Chiara Pasquini

watercolor painting of a crow perched on a branch, looking up at a purple starry sky.

Happy decembirb #ArtAdventCalendar

I'd like to counter the negative sentiment (and my negative thoughts) with nice takes instead of hot takes:

- A smile from a stranger can literally change the colors of the day.

- Food tastes better when it's made with music on

- wearing your favorite clothes more than once a week is normal

a border collie and small bird commune under the moon in a dark wood amongst barren trees. Fairy light illuminates the bird's words to the pup: Even the moon glows from borrowed light... So, if you need it, I'll gladly lend you mine tonight. from the devastatingly talented, Sina Simbürger https://www.instagram.com/sin.xline

need-a-penny, take-a-penny

Stick figure holding a pink flower. Text above reads “for all the battles you've won that nobody knows about...”

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it's a difficult lesson for people to learn, but within a team or an organization, you don't really solve problems through arguing. You solve problems with finding alignment.

I second this!

Share a TV series you’ve watched beginning to end more than once...

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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.

—Aldous Huxley

Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden bench.

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.

― Carl Sagan

YouTube video by Petri Alanko - Topic End of an Era

We've been playing through the Alan Wake games recently - what a wealth of great music by @peppepappa.bsky.social and @samlakewrites.bsky.social!

Amazing vocals here by #AmeliaJones 🎮♥️ #remedy

youtu.be/cg2uFZskNKw

Wind so strong,
billowing trees
with rustling leaves,
mimicking the sound
of a stiff petticoat.
Feeling the touch of
the flowing breeze.

s.b.

#poetry #autumnleaves

They should invent a way out that isn't through

"When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."

-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

In light of recent events in the tech world, hit me up if:
You'd like to try GNU Linux
You are curious about Mastodon
You are interested in degoogling a phone
I am not an engineer, but I have done all three tand I can at minimum explain them in a non-engineer way, or also help achieving them.

A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.

Credit: Roger P Hangarter

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I don't know of any glasses, but these cameras are really small and can be clipped on hats or worn as a kind of pendant. Not sure if something like this would do the job?
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On the plus side, you didn't waste any time waiting for a connection.

Oh no, that's a shame!

Can you see the stage from where you are when you play at a ballet?

When I am on a plane I always worry that if it crashes I might lose my passport.

Photo of a white, brown and orange cat sitting on a red blanket on top of a red couch. Her shape is almost perfectly spherical, except for the pointy ears sticking out.

Here is a very round cat I am cat sitting. Her name is Polpy and there is not a lot going on in her brain.

Photo of a field at dusk. There are yellow wild flowers in the foreground and trees in the background. The light is golden as the sun is setting in the horizon.

The sky looked beautiful this evening.
I am glad I got to see it as I was walking to my parents.

I am the same! Nothing beats a nice cup of tea and a blanket on a dark, chilly Autumn evening.

It is still quite warm, but much darker in the morning, so harder to find time before the work day starts!

.. and she never went for runs again. 😅
I keep telling myself to pick up my running shoes and go out, and I keep ignoring my own advice.

She grew up with
her name always on
someone’s tongue
and sinking knots
in her stomach.
It was a long time
coming that she
had to lose the
naive illusion that
she could look
to the hearts and
minds of others
for her happiness.

s.b.

PGU 1/60 RX-78-2 Gundam completed assembly (Tamiya black panel accent, Delpi water slide decals, Krylon 1311 matte topcoat)

And with that (and nearly 2 weeks later), my PGU RX-78-2 is done!

I don’t have any LR41 batteries, so some poses with it lit up will have to wait, but yeah, this was a phenomenal build that will have me looking back on it fondly for years to come.

Thanks for tagging along; you’re all amazing. ❤️

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us."
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark