the-real-numbers:

there comes a point in some dudes ceramics careers where they start fucking with glazes so hard they spend their weekends hand digging rare minerals out of a desert deposit or a friend’s multi-acre lot so they can grind them up and put them in a glaze. I know at least three guys that do this.

I also knew this guy derrick who was an absolute beast on the wheel (threw an entire 40pc porcelain serving set w/ cups bowls plates serving dishes and casserole dish in ONE HOUR) who also rented out a backhoe so he could dig clay out of his yard and refine it. Unfortunately it had too many inclusions in it so he had to dilute it with industrially made stuff. when he did that though he found that the clay in his yard, when fired, produced it’s own glossy green glasslike ooze that vitrified during firing. he called it “self glazing clay”, and went back that day to go dig up more. hope hes doing well. I imagine he’s excavated his entire property by now

foone:

foone:

foone:

the second worst thing about the recent surge (no pun intended) in robotgirl posting is that I’m a reverse engineer, and an asexual one at that. if I met a robotgirl we wouldn’t have weird sex, I’d open up all her panels and take pictures of her PCBs and figure out what all the chips are and dump her EEPROMs and hard drive image and upload this to archive.org

the worst thing is that most of you robot girl posters would enjoy it

Tags reading "op literally just describing robotgirl free use"ALT

Excuse me, in the context of robotgirls, it’s not called “free use”, it’s instead “open source”

wingittoodles:

gallusrostromegalus:

teaboot:

reve-nant:

punished-banderite:

theinformationcollector:

TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people

via reddit.com

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okay but the BEST part of the first study discussed (conducted by an autistic person!) Is that it shows that while easy, calm, mutual communication and social interaction is often more natural between two autistic people than it is between an autistic person and a non-autistic person, it is ALSO like this when an autistic person encounters a non-autistic person who imitates the autistic individual’s behaviours- neurotypical parents copying autistic children’s play, for example, apparently receive more positive engagement from their child- which is SERIOUSLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and VERY VERY GOOD because it is, once again, scientific evidence that bullshit like aversion therapy and enforced conformance and FUCKING “quiet hands” aren’t “”“”“solutions to the autism problem”“”“” and that “”“”“problems”“”“ with autism don’t stem from BEING autistic, but rather, from how NON AUSTISTIC PEOPLE TREAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.

IE, once again, there is nothing bad or wrong about being autistic

As my mom put it when she got sick of listening to acquaintance “A” whine about how autistic person “B” they both knew ‘really lacks communication skills’ and ‘doesn’t really understand other people’ (B has excellent but specific communication skills, and merely refuses to engage in ‘polite’ but ultimately unhelpful social behavior), and how frustrating it was for A, as a ‘professional communications advisior’ and self-described empath, to work with B:

“Well if YOU’RE so goddamn good at communication and empathy, why don’t YOU learn to how to communicate and empathize with HER instead?”

#My theory is that the Non-autistic people who whine the most about autistic communication#Are ALSO people with terrible terrible communication skills in general#who rely heavily on a lot of the ‘polite’ behaviors of non-autists to carry the conversation like ‘making educated guesses on what you mean#and ‘ignoring rude offand comments in favor of finishing this conversation’#whether they’re aware of it or not#and when they meet an autistic person who doesn’t do those conversation-carrying behaviors in favor of conversational clarity#it’s really frustrating for the low-skills person to suddenly have to pick up the conversational slack#And you get people like A who project their communication insecurites onto the Autistic and ND people around them#Instead of like#actually adjusting their communication styles or learning new skills

nono youre right dont hide

acidhues:

beaft:

if you are reading this i want you to stop for a moment and imagine a crab

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fipindustries:

sevengummisharks:

imsobadatnicknames2:

imsobadatnicknames2:

imsobadatnicknames2:

The fact that there’s an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.

So like… It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.

But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.

But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.

Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.

I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it’s one of my most treasured books.


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on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads “OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS” a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.

The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.

I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it’s wonderful, it is my heart and soul.

at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel “wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?”

stickstone:

kill the person you reblogged this from with one of these actual warrior cats deaths

crushed by a tree because god disapproves of their actions

sudden rat pack attack

smited by god

vaguely canon meteor strike

impaling a mountain lion while falling to your death

engulfed by a swarm of teenagers

gutted by scourge warrior cats and dying 9 times

sacrificing themselves to permanently remove an incel from the world

the authors forgot to kill them so now they exist in a state of purgatory

greencough

raychleadele:

actual-sleeping-beauty:

chopnuts:

so-much-for-subtlety:

mathew:

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SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

@paperstorm

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Just an absolute fucking orb of a creature

viyojo:

viyojo:

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Follow up since the reactions have been so funny. Very important that people know the pink trainers are called “pink beans” in Japanese. How delightful!!!!!

lasernahrwal:

theweirdwideweb:

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vergess:

jactingjoices:

jactingjoices:

we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You’re correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.