stealingsand
@stealingsand.bsky.social
If the bass drops in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, is it still off the chain?
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Pottery | science | cats | justice | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | UX/Accessibility
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(∩｀-´)⊃━ ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ 林蔤雅 • 임미아
Pottery | science | cats | justice | NE DFW | mola mola at ❤️ | UX/Accessibility
Cover by @devinellekurtz.bsky.social
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7/ Pottery/clay/ceramics. It's incredibly humbling - even if you do everything right, it can still come out horribly wrong 🤣
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I'm seeing a lot of the same take of "you should have negotiated a better contract" and people need to understand that most don't have the option.
Marvel/Disney would just hire someone else they can underpay and exploit instead. That's how they operate...
Marvel/Disney would just hire someone else they can underpay and exploit instead. That's how they operate...
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm seeing a lot of the same take of "you should have negotiated a better contract" and people need to understand that most don't have the option.
Marvel/Disney would just hire someone else they can underpay and exploit instead. That's how they operate...
Marvel/Disney would just hire someone else they can underpay and exploit instead. That's how they operate...
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A lot of you think it's ridiculous that Democrats would ever let Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people rehabilitate her image, but we just had a convention that featured border patrol agents and a congressman that voted against Obamacare more than 60 times, so I'm being extra careful.
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A lot of you think it's ridiculous that Democrats would ever let Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people rehabilitate her image, but we just had a convention that featured border patrol agents and a congressman that voted against Obamacare more than 60 times, so I'm being extra careful.
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Fixing the academy begins with firing the economists
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Fixing the academy begins with firing the economists
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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It's also nice to see really good looking guys yearn, flirt, kiss like they mean it, and repeatedly ask about consent and comfort. A much-needed visual escape from all the depressing news, doomscrolling, and constant layoffs this year.
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It's also nice to see really good looking guys yearn, flirt, kiss like they mean it, and repeatedly ask about consent and comfort. A much-needed visual escape from all the depressing news, doomscrolling, and constant layoffs this year.
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There are lots of reasons why Heated Rivalry is already incredibly successful, but they include the fact that many of the characters have absolutely no chill, openly yearn for what (and who) they want, and everyone is off-the-charts hot, including the Asian Canadian guy with autistic traits.
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
There are lots of reasons why Heated Rivalry is already incredibly successful, but they include the fact that many of the characters have absolutely no chill, openly yearn for what (and who) they want, and everyone is off-the-charts hot, including the Asian Canadian guy with autistic traits.
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“everything sucks/everybody dies and nothing is resolved” is the most realistic type of fiction and there isn’t much of it…
even when contents are brutal, violent, & depressing, there is usually hope, or competence — some resolution or detente. closure.
virtually all fiction is escapist
even when contents are brutal, violent, & depressing, there is usually hope, or competence — some resolution or detente. closure.
virtually all fiction is escapist
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
“everything sucks/everybody dies and nothing is resolved” is the most realistic type of fiction and there isn’t much of it…
even when contents are brutal, violent, & depressing, there is usually hope, or competence — some resolution or detente. closure.
virtually all fiction is escapist
even when contents are brutal, violent, & depressing, there is usually hope, or competence — some resolution or detente. closure.
virtually all fiction is escapist
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impressive
this fluffy superficial essay manages to be:
1. misogynistic
2. xenophobic
3. incurious
4. ignorant of literature history
5. confused by the difference between “marketing” and “hype”
this fluffy superficial essay manages to be:
1. misogynistic
2. xenophobic
3. incurious
4. ignorant of literature history
5. confused by the difference between “marketing” and “hype”
How “Cozy Lit” Became the Latest and Most Shameless Form of Digital Escapism | The Walrus
Think cats. Tea. Rain. The seaside. More cats
thewalrus.ca
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
impressive
this fluffy superficial essay manages to be:
1. misogynistic
2. xenophobic
3. incurious
4. ignorant of literature history
5. confused by the difference between “marketing” and “hype”
this fluffy superficial essay manages to be:
1. misogynistic
2. xenophobic
3. incurious
4. ignorant of literature history
5. confused by the difference between “marketing” and “hype”
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Like if you’re not doing science with the understanding that someday some undergrad is going to read your paper and prove your favorite model wrong, what are you even doing?
if “science” only refers to what’s currently believed then it has no history; it’s a thin line of apparent lone geniuses rather than a socially and culturally embedded activity that has grown, changed and absorbed and lost elements over time. And everyone doing it now is Darwin, Einstein or Galileo
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Like if you’re not doing science with the understanding that someday some undergrad is going to read your paper and prove your favorite model wrong, what are you even doing?
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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So astonished to be on this great list. Thanks, @sciam.bsky.social and @breezybrik.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025
Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction
www.scientificamerican.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
So astonished to be on this great list. Thanks, @sciam.bsky.social and @breezybrik.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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If I don’t know you well (or don’t trust you) I come across as distant and quiet because that’s how I feel safe and have learned to adapt. If I have to communicate with you and it’s important, I do this
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If I don’t know you well (or don’t trust you) I come across as distant and quiet because that’s how I feel safe and have learned to adapt. If I have to communicate with you and it’s important, I do this
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when you wanna rap along but you’re white
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
when you wanna rap along but you’re white
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"We love America" they say as they dismantle the few good things that make this place America
December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"We love America" they say as they dismantle the few good things that make this place America
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I mean the Dredd Scott decision basically sparked the civil war, which the US won and then enacted birthright citizenship to reject Dredd Scott, so getting rid of it is just a reembracing of race being the basis of class and a bunch of other racist bullshit.
Like we fought the civil war about this
Like we fought the civil war about this
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I mean the Dredd Scott decision basically sparked the civil war, which the US won and then enacted birthright citizenship to reject Dredd Scott, so getting rid of it is just a reembracing of race being the basis of class and a bunch of other racist bullshit.
Like we fought the civil war about this
Like we fought the civil war about this
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Chickens in the snow.
December 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Chickens in the snow.
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my brain chimes in with “because it is my heart” every single time i think of, use or hear the word “bitter” and sometimes i speak it out loud and nobody but thomas has any fuckin clue what i’m talking about
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
In the Desert Stephen Crane, 1895.
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
In the Desert Stephen Crane, 1895.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
my brain chimes in with “because it is my heart” every single time i think of, use or hear the word “bitter” and sometimes i speak it out loud and nobody but thomas has any fuckin clue what i’m talking about
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
(i knew i liked josh for a reason!)
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literal recession indicator
The Indiana Hoosiers are one first down away from their first conference championship in football since the Great Depression.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
literal recession indicator
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I'm still shocked that there are people who oppose birthright citizenship and consider themselves Americans, let alone a member of any particular political ideology. To be against the idea that if you're born here, you're a citizen is one of the most anti-american ideas I can conceive of.
still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I'm still shocked that there are people who oppose birthright citizenship and consider themselves Americans, let alone a member of any particular political ideology. To be against the idea that if you're born here, you're a citizen is one of the most anti-american ideas I can conceive of.
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This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
Is it too early to jokingly refer to this as the 6-7 earthquake? Read more about what we know so far, summarized in our web story here: https://bit.ly/4aC083z
December 6 Magnitude 7 Near the Canadian Border | Alaska Earthquake Center
On Saturday, December 6, just before noon, a magnitude 7 earthquake was felt across a 500-mile radius around the epicenter, near Hubbard Glacier, about
earthquake.alaska.edu
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
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It makes sense in a patriarchy that the age of consent is 18, while allowing child marriage to get around age of consent laws, because the law isn't about protecting children who are too young to consent to sex with adults, it's about protecting a father's property to maintain marriage value.
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It makes sense in a patriarchy that the age of consent is 18, while allowing child marriage to get around age of consent laws, because the law isn't about protecting children who are too young to consent to sex with adults, it's about protecting a father's property to maintain marriage value.
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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As a longtime fan of HOW IT'S MADE, I can't say I'm surprised exactly by how much any manufactured good is essentially handmade but it's still striking to see how much of even high tech stuff like camera lenses is "a worker with a paintbrush and screwdriver moves stuff around by hand"
望遠ズームレンズを作るプロセス。精密なレンズを生み出す日本の光学機器メーカ。
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December 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
As a longtime fan of HOW IT'S MADE, I can't say I'm surprised exactly by how much any manufactured good is essentially handmade but it's still striking to see how much of even high tech stuff like camera lenses is "a worker with a paintbrush and screwdriver moves stuff around by hand"