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thebeautifulbook

Fifteenth century heart-shaped songbook Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu.

bunhell

i suddenly understood; the zhenzhen highness of the past was already gone with no return. now, all that was left of my love was the female emperor nangong zhenzhen.

jwqs

clearandmuddy

Official Illustration from the JWQS/JWWJ physical novel.

The artist behind this work is @meltesh28

damn i need to log into my baihe twt and figure out how to get a copy jwqs

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teathattast

celegorm vibes

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electricgnu

The fucking job market is abysmal

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thatsbutterbaby:
“ Vasco Prado - Mulher a Cavalo. Escultura em terracota / 30 x 35 x 20 cm.
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uss-edsall

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

kesslersymbolic

This image?

uss-edsall

YES

eddardsharpe

master and commander aubrey maturin

hannahlockillustration

Greek pottery.

obrigadinha

toskarin

I actually like that all media is now created to be thoughtlessly consumed within a single alloted month before it's destroyed by business guys whose stated favourite book is a dingy unread copy of The Art of War they left on their bedside to "reference". it's cool that everything is just one middling budget twelve episode season and half of it is dropped all at once directly onto streaming services so you have to sit down for six miserable hours to watch it in the most antisocial way possible. this is probably how art was meant to be consumed. this is how humans best process things, like death.

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afloweroutofstone

IDK where people got this idea that overseas shipping is particularly bad for the environment, but it takes less carbon to ship a small container of peaches across the Pacific Ocean than it does for you to drive your car to the grocery store to pick it up. Do you have any idea how many containers of peaches you can fit on a single cargo ship?

Of all the critical commentaries one could make about this image, “cargo ships will be the death of us” is the least accurate

sedoretu

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. But transport tends to account for a small share of gree

Our World in Data

How food is made is almost universally more important than where it’s made. Growing a shit ton of pears very efficiently in Argentina and then packaging that shit ton of pears very efficiently in Thailand is absolutely lower-carbon than growing and packaging them inefficiently, in small batches, in every town/city/region that wants packaged pears.

metamatar

I mean, the word efficiency is obscuring a lot here, Thailand is not a centre for a high tech ultra productive packaging industry. It does have a large population and extremely weak labor laws which means it is a pool of cheap labor.

Shipping things, especially perishable and delicate fruit, needs preservation technology and is slightly more complicated than just put it in the container. Doing this thrice, which significantly delays the whole supply chain and introduces more complex modes of failure in this case only makes sense in a world where there is extreme global inequality, so the “costs” are marginal compared to the benefits of exploiting third world workers.

Sure, it is probably not that bad for the environment to ship around the world, but this is not being done this way due to some kind of natural allocation of efficiency.

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