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I'm not in the right headspace to deal with lobster depression she/her

[Ba Dan Dan @Danicanthink]

Its been a couple of days since @ClexaCon and I still have a lot of feelings about it. I'm just gonna make a thread for everything

[🅱️ophie @Bophiee]

All cuz yall wanna use shitGPT to create grocery lists for yall or make yourself into disney characters I hate yall

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

God keeps taking the wrong 80-year-olds from us.

That was my first thought when I saw the news this afternoon. It’s a selfish thought, I admit. I’m at peace with being selfish about this.

Every day of my life, Dolly Parton was somewhere on this earth strumming guitars with her acrylic nails, talking up the beauty of humanity, being honest about our frailties and shortcomings, asking solely through her music if we all couldn’t be better to ourselves and each other.

Here’s what I think needs to be said about Dolly Parton:

You knew everything about her, everything real and true, by her actions.

She was a Christian who spread the Gospel solely through taking care of the least fortunate among us.

She was a patriot who thought the best of America was in our diversity and never backed down from that.

She was a feminist who didn’t like calling herself a feminist but somehow made her feminism clear through her refusal to let others define her or hold back women or anyone else.

You always knew where she stood just by her example.

She was born fourth in a family of twelve kids. Great Smoky Mountains. Tennessee.

Dirt poor. Her family literally lived in a one-room cabin for some time. You ever hear someone use the phrase “out yonder”? They were out-out-yonder.

Her father was a sharecropper and farmer and worked odd jobs. Her mother kept the home as best as could be managed. Twelve kids. They couldn’t afford all sorts of things, but they made it work.

Did y’all know she was a prodigy? As a little girl, she put together her first guitar using a mandolin and bass strings. She was on the local radio by 10. She put out her first record by 11. She was introduced at the Grand Ole Opry by Johnny Cash at 13.

She loved her family and she loved Jesus and she loved music. That’s all she ever needed in the world from a young age. She worked her ass off for years toward her dream. No real connections. She just did the damn thing and wouldn’t stop until she got there.

62 years as an adult of doing the damn thing.

44 country albums in the top ten. 25 number-one singles. 55 top ten singles. 110 charting singles.

100 million records sold worldwide. More than three billion streams with most of her work released before streaming was a thing.

11 Grammys. Three Emmys. Nominations for Golden Globes and Tonys.

National Medal of the Arts. Kennedy Center Honoree.

She actually declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times: twice during Trump’s first term because of her husband being ill and then COVID and then again from Pres. Biden because she didn’t want people to think the first two rejections were political.

Perhaps most famously, after the Tennessee state legislature enthusiastically began moving to pass a resolution that would pay for a statue of her on the Capitol grounds, she released a public statement requesting they withdraw it.

Why?

“I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration. Given all that is going on in the world, I don’t think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time.”

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Country Music Hall of Fame. Songwriters Hall of Fame. Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Grammy Hall of Fame. That’s a fraction of the halls of fame in which she is enshrined.

But none of this is why we love Dolly Parton. The entire list of accolades and achievements doesn’t begin to capture why she achieved sainthood in her lifetime without ever asking for it, much less believing such a thing is appropriate.

We love Dolly Parton because she never forgot where she came from and had the awareness to understand there were places all over the world just like hers and people in them who needed some help.

We love Dolly Parton because she donated more than 100 million books to children in her lifetime through her Imagination Library — because she knew what it was like to be a child in an area where books were scarce.

We love her because the Dollywood Foundation raised countless millions for causes ranging from rural poverty to hunger to disaster relief to HIV/AIDS.

We love her because she quite literally funded the early development stages of the Moderna vaccine during the COVID crisis with an emergency $1M donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center — and then made a point of modeling great leadership by publicly getting the vaccine and encouraging others to do the same.

We love her because she never failed to show up and tell marginalized groups that we matter, the politics and the blowback be damned, from speaking up in support of same-sex marriage to speaking out against racism. Tell me another Christian of her global stature and from her particular background who so publicly loved trans people on the basis that Christ loves trans people.

All that and a lot more, and she yet, she still found time to help preserve the bald eagle.

We love Dolly Parton’s music, but that’s not why we love her.

We love her because she spent her entire life unconditionally loving us.
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[Javier de la Cuadra @JavierDlacuadra]

Ahora sí hablemos en serio de la foto. Este es un trino para interesados en fotografía, astrofotografía y el que quiera ¿Por qué esta foto es increíble? Algún conspiranóico, dándoselas de suspicaz, preguntó que por qué esta foto tomada por el comandante del Artemis II se veía más opaca que la foto tomada por la tripulación del Apolo 17 en 1972. Bueno. Acá viene lo emocionante. Esta fotografía hubiera sido imposible tomarla con una cámara análoga; y no cualquier cámara digital puede tomarla. El archivo original de esta foto está disponible para su descarga en la página de la NASA. En las propiedades del archivo se puede ver con qué cámara fue tomada y los ajustes de exposición que se usaron. Hasta el serial de la cámara. Esto, primero que todo, garantiza que la foto que estamos viendo no fue creada digitalmente, ni con IA, sino capturada por una cámara real por un humano. Sé que no es suficiente argumento para los conspiranóicos, pero ni modos. Esa que está ahí es la Tierra. Ahora sí lo interesante. ¿Por qué se ve como más opaca que la del 72? porque resulta que en la cara de la tierra que vemos en esa foto, está de noche; si hacen zoom pueden ver el brillo de la iluminación nocturna. Pero ¿cómo, si es de noche, puede verse como si fuera de día? Porque la foto se hizo con un altísimo ISO de 51200! El ISO es la sensibilidad del sensor a la luz. Con la mayoría de cámaras digitales, con ISOs de más de 6400, el ruido es tanto que la foto se ve prácticamente ilegible. Pero la cámara que tiene el comandante Reid Wiseman es una NIKON D5, que no es una cámara muy nueva; tiene 10 años de haber sido lanzada. Pero su sensor es reconocido por garantizar una calidad decente de imagen con ISOs altos. Y eso, para los que siempre preguntan cómo se hace una buena foto del cielo, es fundamental ¿Por qué? Pues para poder tomar fotos de los astros sin tener que bajar mucho la velocidad de exposición. Porque si bajas mucho la exposición apra que entre más luz, queda capturado el movimiento de los astros y de la rotación de la Tierra, cuando estás en la Tierra. Así que un iSO tan alto hizo posible que Wiserman pudiera disparar a una velocidad de 1/4 de segundo. Que es baja, pero no tanto. Es digamos, el límite para la astrofotografía. Por eso esta foto tiene ruido, porque de todas formas es un ISO altísimo.

Pero lo que más me emociona a mí, es que la tomó con un lente 14 -24mm F2.8. Es decir, en terminos coloquiales, que esta foto no tiene zoom. Para que lo dimensionen: cuando uno quiere tomar una foto de la Luna desde la Tierra que salga así de "cerca" tiene que usar un lente de unos 400mm de distancia focal. Wiserman usó un ¡gran angular de 22mm! Es decir que él estaba viendo la Tierra asi de grande frente a sus ojos. Porque la foto no fue recortada en edición y eso lo sabemos porque en las propiedades del archivo siempre aparece cuando una foto fue editada. El archivo está limpio, tiene la resolución original de la cámara. La tierra era inmensa frente a su mirada. Hermoso.

Pero para mí lo más mágico de esta foto, incluso más que las auroras boreales, es que se ve como la luz de sol, que está del otro lado de la tierra, ilumina nuestra atmosfera. Y eso es magia pura, porque esa atmosfera tiene una composición milimétricamente perfecta para permitir que la vida, tal y como la conocemos, sea posible. Esta foto, es un regalo precioso para la humanidad.

Les dejo al link para que descarguen la foto en alta resolución y el pantallazo de las propuedades del archivo.

[manic pixie dani girl @denielemein]

AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW is the first woman, first woman of color, and first woman of Filipino descent to win Best Cinematography for her work in SINNERS at the 98th Academy Awards.

#Oscars
#InternationalWomensMonth

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Moira Rose taught us how to fall apart with dignity. Catherine O’Hara taught us how to build a career that peaks at 66.

She started as a waitress at Second City Toronto. The director told her to keep waitressing. She replaced Gilda Radner anyway.

For 50 years she played women who couldn’t see themselves clearly, and she loved every one of them. Delia Deetz, the worst artist alive, convinced she was a genius. Kate McCallister, who forgot her kid at Christmas and spent two movies trying to get back to him. Cookie Fleck, whose romantic history kept showing up at dog shows.

Then Eugene Levy called. He’d created a show with his son about a rich family who loses everything. Would she play the mother? A former soap star who copes with poverty by refusing to acknowledge it?

She almost said no. Thank God she didn’t.

Moira Rose wore wigs that had their own ambitions. She spoke in an accent from nowhere. She called her children “bébé” like it contained the entire history of motherhood. And underneath all of it, O’Hara let us see the terror of a woman who had never learned who she was without an audience.

When Moira finally broke, in hospital rooms and at weddings and rehearsing for community theater, O’Hara showed us what she’d known all along: the performance was the protection. The delusion was the survival mechanism.

She won the Emmy at 66. In her speech, she thanked the Levys for letting her “fully be her ridiculous self.”

Last year, someone asked which role she wanted to be remembered for.

“Mother to my children.”

She was 71. She left behind her husband Bo, her sons Matthew and Luke, and millions of us who learned from Moira Rose that you can lose everything and still refuse to be diminished by it.

Bébé, we’ll miss you.

[lesbian cassandra truther 🪩 @dykeghasts]

hey @larianstudios this is incredibly disappointing and makes me extremely unlikely to want to buy any of your games going forward. the use of generative ai at any stage of the creative process is something i do not want and will not support. please do better.

[Rach💖 @_solongdaisymay]

Laika makes me lose my ever loving mind. Sweet girl was a street dog, only chosen because of how obedient she was. She trusted them, and they sent her to die. Oh patron saint of one-way trips, may the stars treat you with kinder hands than we ever could 💔

[Luke @qLxke_]

remember when they fired melissa barrera from this franchise and smeared her name because she spoke out against israel’s ongoing genocide of palestinians

[Stand McStand @Neil_McNeil]

Any time you use ChatGPT or any other AI, you are contributing to hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs in real time. You are a fucking loser.

[★🦖Domi🦕★ (c0mms closed) @DOmomingo]

not friendly reminder that his stupid super grok computer is polluting the air and stealing the water from people in Memphis, without regulations or permits

[haunted hunni 👁️‍🗨️🪦 @bloodiedblkgwrl]

PLEASE STOP USING GR0K IT POISONS WHERE I LIVE AND THE AIR SMELLS LIKE CHLORINE NOW

[Superman @Superman]

The world will see who he truly is. #Superman - only in theaters July 11. Get tickets now: https://t.co/mznvQOz0g3

[Tyler ''pronouns idiot'' Foster 🤖 @tylergilfoster]

just going to reiterate that as long as AI is devastating for the environment, which is true of all AI, and does something you would normally pay an artist to do, which it will be doing for this film and does in any instance it generates something, it is inherently unethical

[Cloudy 🌥️ @oncIoud_e]

jk rowling has said the profits from that new harry potter series are going to be used to try and take away trans rights wherever possible btw, so just letting you know if you watch it on streaming or pay for it you are directly funding that

[Auntie Derek ☕️ @AuntieDerek]

This is exactly why y’all need to stop supporting her wizard bullshit! Nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING, about Harry Potter is good enough for y’all to inadvertently say “fuck trans rights”

[Logan @DiamondSpiderP]

The movie dealing with the idea that Superman is viewed as a representation of America to the public, but in actuality he’s just a guy trying to do what he thinks is right is such a good direction in which to take the character and I’m so excited to see how they explore it!

[Jessica Malone Grider @mrs_g_rider]

English teachers and librarians have have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. Hell, this is why I became an English teacher. "I don't like to read." "But baby knowing HOW to read, THINK about what you're reading, CONNECT to what you're reading will save you."

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

I hope people understand now that it’s unethical to support any new harry potter media. people tried to explain this when the hogwarts game came out and no one wanted to hear it. any money in joanne’s pocket funds anti-trans lobbying.