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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

#in a bit of a tangent to this i have taken to thinking of the ''by crom!'' panel #where the mc is talking about when good things are happening they like to imagine all the bad things that could take them away #and the response is ''do you worry your fear might fall out of practice?'' #whenever i start catastrophizing about being happy and calm and what might ruin all of it #is that fear helping me? or is it just because i'm afraid of what i'm not afraid of?

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since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

#eclipse #this is really cool #i definitely noticed rhe weirdness of the light on the lead-up to totality #but i had no idea it was down to the polarization of the light #i wonder if that's one of the reasons wildlife gets weird around the eclipse in a way they don't at dusk #because the light suddenly looks Wrong #fascinating!

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you ever in the middle of writing some tags and you just go. you know what. no one gives a fuck. and then u delete and carry on with ur day

#oh all the time

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Saw someone in a youtube comment call GMing "being a platonic service top" and I'm never reading the comments again

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i think itd be nice to be a goat or satyr. id love to eat an aluminum can someday

#posts that have 10k notes to me

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while I acknowledge that oots' identity and narrative are inextricably tied to being a webcomic and any adaptation would inevitably fail, I think a animated and voiced adaptation of specifically Belkar's internal reflection with Shojo would cure me of all ills

#it could.... maaaaaybe work as an animated adaptation although i think they'd have no choice but to frame is as a rl game #to make a lot of the jokes work #do like the pagemaster and have the real-life scenes filmed as live-action and the story itself animated #capture belkar's growth not only as a character but as a player #(rich burlew could play himself as the dm) #but it would have to be carefully and lovingly done #and even then it would lose something in the telling #but i'd watch it. every episode. #order of the stick #oots

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I spent way too long on this but I made a Which Character Are You uQuiz for OotS!

#vaarsuvius #this quiz was a delight #order of the stick #oots

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Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

#late-stage capitalism

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This starts out as a nice gesture, then quickly becomes absolutely ridiculous.

1,024 dice. Man.

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Monstrous Regiment- Terry Pratchett

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #this line man. this line.

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Hamda Al Fahim 'Earthly' Fall 2024 Haute Couture Collection

#i don't usually reblog these but i saw the first one and went ''oh my god'' at how gorgeous it is #they're all beautiful but that one is especially stunning #fashion

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‘Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy,’ said Granny, glaring at the sky. ‘But you can’t make ’em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin’ their heads off as soon as they say “I do”, yes? You can’t make happiness . . .’ Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city. ‘All you can do,’ she said, ‘is make an ending.’

-- Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #something something granny always standing on the edge of life and death #how people go to nanny ogg for births but granny weatherwax for deaths #because she knows where the ending is

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#long post #but very informative

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from observations, I feel like many people took “history books are full of propaganda” and ran with it and instead of more deeply investigating history from varying sources, they just don’t know jack shit about history