Sara Lando
@bruko.bsky.social
Visual art and collaborations with molds and critters. Definitely not three raccoons in a trench coat. She/her www.saralando.com
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Italy is trying to pass AI surveillance in ways that make me sick to my stomach ilmanifesto.it/sorvegliare-...
Sorvegliare e punire con l’intelligenza artificiale | il manifesto
Ecco il riconoscimento facciale «a strascico». La polizia potrà usare i dati biometrici per identificare chi va in piazza anche nei giorni prima di una manifestazione
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Today I got both the tick-borne encephalitis shot and the tetanus booster and because of connective tissue disorders my arms get quite sore so I am now trying to fall asleep and waking up every time I roll to the side. Remember how we told ourselves we'd get one shot at the time, Sara? This is why 😩
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
Why did I have to find out about Deep Mapping on my own, like an animal? Who of you bitches knew and didn't think to tell me? 😑
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Seems like there is some difference but it's something I can most likely adjust when I scan the negatives. (Yay, because I still have about a dozen expired rolls of films). Now let's go make some agar plates so that I can cover stuff in mold ✌️
Plan for the day is to find out how much of a problem it is to use film that expired in 2010 and compare it to fresh film (it's been a couple of years since I last developed stuff. Pray for me)
uhh i think you guys are gonna want to see this (i try to swing the monitor around but it's not on a swivel and it snaps off its base and clatters onto the floor)
Why do people keep saying that Nolan's Odyssey is the first movie ever made about the Odyssey? The film is directed by Mario Camerini, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti. It stars Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano in a dual role as Penelope and Circe, and Anthony Quinn as Antinous.
Among other things Sam Neill gave the funniest interviews
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 10mo agoNever forget that time Sam Neill gave a quote about murder that was so beautifully kabonkers, we all assumed it was a Clickhole bit initially
Things you should not do in public: read Feynman's letter to his dead wife. It broke me. www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/07/r...
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
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When everyone in the book you're reading is happy but it's about 70%, so you need to take long breaks to do something else because then you don't have to face the obvious shitstorm that is about to happen.
Do you also leave comments in your notes from class when you transcribe them into obsidian, with links to studies that contradict what the professor said and a reconstruction of the timeline of academic beef behind it? No? Me neither.
I was watching photos by Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and Paul Fusco and I don’t think that kind of photography is possible any more. People have a completely different relationship with photography and what it means to be photographed by someone whom you don’t know if you can trust.
I might have reached that age where I'm like, "Sure, I'm totally up for shenanigans!" But then I realize it would require energy and probably some stretching, so maybe I'll just join you for the post-shenanigans drinks. (Morgan Freeman voice: "She would not, in fact, join them for drinks.")
Is anyone out there building on Harold Wager’s experiments where he takes leaf epidermis and uses the plant's ocelli as a lens?
We should go back to a time where people with too much money built the Taj Mahal, rented orchestras to serenade a lover, or commissioned the Trevi Fountain because the earlier fountain was insufficiently dramatic. Current rich people are so fucking boring
Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · last mo.A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
I just found out that past me made a list of things to read/watch/check out a long time ago and I had no recollection of it (was buried in a note without a title that got lost underneath 100 new notes). Turns out some of this stuff is really cool. Thank you past Sara!
Few things fascinate me more than witnessing grown men when they are put into a situation where they are forced to come to terms that they are indeed not as good as their mummies told them they were, and the people around them refuse to just let them get away with being mediocre
An acquaintance is getting married to a much older man. He's been ill last week and I wanted to ask about his health and instead of saying "how's the groom?" I said "how's the groomer?" And surely you understand why I need to walk into the river and pull a Jeff Buckley. Non fiori ma opere di bene.
The sudden urge to stop everything I am doing and start a new gif folder, like the one I used to curate in the early 2000 (my most prized possession, still somewhere on a burned dvd). Sometimes I understand the birds' need to just collect random shit and arrange it around myself for comfort
A good marriage is having the space to go on a rant over breakfast about how data privacy isn't just about protecting yourself but about how much your trackable behavior exposes your friends and family while your husband who isn't functioning properly before 10am nods while holding a piece of toast