… all the tentacles complete — but no, the front one is not right! Some surgery required. Out comes the hacksaw, but only to the wire armature so the arm can be shaped into the correct curves. Then like Dr. Frankenstein I fasten it back together with staples and recover with more resin putty.
And now is time to sand …
and sand and sand and sand until it is time for the little sucker cups … M2, M2.5, M3, M4, M5, M6, M8, M10, M12 white nylon washers
I pulled out my collection of plastic seals and off we went for days of cupping —15 days spent modeling the contours of each of the 663 suction cups
The Blessed Virgin had to be sanded very delicately to give it back some of its immaculateness.
The happiness of some is the dust of others.
Take advantage of this white octopus, it seems that it is very rare to come across one. Shortly after I did my little experiments with paintings —
A few days to finish the color, but because it will have to go through a few coats of a special glossy glossy varnish, which makes the viscosity so good… mmm yum. Given the size of the room I could not apply it in one go. The drying takes between 24 and 48 hours, so it will probably take me a week to complete the application of this varnish-resin.
If your head is spinning too much, don’t look at this indecent image.
Soasig Chamaillard (French, b.1977)
Notre dame du poulpe(Our Lady of the Octopus) - recovery statue with illegible signature, aluminum wire frame, plaster strip, polystyrene, resin
(epoxy putty), plumbing seals (plastic washers), acrylic paint, resin varnish
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47 cm high x 70 cm wide - 12 kg - work-in-progress March 20 to May 31, 2015
“I grew up in a Christian Western society. My perspective on life has been a result of my environment and background. The playful interaction of society’s many icons, physical transformations, and the resulting improbable combinations, have culminated in my vision of a woman’s role and place in our society. This inner questioning of a woman’s role, has led me to use one of the most sacred icons in my work, namely, the Virgin Mary. Initially, I begin with damaged statues, either donated or discovered in garage sales, which I then restore and transform. I surely do not mean to shock those who believe but rather to move those who see.” —
Soasig Chamaillard
Many of you might be unaware but if you’re a transphobe there’s a 98.7% chance that your brain is replaced with mushy peas within the first five years.
If you do x-rays that many times you will fucking die
TERFs after x-raying themselves every time they have a drink to make sure there’s no penises around
Poll Day is an interactive narrative adventure about the nature of choice, the implications of free will, friends fighting against fate, ancient gods, and queerness.
Each part of the story is determined by a poll of what actions the main character takes. In that sense, the main character is controlled by the audience.
However, in order for that idea to work, there needs to be an audience. Anyone who would be interested is encouraged to follow the blog and choose to vote on the polls that appear with each story beat. Without a larger audience, the polls won’t make as much sense. There needs to be a larger sample size, so to speak. Also, consider reblogging this post if your followers or mutuals may be interested.
Poll Day will begin when this blog reaches 50 followers.
mojang really needs to fix the aquatic mobs’ underwater pathfinding because holy shit it is still so bad
Just out of curiosity how is it bad?
frog wants to go onto giant lilypad. tries to go through a block to do it even though a) theres an empty space right next to it specifically for that purpose and b) theres smaller lilypads around it which it can climb onto instead
axolotl getting stuck on amethyst clusters, i assume because it sees the space occupied by the cluster as free, so the AI gets stuck trying to get there even though it cant. these axolotl have been stuck here for literally weeks like this without moving btw. there’s also a dripstone stalactites outside the entrance of the geode that they get stuck on as well, i assume for the same reasons.
also, i had dolphins in this lake as well. theyve all slowly died, i guess because of the lilypads. they get stuck under them and cant go up for air and end up drowning, when they could just… move out under them and resurface. but the underwater pathfinding is stupid so they wont do that
The thing with dolphins is actually worse than you think, their AI straight up just turns off whenever they’re not being rendered so anytime you move away from them while they’re fully submerged they’ll just drown no matter what.
A TV series about the early Roman emperors, except:
It’s a comedy.
It starts with Julius Caesar (who keeps correcting the narrator that he’s a dictator, not an emperor, as if it makes any difference).
The narrator skips over military campaigns like the Gallic War and Claudius’ conquest of Britain in favor of “Haha check out Augustus’ shitty poetry” and “Caesar once tried to overthrow the republic with a wardrobe malfunction.”
You can tell the narrator gets bored of certain emperors because he keeps going off on tangents about Julius and Augustus after they’re supposed to be dead.
The characters get frustrated because they’re trying to act out a serious drama but nooo the narrator would rather gossip and it’s only 50% in chronological order.
Some of the characters start pointing out things the narrator says that are physically impossible, don’t make logical sense, or which their enemies made up.
Tiberius storms out partway through his episode and the rest of the narrative has him played by a sock puppet voiced by Caligula doing a falsetto.
Caligula attempts to sic the Praetorian guards on the narrator for making up filthy lies about him. Like, he’s still a huge dick, just not in the way the narrator claims.
Claudius just wants to teach the audience cool facts about the Etruscans but the narrator talks over him.
Nero is actually a Korean boy band singer who keeps trying to explain to people he’s a musician, not the emperor, and isn’t sure what he’s doing in ancient Rome. No one listens.
Galba is played by Rob Halford, the “stately homo of heavy metal.”
Galba, Otho and Vitellius have to share an episode, and even then the narrator half-asses it and leaves with 10 minutes of runtime to fill, at which point the characters (including the dead ones) break into the production studio and reveal the narrator is Suetonius.
Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or……….???
This is a resubmission of a previous poll i have submitted, but i wanted to resubmit it to give out clearer percentages. Sorry if your religion is not mentioned here !!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
This post gets notes every Ides of March even though it’s not a depiction of Julius Caesar’s assassination, it’s a depiction of the emperor Caligula’s assassination, who was killed on January 24th, 41 AD.
physics professors are really going through it- every day, I think about my quantum physics professor who once went on a rant about how there’s too many types of mustard these days followed by the words “well, at least quantum physics is less complicated than the mustard aisle” followed by one of the most cursed derivations I have ever seen
here’s my one whole discourse post for pride month. you fucks will never ever ever wean off the radfem shit if you keep trying to give “cis men are evil” nuance. no, it’s not bad because they could be closeted or questioning, it’s bad because gender essentialism is a fucking brain poison and it makes you stupid
this is “not all men” cloaked in progressive-sounding vocabulary
Did you know that to this day most image recognition software in computers will throw a fit and collapse inwards on itself if you just tilt the image by 45?
The fact that this is the default response of the vertebrate brain to confusion but crashes synthetic brains says something about us.
I’m not sure what it say but it says something.
@the-arcade-doctor does JOTA tilt his head or no? This is very important to me
hey just gonna be goin back and forth for a while. hope nobody minds lol gotta get some practice in
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goddamn have you guys seen whats just growin out of the cracks here?? if nobody else wants em i call dibs
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fuck OFF everyone we’re gonna make out for like 40 minutes. and then vape
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Really excellent workmanship. See the way they’ve steadily graded the surface to reduce pothole formation? Shame it goes both unmaintained and unused. Fuck this wasteful society
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anyone wanna meet under the old sodium vapor light and stand really close to me and then leave after 20 seconds
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yall mind if we just crawl around for a while
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this will easily shave 43 seconds off my morning run, giving me a little more time to enjoy a bowl of oatmeal before work
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bustin through!
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bustin through!
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bustin through!
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bustin through!
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bustin through!
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just parking here for a while. nobody look at me alright haha i get nervous if you look at me. im not doing anything im just parked here. be cool alright
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.
*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep
Oh for gods sake kids it’s like piercing an ear - that’s why you put a doorframe in - you don’t hang a door in drywall, you gremlins. You frame the door. It’s like those gauges that people put in their ears - the hole stays. It won’t scab over with a doorframe in it. You’ve lived around doors you whole life, you little clowns. Lights out
i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it’s actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.
21 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 that 18 year old is literally your college classmate. you are the same age. You Are The Same Age
like, the moral panic about age gaps in dating is one thing but this reddit thread was literally about Being Online Friends. you can be online friends with a teenager. they are actually people you can talk to. i promise.
it’s very easy to not be a creepy adult when talking to a minor. step one: don’t act creepy. that’s it. that’s all you need to do.
When I was sixteen, I and my boyfriend (eighteen) and his little brother (fourteen) all belonged to the same gaming group, which had been started by his father’s friend Steve. We played twice a week with a bunch of people twice and even three times our age, and we learned that adults weren’t aliens, they were people with their own feelings and fears and they weren’t always right about everything.
Those years at Steve’s table were incredibly important to my development as a person. And we had something in common: the game.
NEW POKEMON CONFIRMED FOR XY!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO NAMES AS OF YET, BUT IT IS BELIEVED TO BE AN ELECTRIC/ICE TYPE!!!!!!!! POPULAR FAN NAMES ARE “BLUE PIKACHU", “ICELECTRIC", AND “GAY SHITTY IDIOT".
chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.
schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.
Schrœdinkov’s Catgun: If you see a cat with a gun, there’s no way to know if it will be relevant later except to wait and observe.
Placcam’s Razorcave: The simplest explanation for anything is that you have no understanding of the real world.
Murphagoryan Lawrem: The square of the consequences of any two things that can go wrong will equal the sum of the squared consequences of the individual things.
Okkov’s Gunblade: If you see someone with a bayonet, the simplest explanation is that they will stab you in the future.
Schrœdingorean Catrollary: If you put a cat in a triangular box, the hypotenuse face of the box could be both intact and destroyed until you actually look at what the cat’s been up to.
Plurphy’s Cave Law: If you don’t understand the real world, things will go wrong.
Pychœccovamatophy’s theory of cat-shaving cave gun regulations: If you see a cat with a gun in one hand and a blade in the other emerging from a cave on a right-angled path, the simplest solution is to flee along the hypotenuse, but you won’t know until later whether anything will go wrong because you really don’t understand the real world.
My predictions for who the two new hermits will be:
Skizzleman and TheMythicalSausage - this one’s pretty much the safest guess. They’ve both worked with multiple hermits before
SmallishBeans and LDShadowLady - This one’s another obvious one. I think their dynamic would make the server even more chaotic
Stampylongnose and Squaishey - These two are much less likely to join, but I’d be interested to see what they’d do on the Hermitcraft server
GoodTimesWithScar and Mumbo Jumbo - It’s a pretty safe decision to add them as new members, considering they’re already on the server
HBomb94 and CoughingBaby94 - HBomb is already friends with multiple hermits, and these two are basically a package deal
Iilluminaughtii and James Somerton - It’s not like they have anything better to do
Two additional, smaller Grians - They can follow Regular-Sized Grian around and crack jokes
Two random dudes who have never played Minecraft before - It would be nice to give the smaller creators a spotlight
Every member of Quackity SMP fused into two giant flesh abominations - This could be an exciting way to bring the whole mcyt fandom together like never before
Doctor Dre and Snoop Dogg - Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait
Nebraska Man and Piltdown Man - Don’t let the fact that they’re well-known archaeological hoaxes fool you, these two are accomplished builders and redstoners, and they’d fit in well with the current server members
Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl - It would be interesting to see what fun new dynamics two primordial Aztec creation deities bring to the server
The human personification of existential dread and fear of the inevitable passing of time and Martyn InTheLittleWood - both are familiar faces in the Hermitcraft community, and it’s only a matter of time before they properly become hermits
Seriously though, all the speculation about new members is super fun but we should all remember to give a warm welcome to whoever ends up joining, even if it’s not the person you were hoping for
Let’s not let any potential disappointment overshadow the new people’s arrival
i check twitter to see if any of the hermits have said anything about who’s on the s10 whitelist. Xisuma has tweeted. I laugh so loud I startle my cat.
NOBODY should EVER take this base64 string (aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9NQTB4aElZSSNQX3BqNl82SkxkaFdCcl9odllqSm13) and put it into the converter at https://www.base64decode.org/ to get all the major adobe programs for free! that would be a crime!
ANYONE that pirates adobes 500 dollar programs should be ASHAMED!
that would just be evil!
I’m gonna reblog this to preserve the innocence of everyone following me. Beware this devil! This one. The one in the link there. With the instructions so you know what to AVOID doing. Yes. I have saved you
This doesn’t include the best bit of the whole thing - she found the Twitter thread!
This is like one of those romance novels where people bond over accidentally writing each other emails but better.
Like Pride and Prejudice but instead of the love interest getting dissed for his toxicity and then reforming, it’s just two people bonding over dissing a dead toxic asshole.
hey uhhh but fr the concept of fallen angels existing but risen demons being an impossibility is kind of a great summary of sin in christianity
holy shit
no, no, come back here and tell me how stupid it is to talk about how the power dynamics inherent to christianity are built upon the rhetoric that failure is unavoidable and there is never enough you can do to make up for it
Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a report on Thursday, including the names of more than seven thousand Palestinians who were martyred in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Red color highlights 0-4 years old age group
Green color highlights age group 5-17
White color highlights the age group between 18 and 59 years old
Gray color highlights the age group over 60
These are not just names, but people killed in the midst of a brutal war. Remember their names.
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