putting ribbon in my hair not in a coquette way but in a late 1700s frenzied lawyer type of way
Fulfilling my dream to be a Nelson era navy lieutenant
really one of the things i hate most about the ai fuckening we're currently in is that it positions me as the person wearing a tinfoil hat when i try to suggest that maybe handing over biometric and personal data to tech companies is bad, actually.
like maybe perhaps perchance we don't want it scanning our children's faces to do age verification because we don't know what it's going to do with those scans down the line. maybe we shouldn't be using it like a therapy machine and telling it our deepest, most painful things. maybe we shouldn't be giving it a dossier of our detailed medical information, especially in a world (in the us) where things like not being able to hold pre-existing conditions against someone for insurance is increasingly threatened. perhaps we shouldn't be scanning our faces for funny little short videos into something that can also generate porn on demand with all of the data it's collected.
maybe, stay with me and please stop building the tinfoil hat i can see you putting on my head coworker/friend/casual acquaintance, ai ISN'T a miracle to solve humanity's problems and is instead just more tech churned out by tech bros who have not historically been super great when it comes to morals.
Kind of obsessed with this woman's freakishly modern jacket from 1904.
The complete lack of shoulder definition gives it the silhouette of an MA-1 bomber jacket, but bombers weren't even a thing yet. The Wright brothers barely achieved powered flight in 1903. The ribbing on the shoulder and the angular cutouts with the hexagonal mesh are so futuristic and cyberpunk, but even art deco wouldn't be a thing for another 15 years. The color is like a dusty NASA flight suit. All together it's giving lone spacefarer crash landing their tiny rustbucket ship on Mars.
Truly a visionary of her time.
If You Were a Fictional Character
I've seen a few moots doing this and it looked fun!
* Make this picrew of yourself
* Take this uquiz (How Fandom Would See You If You Were A Fictional Character)
...yeah that seems about right 😅🫠
Not sure who's done this already so tagging the besties @thetumblingmoron @redheadsramblings @woundedsoul12 @the-bear-and-his-sunbird @aurorabiggs @thepalehorsevictoria @kiir-do-faal-rahhe and anyone else who would like to play!
Ooh okay, I'll take it!
Tagging @tumblystump and anyone else who comes across this post!
Ah figures.
@sirma-m @underwhelmedandoverstimulated have at thee moots
Quiz was written in a way as to have unanswerable questions. Here's the picrew
Haven't finished my coffee uhhh
Quiz: Bastard (good)
Excuse me? Did I just get called an "Old Soul" by an uquiz? Is it because i picked Star Trek and Queen? 😤
Joyce DiDonato talking about Nemorino and "Una furtiva lagrima"
You have to be that guy who is just saying:
- My God, I saw it, and she'll deny it... but I saw it and now I don't need anything else. I'm telling you, she's mine.... and even if it takes 40 years... or 140... I'm there cause I saw it... she loves me!
realized this morning that the price rigoletto pays sparafucile to kill the duke is the same amount belcore gives nemorino to enlist as a soldier. for the low low price of 20 scudi you too can kill a man or be drafted, take your pick
Obviously, in Italian opera, 20 scudi is the price of a man's life: either someone else's or your own. That's the rule.
It's also what Don Alfonso promises Despina for her collaboration in Così fan Tutte. That's the only time they say "scudi" in the libretto, every other time it's Zecchine, which I guess is a larger coin.
"un zecchin" is what nemorino pays dulcamara for his first round of elixir, which is apparently all the money nemorino has to his name. i'm not sure what value a scudo was comparatively, whether it was more or less than a zecchino (or zecchinetto, presumably some denomination of a zecchino), and therefore whether 20 scudi is significantly more or less than what he paid for a marked up bottle of wine
also i have no idea what value a doppia is other than it's the value of two of some other kind of coin. jury's still out on whether don giovanni's bribe for leporello of 4 doppie is ludicrously high or ludicrously low
More gold from the amphitheater stage
‘Half-Lit Woodland Scene’ by Benjamin Haughton (1865–1924)
laga dyga is an evil hag and she is going to Get you
It took me way too long to figure out what it's trying to say. I was just willing to accept "laga dyga" at face value.
Can't read my, can't read my pofa kerce
there's a sign by this cool coffee place near where I live that's...hang on let me grab it from google maps
Always takes me a while to remember that it's "VOTE LOVE" and not "VOLO TEVE"
Rehearsals for Ariodante at the Royal Opera, 2025 [Photo: Max Miechowski]
