adamasnemesis

adamasnemesis, 1 month ago to art

It was So. Totally. Awesome. From my telescope's lens to your screen, my best view of the corona during the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.

#art #photography #solareclipse #eclipse #totalsolareclipse #totality #corona #moon #sun

adamasnemesis, 2 months ago to art

Yes, it's that time of the year again! Enjoy the sight of Jules Joseph Lefebvre's "Morning Glory", and have a very happy spring equinox day! 🌺🌼🌸💮

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #spring #flowers

adamasnemesis, 4 months ago to Blog

So many ideas for what I could do to make something of myself, close yet so frustratingly away from being a coherent thrust in life...

Spitballing, really, but you can read it at my #blog if you like: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2024/01/08/ventures-too-many-or-just-enough/

This post's featured image is Ottilie Roederstein's "Portrait of Elisabeth Winterhalter".

#self #dreams #goals #business #entrepreneurship #careers #jobs

adamasnemesis, 4 months ago to philosophy

People are ridiculing this bit of advice volunteered by one privileged feminist, but TBH she's right; if you want to "transform your life" it needs to be something big and upwardly mobile like this, that you can get into incrementally. Anything else is a waste of your time.

#thoughts #NewYear #NewYearResolutions #advice #life #lifestyle

adamasnemesis, 5 months ago to Blog

Christmas 1941: the first man reaches orbit. A novella revealing a slice of life at the dawn of an alternate history's space age.

Read it at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/12/23/the-christmas-rocket/

#alternatehistory #history #spaceflight #novella #story #author #authoring #writing #writer #Christmas #Christmasstory #Cascadia #boardinghouse #alternatehistorystory #alternatehistorynovella

adamasnemesis, 5 months ago to art

Lovely Gladys Cooper poses in front of a romantic gate, all dreamy-eyed and arrayed in the most delightfully long braided pigtails, dolled up with a romantic dress and a big flower at her waist. Might make a fantastic inspiration for a Christmas look this year...

#art #photography #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fashion #dress #hairstyle #feminine

lauren, 5 months ago to Youtube

It really drives me nuts to see #YouTube videos where the creator is trying to demonstrate something and is obviously struggling to do it with ONE HAND because they're using the other hand to hold their damned phone! I've even seen people trying to untangle wildlife from dangerous situations (a noble cause, indeed), but only using one hand for the same reason, making the task far more difficult.

thor, 5 months ago to random

my idea of having a conscience and a sense of morals permits a wide range of views to be expressed, but you have to be civil about it.

if you came on here and began talking like Trump or Xi Jinping, i wouldn't raise an issue about it.

but if you start being rude to people, you're out of here.

adamasnemesis, 6 months ago to art

Always such a gorgeous vibe; imagine living next to a place like this during the tide of leaf showers, where the whole world turns so warm, so rustic, and so vivid. 😍 Hans Andersen Brendekilde's "A wooded path in Autumn". 🍁🍂

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #autumn #fall #fallfoliage #forest #trees #leaves

thor, 8 months ago to random Norwegian

there is a lot of variation in how old people look and act compared to their biological age.

coreyspowell, 8 months ago to space

This is what it looks like when a supernova explodes and blasts its guts into interstellar space.

Supernova 1987A lit up Earth's skies 36 years ago. Now JWST has provided an extreme close-up of the chaos it unleashed. Heavy elements ejected by the star will help seed the next generation of stars and planets. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-136
#space #science #astronomy

thor, 9 months ago to random

i think one of the things that sets the Nordic countries apart from the Anglosphere is that you can't hide stuff behind fanciful language here. i mean, you can, but the more fanciful it gets, the more foreign it comes across as, and the more distrust there is of it.

the Vikings had no polite words for a penis or a vagina.

penis was "kuk" and vagina was "fitta" and no other words existed, so you either said it or you didn't. these words aren't considered polite these days but that's all the Vikings had.

English masks itself more. hides behind veiled words. Nordic languages get a bit more real.

djlink, 9 months ago to random

have I watched too much Alien or does this kinda looks like a facehugger?

moffintosh, 9 months ago to random Italian

lauren, 9 months ago to random

One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

maxleibman, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

"Ad blockers are unethical—ads are how they pay to keep the lights on!”

Exactly. It's how THEY pay to keep the lights on. It's not how I pay for anything. I didn't agree to see ads, although I'm ok with some ads; what I definitely didn't do is agree to be tracked and profiled and have arbitrary third-party code running on my computer just so I could read this awful, pointless, SEO-ified shitfest of an article that doesn't come close to answering the question I was googling.

#enshittification

roobre, 10 months ago to random

Once again forced to witness the deepest horrors of our reality

Sar, 10 months ago to random

It feels like, to me, that social media has become an issue to those in power. So we've been seeing a large effort by "them" to do what they can to destroy the ability of social media to democratise power in the truest sense.

Twitter turned into a shitshow.
Reddit did the same.
Facebook's always been shit.
Tiktok has been branded "a Chinese spy app"
Telegram's encryption & privacy (along with Signal & WhatsApp) are being attacked by right wing govts daily.

Just seems sus 🤷

Thank god for Masto

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one

adamasnemesis, 11 months ago to art

I experimented with a more ornate Art Deco vibe for this study hall of space; I quite like the result of this generation.

#art #AIart #studyhall #library #interiors #room #city #cityscape #night #academia #DarkAcademia #space #stars #spaceart #nebula #scifi #scifiart #sciencefiction #ArtDeco

Gargron, 11 months ago to random

Some people get to work here…