pls.

Actually so based on how short his shorts often are, the countless shirtless pictures and how he said hips I think it's in the so far one bit of hidden skin which I am gnawing on this fact

ok so seat pictures are hard to come by but

Jay has requested I add possible scar sighting from this image