owen cyclops
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illustrator at the nexus of family, american religion, and odd psychology. comics in highlights tab. recent books below. everything i do: https://t.co/uzxC71XMGI
Joined September 2016
owen cyclops publishing is very pleased to announce our entrance into the world of children's books. 'rover in church' is an illustrated poem from 1911. this sunday at the old chapel, there's a knock on the door. who could it be? a friend? (it is dog).
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this is the exact genre of image that lost the most to the existence of AI.
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if you have a space like this, you eventually stop going upstairs and just sleep on the couches. soon you go upstairs so rarely that weird spiritual energy pools up there. very difficult to dissipate. starts to feel like a forbidden zone. ominous. its not yours. few discuss this.
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just thought about the girl who, in her 20s, tried on my glasses as a joke and realized she needed glasses. she thought architectural details on buildings was a purely artistic "to please God" type thing, that people would just think about, but like her be unable to actually see.
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once again
the truth is that if you're not world class in the very competitive stuff by the time you're an adult you're never going to be, and you should stop trying to compare against that tier and do something useful instead.
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the bad guy in hallmark movies is a boyfriend who is like âuh no babe i cant drop everything + leave work this weekend im about to close a deal for ten million dollars that will set us up for lifeâ and the good guy is a guy who is just standing there when she gets to her hometown.
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the turkish word for âowlâ is apparently literally âmr. birdâ. could never be comfortable in a place like that.
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removing ram from a computer while its still on (2021). gerhard richterâs stained glass window for cologne cathedral (2007)
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once art like this leaves a canvas or wall, its restrained by the material conditions of that place. only tile can do this, unlike wood which swells and expands. but tile is cold. imagine walking on it. so only places that were generally warm put effort into developing this craft.
Whats stopping every US home from having beautiful patterns in their flooring?
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in the waiting room of a childrens hospital. huge disney decal on the wall. under it reads: âgrow upâ. oddly hostile. iâve deduced that it used to say, ânever grow upâ, someone realized how this sounds in a childrens hospital, and just cut off the âneverâ. finally, some real art.
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theres a 4chan post about how super intelligent characters on TV shows often make no sense, because its usually a normal writer imagining what its like to be super intelligent, which is impossible. likewise this type of comedy is normal people imagining what its like to be weird.
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have you ever seen a group of people almost accidentally realize what their job is
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heres the secret (?) the internet gets wrong. there are a ton of people doing hardcore, classical, realistic oil paintings. all over the world. they make great paintings that look right out of the 15, 16, 17, 1800s. rooms full of them. the reality is just that no one cares.
âWhy arenât people making the kind of old-world classical sculptures and oil painting I like anymore?â I dunno dude why arenât you providing an artist with a full time salary and residence on your property so they can focus on nothing but making one painting for three years.
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constantly slightly stressed over the fact that the word dog - of all things - is of unknown origin and its ultimate source is âone of the great mysteries of english etymologyâ
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crazy that the celts had a whole folklore warning you that if you meet beautiful young otherworldly dressed women in the forest who invite you to parties donât go with them and donât eat anything they give you otherwise youâll lose track of time and only emerge decades later.
I found my worst nightmare. I can smell the patchouli through this
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of course this will be bad, but i feel the need to comment specifically on why, pre-emptively. although it reads like the 'to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ' rick and morty post, its easy to misunderstand king of the hill. its not a sitcom, or a comedy. [. ].
Pamela Adlon says âa new generation of young writersâ are working on the âKING OF THE HILLâ revival. She adds that they are adapting âsweet spots of the classicâ into the new era. (Source: @Variety)
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the âfree tibetâ movement is a weird case study. used to be huge, now functionally doesnt exist. tibet is not even used against china rhetorically. meanwhile the popular perception of china âtaking overâ tibet is them annexing some tiny random place. look how big it actually is:
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showing this to the average new england man in 1801 would cause them to die instantly
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have often contemplated this beautiful fictitious civilizational framework she imagined where all over the world, people were sinking immense amounts of time and money and effort into decorating the tops of buildings, just so people would know it was there. she was an artist btw.
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e.b. white:
Fascinating how the American perception of "Europeans" is the same as the European perception of "Italians" is the same as the Italian perception of "Southern Italians" and so on, like in a fractal or something.
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love this cartoon because people post it as an argument against populism but its actually just an argument against choosing leaders by voting, i.e. democracy.
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theres a PC game from the 90s called ânightmare nedâ. its a disney game that is, functionally, a kids game - i would say, except for the concept: you play as a child who has been left alone in their home at night, who experiences their home as a nightmarish horror phantasm. [âŠ]
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bizarre unnavigable part of being a parent is that there is no way to reveal the information that you dont give your kid any screens without making other parents upset. even if you intentionally set out to not tell them, if they dig enough, and find out, they then become upset.
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fascinating question is how much "catholic" aesthetics are "catholic" as opposed to "italian". if the catholic church took off in japan, and suddenly the country was catholic, how "renaissance" would its churches look? or would they just look japanese, ideally? very hard to say.
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guy told me he just ignores daylight savings time. keeps his whole family and small farm on normal time. never changes. said âits only four months, who caresâ. inspirational levels of obstinate.
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so this is going to be the new thing as RFK becomes a regular public figure
There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning. He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial.
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if 15 - 25 year old men cannot meet cute cashier girls and fantasize about starting a life with them civilization is over. not joking. that is the last stopper on an unfathomable amount of male despair that you do not want to uncork.
this is insane. cashier is literally zooming into nyc from the philippines
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canonical male experience (cobean, 1940s)
who the hell fantasizes about starting a life with a cashier girl, is this some insane idea or ideology i don't understand. literally nobody i know does that. this is something that is not even talked about in the communities i am in. you are probably just a simp.
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semiotics is the study of signification, unpopular due to being too abstract. heres why it matters: you make a tech device, called âfriendâ. it provides companionship. but to wear this wouldnt signal âi have companionshipâ. it signals the opposite: it communicates your alone-ness
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internet: making art is a luxury, i have to work and do my dishes. poor janitor in the 1940s who allegedly went to church (mass) every day:
not dunking on neilâs joke here, but something i think about a lot is that, with vanishingly few exceptions, the great artists, thinkers etc of history who have entered the canon simply never did their own housework.
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pov: it is 2024, you have a child, and for reasons no one entirely understands these are your two alternative schooling options
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@TotallyHenley there was a place where âstreet artâ and alternative non-institutional art met the internet for a while that was often really into stuff like this.
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one time i worked at a front desk in new york. we got what i call âjewish missionariesâ: orthodox jews who want to get non-orthodox jews to be orthodox, or at least be more jewish. so, they walk in the front door and ask, âis anyone that works here jewish?â. âuh⊠probablyâ. âŠ.
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american art history moment: architecture. in 1997 FOX created a real version of the simpsons home to give away as part of a contest. i think these pictures will speak for themselves:
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man has much to learn from small creatures
I met my husband when he was a 30 year old alcoholic server and video gamer. My daughter got a goldfish and it died and he got strangely out of video games and into keeping fish alive, then fresh water tanks, then gardens, then permaculture, then farming, then families, then.
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a friend and i got into finding fake businesses once. its pretty easy but unfortunately in a city theyre probably usually fronts for criminal activity. you can find some weird stuff though. âvideo storeâ that only has 30 - 40 random 90s VHS tapes, real broken video game feeling.
Now here is the type of content you can only get on /x/ (the other X), anon is committing B&Es to verify his hunch that the population is smaller than we're led to believe:
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the main issue with video games is that a guy who, if he lived in 1820s germany, would have done something like document every type of beetle in his local province instead ends up making a 26 part youtube series about how to get all the rings in every sonic game.
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very cool that one thing millennials really did was step up general "food culture" but the fact that i have to walk past a restaurant called "lunch AF" that serves things like a "slutty ravenclaw burger", and its probably actually good, is an aesthetic crime beyond comprehension.
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i dont drink, but an interesting ethnography you can run is that many institutions (even schools, anything) have yearly events where people used to drink heavily, get trashed, have fun, but no one drinks at them now. you can just ask people about them. its the âon cameraâ vibe.
I wonder if the reason Zoomers donât drink as much is because theyâre neurotic about the idea of âlosing control,â being taken advantage of, or doing something stupid under the influence and âthe juice isnât worth the squeezeâ so to speak.
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once a month i think about a girl i briefly saw in high school who told me she didnt read books because they affected her thought processes too much. genuinely life disrupting information.
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so theres this painting i think about sometimes. its by dr. seuss. itâs called âa man who has made an unwise prochessâ. the thing is that, it is very clearly a painting of hitler
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[hyper low american church aesthetics]. the strip mall church. often presented online as the ultimate symbol of american christians dropping the ball somewhere along the historical timeline. plastic signs and conference room vibes. post it next to a cathedral. just do it.
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just learned about phantom kangaroos
@owenbroadcast Have you ever heard of the Phantom Kangaroos? They are my new favorite so.
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sometimes it feels like there are like 100 people on earth that know the material reality of why the salem witch trials happened. so many myths. was not based on the testimony of children. many people confessed themselves to being witches. i have their letters in books upstairs.
The Salem Witch Trials were run by Harvard educated judges and convictions based on the testimony of children. The #ClimateScam cult uses exactly the same model.
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imagine: a man. he is in a room somewhere. he has many items around him - normal objects. at this time, each item is tethered to a physical experience: how he obtained it, where he went, who he was with, and so on. his entire life is like this - a physical metal network, enmeshed.
How did people get airplane tickets before the internet? Did you call the airline and they mailed you the tickets physically? In fact how did you buy tickets to anything that had to be bought well in advance?.
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people are not impressed by new technology. it doesnst register. there was a time when a "video call" in a TV show indicated that it was the future. just having a video call made it "the future". then we got video calls, and no one cared. it was kind of cool for like, a day.
If you sent an AI generated image or a Claude transcript to 5y ago people would call it witchcraft. They would not believe you. I feel insane when people act performatively unimpressed by these things.
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remembering that time a psychiatric hospital challenged this guy and got absolutely owned by one of the oldest tricks in the book
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because everyone got their puzzle to 90% and now wants the last piece: a partner. but guess what. that partner also did that. so now you have two 90% complete puzzles that dont fit together. they could smash half of both of them, but that sucks, so instead we get dating discourse.
I know too many great, beautiful women who have no long term romantic prospects. I am extremely confused about what's going on here.
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its crazy how there really is a vibe you can call "art school" that can manifest in any genre, media, anything.
KENDRICK LAMAR. SQUABBLE UP .(MUSIC VIDEO). đšOUT NOWđš
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once i lived in an apartment where the guy next door played the trumpet, the guy below me was almost deaf and had his TV so loud i could tell what he was watching, and the upstairs neighbors played music loud enough to shake glasses on my table. that was all of my neighbors.
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i keep saying ill never bring this up again but im lmao at this post because i made this image.
It is embarrassing how much this stupid fucking meme has affected my own thinking and my own mental health. So, SO many times Iâve been the left person, and someone is explaining to me why I canât do or think something without reading every book theyâve read, received the
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my dad and i went to the same highschool. all his friends from that time had kids. i am in the opposite situation. line up the people i still know from highschool: they have 0 kids, except one, who has one. one generation. same place. 100% opposite orientation. no one knows why.
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âthe doctorsâ have assigned my infant offspring the 99th percentile for several metrics - for example, head circumference. where is the 100th percentile baby. the one who surpasses all others. i would like to speak with him.
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so i just accidentally learned that something exists and i feel like i should tell you guys
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love the germans. one time a german girl was staying at my house and i showed her this meme and she was like: oh yeah i know that story
if you say that germans are weird, 99% of people will agree with you. itâs obvious. but what explains this?. their whole folklore is dark and creepy, and they seem to have many offputting interests (not to mention the whole hitler thing). what is wrong with the german mind?.
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heres what having kids is like:. hey man whatâs up. âheyâ. im in the car, youre on speakerphone btw, my kids are here. âokay coolâ. so they can hear you just so you know. âcool manâ. haha yeah. âyeahâ. cool whats up. âso they found a dead body full of heroin at the parkâ.
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virtually every weird person in the western world today has seen this woman's art. her name is pamela coleman smith. in 1909, she illustrated the world's most popular tarot card deck: what everyone thinks of as "tarot cards". in 1911, just a few years later, she became catholic.
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[kafka, just reanimated]: i heard someone use the term kafka-esque today. [friend]: yeah. [kafka]: i hope they were talking about something cool. [friend]: yeah probably. [kafka]: whats a DMV.
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me: in a field. my dog darts over, knocks my son to the ground, hard. look up. theres two big stray dog watching us. dogs do this to protect a kid, to make them smaller and know where they are. a cave in france has these ice age footprints: a child walking with a domestic canine
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really enjoyable when you get the name of an aesthetic and it immediately becomes super tangible and concrete, for example: âutopian scholasticâ
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youre loading up binaural beats and supplement powders to improve focus meanwhile a guy who has only eaten a burrito and a banana today is about to clock fifteen hours straight playing civilization V in the dirtiest apartment youâve ever seen. asking yourself the wrong question.
this is the most actionable advice i've found when it comes to actually improving your focus
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to be a predator - a hunter - is to have metacognition, theory of mind, and extreme empathy. to hunt a rabbit is to imagine being a rabbit: the rabbit will hear me if i go here, if i were a rabbit i would hide there, and so on. these things, the pack, death, are all known to dog.
I donât think old dogs are really smart enough to intellectualize going deaf. So do they just think no one talks to them anymore? Because thatâs kinda sad.
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The average 18-year-old today knows what a germ is and therefore is more educated than every living doctor a thousand years ago.
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many people asked what i find funny after this post. i thought about it and the most recent thing i found really funny was this:
theres a 4chan post about how super intelligent characters on TV shows often make no sense, because its usually a normal writer imagining what its like to be super intelligent, which is impossible. likewise this type of comedy is normal people imagining what its like to be weird.
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young boys have a natural draw to images of martial power. makes a lot of people in education uncomfortable. when i worked with kids this exchange was common:. me: tell me about your drawing.boy: this is tank man hes made of tanks and his arm is a tank and his gun shoots tanks.
lmao, comment about picture drawn by a boy 700 years ago of him being a knight: 'why are there corpses? was he processing trauma?'.NO, YOU SCHOOLMARM, THOSE ARE THE CORPSES OF HIS ENEMIES
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parent yelling at their 2 year old in the library: why can you not follow simple clear directions. what their two year old thinks bugs do at work:
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new math, which i believe is from the 70s, is an interesting thing to go into. the perception youâre supposed to have is that its comically stupid - but if you listen to what this kid says, heâs just correct. 54 is five tens and 4 ones. heâs literally explaining what addition is.
Obama's Common Core was the final nail in the coffin of public education. This is how they teach math now:.
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theres a joke online that "KOTH is a slice of life anime". this intuits something true about the show. the inspiration for king of the hill was 'do the right thing' by spike lee, specifically the way in which that film depicts daily life in a specific neighborhood and place:
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time to revisit the topic of ANGLISH. anglish is an umbrella term for a style of english that tries to remove as much foreign influence as possible. prefixes, suffixes, nouns, all of it. it sounds unintuitive, but you pick it up very easily. here's some of my favorite examples:
@owenbroadcast I feel like modern English had this problem because itâs an amalgamation of borrowed words and you just donât know how they came to be; knowing Latin solves some of it. Bird names in most languages are neat for this, because theyâre either onomatopoeic or refer to color/shape.
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researchers find some shepherds who never get disease. all day they watch sheep outside in the mountains. of course thats irrelevant. but they eat a ton of sheep cheese. publish âsheep cheese may prevent diseaseâ. now a guy who is in an office for 12 hours a day eats sheep cheese.
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âuh⊠⊠⊠no man i cannot just call people that i think might be jewish. sorry. theyâre probably like⊠working and stuffâ. so then they gave me a tiny loaf of bread (?) and left.
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now that i have a kid, all the stories about people not realizing they needed glasses until they were 7, 8, 9, 10, which happened to me, are insane. how do you not realize your child can't read things 20 feet away. do you just literally never talk to them or. look at anything.
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many years ago as an exercise i got the largest notebook i could find and tried to record everything i remembered about my life until i left high school, all the way through, start to finish, in a few sittings. one huge issue i encountered here was impossible event sequences.
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in case the younger guys are wondering what being a dad is like tonight owen jr (2) asked âtell me about woodâ so i said âuh, well wood comes from treesâ and he was like: WOW.
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when you have a kid, its hard not to realize that there are 10,000 ways that society checks you to make sure that you're "on script" - as opposed to being "off script". what you're legally allowed to do is perpendicular to "the script". its metalegal enforcement of social norms.
When I come to pick up my child early from school, why does the school need to know why Iâm taking him out early? How is that any of their business? Iâm his mother. I could be picking him up to clean his bedroom or cut his toenails and it would still be my right to do so.
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clear worldbuilding error: if i spend fifty dollars just twenty times, iâve spent 1000 dollars. no way this is correct. is anyone working on this.
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howd the actual experts do bro.
Very impressed with the Twitter experts on Afghanistan who kept silent about the subject until now.
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i have a folder on my computer called:. âinsane christmas vibes 1850-1950â. here are some things from it:
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i simply must take the bait. one of my favorite art experiences was: i used to work near a museum, so id go there often. at the end of a long hallway was a large landscape painting. maybe twelve feet by six feet. this part of the museum was mostly traditional art so it didnt.
No - your husband doesnât have husband goggles. He notices you aging. Simping is an epidemic.
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in the mid 1800s the shakers (no sex having american fringe christians) started having so many visions they called it the âera of manifestationsâ. some people started drawing them, which was wild and extravagant by their normally humble standards. theyre called the gift drawings:
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guy down the street just told me his house was built in the 1700s, and when he moved in there was a âhuge caseâ of âlike 200 religion books from the 1800sâ the previous owner just left behind. he âhas no idea what they areâ. he said i can come look at them this afternoon.
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you see the 'declining percentage of teenagers getting their driver's licenses' statistics trotted out every now and then, over the last ten years, as a routine story. the real reason for this is almost never laid out. taking your driving test involves:. 1. taking someone else's
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this aesthetic in one of the main LDS (mormon) paintings of adam and eve is insane:
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appalachia is a crazy place. âfirst and last frontierâ. millions of people, but only one state is fully in it (west virginia) so it flys under the radar as a region - unlike the pacific northwest, the midwest, the south, which you can associate with many full states.
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before you knew what âvapingâ was, youd see these e-cigarettes. youre at a party, its dark, youd see a blue light kick on, grow brighter, then dissipate. sometimes one, sometimes many. this was cool. everyone thought this was cool. feels futuristic. they could have stopped here.
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mt. fuji from ohio, morning, by owen cyclops, 21st century
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there are small pockets of people still playing decades old online games. no social media posts. no footprints. but theyâre there. a few dozen to a hundred people. their own civilization, culture, customs. like north sentinel island. leave them alone. dont even think about them.
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thats why in proto-internet "XD i'm so random" was how people presented as weird or interesting. being weird or interesting has an element of randomness or not adhering to strict social codes, from the outside. but thats not what it actually is. post:.
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'the nightmare before christmas' was released 31 years ago today. a strange film: after three decades, its still a feature of the cultural landscape (year round), you see its imagery often - it clearly has a special relationship to us. this year, i tried to figure out why.
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