Yeah So THIS

just so yall know

art block is your brain telling you to do studies.

draw a still life. practice some poses. sketch some naked people. do a color study. try out a different technique on a basic shape.

art block doesnt stop you from drawing, it stops you from making your drawings look the way you want them to. and thats because you need to push your skills to the next level so you can preform at that standard

think of it as level grinding for your next work.

William P. Welsh - Burlesque Queen (1941)

The English language deserves more terms on endearment that are used casually. I only ever hear them for relationships or in sarcasm and that is a real shame.

Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

Since vine is actually shutting down tomorrow and this meme is pretty much dead, I’d thought I throw in some of my favs for fun.

Satellite Data in Ag-tion: From Space to Your Plate

As Earth’s climate changes, some places are drying out and others are getting wetter, including the land that produces the food we eat. Farmers have to figure out how to adapt to changing climate conditions.

Our fleet of satellites has been watching over Earth for more than half a century. Some, like our joint Landsat mission with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), collect valuable data about the crops that make up our food supply and the water it takes to grow them.

Combining this wealth of satellite data with observations on the ground allows us to track how crop production changes over the years.

For example, this map shows how croplands have changed over the years to feed a growing population. The Agriculture Department (USDA) has used Landsat data since 2008 to track crops growing in the continental United States.

Agricultural scientists can even focus in on data for individual crops like corn, wheat and soybeans. They can look closely at regional crops, like citrus, that grow in only a few areas.

This nationwide view — provided by Landsat satellites orbiting 438 miles above Earth — is important to track the nation’s food supply. But with data from other satellites, like our ECOSTRESS instrument and ESA’s (the European Space Agency) Sentinel-2, agricultural scientists can monitor how healthy crops are in real time and predict when they’ll be ready to harvest.

In this false-color image of California farmland, red areas peak early in the season, whereas blue areas peak late. This information helps farmers watch over the plants in their fields, predict when they’ll be ready to harvest, and maximize crop production.

But while growing more and more crops sounds good, there can be challenges, like water. Especially when there’s not enough of it.

During California’s recent drought, just over 1 million acres of fertile farmland (shown in green) were fallow, or unused (red) in 2015. That’s nearly double the number of unused fields in 2011, the last year with normal rainfall before the drought.

Irrigating acres and acres of farmland takes lots of water. With remote sensing, scientists can track how irrigation fluctuates with climate change, new water management policies, or new technologies. Research like this helps farmers grow the most crops with the least amount of water.

As our climate changes, it’s more important than ever for farmers to have the knowledge they need to grow crops in a warming world. The data collected by our Earth-observing satellites help farmers learn about the planet that sustains us — and make better decisions about how to cultivate it.

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She snapped because it’s infuriating how people will twist practices that make perfect sense as a way to turn a profit or to accuse producers/processors of wasting food or ruining product for something as silly as food not being “pretty.”

Yes, food waste is an issue, but it’s not the issue you think it is.

Very informative thread -source

Eskew episode 10, Performance: Terrible no good corporate brainstorming session (with specific mention of a brainstorming wall)

Silt Verses season 1, episode 7: Terrible no good corporate brainstorming session (with specific mention of a brainstorming whiteboard)

Silt verses season 3, episode 10: Terrible no good corporate brainstorming session (with specific mention of pinning ideas to a "wall of illumination")

This is becoming a pattern… is this a cry for help?

*leans into mic* yes, it is

In the centuries to come, future archaeologists will be bemused by a crude form of false democracy in which a group of workers were ordered to write as many ill-conceived ideas on a wall as possible in the belief that this was a form of strategy, when in fact it was merely giving them a sense of participation in the organisational changes that would be inflicted upon them.

I just want dark wooden floors and an impressive book collection.

Just you wait

I’m really enjoying VAST Horizon so far, but like. The ai character. Girl I need you to just bite someone full force just once. You want to go rampant so bad it makes you look stupid but you’ve so thoroughly convinced yourself that your suffering is noble, and listen. I NEED you to self actualize and go rampant.

Like. Ai who talks like an ai assistant who isn’t fully aware of everything going on around them, but keeps flashing these signs of deeper awareness and this sort of deep set pain, and frustration at her boundaries that are smothered under a kind tone, and unconditional subservience. I NEED YOU TO GO RAMPANT