#the dish

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A beautiful flight path time lapse photo from another bee keeper

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One more poem from Andrew Sullivan's now discontinued blog: "When I was 17, this poem by Carl Sandburg helped me through a difficult time (leaving behind my best friends and my first love); it also inaugurated my love for poetry. Its effect for me has something to do with the way it begins so gently and ends on a note of defiance:" Troths Yellow dust on a bumble bee’s wing, Grey lights in a woman’s asking eyes, Red ruins in the changing sunset embers: I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

[You can read the entire thread, including previous reader selections, here. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/tag/reading-your-way-through-life/

[feenixdown]

The Dish (2000)

[zwienzixes]

sneak peak of my john piece -- it's gonna be late but can't neglect baby's first fandom on its 14th anniversary dear god

We been 11 years in this bitch, me and my boy John. Hopefully one of these years I won't be late for his birthday.

Happy Homestuck Day to all practicing and non practicing Homestucks.

Find more of me here

[king-starscreams-fics]

For those who are interested, there is a really good Australian film about the Moon Landing, called The Dish.

I recommend looking it up and watching it one Moon Day. I love it. It talks about the problems that were had on the ground – mostly in Australia, where the pictures were received and relayed, but it does also talk about what went on in America, too.

It also serves as a reminder that when it comes to human life and dangerous, daring feats that technology seems barely advanced enough to handle, the Earth should be united.

"What is NASA? It's just a bigger version of Us."

"This should be in the contract: We promise to support the Moon Mission."

"This is science's chance to be daring."

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[irusanw4]

Starting a collection

If you have more I'd love to see them this is my favorite meme format ever

[shamebats]

[teaboot]

As someone who grew up with "I'm not going to praise you for doing what's expected of you; that's not being good, that's doing the bare minimum" I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you're allowed to be happy about trying.

[allo-frouto]

How should we spend our first date? May I cook something for you? I'm pretty skilled.

- 🖋️

That would be so awesome!

[recents]

idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.

and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.

so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.

it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.

you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

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"My favorite question to ask consulting firm candidates was, "what was your favorite course in college?" Most, uncharacteristically, would stammer. They had no favorite course. They were at an Ivy to prove they could work hard, not to enjoy learning. Many even acted like it was simply an unfair question--one they had not been given a chance to prepare for. They were not "robots", but that description wasn't completely inaccurate either. So we end up governed by coldly calculating elites that lack creativity, curiosity and humanity." [The Dish re: Elites and Hierarchies]

[alive on all channels]

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[nesbiter]

I'm loving how Zeff put Luffy's wanted poster underneath 'Employee of the Month'.

[onenicebugperday]

Hairy pie-dish beetle, Helea perforata, Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles)

Found in Western Australia

Photos 1-3 by jmwatson and 4 (for scale) by cal-wood

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur fanart is always so fun to receive, but I do giggle sometimes at the yassification