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thusjuniperus · 6 days
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Realized I didn't know anything about art history or styles or movements, so have been doing a dumb little self-study. One century at a time, slowly moving forward, learning about each new period as it comes, discovering pieces I enjoy. Or at least that was the idea; in practice, the vibe I am getting is that the Roman empire fell and then all of Europe forgot how to paint for a thousand years until very abruptly some Dutch guy, I don't know, coalesced artistic talent straight out of the aether? Stole it from the gods like Prometheus' fire? Do we know if Jan van Eyck is tied to a rock somewhere with an eagle eating his liver
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thusjuniperus · 11 days
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stories about small birds trying to destroy huge natural features
Chinese, recorded 4th century BCE to 1st century CE: The daughter of an emperor drowned while swimming in the sea. Upon her death, she became a bird. Known as Jingwei, she continuously carries twigs and stones down from the Western Mountains to the Eastern Sea, trying to fill the waters that drowned her.
Egyptian, recorded 1-2nd century CE: The Pharaoh says he wants to devastate Arabia. Well, here's a story for him: A swallow laid her eggs beside the sea. One day, the sea raged up to an unusual height and washed her nest away. The swallow, in her grief, worked from that day forth to cause the sea's destruction. She carries in her beak water from the sea to pour out upon the sand, and sand to pour into the sea. The day she finally achieves this will be the day the Pharaoh devastates Arabia.
Indian, recorded 1st century BCE to 4th century CE: A pair of shorebirds were deciding where to build their nest. Over the wife-bird's reluctance, the husband-bird insisted the shore would be a safe place. "Don't worry," the husband-bird said; "the ocean would not risk drawing my ire." The ocean, overhearing this, thought the husband-bird sounded like a bit of an arrogant ass, and so naturally took their nest once they had built it. The husband-bird retaliated in various ways, such as trying to dry up the ocean by carrying water away in his bill (this did not work), calling his friends to help him fill the ocean with dirt (this did not work), and finally asking Garuda, king of birds, to ask Vishnu to ask the ocean to give the eggs back (this worked).
Hebrew, recorded 5th-7th century CE-ish: What can we say about Haman, a man who tried to slaughter the Jews of Persia? He may be compared to a bird who nested on the shore of the sea, whose nest was swept out by the tide. The bird said: I vow never to stop until the sea becomes land, and the land becomes sea. It took seawater up in its mouth and dropped it on dry land, and took dirt from the land to drop into the sea. Its friend said to it: Unfortunate fool, how do you hope to succeed? Similarly, G-d said to Haman: Hey, moron, if I couldn't destroy the Jews (Moses intervened, long story), what makes you think you can?
German, 19th century CE: A king is asking a shepherd boy a series of "head-scratchers" such as you might encounter when interviewing for a flashy tech company. One is: "How many seconds of time are there in eternity?" The shepherd boy asks the king to envision a bird, which every hundred years comes and sharpens its beak on a mountain -- wait, where's the ocean? No ocean, apparently. Rookie mistake, Germans really fumbled this one
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thusjuniperus · 14 days
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one of my biggest tidiness challenges is figuring out what to do with multi-wear per wash clothes that I’ve worn once and can no longer be counted among the “clean” laundry but are not yet deserving of the designation “dirty”
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thusjuniperus · 15 days
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was messin around brushes for this one
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thusjuniperus · 21 days
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a company just emailed us like "hey we just received a second check you wrote for this invoice, but it was already paid off with the first check. should we destroy the second check or return it to you or what?" and for some reason the in-house conversation before I hopped in was "damn, guess we gotta reissue a third check"
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thusjuniperus · 21 days
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enormous staff turnover in my department at work in the last half-year or so, and now at least once a week I run into the issue of "are they adhering to industry standards I'm too poorly-educated to know/otherwise operating off of information I don't have, or are they operating from incorrect premises based on a lack of in-house procedural knowledge/poor reading comprehension/whatever"
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thusjuniperus · 23 days
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Villa Livia (Pompeii), c. 40 BC
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thusjuniperus · 27 days
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researching effect of brewing methods on caffeine content of tea. extremely dumb several seconds of wondering why the chinese word for caffeine was derived from the chinese word for coffee, rather than a scientific chemical-ish name or perhaps something tea-related
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thusjuniperus · 27 days
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The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory.
In 1994, three friends discovered in the south of France a cave with magnificent cave paintings, more than 30,000 years old.
Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.
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thusjuniperus · 28 days
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my "old person" tech thing is that when I see or hear mention of using disposable cameras or developing film, I immediately think "yes, as one does," rather than correctly recognizing this as something I last did in like 2002
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thusjuniperus · 30 days
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ever since i was a little girl i've always wanted a hysterectomy
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thusjuniperus · 1 month
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I hate it when people respond to "What makes a person cool?" with some garbage like "When they're kind at heart and make a genuine effort to put the people around them at ease." The question wasn't "What makes a person a positive, well-adjusted member of society?", the question was what makes them cool. The answers should be things like the ability to swordfight, or effortlessly backflip off of high objects
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thusjuniperus · 1 month
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thusjuniperus · 1 month
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(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like:
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See you could set relative frequencies of each pronoun, and order them.
And yes I did mock this up using Visual Basic 6. That's just how my brain works.
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thusjuniperus · 1 month
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rb in the tags what would be the physical feature used to identify you in fanfiction of you if you were a fictional character
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thusjuniperus · 3 months
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Kind of crazy how much more interesting and beautiful real life caves are than most caves in video games. Never really seen em capture the diversity and composition it’s always just rock tubes connecting rock rooms with Sum glowing ass crystals
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thusjuniperus · 3 months
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this is also the case in some other parts of the internet, but tumblr especially seems to have a thing where both sides of a discussion are so fucking snide and catty that it's impossible to learn about an issue and form an opinion unless you have a high tolerance for smug jagoffery
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