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for a minute i definitely forgot that kanye west had changed his name to ye and was wondering why this accusatory headline was written in shakespearean language

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Fucking slain in my tracks by this postcard on my friend’s dresser

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the heist crew

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pink pony club full performance at grammys 2025

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie first and foremost about the destruction of minority neighborhoods and public transit by the American car industry. After that, it's a technological milestone. And then it's about cartoons

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"in your life" meaning you met them enough times and substantially enough to remember them. and not just consider them some faceless, theoretical stranger.

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One thing they don’t tell you about sewing is that it is actually ironing

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Straume (Flow) 2024, dir. Gints Zilbalodis

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Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.

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Henri Rivière (1864-1951) Les Aspects de la nature (1897-1899)

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Shout-out to the bumper sticker I saw the other day that made me feel one second of pure, incandescent rage, which I have replicated in complete accuracy below:

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leia organa truly has one of the best bait-and-switch character introductions of all time because when you meet her she's this brave, stoic picture of elegance and justice and always knows just what to say to vader and tarkin and is clad in white like an angel and is this perfect two-dimensional archetype of pureness of heart. and then approximately half an hour later into the film she meets luke and han and she IMMEDIATELY shows her true colors as a sarcastic, bitchy control freak with a massive impulsive streak and a deep mine of hyperspecific insults. 10/10 character design i'm obsessed with her

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saw a woman comforting her sobbing child saying “i already told you, you have to keep looking forward, looking back just gets you hurt” and i thought she was sharing a beautiful life lesson about the importance of letting go of regret and resentment. but it turns out the kid just wasn’t looking where he was going and ran into a wall

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yesterday's hourly comics. I had a CRAZY day, y'all.

also on bluesky

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Because of its explosive nature, not all applications of nitrocellulose were successful. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a US$10,000 prize to whoever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented, called camphored nitrocellulose—the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid. The invention enjoyed a brief popularity, but the Hyatt balls were extremely flammable, and sometimes portions of the outer shell would explode upon impact. An owner of a billiard saloon in Colorado wrote to Hyatt about the explosive tendencies, saying that he did not mind very much personally but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound.

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Introducing the New Polar Times

Are you an independent researcher, writer, artist, or creator? Are you fascinated by the history of polar exploration and looking to explore this in your work? The New Polar Times needs you! We’re working on an upcoming collaborative literary and arts magazine that will showcase the talents, interests, and original work of a new generation of polar enthusiasts.

The New Polar Times will focus on the “Heroic Age” of polar exploration, as well as the transitional periods that bookend it – beginning after the Franklin search expeditions with Charles Francis Hall’s 1871-3 Polaris expedition and ending with the disappearance of Roald Amundsen in 1928.

For our first round of submissions – opening February 28th, 2025 – we will be looking for proposals – no complete works just yet! – for works of the following types:

Historical narrative essays (both written and graphic)

Interdisciplinary research on polar history topics

Experimental/creative works (poems, recipes, infographics, etc.)

Parody works in the style of the original South Polar Times

Standalone artworks & comics

Our second round will open at a later date (to be announced!) and will consist of an application for artists to illustrate some of the written works accepted in round 1 – stay tuned for the announcement if you’re interested!

Further updates and announcements will be posted here as the project progresses, so watch this space!