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@dsamaddar Not as much these days. The AI art business is enough creative expression. But when spring hits, I'll probably be out and about taking pictures again 😁

@ViaZavier Got it! You still doing your photography?

Pencil sketch or watercolor?

@dsamaddar The color looks great! It's a touch choice. The monochrome looks more sophisticated (to me).

@ViaZavier Thanks! you don’t like the color?

On Valentine’s Day 36 years ago, at the request of Carl Sagan, NASA turned Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look. From 3.7 billion miles away, it captured this: a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Here is how Carl Sagan beautifully described it: “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Walter White wardrobe in chronological order.

Sprouts stocking scene ❤️ #Pluribus

Who is this for?

Ever since they removed headphone jacks, I've heard more and more complaints about folks not using headphones. Wonder if there's a connection.

@Sec_Noem Remember the goat 🐐 💔

@middle_class_us @PeterLBrandt If you can afford health insurance, you're doing better than I was at your age.

@PeterLBrandt I guess inflation, the high cost of rent, car insurance, health insurance, low wages, are all on us. Just work 8 days a week and 10 jobs, got it!

Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $2,200 for rent and $7 for eggs. You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.

@Devon_Eriksen_ Why would a woman go to college if her goal in life was to do unpaid "female responsibilities" like cooking, cleaning and childcare? Your schoolmates wanted financial independence. That's why they were at university. Nobody wants to be your captive "pet".

I didn't go to college until I was 30. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult. One lecture in Industrial Psychology, in particular, I will never forget. The professor spoke about how an effective job description focused on concretely measurable tasks, not vague instructions, or characteristics. For example, "maintain an 85% or greater average on customer feedback surveys", instead of "be cheerful and upbeat", or even "interact positively with customers". This means that goals are clear, and performance is measurable. A job is to do something, not be something. Once some of the students had wrapped their minds around this concept, the professor decided to do a class exercise. He asked the female students to come up with a job description for "husband". At first, this went fine. The girls noodled around a bit with things they wanted their husbands to be (tall, etc), but he was able to gradually steer them towards describing what they wanted in terms of actions. But then he asked the male students to define a wife in the same way. And all the girls became upset. Some of them had full-on meltdowns. Every single thing that a male student wanted, or expected, from his hypothetical future wife was sexist, oppressive, old-fashioned, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc. They were literally screaming. Some of them in tears. And I realized something pretty quickly. It wasn't the actual, concrete responsibilities of the female role that they objected to. It was the idea of there being a female role at all, with any attached responsibilities. These women didn't want to be wives. They wanted to be pets. What's a pet? Well a pet is not a wife, or a friend. A pet is a creature of instinct, which you bring into your home because you like how it naturally behaves. You get a cat because you want to behave like a cat, and do things a cat naturally does, like play with string, and purr when you pet him. If he's smart, he'll adapt you somewhat, but he doesn't have responsibilities other than "be a cat". If you get a wife, you get a wife so she will do things for you, specific things that are the responsibilities of wife, like care for your home, bear and raise your children, cook nutritious meals so you don't have to eat processed slop, look after your emotional well-being, and so on. These girls didn't want to be held responsible for those things. As married women, they might have anticipated doing some of them, but some of the time. When they felt like it. The cat chases the string if and when it wants to, not because chasing the string is its job. These young millenial women didn't realize it, but they wanted to be pets. And that's what they were in their college relationships. They hung out with guys when they wanted to, had sex with them when they wanted to, broke up with them for someone new when they wanted to. Their relationships had no element of reciprocal responsibilities. They were perfectly at home with the idea of men having responsibilities to them, but they would repay those men if they chose, and how they chose, not how the men actually wanted. And as I've said twice already, someone you have responsibilities to, but who has none to you, is a pet, or a child. The reason that a significant portion of men want to invent sentient feminine robots so that they can marry them is because they want wives, and they have given up on the possibility of young women re-embracing the concept of sex roles and actually having to do something for someone else. Women didn't spontaneously became more selfish than previous generations, of course. They were the targets of a concerted psyop whose purpose was to convince them that female responsibilities were demeaning. It was tailored to their unique psychological vulnerabilities, and they swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Who mounted that psyop, and why, is a conversation most of us aren't ready for yet. But our point for today is don't worry, young ladies. The robots aren't being brought in to replace you. Just to do the jobs you won't do.

@simphiweyinkoc_ It's insane when people embrace and celebrate this attitude and then blame everyone else when they fail to advance professionally. I've taken unpaid work opportunities just for a chance to learn more about the business, and I'm grateful.

It’s truly insane when bosses assume their employees are working for any reason other than a paycheck.

@shailivation @PicturesFoIder I'm a woman and I worked in the fashion industry for ten years. None of the designers I worked with had the privilege to wear outfits only once. What a waste of money and resources! Where are you seeing these ads? And why are you using them to guide your life choices?

@PicturesFoIder His comment conveniently ignores that the standards for women's fashion is set by the fashion industry which is predominantly owned by men. If you're surrounded by ads 24×7 telling you how you should wear different dresses to look good as a woman, it's difficult to not be swayed

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@GigaBasedDad The woman is doing all the work in this scene.

This poppy has been flourishing on my deck. Today, I brought a bloom into the studio for photos.

Iris in the rain

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

@TheMarriagePart @unsplash Thanks so much for the shout out! So glad you used my image on your post!

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