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Call me Esther, Aesthr, or Æ if you want to be extra. she/her Artist, writer, photographer, luddite, witch, lesbian, and future psychologist in Berlin Art: https://www.aesthr.com Writing: https://www.selfawaresoup.com There are four lights!

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Æ. @aesthr.com · Jan 19

And, I mean …

Full body photo of me in front of a black backdrop, wearing loose fitting black pajama pants and a black tank top, Keeping my hands in my pockets

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 2h

My TV never gets connected to my home network. Its only job is to display whatever it is fed via HDMI1.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 10h

i have never, not once, listened to a song on spotify unless it was playing at somebody else's place

what are you a luddite about

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 2h

Still wild to me that they are so rare in the US when it’s pretty much the default here

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 5h

Would it surprise you that the owner of Scientific American's parent company, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, invested $37 million in Inkitt, an AI firm?

What a SHOCK

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 5h

Everyone wants to be the fancy full-plate knight or whatever but a motivated and well-fed bunch of fuckers with spears is what wins battles in medieval Europe.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 5h

People underestimate the humble spear: best-in-slot weapon for most people without a lifetime of training and with basic physical fitness until the advent of firearms.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 6h

Along with that a chain shirt and some studded leather on the arms and legs, a spear and a short sword each for like 20 of us, a hot bowl of soup, and we’re ready to wreck some shit.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 6h

I’m thinking Sallet

⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · Jul 14

forget your zodiac sign, which medieval helmet are you wearing into battle?

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 9h

I live in a big city and all my relationships are practically long-distance anyway so maybe this wouldn’t actually change much

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 11h

For a substantial part I had to sell my soul to tech for a while :/

Æ. @aesthr.com · 11h

I got mine from public healthcare, check mate

(Even though I had to fight them for it)

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 12h

Hype!!

Æ. @aesthr.com · 13h

Absolute bangers like this

„This remarkable identification with women was found in these little boys to be
associated with (1) mothers who acted and dressed like boys until adolescence; (2)
fathers who were almost literally absent from the home, day or night, weekdays or
weekends; (3) the parents’ excessive permissiveness, so that the developing femininity
was openly encouraged by allowing the boys to dress as girls whenever they chose (‚He’s
so beautiful; wouldn't he look lovely as a girl?’); and especially by (4) excessive and
intimate body contact for many hours, day and night, from birth to the time they were
seen at age 4-5, this delay in mother-infant separation perpetuated by the little boys’
constant touching of their mothers nude bodies and clothes.“ (Stoller, 1984, S. 126f.)

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 13h

I'm reading a paper on 20th century psychoanalysis' views on trans people and oh dear there's some choice quotes in there.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 13h

Funny how people will put "designer" in front of "vagina" and never in front of "hip replacement".

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 17h

Kind of why I enjoy Warhammer 40K lore.

Oh, the guy is called “Angron”? Cool, got it.

Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 17h

Villains (and other characters) don’t always have to be complex and multi-dimensional. Sometimes a good, iconic villain can simply be a guy that walks in and shouts, “I AM ARAGHAST OF THE BLACK LEGION. PILLAGER OF A THOUSAND WORLDS. YOU WILL MEET YOUR END BY MY HAND!”

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 17h

In order for that to change getting a large tattoo would have to become ALL of: readily available, cheap, mostly painless, easily reversible.

And I don’t see that happening any time soon.

Æ. @aesthr.com · 17h

I’m sure there’s more people who have tattoos today than ever before, but it’s mostly very small and few pieces.

People who you see and go “oh, that’s tattoo person” will always be rare simply because it’s not exactly easy to get large pieces done and it’s a big commitment.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 18h

Learning that people have been saying “everyone is getting tattoos these days” for at least hundreds of years.

Yeah, I’m sure it’ll turn uncool any minute now.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 18h

Yup

Æ. @aesthr.com · 18h

Ngl, sending pictures to people that leave them speechless is doing good things for my brain

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 18h

If not I will ████ ███ █████ ████

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

Mostly just running about

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself.
(I'm 'fifty-two years an imbecile')

Work, Work, Work

On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:

Colourist of artificial fish

Knight of the Thimble

Disinfector of railways

Examiner of underclothing

Invisible net maker

Electric bath attendant

Proprietor of midgets

Fifty-two years an imbecile

Knocker-up of workpeople

Maker of sand views

Gymnast to house painter

Turnip shepherd

Emasculator

Sampler of drugs

Fatuous pauper

Drowner

Count as female

Fish-bender

Goldfish-catcher

Cow-banger

Running about

Grape-dryer

Beef twister

Random waller

Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

This framing would ignore that gender is socially constructed as it’s kind of backwards.

I would say that as embodied and social beings we find ourselves in a socially constructed framework that we have to integrate somehow, even if we reject it. Therefore our bodies become subject to it as well.

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

Also really good trebuchets in this movie towards the end.

This is one for the trebuchet appreciators.

Æ. @aesthr.com · 1d

I mean the same is true for Tron: Legacy

Although I haven't seen Ares yet and I expect it to be much worse

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie where the soundtrack was preferable to the script before but Tron Ares is IT, man

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