Dr. Amuly (she/he)

writing-prompt-s "In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the 'Good' side?" raphaeliscoolbutrude Because being mean makes me feel bad. everybodyilovedies 23 fucking hundred years of philosophy and this mother fucker on tumblr gets it in a meme

MWRA wastewater trends for COVID-19 on Boston.

Fascinating. There was no summer COVID bump in Boston this year.

The only other year that happened was 2023.

www.mwra.com/biobot/biobo...

Me posing in front of the Rodin thinker like the thinker

Fiancée flopping backwards dramatically next to a sculpture of a lounging lady

Angry little dude face in a painting

Little mathematician about to shoot himself in the head because he came across a contradiction

Doing some goofs

Covered bridge behind a brick wall taken from a car driving by

Covered bridge behind a brick wall taken from a car driving by

We didn’t have time to check out the old village at the Henry ford museum but there was a COVERED BRIDGE!? WE THINK??

they want to make sure that during the next epidemic, no one has any incentive to comply with public health measures.

But it was REALLY fun and a well done space like, cute Epcot center vibes

YEAAHHH when the fiancée was like “oh let’s go to this!” And I was like “the nazi” and I had to tell her all about it bc she didn’t know!!!

Anyway REAL WEIRD seeing like, civil rights etc exhibits around there. Like. 😒😒 yall….

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

Sundials Sundials measure the hours by marking the position of the sun as the earth rotates. The sundial as we know it developed during the 1300s. After mechanical clocks were introduced, sundials still remained the only practical way of “finding the time" to set the clocks.

Gnomon The Suda relates that Anaximander explained some basic notions of geometry. It also mentions his interest in the measurement of time and associates him with the introduction in Greece of the gnomon. In Lacedaemon, he participated in the construction, or at least in the adjustment, of sundials to indicate solstices and equinoxes. 681 Indeed, a gnomon required adjustments from a place to another because of the difference in latitude. In his time, the gnomon was

Also found some egregious lies at the Henry Ford museum. I don’t know what they think they’re demarcating with “as we know it” but Anaximander was introducing the gnomon to the west in the 500s. BC.

A model t all split apart so you can see each part

Oscar Meyer weiner mobile

Presidential cars

Gorgeous turquoise car

Henry Ford museum of ~~innovation~~!! It was fun.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...

That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Someone is bitching in this post. Guess who, Mark

Painting of a tutor introducing himself to a little boy who is DISMAYED but his dog is sniffing at the tutor’s leg

Roman wall section preserved and then the modern wall behind it is painted to match the design so you can see what it actually looked like!!

Double goose drinking flask

A little peacock dude with an angry dude’s head painted on a dish

Having a good time at the Detroit institute of art

Three-panel comic of a puppy where the original text saying "please throw? no take, only throw!" has been replaced with cuneiform characters

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Yeah I’m also not ENTIRELY clear from context what Lawrence THINKS he’s saying about Hamilton here which is VERY funny. Like are you pissed he’s an advocate for liberal democracy or for the unitary executive?? UNCLEAR lmao

“Fucking AMERICAN NONSENSE like POLITICAL SELF DETERMINATION”

Islam preached Ottoman brotherhood. The gullible subject races — far more numerous than the Turks themselves — believed that they were called upon to co-operate in building a new East. Rushing to the task (full of Herbert Spencer and Alexander Hamilton) they laid down platforms of sweeping ideas, and hailed the Turks as partners.

TE Lawrence taking a moment to be extremely British here to be a bitch about Alexander Hamilton

Spine of a leather bound “seven pillars of wisdom” by te Lawrence

Inside title page of te Lawrence’s seven pillars of wisdom with a copy of his face

@iwriteok.bsky.social at a used bookstore today and picked this up mostly bc of you. You’re right: damn he’s a good writer.

Ate at a LOVELY place, Parco, yesterday: 10/10 ambience and food. Ate at a place Standby today: …. Look if you like expensive horribly overwrought cocktails, it’s for you. In a cool little section of town but. A Bit Tryhard, imho 😅🤷‍♀️

Maybe I’ll write a paper on Galen and the Pythagoreans! Maybe I’ll do plan a course about platonic scholars during the golden age of islam!! Idk man the whole world is open to me, a lady with a PhD in Plato!!

Since defending my PhD and finally finishing edits to my advisor’s satisfaction in June, and not having the obligation of working on one and exactly one academic project, I’ve been enjoying reading broadly again bc everything could be my next project and everything could come in handy

Axolotl was in the belle island aquarium! Doing his thing! Looking like a little bud!

Book Galen Selected works by PN Singer

Also went to a used book shop and got the aforementioned TE Lawrence book but also a collection of Galen works translated by GOAT Galen translator PN Singer and a book on the crusades from an Islamic POV. Anyway is this all Old Guard brain rot shut up that’s what I say

Fat frog

Axolotl!!

Fiancée sitting on rocks staring out over a body of water that leads to a Great Lake

Fiancée and me standing in front of some gardens w a conservatory dome in the distance

Went to belle island and saw some AQUARIUM critters and a LIGHTHOUSE and something close to a Great Lake and a CONSERVATORY

TOO BAD forget about it immediately and then in months? Years?? I will share a story publicly and you’ll REMEMBER THIS SKEET

It’s NOT this particular case but I am looking at you and telling you to ask me again later 🙃🙃🙃

I’m not saying anything about this but I’m looking at all of you and making direct eye contact and telling you to ask me more about this at a future date 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"Anthropic warned that a single lawsuit ... over their AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement."

Has the financial ruin argument ever worked for an individual?

And... Do they promise?

On my best nights I’ve put up VERY similar numbers to these guys if I actually practiced??? Out of my way I WANNA DO AN INTERVIEW WITH A MUPPET