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built a stock risk management calc with claude this afternoon https://t.co/YfiaCyGsTV

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@AlpacaAurelius yes esp for watercolor.
phthalo blue, turquoise nice too

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[WBS Apparel @WBSApparel]

I went to the gay apparel store and they said you already donned everything.

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

This is the ideal male breakfast

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charcoal figurestudy sketchbook

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@JoshRainerGold jitsu provides

[Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog]

“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end.

There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him.

That is greatness.

That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”

[Praise of Folly @PoFPodcast]

I exist in the cracks between dimensions, in the space between tomorrow and yesterday, that never arrives at today. Visible in the dark, invisible during the day. Patient, waiting, potent, waiting for the time of revealing.

The man who is not yet.

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charcoal sketch

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the children yearn for the mines

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

The noble soul does not flinch before truth, it advances toward her as a warrior to his destiny, not to be spared, but to be made whole in her fire.

Truth is not gentle. She does not caress or console. She wounds, purifies, and demands everything. Only the formed man, the soul tempered by discipline and hardened by ordeal, can bear her gaze without breaking.

He does not beg for mercy. He does not retreat into comfort. He ascends—through the storm, through the flame, through the sword’s edge—until he becomes the thing he was meant to be.

Not all are called. Fewer still answer.

[cascadian realism fan 🌲 @realism_fan]

Ahahahaha, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver massive L’s for astrophysics.

A new paper shows that the “Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation” can be explained entirely by the energy of recently discovered Early Mature Galaxies — massive galaxies that the JWST discovered which crushed the existing models of galaxy formation because they formed much earlier than astrophysicists thought possible.

But now these EMGs turn out to account for the entire energy density of the CMB radiation, which was believed to be a “snapshot” of the first light emitted after the Big Bang, when the universe was ~379,000 years old. The variations in the CMB were believed to be relics of quantum fluctuations in the dense plasma of the Big Bang.

If these new findings are accepted (and there’s no reason not to accept them), then all of the following flagship findings of cosmology are thrown into question:

— Big Bang theory: foundational cosmological model undermined
— Cosmic inflation: loses observational justification
— ΛCDM model: key parameters become unreliable
— CMB power spectrum: loses predictive relevance
— Dark energy: inferred from CMB; may be mischaracterized
— Dark matter density: current estimates may be invalid
— Age of the universe: must be recalculated
— Primordial nucleosynthesis: needs alternative explanation
— Hubble constant (H₀): no longer reliably constrained by CMB
— Large-scale structure formation: initial conditions unclear
— Reionization epoch: timing and cause questioned
— Cosmic distance ladder: calibration may be flawed
— ISW (Integrated Sachs–Wolfe) effect: interpretation invalidated
— Acoustic peaks in CMB: no longer evidence of primordial sound waves
— Polarization of the CMB: origin needs reassessment
— Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO): decoupled from CMB
— Cosmic curvature: flatness inference challenged
— Matter–radiation equality timing: re-evaluated
— Gravitational lensing of CMB: loses standard interpretation
— Planck and WMAP findings: foundational assumptions invalidated

My friends, do not listen to scientists when they act like they have everything figured out and you’re a retard for questioning them. They have abandoned the humility needed for scientific discovery long ago, and it’s only when new findings arrive with shock and awe that their hubris is exposed.

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

What Is Decadence?

Decadence is the abandonment of standards and the deliberate inversion of value. It is the enthronement of the trivial, the vulgar, and the transient in place of the noble, the beautiful, and the enduring. Where once men sought elevation, now they revel in decline. Decadence is the cult of the common.

At its root, decadence is the loss of character. It prizes cleverness above wisdom, education above experience, and performance above truth. It celebrates the anxious intellect, but scorns the man of action. It rewards those who speak well, not those who act well.

Decadence is softness masquerading as compassion. It affirms pacifism in place of courage, equality in place of excellence, and indulgence in place of discipline. The decadent man does not deny the world outright—he drowns in it. He cannot rise above the present moment because he has severed all ties to the past and all obligations to the future.

It mocks virtue. It sneers at sacrifice. It cannot comprehend why anyone would choose duty over comfort, honor over convenience, or loyalty over gain. It sees self-restraint as repression, hierarchy as oppression, and beauty as a lie.

What decadence detests most is greatness. It cannot bear the sight of anything higher than itself, and so it seeks to tear down what it cannot imitate. It lowers the standard to save the mediocre from shame.

It is materialistic in spirit and iconoclastic in taste. It strips life of grandeur and reverence, reducing culture to entertainment and truth to opinion. In place of an aesthetic of form and proportion, it offers the fashionable and the grotesque. Nothing is sacred, because nothing is believed.

Decadence is not merely a phase in the life of a civilization. It is a symptom of rot. And like all rot, it begins within.

[Dan Baltic @baltic_dan]

I hope the elephant god survives Indian Ragnarok. He always struck me as a decent dude

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

And it was worth it

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@slash3b it can't hurt

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" -Nietzsche