**Spoilers for TOTK**
I've dragged myself out of the grave to rave about my 3 mile long dragon wife. Link canonically sits on her head when the malice hands stress him out for the 3rd time today and vents to Zelda because she's the only person he can talk to and being a giant flying reptile hasn't changed that, it's now just very sad.
My man was really gonna let a fucking BEAR into his house for the views and the BEAR had to be the sensible one here
moomin bag that says “if you dont let me go home at the scheduled time i will kill you”
the translation is accurate, but in this context “scheduled time” is the common term used to refer to the end of a typical work day (i.e. 5pm). in other words, it’s basically saying “if you make me do overtime i’ll kill you”
I don’t think any piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has affected me. It’s called “Can’t Help Myself” and it’s a robot arm that’s programmed to clean up the fluid that’s constantly leaking out of itself, that looked like a never ending flow of blood. It has programmed dance moves to make it appear to have human gestures. And at first, it seemed happy and proud of its job, dancing around when it had visitors. But three years later, it looks tired, hopeless, and like it’s living in a never ending cycle of constantly trying to put itself back together for the entertainment of other people. And when I found out that it had finally stopped working in 2019, essentially dying, I couldn’t help but imagine the relief it must’ve felt and so I’ve been in here crying over a robot arm. 🥺 It was programmed this way, it truly couldn’t help itself. And no one ever helped him, they just watched.
In this work commissioned for the Guggenheim Museum, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu employ an industrial robot, visual-recognition sensors, and software systems to examine our increasingly automated global reality, one in which territories are controlled mechanically and the relationship between people and machines is rapidly changing. Placed behind clear acrylic walls, their robot has one specific duty, to contain a viscous, deep-red liquid within a predetermined area. When the sensors detect that the fluid has strayed too far, the arm frenetically shovels it back into place, leaving smudges on the ground and splashes on the surrounding walls.
Sun Yuan & Peng Yu are known for using dark humor to address contentious topics, and the robot’s endless, repetitive dance presents an absurd, Sisyphean view of contemporary issues surrounding migration and sovereignty. However, the bloodstain-like marks that accumulate around it evoke the violence that results from surveilling and guarding border zones. Such visceral associations call attention to the consequences of authoritarianism guided by certain political agendas that seek to draw more borders between places and cultures and to the increasing use of technology to monitor our environment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS4Bpr2BgnE
you forgot the most important part: once the exhibit was unplugged, its name was changed to Couldnt Help Myself.
there’s a glass thing aboard wooden whaling ships where it’s like a little crystal they put in the ceiling to let light in belowdecks
what the fuck is it called
it looks kind of like this
???
Deck prism!
Sure thing! I remember being so surprised at HOW much light they brought into a space, when I first saw them in action.
[ID: photo of closely clustered ship bunks, lit by an overhead prism. /end ID]
The yellow light is artificial but the blue is from the deck prism, on a cloudy day.
A variation of this was also used by european artisans in the form of a water filled glass sphere that focused the surrounding light
WHAT.
are you telling me they made a better skylight before people figured out how to not get scurvy and we don’t have these in LITERALLY EVERY HOUSE now because what the fuck
moodboard
We found a stick! (via)
Group projects be like
men who like butch/gnc women are not inherently creeps or fetishists or predators going after lesbians. if you are a man who is attracted to masculine women you should not be ashamed of that.
butch/gnc women who like men are not "giving men the idea that they can go after lesbians". if you are a masculine woman who is attracted to men you should not be ashamed of that.
if you don't know why this post is necessary then you have not been listening to gnc women, especially bi women, who want men to be attracted to them, nor the men, especially bi men, who are attracted to those gnc women.
or more likely, they aren't saying anything because they're worried about the judgement they'll recieve.
so maybe shut up and listen to us for once.
I made this post because of the things I heard expressed by my fellow bisexuals and I'm sure it's a sentiment shared by many others, given how many people have said they felt reassured by this. just LISTEN.
seriously don’t understand what is wrong with urban planners in the united states and canada. does anyone actually genuinely think that this shit:
looks like anything but an absolute nightmare? like this is what hell looks like to me
This IS an absolute nightmare, but this isn’t urban planning. It’s real estate development. Some company buys a bunch of land and conspires to put as many detached single-family homes on it as possible, builds them cheap (cutting corners CONSTANTLY), and then sells them at inflated rates. It fucks up the housing market for miles around, all the houses are identical but broken in different and fun ways, and nobody is actually happy except the developer who made a bunch of money while cheating everyone else involved.
i stand corrected! my real question is “what is wrong with real estate developers” and the answer is “capitalist brain poison” as always
I’d divorce him too lmao
It’s never JUST about the tomatoes.
Basically!
Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” For example, say that the husband is a bird enthusiast and notices a goldfinch fly across the yard. He might say to his wife, “Look at that beautiful bird outside!” He’s not just commenting on the bird here: He’s requesting a response from his wife—a sign of interest or support—hoping they’ll connect, however momentarily, over the bird.
The wife now has a choice. She can respond by either “turning toward” or “turning away” from her husband, as Gottman puts it. Though the bird-bid might seem minor and silly, it can actually reveal a lot about the health of the relationship. The husband thought the bird was important enough to bring it up in conversation and the question is whether his wife recognizes and respects that.
These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. Couples who had divorced after a six-year follow-up had “turn-toward bids” 33 percent of the time. Only three in 10 of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy. The couples who were still together after six years had “turn-toward bids” 87 percent of the time. Nine times out of 10, they were meeting their partner’s emotional needs.
This was a ride ⚰️⚰️
