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“A Moment of Respite”, done for Pixeljoint's Weekly Challenge: A Feast for the Gods.
For a more detailed description and context about the piece, you can follow this link:
https://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/146730.htm

@amikigu Wearing an XR shirt always implies a lack of a materialist conception of history.

What was a piece of media you were obsessed with as a kid that you never experienced?

Something that you thought would be the coolest thing ever if you got to play it/watch it/listen to it, but you didn't for whatever reason. Maybe you weren't allowed, maybe you could never find it, so instead you just had your Mental version of that thing

Personally, I didn’t like “meritocracy” even back when it was called “the divine right of kings.”

THE POWER OF COMPELS YOU

A Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius), spotted on #Agistri island, 21-May-2022.

#nature #Greece #butterflies #insects
(photos: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Bei and Alan only saw each other again in dreams

看到象友說英譯版的《金瓶梅》裡把色情描寫都轉譯成拉丁語了。我曾讀過1939年英譯版裡的一首的定場詩，書名又為《The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives》（妻海游侠）
原著開場詩如下：
豪華去後行人絕，簫箏不響歌喉咽。
雄劍無威光彩沉，寶琴零落金星滅。
玉階寂寞墜秋露，月照當時歌舞處。
當時歌舞人不回，化為今日西陵灰。
這首極普通，放在古典文學裡與其他詩詞相較毫不起眼。但英譯版裡的這首卻氣勢恢弘，讀來甚至有些史詩的感覺，摘抄如下：
What is man, and what is power?
All things pass away.
The flutes are sprung, the harps unstrung,
The songs of old are long unsung.
They had their day.

What are glory and loveliness?
All things pass away.
The shattered lute falls to the floor,
The star of love is bright no more.
They had their day.

Now the jade terraces are still.
The autumn mists are drifting chill.
Cold and casual the moonlight falls
Into the long-deserted halls.
Those that loved and revelled must
Long ago have fallen to dust.

只可惜英譯版刪了最有名的一節，不可描述的這首：
二八佳人體似酥，腰間仗劍斬愚夫。
雖然不見人頭落，暗裡教君骨髓枯。

不知後人有沒有把這譯作英文的，或者拉丁語。

Another quick question for people who speak and write in languages other than English: Do you get upset when people use translation software to reply to your posts if they are not native speakers/writers? Why or why not?

If y'all could boost this post so that I can get more responses from people who speak/write English and at least one other language, that would be great! #CommunityDevelopment

"Scared brains can't learn."

Do we maybe need to rethink 'learning problems' in children, a bit?

Please join me in supporting #ScottishGreens MSP Gillian Mackay’s member’s bill to introduce safe-access buffer zones around #abortion clinics

No one should have to run the gauntlet of anti-choice protesters harassing them as they try to access healthcare

As we see the US sadly taking a few steps backwards, let’s not follow them, but instead keep up the progressive momentum in Scotland

To do that, Gillian needs your support 💚

https://greens.scot/BufferZones

Scholar Anton Shekhovtsov writes what I still think is the best analysis of how far-right ideologies infiltrated experimental music scenes like industrial, neofolk, black metal, noise. A legit good read on fighting fascism in music scenes: http://www.shekhovtsov.org/articles/Anton_Shekhovtsov-Apoliteic_Music.html