ln() stands for latural nogarithm

back to class :^)

Artist's Sketch of a Swallow, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1479-1458 B.C.

[ID: Photos of a painted clay rectangular relief sculpture of a Przewalski's horse. It starts on the left/hindquarters as a cave painting and then becomes more realistic and higher relief to the right/front. The head is fully 3D and turned to look out at the viewer. End ID]

Painted the second one. I think the black background works better for photos. I'm going to make a few more of these to sell so keep an eye out if you are interested.

Putting on my best cold and disdainful sneer as I command my loyal assassin uBlock Origin to make meddlesome UI elements conveniently disappear

Everybody does the exact same stupid shit. That white nationalist anon I was getting a while ago would send me story after story of some random black guy or immigrant committing a violent crime against a white person. Well, yeah, people are violent, you're gonna find those if you go looking for them. And there's a lot of racial animosity in the world, so you'll even find racially charged ones if you go looking! No shit, Sherlock. We could play this game all day. You find me a news story of a black guy killing a white guy, I find you a news story of white guy killing a black guy. This does no one any good.

TERFs are identical. News story after news story of a trans woman raping somebody. Yeah, the world is an awful place and people rape each other. I can find you a news story of a cis woman raping a teenage boy and getting three months in jail. I can find you a news story of a cis mom killing her disabled kid cause they're too much work. But I don't want to. The world sucks shit, why gorge yourself on the tragedy?

Zionists come up with news story after news story of pro-Palestinian/BDS/whatever protestors being antisemitic. Yep. A lot of people out there hate Jews. And there has been a genuine rise in antisemitism since the Oct. 7th attack, and that's awful. There are no excuses for that. Do you know what else has happened since then? The Israeli military has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinians, including huge numbers of innocent civilians—men, women and children.

People are often terrible to each other. Welcome to Earth. If you go looking for bad actors in a big enough group, you are guaranteed to find them. How about this. What about all the black people who didn't kill a white little girl? What about the black little girls? What about their hopes and dreams? What about their chance at life? What about all the trans women who didn't rape anybody in a bathroom? What if they just want to go about their lives, without constant public scrutiny of what genitals they have (as a cis woman, can you empathize with that? Constant public scrutiny of what you're doing with your genitals?). What about the 30,000 Palestinians who have been killed, and the 70,000 who have been displaced from their homes?

Fear has made you a monster. Fear has driven you to demand slaughter and oppression of innocent people because they look like guilty people you read about on the news, and since they look the same to you, you feel fearful—how can you tell whether these are the innocent ones or the guilty ones? Best to oppress and slaughter them preemptively just to be safe. I am here to tell you that this twisted logic of self-defense does not hold. I do not care if you feel safe—I do not care if you are safe—if the cost of your safety is innocent life. The world is a risky place. I am not going to deny that. Horrible things could happen to any of us. If we go around preemptively attacking other over it, we do not make it a bit better. And, needless to say, danger comes from everywhere, from every group of human beings, and oppressing the people who make you nervous will not, in fact, deliver you from danger. It just makes you a monster.

I keep saying this. Hate groups share outrage bait among themselves as a form of self-radicalization that winds up twisting their emotional responses so much towards hostility and fear that they end up feeling as if everyone in their outgroup is some kind of vicious threat.

The process is practically the same every time no matter what kind of demographic they want to fearmonger about.

girl are you coffee because you make me . nervous but i loveyou

night shift at the cyclotron hell yeah hell yeah

is there a tumblrina in my lab???

not a real word

cmonn

sure whatever. i don't even care anymore

Has @lipshits-continuous seen this yet?

[ID: Photos of a brown clay sculpture showing a Przewalski's horse. It is boxed shaped. The horse's body is drawn onto the box, and the front half from the shoulders is three-dimensional, fully emerging at the end of the box. The horse is in a walking pose with the front left leg raised and the head tilted slightly sideways. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

Continuation of previous pieces. I have an end goal but feel I need to build up to it. This one went wrong while I was making it so I had to completely re-do the box; the front half of the horse is the only original part. And the front leg snapped off, oh well! Was a good learning experience though :) I've been getting lazy with the eyes on these ones but I'm not too fussed with details on these particular pieces. The back legs are too stiff/static looking so it doesn't come across as cave art style.

People should use this text embellishment more

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

Holy shit this is unicode???

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

These are all Egyptian hieroglyphs.

This...

𓆝

...is a flathead mullet. The glyph is used for the animal (ꜥḏw), and apparently also as the biliteral sequence /ꜥḏ/, but only in the word for "country commissioner" (ꜥḏ-mr).

This...

𓆟

...is a petrocephalus bane. It was used for the biliteral sequence /bs/.

This...

𓆞

...is an elephant-snout fish. It was used for the animal (ẖꜣt) and also the biliteral sequence /ẖꜣ/.

But there are more!

Say hello to...

𓆜

...the barbel...

𓆛

...the tilapia...

𓆡

...the puffer...

𓆢

...and, somehow, the catfish.

I don't know why the catfish looks like Zoidberg as a fish. Maybe catfish were different in that place and time. But yeah, don't leave those feisty boys out when fish-posting!

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Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964.