Cora! :D

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Butlerian Jihad as a cautionary tale.

Average idiot seeing problems caused by capitalism: We have to create Destroying Computers from the book Destroying Computers Does Not Solve The Problem Of Exploitation

the english word "computer" actually comes from the french term "comp de terre" which means "bastard of the earth"

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

A sign from the exhibit, which reads: “Shadows in the Field Grasses gave rise to civilisation - but not without a deep and lasting cost. As grain fields spread, so did fences, taxes, and rulers. Grain had to be stored, measured, and protected - and so people were counted, ordered, and controlled. Forests fell. Diets narrowed. Hierarchies took root. The harvest brought wealth, but it also brought war, slavery, and ecological damage.”

a sign from the exhibit which reads: “SWEET POWER Sugar fuelled the human engine of industrial Britain. As coal drove machines. sugar sweetened tea. giving factory workers cheap. fast energy through long hours. Grown by enslaved labour in the Caribbean. sugar flowed into teacups and treacle tins. binding imperial plantations to urban mills in a cycle of extraction. consumption. and relentless production. SUGAR AND SLAVERY Sugarcane is a tropical grass - and one of the most proftable ever grown. From the 17th to 19th centuries, sugar plantations in the Americas ran on enslaved African labour. Sweetness for Europe meant terror and toil for millions.”

a sign from the exhibit that reads: “THE TAXMAN ALWAYS EATS FIRST Taxation was born in the grain felds. Unlike meat or fruit, grain could be dried, measured, stored - and taken. Early states taxed harvests to fund officials, armies, and temple economies. Farmers paid in sacks of barley or rice, and bureaucracies grew around counting and collecting. Long before coins or payrolls, grain built the hrst tax systems - and they've been with us ever since.”

a sign from the exhibit that reads: “AN INHERITANCE OF LOSS Before farming people moved with the seasons. knew every family, and answered to no king. Grain changed that. This new. rich source of energy created a world of fields. clocks. rulers. and walls - and a system of growth and control. In many ways, humanity traded freedom for bread.”

damn, you didn’t have to this hard grass exhibit at the auckland botanic gardens but you are entirely correct

at the mall

+ New poster for "The Ghost In The Shell".

I'm obsessed with this artist today
John Atkinson Grimshaw

His night scenes are INCREDIBLE I love how bright they are and it's still night.

the future I was promised

telling real jam from cheap 'jam' is very easy:
you look at the ingredients list, and if the first ingredient is sugar, you put it back on the store shelf and walk away

severance season 1 is books. season 2 is screen time.
succession is magazines, which is screen time.

the only way to own is not to pay

beef lauraine implies the existence of other food-name archetypes:

- chicken sarah
- pork steven
- lamb clarence
- duck robert

Jhon Harris amazing sci-fi art.
When it is all about the mood.

#JhonHarris
#scifi

Star Trek (original series) fight in the mess hall

Babylon 5, guy sitting in chair

Stargate SG-1, guy lying on floor

Farscape, people walking through hall

One of my favorite things in older/lower budget sci-fi shows is when you notice the spaceship set design ended at the barely disguised concrete soundstage floor

mine is always a school of a million messed up toilets for some reason, but yes! oh my god yes!

I'm still listening to them.
Forgotten Station. Pleiadian Friend. Silent Planet. Cityscapes Lullaby.
These mixes forever changed me, and I will forever come back to them.

shout-out to Spacemind, the DJ who appeared suddenly in 2012, made the world's best Psybient mixes, then disappeared without a trace a few years later.

if there's anything my graphic Design diploma taught me, its that one can *always* judge a book by its cover

god i love choccy milk

SEKTORI

the image is full of AI inconsistencies, it has an AI tool's watermark on it, and the article has an author which is an AI.
so... all of it, unfortunately

ai 😔

the 1980s designs i’m looking for vs what google seems to think 1980s designs were

vivziepop is invader zim for zoomers

screenshot of my result: Gideon Nav. there is a crude drawing in red felt pen on a brownish grey background of a girl with a tank top, skull face paint, sunglasses, and spiky hair. the description reads: "Hey lesbian Jesus, saddest girl in the whole entire world! The butch everyone wishes they could be; the tragedy nobody could ever withstand. All you want in this life is just a single kind word, but could you actually handle being treated this nicely? You tend to surround yourself with freaks and weirdos, but worry not– you're just the super cool hot and normal one of the bunch! Poor, poor girl, hopefully you'll get to touch some boobs someday. You have a truly kind and tender heart, and the universe is crushing it over and over again."

🖤😎⚔️

was at the mall today. low-rise jeans are back in fashion. life is good.

the world is my [very wet] oyster

Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.

the only good Halo games are
Halo: Combat Evolved, because it looks like Anime and John Harris,
Halo: Reach, because it looks like Syd Mead, and
half of Halo 3: ODST, because it looks like Noir.

very cool to see people i know talking about that one episode of deep space nine again after all these years, but i gotta be honest, i dont remember some of these plot points