gravbeast
@gravbeast.bsky.social
Interested in things (proportions may vary). I stand for art. For philosophy. And for five pounds of wriggling eels.
Reposted by gravbeast
First stanza of John Donne's Epithalamion on the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick, elector Palatine, 14 February, 1613.
February 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
First stanza of John Donne's Epithalamion on the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick, elector Palatine, 14 February, 1613.
Reposted by gravbeast
That’s the stuff, Satie.
February 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
That’s the stuff, Satie.
Reposted by gravbeast
Elias Pieter van Bommel (1819-1890), A View of Amsterdam in the Moonlight
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Elias Pieter van Bommel (1819-1890), A View of Amsterdam in the Moonlight
Reposted by gravbeast
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
February 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
Or a captured sunset sea-flung,
Bannered with fire and gold.
Reposted by gravbeast
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, 1525-1569) - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [oil on canvas], circa 1560, 73.5 x 112 cm, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. #ArtPassionGallery
Ann
Ann
February 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, 1525-1569) - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [oil on canvas], circa 1560, 73.5 x 112 cm, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. #ArtPassionGallery
Ann
Ann
Reposted by gravbeast
Thinking about this poem for no reason today
February 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thinking about this poem for no reason today
"Imaginary Friend" - one of the first animated shorts created by Alex Hirsch (creator of Gravity Falls), while he was a student at CalArts. A heartwarming story about the power of imagination, and Richard Nixon. youtu.be/QCpFe-tzVIo?...
Imaginary Friend - Alex Hirsch
YouTube video by Alex Hirsch Archives
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Imaginary Friend" - one of the first animated shorts created by Alex Hirsch (creator of Gravity Falls), while he was a student at CalArts. A heartwarming story about the power of imagination, and Richard Nixon. youtu.be/QCpFe-tzVIo?...
Reposted by gravbeast
The best way to increase the efficiency of government agencies is competition, not budget cuts. The Center for Disease Control should have to compete with a Center For Making Diseases Worse
February 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The best way to increase the efficiency of government agencies is competition, not budget cuts. The Center for Disease Control should have to compete with a Center For Making Diseases Worse
Reposted by gravbeast
December 23, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by gravbeast
William Tucker, Meru III, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124244
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124244
December 23, 2024 at 8:27 AM
William Tucker, Meru III, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124244
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124244
lol. These are hilarious.
A List of Things People Blamed for World War I
🧵
🧵
December 20, 2024 at 3:35 PM
lol. These are hilarious.
Reposted by gravbeast
Marianne North (English, 1830–1890)
West Australian Vegetation, early 1880s
oil on board, H 46.9 x W 34.2 cm
Kew Gardens Marianne North Gallery MN762
www.kew.org/mng/gallery/...
🆔 🪽Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
🌱Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)
🌱Banks' Grevillea (Grevillea banksii)
#WomenArtists
West Australian Vegetation, early 1880s
oil on board, H 46.9 x W 34.2 cm
Kew Gardens Marianne North Gallery MN762
www.kew.org/mng/gallery/...
🆔 🪽Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
🌱Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)
🌱Banks' Grevillea (Grevillea banksii)
#WomenArtists
December 20, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Marianne North (English, 1830–1890)
West Australian Vegetation, early 1880s
oil on board, H 46.9 x W 34.2 cm
Kew Gardens Marianne North Gallery MN762
www.kew.org/mng/gallery/...
🆔 🪽Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
🌱Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)
🌱Banks' Grevillea (Grevillea banksii)
#WomenArtists
West Australian Vegetation, early 1880s
oil on board, H 46.9 x W 34.2 cm
Kew Gardens Marianne North Gallery MN762
www.kew.org/mng/gallery/...
🆔 🪽Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
🌱Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata)
🌱Banks' Grevillea (Grevillea banksii)
#WomenArtists
Reposted by gravbeast
Classic thought experiments have convinced many philosophers that second-order desires have a special significance
But our intuitions about these thought experiments are driven not by the second-order desires but by something unrelated and much more fundamental
Blog post: xphi.net/2024/12/19/s...
But our intuitions about these thought experiments are driven not by the second-order desires but by something unrelated and much more fundamental
Blog post: xphi.net/2024/12/19/s...
December 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Classic thought experiments have convinced many philosophers that second-order desires have a special significance
But our intuitions about these thought experiments are driven not by the second-order desires but by something unrelated and much more fundamental
Blog post: xphi.net/2024/12/19/s...
But our intuitions about these thought experiments are driven not by the second-order desires but by something unrelated and much more fundamental
Blog post: xphi.net/2024/12/19/s...
Reposted by gravbeast
We have poetry / so we do not die of history.
—Meena Alexander
—Meena Alexander
December 19, 2024 at 2:27 PM
We have poetry / so we do not die of history.
—Meena Alexander
—Meena Alexander
Reposted by gravbeast
I saw a dingo a couple of years ago on a trip up to the north-west. They are beautiful apex predators - not safe, not domesticated, but valuable and wonderful. www.smh.com.au/national/for...
For decades, people have believed this dingo myth. DNA testing has revealed the truth
Dingoes are one of Australia’s few remaining apex predators, but have long been misunderstood.
www.smh.com.au
December 19, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I saw a dingo a couple of years ago on a trip up to the north-west. They are beautiful apex predators - not safe, not domesticated, but valuable and wonderful. www.smh.com.au/national/for...
Reposted by gravbeast
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social looks at Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
1/4
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social looks at Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
1/4
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Untameable Saki
One hundred years after Saki's death in the Great War, his stories are still wickedly funny
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
“In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social looks at Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
1/4
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – b. 18 Dec.
@hekale.bsky.social looks at Saki’s fierce, funny, & wicked fiction
1/4
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4360...
Reposted by gravbeast
I always do this thing where I imagine working hard on a writing project is going to be a kind of joy, and in reality most of the time it's agony. I realized who's to blame - those 80s musical montages where the hard work is always portrayed as a 3 minute music video.
December 18, 2024 at 1:23 PM
I always do this thing where I imagine working hard on a writing project is going to be a kind of joy, and in reality most of the time it's agony. I realized who's to blame - those 80s musical montages where the hard work is always portrayed as a 3 minute music video.
Reposted by gravbeast
December 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Normally, any purported etymology which involves an acronym or acrostic is a complete invention. But this one is bizarrely true
maybe my favourite etymology: the phrase “curry favour” originates from a medieval french morality poem about a conniving horse named fauvel who amasses a following of sycophantic humans to groom and tend to him.
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
December 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Normally, any purported etymology which involves an acronym or acrostic is a complete invention. But this one is bizarrely true
Reposted by gravbeast
Isn't this an admission that they've been stealing as the justification for a claim that they ought to be allowed to continue stealing? "We couldn't have built this machine if we hadn't stolen the parts & designs, the machine is useful, therefore we must be allowed to continue." How about 'no'?
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Isn't this an admission that they've been stealing as the justification for a claim that they ought to be allowed to continue stealing? "We couldn't have built this machine if we hadn't stolen the parts & designs, the machine is useful, therefore we must be allowed to continue." How about 'no'?
that's easy, it's cos a Glasgow based band named after him wrote some very catchy tunes.
"the violent public death of one guy never changed anything" oh yeah then how come I know who Archduke Franz Ferdinand is
December 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
that's easy, it's cos a Glasgow based band named after him wrote some very catchy tunes.
Reposted by gravbeast
My favorite thing @robwords.bsky.social has taught me this year is that "partridge" is literally a "fart bird" thanks to the sound its wings make when it takes off.
(from Greek perdix "partridge," related to perdesthai "to break wind")
(from Greek perdix "partridge," related to perdesthai "to break wind")
December 15, 2024 at 4:34 PM
My favorite thing @robwords.bsky.social has taught me this year is that "partridge" is literally a "fart bird" thanks to the sound its wings make when it takes off.
(from Greek perdix "partridge," related to perdesthai "to break wind")
(from Greek perdix "partridge," related to perdesthai "to break wind")
Reposted by gravbeast
Cheryl please
November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Cheryl please
Reposted by gravbeast
He stees you when you're stleeping.
December 15, 2024 at 3:05 PM
He stees you when you're stleeping.