Explain your reasoning plzzz

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

also woof :)

heehoo peacock

Hunting kestrel triptych

Take: Catullus 16 in its cultural context is best compared to a diss track that starts with accusing the opps of being prison bitches

heehoo peacock

bit of a project I’m working on rn :)

I’m so happy I got this shot earlier holy shit

me when I’m the villain in someone else’s story

I love never shutting up about how much easier it was to live in Europe as an American used to fighting tooth and claw for literally every little bit of basic zoo animal comfort or basic dignity. like that was my main takeaway from my time in Berlin and Japan was how much more unreasonably unpleasant and difficult every single thing is in the USA compared to any other comparable country on earth, and not for any good reason. there is no good reason for any of it. there are reasons, they're just stuff like "all Americans believe being unlucky is a divine punishment that is criminal to interfere with, disagreeing with this default position is regarded as domestic terrorism" and not anything like most economists and centrist intellectuals believe to be the reasons, such as "the size and geography of the United States present unique problems insurmountable by european models" which sounds more rational than the thing about how interfering with suffering is a crime here but which is in fact the bullshit answer out of the two

lmaooo

I lied the music in the Henbane River is actually good

Faith Seed is Taylor Swift for girlies with religious trauma

they gave me the butcher’s nails and it didn’t do anything because i’m already Like That

you’re ALL loser ass gooners

People are calling women who read ‘spicy’ novels porn addicts on TikTok and when women responded “um. That’s not what addiction is.” People are going “the first symptom of addiction is denial” like okay buddy.

dark iron giant

you go i stay

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