History Is Weirder Than We Remember.

You put the best stuff in the tags again. I'm not mad just disappointed. ;) But some of this stuff is too important not to repost.

crazy how at my age my parents already had children (that they were in no way equipped to raise)

"I'm sorry I flirted, I was trying to roast you."

- Elizabeth Bennet after Mr Darcy's first proposal

just found the most fascinating anti-ai person who is only anti-ai because they make and sell the software that spambots USED to use to flood the internet with low quality SEO-bait garbage and chatgpt is putting them out of business. what a fascinating category of human to be. i had never even considered that someone had to be actually making the spambots and that they have feelings too.

I feel like this could happen in Michigan as well (tiny farms with serious farmers driving Fords [and others] from the last millennia)

Vermont farmer was fixing the fence on his half acre when a Texan rolls by and stops. He rolls down the window and says " Hey there, how much land you got here? " Farmer says " half acre" Texan says " Do you know that I can drive my truck all day on my ranch and not even make it half way across? Farmer says " yep, I had a truck just like that "

True. But if you listen long enough and expand your definition of related you will find a thread of coherency weaving through out

Here’s a thing I’ve had around in my head for a while!

Okay, so I’m pretty sure that by now everyone at least is aware of Steampunk, with it’s completely awesome Victorian sci-fi aesthetic. But what I want to see is Solarpunk – a plausible near-future sci-fi genre, which I like to imagine as based on updated Art Nouveau, Victorian, and Edwardian aesthetics, combined with a green and renewable energy movement to create a world in which children grow up being taught about building electronic tech as well as food gardening and other skills, and people have come back around to appreciating artisans and craftspeople, from stonemasons and smithies, to dress makers and jewelers, and everyone in between. A balance of sustainable energy-powered tech, environmental cities, and wicked cool aesthetics. 

A lot of people seem to share a vision of futuristic tech and architecture that looks a lot like an ipod – smooth and geometrical and white. Which imo is a little boring and sterile, which is why I picked out an Art Nouveau aesthetic for this.

With energy costs at a low, I like to imagine people being more inclined to focus their expendable income on the arts!

Aesthetically my vision of solarpunk is very similar to steampunk, but with electronic technology, and an Art Nouveau veneer.

So here are some buzz words~

Natural colors! Art Nouveau! Handcrafted wares! Tailors and dressmakers! Streetcars! Airships! Stained glass window solar panels!!! Education in tech and food growing! Less corporate capitalism, and more small businesses! Solar rooftops and roadways! Communal greenhouses on top of apartments! Electric cars with old-fashioned looks! No-cars-allowed walkways lined with independent shops! Renewable energy-powered Art Nouveau-styled tech life!

Can you imagine how pretty it would be to have stained glass windows everywhere that are actually solar panels? The tech is already headed in that direction!  Or how about wide-brim hats, or parasols that are topped with discreet solar panel tech incorporated into the design, with ports you can stick your phone charger in to?

(((Character art by me; click the cityscape pieces to see artist names)))

Good ideas. I been playing around with the idea of teleportation devices using the Earth's gravity as a point of reference when teleporting.

Imagine this: a time gun. Anything it shoots gets sent to whatever time it’s set to. Only thing that changes is their time. So because everything in space is constantly moving and the thing isn’t being moved they wouldn’t stay on Earth. Chances are it’s just adrift in space. So basically it’s just a gun. Anyone that gets shot with a time gun is almost guaranteed dead. At least the body is automatically disposed…

Ooh, interesting! Even without the Earth displacement, sending people/things somewhen else makes for a fascinating disposal method. Maybe there's a specific prehistoric volcano that's reliable for leaving no trace, or maybe the person with the time gun is the kind of wild card who grins at random chance. That's how you'd get a modern person in all sorts of interesting predicaments. Pyramid construction, next century's space invasion, or five minutes before the gun went off...

And if we DO include the way Earth moves, then humanity is leaving a very interesting trail through space! I wonder who or what might be following it.

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glad that im not popular enough to have an evil shadow version of my blog that exists just to make contradictions on my posts

guys I found a photo of the eclipse from the bass pro shop pyramid

Describe a dog going to fetch a stick, but in the style of a noir crime thriller.