@DefenderOfBasic This is very normal, just be careful to make it really obvious on the invitations which bits people are invited to. Easy to have confusion + awkwardness
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Mary Murray (40/100 paintings)
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Mary Murray (40/100 paintings)
@MurrayJaneMary
perennially confused by rocks
Liverpool Katılım Ocak 2021
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There is a certain common tendency, among noob painters, to want to slap down straight tube black for dark-darks, and to get your shades and shadows just by mixing tube blacks with your local colors
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At art school, from several different teachers, I heard "don't use black, real painters don't use black." Eventually I came to the conclusion that this was a personal preference of Monet that had metastasized into a universal maxim, thoughtlessly deployed; c.f. Hemingway
Eddy Quan@waronweakness
Writing gurus : "Write short sentences and don't use big words" Charles Dickens in the first sentence of Oliver Twist: "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born - on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events - the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
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@LeRoyDesCimes The one that gets me is dessus (above) vs dessous (under)
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peindre ("un" sound) - to paint
pondre ("on" sound) - to lay (as in lay an egg)
pendre ("en" sound) - to hang
Good luck in Paris everyone!
Louise@LeRoyDesCimes
One of my fav party tricks is speaking the 3 distinct french sounds "on" "un" "an" to Anglos (will link voice note in next tweet) About 20% get it and can mirror them back. 20% hear it but can't mirror. and 60% look scared for their life
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There is no reality in which this country can do amazing things like this and not be able to build incredible infrastructure like high speed rail and nuclear power.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Artemis II lifts off
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@tautologer Wait? Can you guys not already unscrew bottles with one hand?
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do we know why we didn't evolve something like this? dexterity seems useful and this doesn't seem higher energy cost. mechanisms too complex/fragile maybe? diminishing returns to increased dexterity in ancestral environment?
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Lewis RK ( Mechalomania )@Rattapoom_K
Hmmm, that will be different....
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I feel like I need to keep evangelizing this because I figured it out too late. If you have a tree in your yard that is strong enough for climbing, but no good for a treehouse, you can probably tie a rope hammock treehouse in it, and your kids will love it.
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@rorysutherland My late grandmother loved her kindle for this
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This is an interesting topic. Technology often brilliant for the elderly but marketed at the young. Ocado, Waymo, bone-conducting headphones (superb for the hearing impaired, promoted to young joggers), Kindle (large text), folding smartphones (ditto). A large part of YouTube use is nostalgic. And so on.
all because of words@allbecuzofwords
@rorysutherland eye doctors, unlikely Tesla sales agents, is @Tesla missing an opportunity?
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@patio11 @kendrictonn This is one of my favorite posts from @BretDevereaux I had no idea of the importance of spinning. acoup.blog/2021/03/19/col…
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@kendrictonn "The thread in a single shirt took hundreds of labor hours." one of the least believed fun facts I trot out, in part because people cannot imagine sitting down to spin thread.
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I'm not trying to drag anyone, but even the people in the replies who directionally get it are falling short of Getting what the industrial revolution did to textile production
Medieval Diesel@TimothyEveland
The clothing that medieval peasants wore were made of higher quality materials and lasted longer than yours
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@su_dreams This is one reason I find the pomodoro technique useful. Making you push through that mini pain point
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Something that shifted how I think about distraction: the urge to open a new tab, check the phone, get up for the third time - it's not random.
It arrives at a specific moment. Usually right when something gets slightly harder, or slightly more vulnerable, or requires a kind of presence I'm not quite ready to bring.
The distraction is the tell. It marks the exact spot where something worth paying attention to is trying to happen.
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@wirmgurl Well there is lots and lots of a particular mother with a particular child. But also
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Having a baby has been the most intensely beautiful experience of my life. I'm surprised that there isn't more art made about this. Sadly, I think it's probably a bad subject for art because everything there is to say about it sounds cliché and maudlin.
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High above the town, on a south-facing hill-slope, engineers installed automatically orienting mirrors, which shine direct sunlight onto the town square for as long as the sun is out.
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it seems that civilization has not yet solved the matter of outdoor furniture, and I should get some rocks to sit on maybe
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Blog post: are there more possible words or songs?
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@aaaronson That's certainly one solution to which day is the last day of the week...
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February being a perfect rectangle is cool and all but a lot of people don't realize it's also happening this June
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it always surprises me how just 15 mins of prayer or meditation can completely turn your heart around, in such a deep way
like the sun coming out from behind the clouds
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@GarrettPetersen Designated parent/child parking is a common thing in the UK. It's more open to abuse than handicap spots tho
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It just occurred to me that handicapped spots could apply to families with multiple small children too. I have 3 kids under 5. One of them literally can't walk (because baby). An adult who can't walk gets a special parking spot. Why shouldn't we?
RosiePieMD@Rosiepumpkinspi
@fortelabs Instead, we have to park far away from the front door, because there are 35 handicapped spots for decrepit Boomers, and carry our children across ice through parking lot traffic.
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