Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
If you can't cope with the reality of having been wrong, done something wrong, or hurt someone without melting down or having a crisis, you're not safe for anyone to be around, btw. Fucking up is an inevitability of being alive. You literally need need to learn to handle situations in which your actions caused someone else to be hurt, because this is never going to be a thing that just stops happening. Being able to just be wrong, or misinformed, or ignorant, or straight up the one who committed an unforced error to others' detriment while maintaining at least a thin veneer of decorum and reasonability is not optional.
You're not owed forgiveness by others, but you need to learn how to forgive yourself for running afoul of your own value system, otherwise you will render yourself incapable of internalizing when you actually have, thus rendering the value system itself utterly useless at guiding your behaviors, and rendering you effectively devoid of one, besides "I'm never wrong, I'm never the bad guy," I guess. And I'm sure you don't need me to explain how that can only go horrifically, catastrophically wrong.
The 102 of this lesson is that, sometimes, the right thing to do will mean hurting someone's feelings. Sometimes, doing the right thing means saying something that can't be said without upsetting someone, even someone you care about, and/or making them feel bad about themselves. Things like setting boundaries can mean having upsetting, uncomfortable, or otherwise unpleasant conversations, and you need to be able to have those conversations, otherwise you are lacking a skillset necessary to, among other things, meaningfully give consent.
You can't go through life without hurting anyone. It's just not possible. Not only are mistakes inevitable, but sometimes, the correct or necessary actions will unavoidably create conflict. Sometimes it's not gonna get to be a mistake. Sometimes, the option that means you don't have to directly hurt someone is wrong. And so you need to know how to navigate a situation in which you have caused hurt, because not every kindness is nice, and not every necessity is kind.
I'm sorry. But it's kinder to tell a hurtful truth when it is necessary than to tell a pretty lie in its stead.
You need to be able to take Ls with dignity and composure otherwise you will, inexorably, become tar pit. Whether that means being willing to make compromises, to change your mind even if you've invested your energy into something, or just willing to walk into something unpleasant but necessary, you have to be able to be the one who just needs to change or look bad sometimes.
Otherwise you become unable to handle one too many inevitabilities of life and having relationships with other people, and in such a way where, essentially, you will not allow yourself to be wrong. This way of thinking is how abusers get made, and I'm really not kidding. You must be willing to be wrong without also disposing of your responsibility to do better. You need to hold both at the same time and you need to let it hurt until it doesn't anymore because it is not optional.
Sorry. Some things about being alive and healthy just aren't easy or pleasant. But they are still necessary. This is one of those things.
BUDDY you're a BOY you're a BIG BIG BOY you're a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BOY you got mud on your face you BIG BIG BOY kicking your can all over the place singing WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee WEE wee
The Muppet Show episode featuring the stars of Star Wars aired in the UK on February 29, 1980, three months before The Empire Strikes Back was released. Luke Skywalker, C-3PO and R2-D2 show up on what they think is a variety show planet in order to rescue Chewbacca from the nefarious Darth Nadir. Kermit, left without a guest star, turns to Luke's "cousin" Mark Hamill and Angus McGonagle the Argyle Gargoyle who gargles Gershwin (gorgeously!). The whole thing is chaotic in the most fun way, and ends with a Pigs in Space sketch that sees Luke AND Mark, Chewie, the Droids and the Muppets singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" on Planet Koozebane, a moment I have unironically called the greatest moment in television history.
All of you seriously have no idea how much of my adolescent brain was exploded when I saw Mark Hamill “and his cousin Luke Skywalker” appear as 2 separate characters on the Muppet Show.
I still feel the echoes of that metaphorical punch, and that’s after writing like 300,000 words of fan fiction to explain how it was possible that Mark and Luke could be two separate people in the same universe.
Which just goes to show that I’ve just Been This Way for a long, long while.
;)
ACTIVATING DEATH RAY
Your death will be quick and pineless
My life is now better with this pun in it.
Absurd Item: Pinecone Death Ray, which inflicts a pineless death.
These are fucking amazing
The figure swinging the earth – The Force Of Nature by Lorenzo Quinn
The guy being dragged by a bird – part of an installation titled Hacienda Paradise – Utopia Experiment by Fredrik Raddum.
The balancing elephant – Balancing Elephant by Daniel Firman.
The tea splashes kissing – Kiss of Eternity by Johnson Tsang.
The figure emerging from the wall – Break Through From Your Mold by Zenos Frudakis
The meditating figure splitting apart – Expansion by Paige Bradley.
The horses running through water – Mustangs at Las Colinas by Robert Glen.
The giant peeking from under the lawn – Popped Up by Ervin Loránth Hervé
The man under the raining umbrella – L’uomo della Pioggia (The Rain Man) by Jean-Michel Folon.
The huge bearded guy – The Appennnine Colossus by Giambologna.
The impossibly balanced stones on a beach – Untitled by Adrian Gray
The dragons with an egg – The Dragons in Love or The Varna Dragons by Darin Lazarov.
The stairway to nowhere – Diminish And Ascend by David McCracken
The underwater circle – Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor.
The epic warrior guy – General Guan Yu by Han Meilin
The sinking library – Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia. I couldn’t find an artist’s name.
The giant hand holding a tree – The Caring Hand by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber
THANK YOU FOR SOURCES
the real challenge of adulthood that no one tells you about in advance is how many goddamn pieces of paper you have to keep up with that are never important until they are suddenly VERY important
40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back.
A Timeline of Humanity:
Bro this fr hit so hard
It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.
It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.
But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.
Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:
Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects
This band is The Hu! Mongolian metal. Absolute favorite.
Do yourself a favor and at least give their song Wolf Totem a listen.
Treat yo’self!
The Hu!!! I love these guys! I'm on mobile so I can't link right now but highly recommend their song Yuve Yuve Yu, it's so good!!
Annie Lennox (1983)
Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days
How I made this: https://youtu.be/UyqbPF5IN54
I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.
Space Battleship Yamato (Uchu Senkan Yamato) / Star Blazers. Hugely influential series created in 1973 by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and artist Leiji Matsumoto. Art here is from model boxes and movie / TV promotional posters. I’m not sure who the artist is for the first 4 slides. Slide 5 is Leiji Matsumoto, slides 6 & 7 by Noriyoshi Ohrai #anime
